Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

s4Hn AoH &ho cauSuU noS Dy tue DOQys leaYlnS her head hanging down. She succeeded ir raising the sash, when shef fens to the ground < and received injuries from vhich she wl1die .A.. Virginia City, Nev., has been nearly de royed by confagration, which consumed all the business portion of the town and all tho best portion of the residences rendering ter thousand people houseless and destitute. Il was necessary to blow up buildings to stop the flames, asthere was no water for the engines The hoisting apparatus and mills of the wealthy mines known as Consolidated lVirginis and Ophir, on the Comstock lode, were totally
 destroyed, but the flames were prevented from extending into the mines by bulkheadb. The loss can ouly be estimated by millions .. Mr. Bennett's yacht Dauntless beat the Mohawk iu the great ocean race. .... The bronze statue '1 of Stonewall Jackson, which was presented tc Virginia by some admiring Englishnlen, was
 unveiled with great ceremony at Riehmond Gen, Joe Johnson commanded the pro ocession
 ....It is thought that the English government o will prosecute itheo conaignees of the arms shipped hence ito China during the recent q lnegotiatious :. s!The servian legislature has 4 passed, by vote of sixty-one against forty
 tso, . motion for war with Turkey .. Lee X Walker, the music publishers of Philad delphia, have failed, with lisbilti amounting to $175,- j 00o. The assets will scoyar alTindebtedness if l time is allowed Oh which to realize.
 The President has appointed Thursday, No-
 yernber 25, for day of thanksgiving . The hsurrection in Khokand has beeu renewed,
 and the new Khan has fled to Khodjend
 Emperor William, of Germany, declares to the
 GernaH PaylMment1 Zthah peace is more i. assured uiow0 than at any time in the past twShty years ,. ilq.l John Dowdell shot his son
 James in tie head with aload of buckshot, in-
 turing him fatally, in New York. Both bad
 been on drunken debaueh all the night be-
 fore. ,,.,. The ,suffeung oecssioned by the fire inVirginia City was ahaudas there are many
 residents afflicted with typhoid fever, | num-
 Der of deaths have occurred from exposure
 The extortionate demands of drivers of ve- hieles retafded many in the removal of sick,
 and ir one case resulted in & murder, wherea
 father, frenzied to find he WAS unable Ito pay ] the sprieeI of9removaL shot the driver dead.
 Thealoases by the fire are now estimated at something over S8, ,oeo, 900, on which the insur- anaeis $1 100000. The director of the United
 States mint has received dispatch from tho
 mines saying it will be months before any bullion can be supplied, on account of the de-. structfon of the works. John Dolana was
 found guilty of murder in the first degree on
 the charge against him for killing Mir. Noe, in his brush shop in New ork. 5A. sVenezuela is
 quiet. Bnsiness is improving, and general
 confidence prevails all over tho country The
 crops of coffee and cocoa will be abundant.
 Wlva f,i33 cip rn&r . zL
 Hayes 6,549 majority ...... D. R. Fogg, of St.
 Louis, shot Pauline lPlachman, aged sixteen
 years, to whom he was engaged to be married,
 but did not mortally wound her. He then
 fatally stabbed, hiplself. ... Four mon were killed by m exnloaion0of gas in the Racooon
 Pit coal mines Ohesterfeld' county, Va. F. The losses by the Virginia City fire grow
 day by day. as the full damageis made known;
 1t is now set down by competent figures at ST. 0Oo 0O0., Food and clothi1g for. the destitute are pouring in from alrpartaof the country ,. .. The octoherirsport of the Department of Ag- riculture show that the cranberry crop is short, rice is abundant, sugar fully up to the average, hops qnite good, hemp very fine, and Sthenumber of fsttening cattle larger than that Aof yapy preyious year.. The Farmer, of L Lopdon says the cases of cattle disease for the quarter ending October 16 were as follows In Some rsetshire, s3, 900; in Cheshire, 50, 900 in Dorsetshire, 4s, 900; in Gloucershire, 44OOO; in Oxfordshire, 5000, in Warwickshire, 33,- 900; in Norfolk 8, ,000; in Cumberland, 23,- 900. Throughout England aud Wales there were for the same time over 500, 900 cases. The money damage is estimated at million dollars ...... The Nassau club Of New York beat the Anaoostans Of Wasling ton, in three-mile straightaway racs Oh the Potomac, mstwenty minutes and fifty seconds The Boston Herald for $5oOo for questioning the genuineness of the petrification A sailor, claiming to be the sole suryiyoraof the bark Jewess, of Boston, which saiiedla year and 8 hah ago forfg New South W&les has just | turned up, and telisfa horrible story, to the | effect that the Jewess, with an unknown Eng lish bark, were becalmed off the Auckland | islands for several days, and that one night | both were boarded by savages, tho crews over powered, the vessels scuttled and the prisoners | tsken ashore and eaten !. ..:lA A fast mail to J New Orleans via Oh ariot e. and. Atlanta, and second one to Chicago are protected .... M. Gambetta has issued a, manifesto favoriug amnesty, 1dspsFtmentsl yonngf and Sta ate con trol of ednesttond9S3 s'89I biidO
 There arc prospects of g. speedy outbreak between Japan and Coreas.. As Brigham Young disregarded tho eonrt's order that he should pay bis divorcod wifssSe, 500 alimony, his case was again brought Inp, and ho was sentenesa 10 be, Imprisoned until he paid the sum with costs of court. As Mr. Young was sick in bod, marshal was put in his house to watch him, .... It is said in Berlin that the Imperial government is about, to formally caeher Count yon 4rnina from tha public ser vice t.. :. Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Edinburgh Ii (dapghtet ot the 5czar1, has given birth to daughter ..... Reports are received from the various portions Of Indiana, Mis- souri, Illinois and other Western States to the effect that the hos eb olera isgtakng of thou sands of swine, and packers begin to look upon it in serious light ..... The attorney general Of New York Stata las received cer- tihed cheek for $sso. 4s5; si, payable to the State. treasur CT, being Ia proceeds of the moneys received from the Watson estate in the Tweed suits. It is reported in Vienna that the Turks havetmurdercd sixty Christians in Bihaczt q tprtiaed town near the Dalmstian frontier. T.n Extensive preparations are on fpot Jos ah unpecedsnt display of Japanese Froductionsam the American Centennial expo 8 tion to be held in Philadelphia. There has been fighting between United States troops and $ band of, Cheyenne Indians, in which the troops. were worseed,. with.n less of three men. Gen. Carr's command loft Fort Hayes by special train for the seat of war In the absence of oolored man from bis house in Athens, Ohio, the house took fro and his three children were burned to death. 6