Connecticut western news., 1875-06-11

undof the sanction of the most venerable Of examples, limits the Presidential service of any citizen to two terms, and we, the Republ- cans of Pennsylvania in recognition of the lazy, are unalterably opposed to the election to the Presidency of any person for third term. s... The Erie railway has been put in the hands of 8 receiver
 Mary Fogarty, adomestic, aged twenty three, mysteriously disappeared from the residence of Postmaster Robertson, of Troy, N. T., while she was supposed to be sweeping the sidewalk. Fifteen days after her body was found in the river. The face was terribly mutilated, and the body indicated that fearful outrage had been committed on her person. ... One hun dred and twenty-five Vassar College girls visited West Point on 8 steamer in order to witness the evolutions of the cadets. There were eleven bids for the new Massachusetts State loan of $750,0OO for the completion of the lunatic asylum at Worcester. The awards were: William B. Astor, $5O,OO0 at 112 and $50, 1000 at 1111 New York Life and Trust Company, $650, 900 at $110I. ..... The steam boats Juniata and Mollie Ebert, with three empty barges, were burned at Pittsburgh, Pa. Loss, $12O, O,OOO.. By 8 fire in Holliston, Mass, some twenty-five buildings were de- stroyed at loss of $1O0, O0O... MT. A. J. Alexander, of Lexington, Ky, has sold the short-horned cattle twenty-fourth Duke of Andrie and the twentieth Duchess of Andrie to gentleman in England for $3O,OOO for the pair. ... A stranger from the West hired a roo4n at 8 New York hotel, saying that he had been on terrible spree and desired to stay there and get over the effects of the liquor, but instead of stopping drinking he drank heavier, and became gloomy and Respondent. The next known of him he was found in his room dead, with his throat cut .. Another boy has been shot by the careless handling of re- volver by his companion. This time it was Edward J. Partridge, of Brooklyn, New York, aged twelve, aid his injuries were fatal.
 . Paul Boynton, { of the American ife-saving service, made his second attempt to swim from France to England in his patent life preserving dress, and was completely success ful ..... The enthusiasm over the revival meetings of Moody and Sankey in London continues unabated. The services are almost continuous throughout the day and evening, and 8 large body of police is required to clear 8 way through the crowds waiting for admission for each departing; congregation ... Four children, one an infant, of S. M. Christian, at Versailles, Ohio, were burned to death by an explosion of can of kerosene, with which one of them vas endeavoring to kindle kitchen fire. .... The centennial of the opening of the first Baptist church was celebrated in Provi- dence, R. l., with appropriate exercises. ... daring robbery was perpetrated by masked robbers in Brooklyn, N. Y. The bookkeeper of 8 carriage factory entered the shop at eleven o'clock at night as customary, to see if every thing was all right, when he was suddenly confronted by three masked men who struck him with an iron bar, and presenting revolver at his head compelled him to open the safe which had combination lock. They then broke open the inner compartment with a sledge hammer but only secured twenty dollars. ..... The latest revised figures concerning the losses by the terrible church confagration at5 Holyoke, Mass. give the dead as seventy one, fatally burned twenty two, and otherwise burned and wounded as twenty y-seven, making making 8 total of one hundfed and twenty vic tims of the catastrophe. Of the seventy-one dead, ffty-fve are females and sixteen males. ..,- .,. MT. H. G. Cameron, of Brooklyn, N. Y, q member of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,, and one of the university crew, was drowned while on the river practiclng. The shell was upset by the rough water occasioned by a pass ing tugboat .. A terrible earthquake occurred at Broussa Asia Minor. Six hundred houses were destroyed, one hundred and sixty one lives lost, and one hundred and eighty-seven persons injured.
 The house of Mir. Van Nicer, near Maxwell village, Ont, was burned recently and three of his children perished ill the flames R Anderson 8 well-known citizen of Kemptyille Ont, threw himself under & train on the St. Lawrence and Ottawa railroad and was in- stantly killed. Financial difficulties are said to have been the cause of the act. John Hughs, who was convicted of the murder of his wife in Newton, N. J., has been sentenced to be hanged on the second of July. The total loss by the Springfield (Mass.) fire foots up about $55O 900, and the total amount of insurance about $450, ,000. .. ... Decoration day was celebrated in all parts of the United States. North and South. At most points flowers were distributed on the graves of friend and foe
 
 Post, prospect that Russia and England will come to a friendly understanding on the Central Asian question. In the British House of Lords Earl Derby explained that the recent danger of war in Europe was caused by the ap- prehensions of Germany that France was in- creasing her army in contemplation of re- newal of the Franco-German war. Earl Derby added that peace had been secured by the representatives of England and Russia. The press of the country have had their say about the letter of President Grant relative to the third term. Some of the leading party papers say that the letter plainly declares that the President will not accept the nomination for a third term if rendered him, and others as strongly assert that the President leaves the matter open, and if offered the nomination by the Republican convention he will accept it. Throughout the southern part of New Jersey the ravages of the Colorado potato-bug are such as to lead to fears that the entire cror will be destroyed. In Gloucester county it is stated that there is not farm on which more or less serious damage has not been done Swarms of the insects float upon the water along the rivers and creeks in the southern part of the State. They cling in living masses to any floating objects, and the corks attached to the fishermens nets become black with then as soon as they are thrown into the water.
 Lovers of house plants will be sorry to learn that the oleander is dangerous plant. But so it is. Children have beer poisoned by eating the flower petals
 cattle have been killed by browsing or the foliage; a single drop, it is said, o1 the milky, ae aerld d 1ulGe 51 that G e3udes i when to nrOd11ce the death of an infant The