Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

New Haven and Northampton railroad company | to re-establish a depot at Plantsville, which they abandoned year ago. At meeting of the stockholders of the road they declined | to do so, claiming it was their right. The matter will go to the courts At the Buffalo races, Lulu, the winner of the race for $4 ,0J0, trotted mile in 2. .15.. ..... The running horse Madge made three-quarters of 8 mile dash in 1.l51a at Saratoga-being the fastest tune ever made. e..... The United States consul at Tripoli having been insulted by Tripolian sailors; the man-of-Mar Hartford has been sent to investi- gate the matter. ... The United States comp troller,s statement of the condition of the national banks of the country at the close of June 30th. shows resources of $1, 913, 239, 2O1.- 16..... Fifteen hundred miners arc preparing to leave the Black Hills finder orders from the military: A new military post has been es- abolished there, consisting of one company of infantry and two of cavalry. Gold is found in abundance ..... Fifty men, concerned in the recent religious riots in Miguel, Salvador, have been shot by order of President Gonzalez. .... It iB estimated that two thousand acres of cotton have been submerged by the recent rise in the Mississippi. The cotton and corn crops in Tennessee and parts of Alabama have" been much damaged by the long continued drought ... The Spanish government will soon order levy of Tod, ,OOO men to reinforce the army.
 Intelligence from South America is to the effect that the States of Colombia was on the brink of revolution ...... The funeral of Hans Christian Andersen. St Copenhagen, Denmark, was attended by the king and royal family, officers Of the government, representa- tives from all parts of the country and mem bers of all kinds of societies, forming an i'm. mense crowd. All business in the town was suspende -.:: The English M, cantile ship ping bill drawn up by Sir Charles Adderly after Mir. Plimsolls demonstration, and passed by tue House of Commons, has finally passed the House of Lords. ... The army worm | appeared in immense numbers at Sussex, New | Brunswick, en the government railroad line | east of St. John, and their ravages have created | widespread alarm. Fields of grain were at tackled and destroyed in short time. Horse | rollers, run over the road where they crossed. did not perceptibly lessen their numbers. A l telegram from St. Andrews says army worms invaded that town & few days since, covering the streets, fields and lanes in every direction, and devouring the grass and grain. In spite of every opposition they are still advancing.
 .... Wm. Hobkirk, banker of Waupun,
 Wis.,, las disappeared, having $31, 5OO on his person at the time he was last seen. His relatives think he has been murdered, but others do not hesitate to say he has decamped. | .. The Ohio crops have not suffered as much as the first accounts led us to believe.
 ......As 8 freight train was passing through
 Big Bend tunnel, on the Chesapeake and Ohio l railroad, Virginia, thirty feet of the roof fell
 in, crushing the engine killing the fireman
 instantly and fatally wounding the engineer.
 .. The revenue authorities are determined
 to make passengers arriving from foreign
 countries pay the duty on their goods and 50
 effectually put a stop to fashionable smuggling.
 The Northern Pacific railroad was sold for $100,000 to 8 committee representing the
 bondholders. The bonds will be called in and
 the company reorganized. Duncan, Sher-
 man & Co.'s statement shows liabilities of
 $4, ,872, 12S.76. of which $237, 975.56 is held | in letters credit. The estimated assets are
 $2, 112, TAO. 6l.. ... Theodore Hilton has sued
 the Brooklyn Eagle for libel for asserting that
 hereditary insanity existed in his family. ..... Yellow fever has broken out in the village of Pascagonla, Miss. and there are thirty cases
 present. =. The Herzegovinians are aided
 with money and provisions by the Dalmatians and Montenegrins. .... The Spanish authori-
 ties have ordered the levy of 100, 900 troops.
 Another decree is issued directing the minister
 of finance to redeem the floating debt and
 issue consolidated interior scrip for s60, ,000,- 900 .... The Abyssinians are making prepara-
 tions to invade the Egyptian frontier ... The
 passenger who was forcibly taken last month
 from the British mail steamer Elder at Porto
 Rico by the Spanish authorities proved to be a
 colonel in the Spanish service. He was brought
 ashore and soon afterward shot. All the
 foreign consuls protested against the act. ....
 It rained 311 inches in New York city in six
 hours on August 18th, being the heaviest rain
 in ten years.
 A freight engine exploded in the yard of the , Fitchburg railroad, at Charlestown, Mass,
 there being an engineer, fireman and brake I man on board at the time. The two former ;J were blown out of the cab and landed on the j roof of 8 car in the rear of the tender, escap- ing with slight injury. The brakeman was
 
 l, scalded, may recover. The cause of the ex-
 plosion is unknown. The fragments of the engine were scattered about in all directions, and few persons received slight injuries.
 One piece of boiler weighing thirty-two pounds was blown into the air and fell through the l roof of St. Johns church, quarter of & mile
 distant Spain is to send one hundred
 thousand more soldiers to Cuba ...... The
 bishop of Gnesen, Germany, who has been
 acting to some extent for Archbishop Ledo
 chowski, has been expelled from the province , comprising his diocese by decree of the
 governor The English Parliament has been prorogued until October 18th. The Queen , in her speech, said that the relations witt , foreign powers continue to be cordial, and she looked forward with hope and confidence tc the uninterrupted maintenance of European peace. She stated that the visit of the Sultan will lead to tho complete suppression of tho ! east African slave trade. Jesse Woodson the alleged murderer of Mrs. Jarratt, wal taken from the Murfreesboro (Tenn.) jail by mob of seventy-fve men and hanged to & tree The Philadelphia chief-of-police deniei , the story that Charlie Ross has been found New York State Insurance Superinten } dent Chapman has cancelled the authority O ) the Chicago Teutonic life insurance compan.
 to do business in his State ...... Two childreI were burned to death by kerosene explosion at Fairpoint, N. Y..... Wright W. Wheatley one of the murderers of France Warl, wa hanged at Helena, Montana. He died neithe , confessing his guilt nor pleaded his innocence .... John Webb, & murderer, was hange' at Knoxville, Tenn., in the presence of fifteel thousand people. The secretary of tn , Treasury has issued another call for the re f demption of $1O, O0O OOO of fve-twenty bond