Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

lCOD0TCS, aOI ISOunLOTO, TeCeIV11lS 04t FOtS6 was declared the nominee for Governor. For rail- road commissioner, A. T. Pierce, receiving the highest vote was nominated by exclamation. : Several persons who took part in the dis turbanoes at Podgoritza, Albania, when num- Der of Montenegrins were killed, have been condemned to death by the Turkish authorities. ... The statistics show that last year 8 smaller number of i1nmig grants arrived at New York than in any year since 1862. :. / Governor Tilden, of New York, recommends moderate appropriation to defray the necessary expenses of the Centennial Commissioners representing the State, in order to testify 8 sense of the greatness of the event. .... The message of the Governor of New York gives 8 detailed statement of the condition of the State Treas lury, showing balance of $6, 494, ,8S1.44, On the 3Oth of September, 1874, the total funded debt of the State $50, 199, 456.40, the actual reduction during the year being $6, 024, $50. The State tax levy for the year amounted to 74 mills the total tax will be $15, 727, ,482 about $500, ,0OO in excess of the amount levied during the preceding fiscal year. @ -- ',~' @~2 @--'' '- From the message of the Governor of Penn sylvania, it appears that the State debt was re- duced by $1, ,230. 186 during the past year,. In the Massachusetts Legislature G. B. Loring was elected President of the Senate, and John E. Sanford, Speaker of the House. In the Illinois Legislature the Democrats controlled the organization of both houses.E. M Haines, was elected temporary Speaker of the House, and A. A. Glen, temporary President of the Senate ~ Mir. R. B. Irwin, ex-agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, taken before the bar of the House of Representatives, and, as he again refused to answer the ques- tions put to him in regard to the Pacific Mail
 ubsidy, he was committed to the common jail of the district for contempt Congressman Stowell, of Virginia, was convicted in the inves- tigation before the House Committee on Naval Affairs, of selling 8 cadetship in the naval academy ats Annapolis for $1,7Oo and falsely denying the fact The trustees of the Girard estate, in their report, say that in view of the appreciation in the value of the coal lands of the estate, and the productiveness of $50 acres of ground contiguous to improved portions of the city, the directors of the city trusts have resolved to erect a cluster of buildings capable of accommodating five hundred addi- tional orphans. There are now five hundred and fifty orphans in the institution, and one hundred and thirty-four applicants for admis- sion |! A - John GosgFeve sandtE. N BafTia- ger attempted to cross the railroad track at Barry town;; N Y., with a horse and wagon, q passing locomotive struck them, killing Bar ringer instantly, and terribly injuring Gosgrove
 who will die. The horse was also killed.
 The Governors of Ohio Tennessee Missouri, Massachusetts and other States have sent mes sages to the Legislatures of their respective States calling attention to the state of affairs in Louisiana :. Governor Gaston, of Massa- chusetts, in his message to the Legislature recommends, among other things, the repeal | of the prohibitory and constabulary laws. - In the Indiana Legislature a Democratic Speaker was elected in the House. The Demo crats have 8 majority of eight on jeint ballot
 ..... In the Florida Legislature a Democratic Speaker was elected. ... Governor Dingley, in his message to the Maine Legislature, sug gests that the divorce laws be reformed and l that 8 bill be passed enabling women to hold office. ..Governor Bagleys message to the Michigan Legislature contains q gratifying ex- hibit of the State finances. . The total pay ment to contractors on account of the Hoosac tunnel by the State of Massachusetts is $12,- 1 973, ,822. 31. ,.....By 8 fire in Baltimore two tobacco warehouses and $25O,OO0 worth of tobacco were destroyed. ..,1-..
 The Committee on War Claims at Washing ington made an adverse report on the House bill for the relief of certain citizens of Penn. sylvania who suffered loss from troops during the invasion of that State by General Lee's army. The bill proposed an appropriation ot $1,254, ,474 for the use of the citizens of the counties of Adams, Bedford, Franklin, Fulton Somerset, and York The committee take the ground in opposing the bill that the govern. nnent is under no obligation or duty to compen- sate it's citizens for property seized. damaged
 or destroyed by the public enemy, or in battle by the government forces. .. .. Frank Jones
 of Portsmouth, was nominated in the First anc S. N Bell, of Manchester, in the Second Con- gressional Districts of New Hampshire by the Democrats. 5. The United States Senate passed the naval appropriation bill, which appropriates little over $16, 0O00 000. ... .Thf anniversary of the battle of New Orleans was celebrated in Philadelphia ... Owing to tht extreme cold weather it is feared, there will be much suffering and probably loss of life in the grasshopper districts ... A saloon keeper il New York elected from his saloon, an6 the man died from cold and exposure. The saloon keeper died from remorse. .... The f1rt caused by the collision on the Baltimore ana Potomac railroad, near Washington destroyed the entire Northern mail, including the nc
 cu1nulated days mail from the South, $400, ,01( in new national bank notes, and several pack
 ages of important government letters. ,
 The anniversary of the death of Napoleon III. was observed by the Imperiaists in Paris
 and by the Imperialists of London and Chisel
 hurst. u. The State Legislatures of Tennessee
 Arkansas and Virginia have protested agains
 the Louisiana affair. Further difficulties
 between China and Japan are anticipated "
 The Wisconsin State Grange adopted resolu
 ton thanking the Legislature for passing tn, Potter law and the State officers and Suprem,
 Court for enforcing it ; also a resolution ask
 ing Congress to so amend the patent laws tha
 any person can manufacture patent articl
 upon the payment of royalty. .... The mail
 destroyed by the burning of the car on th,
 Baltimore and Ohio railroad included those O
 the following dates New Orleans evening O. the 4th inst, and morning of the 9th Rich mond, Va., 7th Savannah, 9th Charleston
 s. C., 9th Wilmington, N. C., 9th Nashville 5th; Galveston, 4th; and Memphis 9th Mails from all intermediate points are O course also destroyed. ..... The suspension O.
 coal mining operations in Pennsylvania has be
 come almost general. Affairs in the producins
 regions are in 8 very unsettled conditition..
 The revenue of the Dominion of Canada fo
 the month of December was $1, ,644, OO6, ant
 the expenditures $1,O1O, ,o96. =. Taylor stran
 der, colored, the Virginia wife murderer, whose
 case has been carried from court to court ane appealed, was sentenced to be hanged on thu
 26th of March next. The Western Hotel a
 Sacramento, Cal, was destroyed by fire ant
 ravorol 1vas wara lost General Valu,o cod,