Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

archbishop of Cashel, Ireland, is dead. ......
 The Carlists have fired on a British vessel loaded with telegraph cable off the Biscayan coast . President Grant nominated Edward G. Kelton to be United States Consul at Ma zatlan Chas Finkelmeier, Consul at Tama- have, and Wm. Crosby, Consul at Talcahuano.
 5s. The United States Judiciary Committee Ereported adversely on the bill to create.a new State out of portions of Louisiana and Texas, and on the bill for the relief of the Southern States by the compromise and settlement of their debts. .... The Emperor Toung-che, formerly called Ki-tsiang, "High Prosperity" :" whose death is announced, was born on April 21, 1856, and was the eldest son of the En- peror Hieng-fung, "Perfect Bliss" He suc- ceeded to the throne at the death of his father ton August 22, 1881. and became of age and took the reins of government on February 23, 1873. He was the eighth ruler of the Tartar dynasty of Ta-tsing, which has governed Chinag since 1644 =. .Ex-President Johnson was ele cted United States: Senator by the Leg islature of Tennessee on the fifty-ffth ballot
 receiving ffty-two votes. ..... In the United States House of Representatives MT. Potter introducedg resolution proposing an amend ment to the Constitution providing that, from and after the next Presidential election, the President and Vice President shall hold office for six years and be ineligible for reelection. The resolution.was rejected all the Democrats and several. Republicans voting for it. Messrs. Martin Brothers, iron manufacturers
 of Philadelphia, have suspended payment. Their liabilities are placed st $500,0OO, and they claim that their assets are worth $500, 900 over that amount. ... Smallpox rages with great fury in Cuba.
 The New York State Temperance Society elected John N. Stearns president. Resolutions were adopted asking the Legislature to enact o prohibitory law, recommending the nomination of independent temperance tickets for all town elections, and that united efforts be made to elect the commissioners of excise on the basis of rsno license" .... The Rev. Thomas D. Dudley, late rector of Christ Church in Bal tinnore, was consecrated assistant bishop of Kentucky .. Theodore F. Randolph was elected United States Senator by the New IiJ Jsrsey Legislature lie receiving 49 votes to 31 r for George M Robeson ... The will of Mrs. Ann White Vose. of Boston, makes the remarka- Eble beqneat of &385, GOO to. the public institu- tions of that city. =. .Ex-Gov. Joel Parker was confirmed as Attorney-General of New Jersey to succeed Robert Gilchrist The diamonds presented to General Sherman's daughter by the Khedive of Egypt are valued 1 at $250, 900. ... .Advices from China say that a grandson of Prince Tun, uncle of the de- ceased emperor, will probably succeed to the throne .. President Grants daughter and his son-in-law are at the White House on visit. ... A man at Cohoes, N. Y. lost his life ill trying to save sewing machine from burn- ing building There seems no doubt but the naval building in Washington was set on fire in order to destroy important papers. Every ar- \ rangement was made for serious conflagration, l Important papers were destroyed by the fire.
 In the Ohio House res olutions were adopted requesting Congress to grant no more subsidies to railroads and steamship lines. A resolution favoring 8 single Presidential term of six years, and declaring against third term, was tabled, The United States committee or naval affairs report the Brooklyn navy yard ir good condition and recommend that the Wash. ington and Philadelphia yards be transferred to League Island =. John Anderson, the murderer of Horato G. Hall, was sentenced al New Haven, Conn.,, to be hanged on April 20 1876. The judge was greatly affected while pronouncing sentence but the prisoner ap. peared unmoved. The Massachusetts Denta Society condemns chloroform as an anesthetic and will expel any member so using it. .. Al 8 meeting of the iron manufacturers of New England, the following resolution was adopted | Resolued, That the reductions of the wages al the West having been greater than at the East it is the sense of this meeting that 8 further reduction in wages is necessary to enable Eastern manufacturers to compete successfully with those at the West. ''"'
 Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina issued 8 proclamation disarming the colored militia of Edgefeld county and disbanding al the military organizations of that county. =. The Navy department building at Washington was set on fire for the fourth time . Noble s. Bennett an aged inmate of the FlatbusE (N. Y. Lunatic Asylum, was murdered by Styles s. Middleton, an inmate of the same in
 stitution ,:.. An expedition under Colone
 Bradley will leave Fort Laramie about the 2Ott of April, for the Black Hills, nominally to make 8 thorough reconnaissance of the country, bu
 really to occupy it to the exclusion of thu miners. .. :. Headquarters for Centennial pre-
 parations have been established in New Yorl city A post-office is to be established b,
 the United States government in the Centennia
 building at Philadelphia. The various depart
 ments of the government arc to exhibit thei
 specialties The Agricultural department vii
 show the produce of the country, the War de
 partment the arms, etc. A bill was passet
 by the New York Legislature providing for tn
 forfeiture of all property used in fights anon,
 animals. .. The OConor bill, extending tn
 remedy of attachment to cases of fraud or val
 versation by public officers was passed by tn
 New York Assembly without dissenting vote Mark McGowan and Robert Dougherty wer
 instantly killed by the premature explosion o
 8 blast on the line of the Gouldburn railroad
 Canada. :. The Beaufort Female Lunati : Asylum at Quebec was destroyed by fire, an three of the patients were burned to deatE
 The loss on the building is $75,000, and ther is very little insurance. The patients 435 i number, were removed in safety to the asylur occupied by the males. :. The Judiciary con mittee of the Maine Legislature ended tle :, hearing on the capital punishment question and report in favor of bill making the punisl f ment imprisonment for life for all crime wherein the death penalty is now imposed. The excitement in New Brunswick oyer th ? educational question is so great that troop 5 have been called out to quell disturbances.
 7 Mrs. Emerson, a widow, while attempting { get on the cars while in motion, at Coneor, N. H., was run over and killed . The offit , of the American Express Company at Udc N. Y, was entered by masked burglars all ; robbed. =. Eastern capitalists intend erectin
 works on Lake Superior, next summer, for tt
 manufacture of steel rails .. .. Adams Expre
 office in New York was robbed of $35 900 wort | of Stata honds China, has a little ravo1utir