Connecticut western news., 1875-11-19
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- -. .4 .@ SUMMARY OF NEWS. Interesting Items nom Homo and Abroad. # iaovernor cTildsn has issued proclamation appointing Thursday, the 25th inst, as day of thankssivi for New York ... Y <, The Liver pool (Eng0 Post says that the new Texas cot ton classes much better than the old, and quotations average sixteenth higher. It is thought that Texas and Orleans quotations will shortly be identical..... Seventeen Cana disns were drowned by the upsetting of soow in the St. Lawrence. They were residents of the Isle of Orlerns, and were returning from market at the time. Aheayy snow storm was prevailing. .s. The San Francisco National Gold Bank and Trust Uompany has gone into voluntary liquidation. ... Cincinnati is en- deavoring to arrange an immense Centennial religious celebration for 1876. ... By confa- grafton in Sherman, Texas, sixty-fve places of business were destroyed and thirty families rendered homeless slight Earthquake shocks were felt throughout Georgia .....
 The occupants, of New York city tenement called in the police to break open the door of 8 room from whence pistol shots had been heard, and upon their doing 80 they found an unconscious man and a dead body, each clutching a revolver in the right hand and having wouods in the head. The wounded man died shortly after, when it wss ascer- tained that. their names were Goldman and TJetoslaw, Polish Jews, who were formerly in psrtnership. They, had evidently quarreled md lad 1,x,o 1r,ol members of the Cathedral Chapter have given formal notice that they will submit to the authority of the imperial government of Ger many ...... Lemuel T. Abbot, farmer of Oeeipee, N. H., killed his wife with an ax, nearly aeyering her head from her body. The aot was committed in the heat of passion dur ing quarrel. He hung himself, but was cut down bafore life waa extinct. He was arrested. and conf fessed the deed 2i]a.i3A
 The population of India, according to the cens1s just taken, is 23S, ,830, 958.. .. The El Cfonista, of Madrid, announces that the king will take command of the northern ar mics in December ' :. :. Tine shoe and leather interest Of the country fs to have 2 building 160 by 800 feet at the centennial. A terrible
 fight occurred at Lima, Peru, between the ypartissns of Admiral MonterO and those of Gen. iPrado... ..z Burglars entered the First National bank of PIttston, Pa, by cutting 3 the, vault by means of 8 rope ladder. They blew open two spherical safes and stole $40, 900 ia bonds and securities. ... The Pau Mall
 GGzeste, in leading article, says '' the English occupancy of Egypt is only question of time, as that step is necessary for the preservation of our Indian empire.' ..... Shocks of earth quake were felt in California and Arizona. The town. of Iquique, Peru, was nearly de-. stroyed by fire on the seventh ultimo. Twenty four blocks of buildings, including the finest in the town. were burned. The buildings, az well as the sidewalks, were of, wood, which the flames consumed rapidly. Efforts to control the flames by throwing sea water on them were fruitless, as the soil was so impregnated with nitrate that the water only aided the con
 1agration. The loss is estimated at $5, 900, l. 900, on which there Is DO insurance. Much suffering was, experienced by those burned out of house and home, but relief was being forwarded from Lima and other cities. s...... Mr. sschenck, minister to Great Britain, has written a letter to the Times exposing the systematic sale in England of fictitious Ameri- can university degrees :. . :. A band of insur- gents entered the town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, and after wounding the governor, caused his resignation. The English vice. ,consul is temporarily at the head of affairs. Two American and one English gunboats are are in the harbor to look after the interests of their countrymen. :. 12, ,8O9, ,O22 feet of lum- Der were shipped to the States from Ottawa in October. y
 The Louisiana State funding board has adopted the following rule: "That when bonds are presented forfunding, with coupons detached, new bonds will be issued with the corresponding coupons detached and cancelled, as in the case of payment. .Wm. Mckee of the St. Louis Globes Democrat, and ex-Col- lector Mcguire, of St. Louie, have had true bills of indictment found against them for complicity in the whisky frauds They were put under s!5,ooO and .$1o, 600 bonds. respec- lively ...... David Robinson, residing near Kokomo, Ind, shos his wife and eldest boy, unsuccessfully, then cut the throat of his daughter as she lay in bed, took the life of g young son in the same manner, and mounting 3 horse fled. His dead body wss subsequently found mile of, and it is supposed he com mitted suicide. =. The Pal Mall Gazette is authorized to state that the admiralty's fugi- tive slave circular will be withdrawn and new instructions be issued ...... Prussia has asked Austria to prevent Bishop Foer5ter, while re- siding in the Austrian portion of bis diocese,
 from exercising any episcopal function touch ing the Prussian portion .... The direct
 cable has been successfully recovered, the break repaired, and cable rates win be again reduced by the old company ..... The German arsenal at Rendshurg, Holstein. was destroyed by an explosion. Lose. 5,oOooOo marks.
 The inhabitants of Kaks, on the White Nile, have reyolted and defeated sthe Egyptian troops, killing one hundred of them . The Russian mibister, at COnstantinople, has had an interview with the Grand Vizier durin g which he threatened armed intervention by the great powers if the Tnrbiah persecution of
 Christians. continued; ace. The Atlsnta Conlsti- tsssio'ss exploring party left Homersile, Ga ,, for Okefenokee swamp. The, party numbers twenty-five, and is fully equipped. Prof. Lit tie, the State geologist, accompanies the expe- dition. .... The Imparoidl, of Madrid, states that Mr. Cushing, the American minister, has delivered to the minister of foreign affairs another note in regard to the jurisdiction of .courts-martial over citizerss5of the United States. :. The Dtayto Bspanol of Madrid, .ssys that the Vatican has sent note to Mad rid, which expresses approval of Cardinal simeoni's conduct regarding the recent. Vatican circular ..x The sarvian military, after three days rnsneuvers, were ord cred to the frontier. f. !. <. The purchasing committee of the bond holders of the defunct $. Joseph and Denver railroad bought the. road for sfOO, 600 from tha Kansas MssSar of Cbancarv fsat mail