Connecticut western news., 1875-04-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


 fishes corporation under the control of five directors appointed by the Governor The earthquakes in Mexico are abating but the volcano of Ceboruco throws out immense quan- titles of ashes and volumes of smoke A. c. Hill, of the mercantile house of Dickinson 8 Hill, at Fairport, N. r., stopped at the Globe Hotel Syracuse, and was found dead in bed the next morning, having been suffocated by gas, which he had left partly turned on.... General Sheridan has issued orders notifying interlopers at the Black Hills to leave, and stating that their refusal to do so will lead to their expulsion by military force. It is calcu- lated that 34,000,0O0 feet ..of lumber will be driven to Bridgewater, Canada, this spring, if the freshets are not extraordinary. :: An officer of the United States coast survey has discovered fresh water spring in the ocean, about two and one-haf miles from shore, in latitude twenty mine degrees, longitude eighty one degrees.
 It is said that the forthcoming English budget will show total revenue for the financial year ending March 31 of ETA 922, 900. This falls e2, 414, GOO below the revenue of the previous year, but exceedss the estimates by s497, 900. =. Jonathan l.. Jones failed to get a claim of $30o,oO0 through the last United States Congress, and committed suicide by drinking liquor. 2. A gang of counterfeiters in Virginia was broken up and a large number Of them captured with their. tools :! iI All available United! States troops have been ordered to the Texas border to act against the Mexican raiders. ..... The Secretary of the United States Treasury has decided that yes sells should hail from their home ports and not from places not ports but selected merely from the fancy of the owners. The trial of the Guikwar of Borada, at Calcutta, on the charge of attempting to bribe the servants of the residency to poison Colonel Phayre, the resi- dent, has resulted in the disagreement of the commissioners before which the case was on trial .. It is believed that little Charley Ross is dead-that the excitement relative to him was 80 great the kidnappers took his life to destroy traces of their guilt ... j. row boat was run down by g. steamer in Norfolk bay Va., and two men drowned. .... The total out standing currency of the United States is as epidemic in Havana, and cases have oc- cured in Key West. .... A! large reduction in the railroad fare between the East and West has taken place.
 g, A special dispatch from Berlin reports that eighty ecclesiastics, are at present imprisoned in Posen alone It is rTmored that the, Ger man government has arrested the Papal dele gate, who has been administering the archbis- hopric of Posen since the arrest of the incum- bent According to the treasury statement the public debtef the United States, amounted A,e0 0cs nor Il oas oc5a in the treasury. The decrease during the month of March was $3, 681 21O. 63, and since June 30, 1874, $9, ,453, ,462 62. :. A telegram from St. Petersburg says that M. Schichkim, the Russian diplomatic agent and consul general in Servia, has been appointed minister of Russia to the United States. A special dispatch from Berlin says 8 financial crisis is feared in Germany. Settlements on the Bourse | are effected with great difficulty. There have been twenty eight failures and two, persons have committed suicide in consequence of financial reverses . Philip Gleason, miner, while attempting to step across the shaft of the Kansas mine, near Central City, missed his footing and fell three hundred feet to the bottom. When found his body was crushed to & shapeless mass. This is the fifth miner killed within two months. The Hon. A. G. Bannatyne has been elected by exclamation to the Dominion Parliament from Manitoba for the seat rendered vacant by the expulsion of Riel . The Canadian Parliament has voted $500, 900 for changing the gauge of the Inter- Colonial railway . The Governor of Pennsyl- vania has issued 8 proclamation calling upon the striking coal miners to dlsperse and retire as, Al,1 pressed by the Governor ill his dispatch to the Susquehanna rioters-that the laws must be upheld, the public peace preserved and life and property made secure at all hazards that the public highway must be kept free and unob- structed. and trade and travel unimpeded, and that parties having wrongs to be redressed must resort to the courts, and not in contempt of law and authority, seek to right them by | violence.
 | Henry Ward Beecher, in his evidence in the | Tilton-Beecher case, testified that he first re- | garded Mrs. Hilton as very simple and pure woman with good intelligence, and he after ward came to admire the development of her religious character which took the direction of eostatic devotion, ,zcombined with serenity and peace and trust in God, generous social sym pathy and excitement. He described her as always actively engaged in charitable works. Her affection for him he believed to be as fol her pastor and friend, and he never suspected anything else. His sentiment for her was one of lifelong affection and respect as christian woman a wife, and g mother surrounded witt 8 beautiful family. He never entertained al affection for her in any other sense. He hac
 z1IzoL # l. Hilton on October 10 or IT, 1868. He was the1 questioned specifically as to whether he hat ever made improper advances to Mrs. Hilton whether she had ever granted him her favor and whether he ever had had arnalintercours,
 with her. His denials were indignantly em l phatic. When he said in response to one G
 these quiries, "No, sir, 1t was impossible t. her," large section of the audience applauded
 bringing about the severe rebuke of the judge Surrogate Hutchings in 8 late case befor
 him, held that by the laws of the State cohabi tation as husband and wife constituted a val marriage without church or civil ceremonial ..... Seven bishops, fifty priests, thirty-si ,, journalists, and thirty-fve others were arreste ) in one month in Germany by Bismarck's o1 ders .,. The total number of passengers wh landed at the port of New York from Januar , to March 31, 1875, was HIPS, being 1,08
 more than came during the corresponding perio | of 1874 ..... Achievements for the Spanis army in Cuba continue to arrive daily. ..... , Rowland Hazard and Daniel B. Day have at
 cepted nominations for Governor and Liente1 e ant-G Governor respectively by the. Rhod t Island Republicans who are opposed to th I proceedings of the late Republican State Cor , vention.
 In the Cincinnati charter election the Demo