Connecticut western news., 1875-10-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Itoms of Interest from Home and Abroad. District-Attorney Britton, of Brooklyn, N, Y,

District-Attorney Britton, of Brooklyn, N. Y., with the consent of Henry Ward Beecher,
 wishes to enter noHe prossQui in the case of Frank Mculton, but Mir. Moulton refuses to accept it, and demands 8 speedy trial. .. The committee on finance has reported to the Alabarna -constitutional convention that the indebtedness of the State is $59, 900, 900, and the total value of taxable property about $159- COG, ,OOO ... While 8 party of the New York fire department were drilling with an aerial ladder, composed of sections which rose to height of ninety feet, it suddenly broke and the seven men upon it were thrown to the ground, the four near the base escaping with slight injuries, while those further up were hurled with terrific force, and all three were killed among them Chief-of-Battalion Nash, who occupied the top of the ladder, ninety feet from the ground. The reports from the Turkish revolt are that Russia will attempt to arrange conference with the object of in- fluenoing the Porte regarding the future gov ernment of the Slavonic provinces. Montene- gro has definitely informed the insurgent leaders that she cannot make war against the Porte. Austrian surgeons are attending to the insurgent wounded brought, into Montenegro, and the governor of Dalmatia has been in- struoted to forward supplies of food for thirty thousand refugees now in Montenegro in great distress and destitution The number of deaths caused at St. Chinian, France, by the late inundation is eighty-eight. One hum dred andtwenty houses were destroyed. ..... One man has been picked up floating on the pilot house of the-lost steamer Equinox. He had been in the water thirty7one hours and is supposed to be the only survivor. ...... The great stallion race at Mystic, Park, Boston, for 8 purse of $10,O0O, was attended by an i'm mense throng. There were fourteen entries, but only six started: Thomas Jefferson, W. H. Allen, Commonwealth; Ned Wallace, Defiance and. Parkis Abdallah. Commonwealth won the first heat in 2 27, and Jefferson won the three succeeding heats and race in 3 26, 2.2515 and ,2.26.... .. The Russian government has been prosecuting socialists in it's domain, 612 men and 15S women having been indicted.
 .sTheodore Triton inaugurated his lecture season at Port Jervis, N. Y. He spoke on
 "The Problem of Life to large audience. ..,.., The Episcopal council fo, tue diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis, met at Green Bay. On the third formal ball Rev, John Henry Hobart Brown, of Cohoes, N. r., was elected bishop. .... The fast mail service between New York and the far Western cities has been started.
 Late reports received at St. John, N. F., from Labrador are very favorable, the fisheries hay ng improved greatly. Advices from Bona Vista bay, Newfoundland, are unfavorable, the fisheries being poor The yacht Madeleine beat the Mohawk in the great race for $1,OOO a side ...... E1-President Baez, now in Porto Rico, is reported to be working for a revolution against President Gonzales, of Santo Domingo. ...... While the bookkeeper of Francis Sar- l gent < Co.,, of Boston, was alone in his office, l two men entered, and while one of them, on some pretext, induced the bookkeeper to go to another part of the establishment, his con. ! federate pried open an inner door of the safe and made off with $17, ,235 in bank bills, checks | and notes. Rev. Dr. w. E. Mclean has been elected bishop of Illinois by the Episcopalians. The Herzegovinian insurrection will soor be terminated, as there are no hopes of aid. The Army of the Cumberland held & meeting 1 at Utica, N. Y., which was attended by Presi | dent Grant and Generals Sherman and Hooker
 In the course of Shermans speech he spoke  1 T Tho following is a summary of the cir, oular of the Papsl nuncio issued recently to the Spanish bishops: Claims the full | fillment of the concordat, which forbids the exercise of any non-C Catholic creed claims the transfer of the superintendence over education to the clergy and the cooperation of the secular power in suppressing heretical teaching anc f,ro of %ha OF ox-;1x is the way in which religious unity has beer misunderstood by previous governments. | is understood in Madrid that the nuncio i'm lsplles q threat that the blessing of the Pope 1 will be transferred to Don Carlos if the gov
 ernment does not admit the papal claim ...
 The following are tho latest official returns il regard to the English foot and mouth disease During one week there were 4, 426 additiona
 cases in Kent, 16, ,080 in Dorsetshire, Il, O95 il 1 Gloucestershire, and 5000 in Oxfordshire
 The scourge seems to be spreading in those
 coundies as we'll as in Stafordshire Hunting
 tonshire and Norfolk, with great rapidity II Sussex, however, the disease is abating
 There has been only 8 small proportion O
 deaths from: the beginning ...... A specia 1 from Rome states that the Pope recently in
 formed Cardinal Borromeo that the vatica,
 council would reassemble to complete it l labors in 1876. .. Garnett D. Marshall. cashie
 of the Louisville Gas Company, embezzlet
 $60, 900 during his occupancy of that office
 but on being discovered made such restitution
 as he could and was not pros ecuted. 1 l great fire occurred at Paderborn, Prussia f One hundred buildings were destroyed, where by three hundred families were rendered homeless. .''"
 ' :, The New York State Democratic convention held at Syracuse, nominated as follows: Secre T tary of, State, John Bigelow; Comptroller q Lucius Robinson 1; State Treasurer, Charles N Ross Attorney General, Charles s. Fairchild
 State Engineer, John D. Van Buren, Jr; Cana
 Commissioner, 0. H. Walrath State Prisol
 Inspector. Rodney B, Crowley. The platform l is mostly from the national platform of '72 ant
 the State platform of "A, and declares gol,
 and silver the only legal tender no currenc ] inconvertible with coin I; steady steps towar' I specie payments ; no step backward homes I payment of the public debt in coin sacre'
 preservation of the public faith revenue re form Federal taxation for revenue only n I government partnership with protected mo l nopohes equal and exact justice to all men
 no partial legislation; no partial taxation n
 private use of public funds by public officers
 corporations chartered by the State alway
 superyisable by the State in the interest of tn
 people the party in power responsible for al Legislation when in power; the Presidency
 public trust, net 8 private perquisite no thir term; economy in the public expense tha
 labor may be lightly burdened; praises tn
 administration of Gov. Tiden, and indorse , Senator Herman.
 The Democrats of Nebraska, in State con ventien, adopted 8 hard-moneY platform