Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abro

The Boston Globe says that Gov. Gaston and his ouncil have determined on the execution of the boy Jesse Pomeroy. ... The aggregate sum in the twelve general appropriation bills passed during the late session of the United | States Congress is about $175, ,000,000. The Budget committee of the Austrian Reichsrath | have struck out the appropriation of $75, ,000 to defray the expenses of the representation of | Austria at the Philadelphia Centennial. .. A fire in Callao did $2OO, ,0OO damage. A riot took place at Bogota, c. A. The millers having raised the price of four,-t the bakers did the same with the price of bread, and combined to keep it 50. The people assembled in great numbers in the square of Bolivia and finally proceeded to gut all the bakers shops they could come at. The authorities did nothing, as the mob had it all their own way. ... In Indianapolis Lewis Bishop cut his wifes throat because she refused to live with him. .. Frank J. Potter, late deputy superintendent of the Rhode Island State farm, hanged himself at his farm in Connecticut. A letter re- ceived at the United States Treasurer's office from England, inclosing $14 conscientious restitution D from former citizen of this coun- try, who is now resident of Reading, England.
 The United States Senate confirmed the nominations of Godlove S. Orth, of Indiana, to be Envoy Extraor linary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary to Austria and Hungary Horace G.
 Maynard to be Minister Resident of the United States at Constantinople.
 By an explosion of fire damp in a shaft near Wilkesbarre, Pa., 8 number of miners were seriously injured. .....T The new treaty between the United States and Belgium has been rati- fled by the United States Congress. Rumors of contemplated Bonapartist coup d'etat in circulation ill Paris Bishop McClosky, | of New York, has been made Cardinal by the Pope. This is the first appointment in Ameri- ! ca to that position. ... The Centennial direc- | tors have been notified officially of an appro- priation of $505, 900 by the United States gov ernment. In New York tailor named Wehe, while intoxicated, beat his wife, and taking the act to heart he hung himself. Before his death was announced to his wife she died from
 her injuries and grief. The hotel bill for | entertaining the king of the Sandwich Islands | in New York was $6,2s661. The bill for coaches was $2844. . Every indication, the
 New York Herald says, points to thriving
 spring, business activity and season of whole
 some prosperity. ... Forty-six lives were lost
 by the burning of a match factory in Sweden.
 ......T The only bonds the State of Nebraska
 ever issued are those to raise means to supply
 the grasshopper-strickens sections with seed.
 Indiana and Minnesota have just refused to
 pass compulsory education laws ...,. Tolls on
 the New York and Erie canal are to be largely
 reduced this season .:.. The National Butter
 and Egg Association of the United States
 refused, by close vote, to condemn the arti-
 ficial coloring of butter. 7. 7. ..: Andrew Johnson
 denies that he bought his seat in the United
 States Senate, and courts an investigation. =.
 Count Valmaseda, the new Governor-General
 of Cuba, has arrived in Havana and issued a
 proclamation, promising to introduce needed
 reforms, and announcing that the wal against
 the insurgents will be vigorously carried on. ... The jury in the celebrated Mordaunt
 divorce case in England have found Lady Mor-
 daunt guilty of adultery, and the judge has
 granted the decree 1aisi, with costs. ... The
 ill-feeling between the Protestants and Catho
 lies in Mexico continues and disturbances are
 threatened =. A bill passed both Houses ot
 the New York Legislature declaring that after
 January 1, 1879, all taxes shall be collected il
 gold or it's equivalent, and all contracts made
 shall be payable in United States coin. ....
 Brigham Young has been sentenced to one
 day s imprisonment and fine of $25 for con
 tempt of court in neglecting to pay Ann Eliza:
 lawyerss' fees within the time fixed by tht
 court.
 Tho National Fire Insurance Company o1
 Philadelphia has suspended ..... John Mitche
 was elected to the English Parliament iron
 Tipperary by 2, 36S majority Joshua Griffin
 colored, was hanged at Bslair, Md, for th
 murder of Miss Susan Taylor, and Georg' Wheeler, colored, was. hanged at Easton, Md.
 for the murder of Mrs. Margaret Whitman. State Engineer Thompson, of Louisiana, re ports that there is imminent danger of crevas
 ses in that State, and that at some points tn . levees have already begun to cave in.. It i
 announced that the party now in the Blac
 Hills will, if necessary, be driven out by tn troops, and others will be prevented fror entering 1.-The Foce di Te,iti says the Pop confers the Cardinals hat on Archbishop Nc 7 Closkey, not only on account of the persona : merits of that prelate but because the Hol r See is desirious of honoring the Catholics c 1 Anefica and Of marking the progress of Cathol oisn5 in the United States ..... A $5O,0 ,0OO fir occurred at Saltwater, N. Y.... The Unite U States Freedmens Bank is said to be in muc | worse condition than supposed, and little wi : be realized from it.
 8 Several parties of United States Senator 3 have been made up for trips to Europe, = Mexico and to China during the summer. ... r In Massachusetts over $50, ,000000 of ehurc y property is exempt from taxation. A Berli s editor who wrote what the government did n' like was sentenced to two years Imprisonment ;, .. A steamer from Boston to Liverpool toe ? ? out among other freight l,300,000 pounds u bacon At Huntington, W. Va., five me : were drowned by the upsetting of 8 skiff " which they were boating in the river. Fort on nine remembers of the last United Stat
 Congress have filled petitions at Washmgte if from office " More of the Black Hills mine r. have. returned giving glowing descriptions l. the gold existing there. =. Great revival mee h ings are being held in England. as many s 17,G0O to 20, 900 people attending some of thel l. Messrs. Moody and Sankey the American I }. viyalists, continue to draw immense congreg It tions in London. ... The archbishop of Bal U more has been designated to confer the be Il reta on Archbishop McCloskey .... The Das ;tt House at Gloucester, Mass, was burned ai Io four of the inmates pershed ill the flames " The insurgents in Cuba have succeeded n destroying number of fine sugar plantation d :... 1.-The island of Mackinac in, Michiga d which heretofore has been held as militia m reservation, is to be set apart for nation o park, with the exception of Fort Mackinac al III grounds A company of United Stat u cavalry is ordered to start from Fort Laran as soon as the weather will permit, with i