Connecticut western news., 1875-04-30
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 Items of Interest from Home and Abroad
 Six companies of cavalry and two of infantry have been ordered to the base of the Black Hills as an escort to MT. Jenny, government geologist, who will make 8 survey of that coun- try. .... In the United States District Court at Detroit, Judge Brown sentenced Daniel Pratt, jeweler, of Jackson, to two years and six months hard labor in State prison, for sending postal card through the mails containing writing forbidden by law. A fire in Glou cester, N. J., destroyed property to the value of $150,000 ...... Commander Leroy Fitch, U. s. N., died at his residence in Logansport, Ind, after a lingering illness. |. . .. Bolivia is passing through another revolution and dis turbances occur daily. .....A general law for the formation of agricultural and horticultural societies was passed in the New York State Senate. =. A young man named Fred. Bran denburgh was found dying from starvation and exhaustion under pile of lumber in San Francisco He said before his death that he crawled under the lumber nine days before. Other lumber had been unwittingly piled around him stopping his egress.... In closing his examioation of Henry Ward Beecher, in the Tlton-Beecher case, MT. Evarts was evi- dently determined that the jury should have the full benefit of the denials. The questions were those which were asked on the second day of his examination, as to whether MT. Beecher had ever improperly solicited or ob- tained any improper favors from Mrs Hilton, or toH q6r yUit1, bar Nbotio denials by Mir. Beecher, MT. Evarts asked the stenographer to read the question. The re- porter began and the whole series was again read to the jury. Then MT. Evarts, in a more rapid manner than he had previously displayed, closed with a series of questions, the answers to which were denials of adultery at any time, denials of confessions of adultery or crininaity, and denials of participation in conversations in which adultery was charged.
 During debate in the Prussian Diet on the bill withdrawing the State grants from the Roman Catholic clergy, Prince, Bismarck made speech declaring that he was not an enemy of the Catholic Church he warred only against the Papacy ..... The German government journals give tranquilizing assurances in re- gard to the relations of Prussia with foreign powers. Agents of the French government have made contracts in Bohemia for ten tho sand horses. ... The Carlists have surprised Fort Aspe near Santander, and carried off two hundred prisoners and four guns. ...... The Anti-Slavery Society of Pennsylvania celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of it's organza- ton in Philadelphia vice-President Wilson called the meeting to order. ... It is reported nP-n ill Roumelia and Bulgaria during the last three months and that the names of the victims have been communicated to the foreign repre- sentatives in Constantinople. ... In & match game of base ball at Savannah, Ga., two play CTS, Mccullough and Bailey, were badly in- jured. McCullough's leg was broken by a runner jumping on him, and Bailey had his nose split aud eye nearly put out by "red hot ball. The game was then stopped. ..... President Grant has appointed Leander c. Dwyer, of Tennessee Consul at Odessa Rus sia. .... The stage from Downieville to sacra- mento Cal, was stopped by highwaymen and Wells Fargo & Col treasury box containing $5,5 800 ill gold dust, bars and coin, was carried away.
 The reports of negro incendiarism in St. Thomas, w. l., prove to be unfounded.. The committee on elections of the Louisiana Legis- lature have accepted the Wheeler award, and the Democrats have now majority of seven teen in the House Ten and twenty dollar of Boston, with fictitious signatures, are in cir culation. .. The annual budget of England shows that the surplus of receipts over expen- ditures for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1875, was E593,833. The expenditures for the current fiscal year are estimated at 975, ,268, 900, and the revenues at f75, ,685, 1000, leaving 8 sur plus of GAY, ,000... The British Parliament rejected a petition for the removal of the judges who sat in the Tichborne trials and for the impeachment of the Speaker of the House of Commons. =. Henry w. Dutton, senior editor of the Boston Ecening Transcript, died, aged sevepty-nine years. Within five months MT. Dutton lost his wife and son. and these atflictions, coupled with the recent decease of MT. Haskell, editor of the Transcript, were the indirect causes of his death ... John Clifford and Thomas Melaney, workmen at Hawkin' s foundry in Springfield, Mass, were in> tantly killed and James. Duke fatally injured, by the explosion of shell. .... The widow of he late Thomas Emery proposes to build new structure for the Y. M. c. A. of Cincinnati, to cost from $75 O0O to $1OO, ,O0O. . The act making it misdemeanor to practice med cine without filing certificate with the county clerk, was killed in the New York State Senate.
 A negro murderer was hanged at Greens burg, La. Two Chinese officers were killed in Botan. A body of two hundred troops were sent from the village of Hong Kong on the west coast to retaliate. They burned one vil- lage and put the inhabitants to death, including old men, women, and children. On their re- turn they were surrounded and routed with a loss of ninety killed, among whom was the Chinese leader ...... The Cuban insurgents continue to destroy small plantations, and Captain General Valmaseda is sending out troops to protect property. .... Travis Harris, who murdered his mother-in-law at Commerce, Mo-, was hanged. It is reported that the Carlists have seized a number of women and children and threaten to shoot them unless they are ransomed. .... Tom Leathers, Mary L. and Captain Hutchinson were the winners of the New Orleans races. ..... The Inmar
 Steamship Company has rendered free pas. sage out and back to the American rifiemer who are going to Ireland. ..... The Governor
 of Pennsylvania has signed the bill providing
 for special committee to investigate the
 affairs of the Reading railroad and the Philar
 dclphia and Reading coal and iron companies
 EX-Congreesman Bowen has libel suit
 against tue editor of the Charleston, (S. C.. i Nt'r&. A serious riot took place at tho
 opening of some pleasure grounds in tho i suburbs of Glasgow. A stand, on which wer,