Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The foot-and-mouth disease has broken out with great virulenoe in Dorsetshire, England, where twelve thousand animals are down with it. This distemper is spreading rapidly to other parts of England. .. A bottle washed ashore at Port Huron, Michigan, contained this mes sage from the dead aeronaut cover Lake Michigan at eight P. M. of the evening of starting, about thirty miles from Chicago and about three thousand feet high. gale is coming from the northeast. The balloon is getting out of order, the gas escaping fast. Can't remain up much longer. Will surely land in the lake. Fearful storm. Donaldson ..... The United States war steamers Con- gross and Hartford are at Tripoi to seek satis- faction for insults offered to the American consul ;. :. Commodore James G. Goodenough, commanding the British squadron in Austrian waters, landed at Santa Cruz island with 3 boats crew to open intercourse with tn he na tives, and was apparently succeeding when g shower of poisoned arrows fell upon them, killing Commodore Goodenough and wounding lieutenant and seven men. The naval authorities shelled and burned the native vil- lage. .... The officers connected with Admiral Worden in the European squadron of the United States navy have been rendered ban quets in nearly all the large towns they visited The single scull race at Saratoga lake for the championship of the State and the diamond badge, was won by 0. B. Courtney. of the Union Springs boat club. The course of one and half miles and return was made in 13.39@, said to be the fastest time on record.
 A man named .Houghton, of Crawford Co.,, Ind, who was concerned in the lynching of 8 man & year ago, recently turned States evidence and implicated his comrades. A few nights afterward he was visited by 8 band of twenty-five masked men who gave him . terrible beating. .. ;. Since the assassination of President Moreno at Quito, the foreign residents have become alarmed, and there are strong suspicious that there will be a massacre of the foreign priests. According to the late census, the total population of Chili is 2,067, 524, an increase of 247,701 since the census of 1865. There are 26, 52S foreigners in Chili.. .. Courtney won the single scull chaL lenge cup at Saratoga in thirteen minutes and ffty-nine seconds. Smith and Eldred, of the Argonauta crew, won the pair-oar race in twenty-one minutes and thirty-six and one- half seconds, the distance being three miles with a turn. Capt. Webb, of the English merchant service swan from Dover to Calais in twenty-one hours and forty minutes, without using any life-saving or floating apparatus. {. The Khedive of Egypt has sent three men-of- war and force of troops to that portion of the Egyptian coast bordering on Abyssinia to pun ish the body of blacks invading Egyptian terri tory..... John Lee Powell was sentenced in Bridgeport, Conn.,, to twenty years imprisonr ment for placing Instructions on 3 railroad track. a--]--.-- a~ '~ @f -' @ -~
 A dispatch from Halifax, N. s., states that the total catch of mackerel at the island this year is not above two-thifds that of last year, but the quantity is superior. ... It is reported that the Khokand insurgents have surrounded Knojend, large city fifty miles from Kho- kand. Communication between Khojend and Taschkend is interrupted. The authorities of Taschkend are arming the Russian inhabitants of the city. .Advices from Capt. Edward Simpson, commanding the United States steamer Omaha, dated Panama, Aug. 26, an- nounces that the State of Panama has declared war against the State of Colombia. . The bank of California, at San Francisco, stopped payment owing to lack of coin. The officers claim to have sufficient assets to settle all liabilities. The bank will not resume busi7 ness. :. .. Stirling, Ahrens & Co.,, of Baltimore, Md, the largest sugar importing house in the country, suspended with liabilities amounting to $2, 5O0, 900. ... James H. Noe, the New York merchant who was besten on the head by burglar he found in his store, has since died of his injuries. ... The Atalauta crew, com posed of college graduates, won the four cared race at Saratoga against the amateurs in eighteen minutes and thirty-two and one. half seconds Courtney and Robinson won the double scull contest in twelve minutes and forty-two and one-haf seconds Twenty. four crates of peaches were shipped to Europe by the steamer Ohio, the first shipment on re- cord We'll executed counterfeits of the $10 bill of the First National bank of Phila delphia are again in circulation. .. Private telegrams from Montevideo state that the dis satisfaction with the President and his minis try is such that no doubt is entertained that another revolution is imminent in Uruguay
 James R. McNeil, well-known planter liv ing eighteen miles below Memphis, Tenn, or the Arkansas side, was assassinated by an un
 known man in broad daylight ..... Mrs. J. P Couse, of Nashville, committed suicide aftel her third attempt. The second day of the San Francisco panic resulted in the closing o I the Merchants bank and the National Golt Bank and Trust Company, not on account O insolvency, but simply lack of gold coin. The. will resume in few days. Wm. c. Ralston president of the broken Bank of California after attending meeting of the directors O
 the bank st which he was made to resign hi
 offices, deliberately committed suicide b, drowning ...... Hon. George D. Lord, ex I member of the New York Assembly, was ar rested for bribery in connection with bil passed by the Assembly last winter: for thu
 additional compensation of one John Hand fo
 dredging Black Rock harbor,, Buffalo. H
 was held in $15, 900 bail. .. Mrs. J. P. Couse of Nashville, committed suicide after he third attempt. .... The new custom hous
 regulation requiring due entry of the weariHl apparel in actual use, and other persona
 effects, etc., of persons arriving ill the Unite
 States from foreign countries went into etfec
 Sept first .. The Tripolitan authoritie
 apologized to the United States consul for tn
 indignities offered him. ... Sec de Urge
 capitulated. The Alfonsist army occupied tn
 forts <. Passengers on a train from Chicago
 via the Kankakee route report the robbery o
 the occupants of the esleeping car to the amour
 of $1,000.... The proposed German piigrimag
 to Lourdes was causing anxiety in France, a
 they do not wish to have the German religion
 difficulty transferred to French soil ...... Tn
 propeller Comet collided with the Canadia
 steamer Manitoba on Lake Superior and wa
 instantly sunk ten of the people on her bein
 drowned.
 Confidence has been restored in fnanci'
 circles of San Francisco, and all the banh
 with the exception of the Bank of California
 have resumed business. Another revolutio