Connecticut western news., 1875-01-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

President Grant issued Q proclamation order ing tho citizens of Warren county, Miss, to "dispeiso and retire poaceably to their respec- tive nbodes within five days" e. Two hundred persons were killed and wounded by an ex- plosion of Empowdor in Scutari, Turkey. .... Tho application of Stokes, who shot Fisk, for a pardon has been refused by the Governor of New York. k..... Tho managers of the United States national soldiers military asylums have prepared their annual report to Congress. They estimate that under tho now system of direct appropriations by Congress S,1, ,000,000 will be required to sustain these asylums during tho next fiscal year. A Memphis special says twenty disguised mon took two horso thieves from officers at JacksOnport, Ark, Il few days ago, blnce which time nothing has been heard from them. It is supposed they wore hanged. Tho negroes in Copal county, Miss, have formed D laborers union. Its chief ruo prevents members from working for less than throe-fourths the crop. Any one violating this rule is to bo strapped across log and covo three hundred blows with haudsaw.
 .....A circular addressed to the people of the United States has been issued by the leading New York capitalists commenting to their notice tho coming centennial celebration. The document enumerates tho advantages to the country which will accrue from the exposition, and urges tho necessity for conducting the enterprise upon scale betitting great nation. AdviceB from Venezuela report that des- porate battle fought in tho Provnco of BarquiHmcutO, bctween force of government
 troops under Gen. Marqucz and a body of insurgents under Gen. Colina. Tho engage ment lastod eghtyfour hours. Between seven and eight hundred men were killed and worlnd- o on both sides. Both parties claim q victory. ...... Charles Willine, a babe, was burned to death iu New York, his clothes taking fro in
 the absence of his mother. Yellow river
 near it's mouth has changed it's course, causing
 widespread inundations and distress ill Chnia About twenty miles from Hoochoo tho country is q vast ocean ..... A. w. Hedges, postmaster at Lancaster, ky, was shot and killed in his office by Ebonezer Bost. The two mon were brotherb-in-law Hedges having married two uf Best sisters. A family quarrel was probably the cause ...A respectfully dressed man was rvn aud killed on the Pennsylvania rail- road, near Railway ..... Tho Arkansas LoGiNN- turo has passed tho bill providing for issuing two and half million bonds for bonding tue floating indebtedness, and to raise means to Day the current oNpenscs of the State government
 ..... The United States House Committee on Appropriations has agreed to bill aprroprating
 $50, 900 for dcfrayimg the oxpcuscs of enter taiIln!, tho King of the Sandwich Islands .....
 President Grant nominated Joseph Arclibold collector of internal revenue for the third dis trict of New York M. C. IIollister, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho John Clarke
 associate justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho
 ...... Drs. Clapp and Chase, of Boston, wore tried before tho Massachusetts Medical Society on. a charge of rractcing homeopathy. Ton members have already been expelled for tho sano oIense. MT. Ross has offered a reward of &5,OOO for the return of his stolen SOIL
 Charlie Ross.
 1 Two railway accdcnt3 occurred in England l by which several persons were killed and in- | jurcd. II. Tardy, of Mobile was killed in
 duel with B. D. Lay near the Alabama and
 Mississippi State line. .... Several of the Pitts burGh furnaces hnvo recommended blasting
 ...... An attempt to settle q wages dispute among the conl miners of West Yorkshire. 1 England, by arbitration has fail cd " The
 bark Nongo, from New York, Nov. 19 has arrived at Queenstown with two survivors of 1 the crew of tho bark Amy. Tho latter foun- dcrcl on the voyage from Philadelphia to
 Antwerp, and eighteen haudr woro drowned
 The crew of the bark Rcsource which
 WHB abandoned on the passage from Baltimore | for London, hayo arrived at Plymouth Eng | laud They have suffered severely. When
 rescued they had been four days and nights ! clmGnE to the wreck ..... Iu a shooting
 alfray in Mercer county, Kentucky. two men
 wero killed and one mortally wounded. The
 quarrel arose about n dog, and ono Daniels
 was shot in the leg by Isaiah Gobhert. A con- stable with posse attempted the arrest of
 Gobhert, and in the melee Gohhert was feed
 with a shovel whom one Herring, a friend of
 Gobherts shot the constable through the body, killing him. The constables brother ! who iutCricrcd, also killed. Gobhort's
 wound is mortal ...... Moro than 5000, ,O0O
 women, exclusive of servants, are working for
 wages in Great Britain. vigorous movement
 is on foot in London for the organization of
 trades societies among them The number
 of por6ons employed in American browcrics is
 II, ,13S, in malt houses 3,556, in barley culture
 B, 753, ill hop culture S,02o and the total onl- 1 poyod in all these branches amounts to 5G, AT.
 ...... MT. paEo, of California, introduced a i bill ill the United States House to amend tue
 revised statutes, as to exclude Chinese from naturalization. ... Henry Ward Becchcr, in an article ill his paper, says that ho will make no compromise, but will fight it out to the end " Turkey is preparing for war. ......A company of United States cavalry have beon scnt to { explore tho mines III tho Black IEills gold regions. .... Four men were killed while dc scending shaft No. , of tho Delaware and LackawanIa railway tunnel, near the rchcrN oir
 Jersey City Heights. Tho bucket fell be- heath them and they followed, being instantly killed. A building i'll courso of erection at Albany, N. r., fell, burying five mon in the ruus and fatally iniuring threo of them.
 Twenty miners were killed by an explosion in the BignaI Hill colcry, North Stafford shire, England. .. On complaint of United States Indian Agent Bingham that the. Black Hills reservation has been invaded by white miners, the Secretary of tho Interior calls upon the Secretary of War to cApel the ntruCcrs Ivy rorco. James Walker, D. D., formerly President of Harvard College died at Cam bridge. .....A shocking railway accident cured noar tho town of Woodstock, England. An cXmots train on branch of the Great Western railway was thrown from the track, and procipitated down an ombankmcnt. Several of the carriages fell into q canal skrting tho road, and sixteen of the passengers wcro drowned and others killed ..... The boiler of pumping engine on Fosters wharf exploded, killing John Woonford and mjurnG three other laborors slightly. Two notorious char ,..olII At1,nt nrloIr Y to West Galway and attempted to rob a general store there. Whilo endeavoring to escape wllcu discovered by several citizens one of