Connecticut western news., 1875-05-21

time. At dead of night and in dense fog the unfortunate steamer ran upon rock at the Iscilly Islands and became total wreck. Over three hundred of her unfortunate passengers persisted. ,s.The ship Salvadora, from sayan-
 nah for Liverpool, went ashore near Holyhead and was lost. The bark Marco Polo, from New York for Bremen, stranded at Andresselle. Both crews were safely landed. .... While two
 men named Romelman and Daggert were at supper in a Philadelphia boarding house, they sreopened an argument they had the evening pre- !vious, concerning the refining of sugar. Romel-
 man called Daggert harsh name, whereupon
 the latter drew g knife and stabbed the former l in the heart. Daggert escaped. .... The postal treaty has been signed by all the nations con stituting the general postal union, and the new rates will be charged after July 1, except ing on correspondence to and from France.
 A terrible tornado passed over & portion of Ohio, demolishing everything in it's route.
 Three houses were blown down at Green Springs and two children crushed to death.
 Not chimney was left standing in the,place. Passing northward through Clyde and Bellevue, much damage was done. Along the line of the Lake Shore railroad scarcely building escaped injury. The track of the tornado was two miles wide. =. As Jacob Oatman was | returning from funeral in Trenton, N. J., his horses ran away and he was killed. Two masons had fight on 8 scaffold three stories l high in New York, and on the foreman attempt | ing to separate them, all three were precipi- tated to the ground, carrying with them eight | oq ,oI, II men were excavated m a mangled condition. ...... Dan Bryant's household goods were sold at public auction at his residence, realizing the | sum of $2, ,000. .... The revenue authorities at Washington having discovered immens frauds, seized over thirty large dstilleries and rectify- ing establishments in the West. ..., Reports received in Washington from 330 counties | indicate that the winter wheat will not be, over fve-eights of the usual average. A coroner B ! jury sat on twenty of the bodies recovered from tue Schiller, and returned a verdict of accidental drowning. Two brothers were drowned in New York harbor by the capsizing of their boat John Best, of Stoneham,
 Mass, member of the House of Represents tives, commander of Post 75, G. A. R collector of taxes, and assessor, was detected in the act and arrested for stealing $1 ,50O from the safe of Aaron Hill prominent merchant. Money had been taken previously. The centennial celebration of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen was participated in by a large concourse of people. -.-a
 The recent developments in the Internal Revenue department of the United States are most astonishing. For several years 8 ring extending all over the country has existed,
 yearly growing stronger and increasing it's ability to defraud the government. It had some of it's members in the department, and
 in breaking up the ring the officials were obliged to use the greatest secrecy. Every year the government has been defrauded out of over | $1. 250,000, and without word of warning the government seized distilleriesi in all the Western eities-in St. Louis, Il in Milwaukee, 13 i; in Chicago, 8, etc. The developments of the case will be looked forward to with no little interest.