Connecticut western news., 1875-01-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad

Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.
 In the Pennsylv allia legislature resolutions were adopted by split party vote. 102 Demo crats to S6 Republicans, protesting against the action of the President in the Louisiana matter. The resolutions read That this House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, speaking for her people, do gsolemnly protest agalnsts so heinous an abuse of the power committed to
 he President that we protest against it as a precedent which substitutes the will of the Executive and the Federal bayonet for the functions of the Legislature ill determining the qualification of it's members, endangering personal liberty, and imperilling a free govern ment The Governor of Missouri, in his mes sage to the Legislature, protested against the employment of military force, except ill exact accordance with the Constitution of the United States as construed and understood ill our national history, and declared that the use of troops in Louisiana was fearful inl lotion of the Constitution A resolution in the Virginia Senate calling upon the governors Of the various States to convene their respective Legislatures to take action in relation to Federal interference with the Louisiana Icgis- lat,lre. &c. was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations ... Ill the rr& |n-'N Senate resolutions Vcondemning the Course. of the President ill the Louisiana matter were tabled by vote of 16 to Il. Gov. Hidden sent into the Senate a message relative to the same
 matter. and declared the use of troops in Louisianag as unconstitutional and unlawful.
 This was also laid on the table.
 fire in New York city-Shaw & Co npanys 1o74 of $500, GOO. A committee from the Demo- cratic members-elect waited upon Governor
 Kellogg in New Orleans to try and make a com promise. The Governor replied that the time for compromise talk had passed Fifty-two 1 Republican members of the Louisiana Legisla- | ture signed a statement to Governor Kellogg, setting forth that they answered to the call of the clerk Immediately thereafter the chair was forcibly taken possession of in violation of 1 law, and all attempt was made to organize the
 House contrary to law. We cannot obtain our | legal rights unless the members-elect are | placed in possession of the hall. Whenever the hall is cleared of ali persons save the gen. | tlemen elected we will proceed to organize. | We therefore invoke your aid in placing the hall in possession of the members elect that we may attend to the performance of our duties" :" . The house of John Reading of Living l ston, N. J., was entered by burglars during his absence. Ills wife and three children were seized by two masked men, bound and gagged. | The men ransacked the house, taking $500
 worth of silverplate, s3oOworth of jewels, and | $1, 400 in cash The family weren their night clothing, and they SaIl but froze to death. The 1 youngest ehild dcontri3ed to remove thegag and | clied P but itwas1 o'clock before a. passer-by heard her and the, mother and her children
 were released .... The lost Murillo, which was stolen from the cathedral of Seville was lately rccoveredin New York and sent baelzsto Spain. | At the convention of American colleges, held at Hartford, Conn.,, Saratogal Lake was selected for the regatta, to take place on July IA. Union and Hamilton colleges were admitted as mem
 bers of the association. In the departments of Barcelona and Navarro several bands sof
 Carlists have beenf defeated by the national
 troops: =. An attacking force of Cuban in surgents were driven from fort No. 15 with d | loss of five men. .. Preliminary steps have been taken by the German government to
 insure satisfaction from Spain for the treat ment of the vessel Gustav by the Carlists.. .. | An explosion of, gas took place in one of the vaults in the Park Hotel, in New York, by
 which three tpersons-were painfully burned. The Louisiana Legislature has again elected P. B. $. Pincilback to the United States Senate. ...n.. The case of the lieirs of Monroe Snyder against the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance | Companyrto recover the face of a ifepolicy, payment for which was refused on the ground | that deceaeed had committed suicide with in tent to defralld, closed with a verdict for plan tifs for &16 459 .... The deputy constable appointed to look after the children employed
 ill the factories in Massachusetts has presented l his report to the Governor. He declares that
 in Massachusetts there are 60,006 children
 growing up in ignorance, in consequence of
 their employment at too early an age, and too exclusively ill factories ...... The Secretary of
 the United States Treasury estimates the ap-
 propriations required to supply deficiencies for
 the service of the fiscal year ending June 30
 1875, and prior years: State department, iPt23,- | 764 Treasury, $264, 797 ;.war P113, 767; navy | $13,3T7 interior, $471, ,349 :; total, $592, ,054.
 President Grantsigned the new Finance bil
 giving it his ''hearty" approval. But he
 pointed out to Congress that fixing date when
 specie resumption shall commence, implies an
 obligationto provide such legislation as may be
 necessary to redeem their promise. And in
 this connection he calls attention to the de-
 ficiency which exists in the Treasury and which, under the present revenue laws, is like
 ly to continue and to increase. This fact has
 an importance entirely separate from that
 which arises from the recent pledge to resume
 in 1879. The Secretary of the Treasury states
 the requirements of the sinking fund for the
 year ending the 30th of June at $31, ,069, ,545,
 and the balance remaining from other expendi- 1 lures he estimates at only $9,002 796.57 There I will, therefore unless expenses are cut down, t or revenues increased, or both, be distinct
 deficiency at the close of the year of $22093, 74843. The Secretary estimates the deficiency
 next year st $11, 920 914. He suggests the duty
 on tea and coffee be returned, and that the ten
 per cent. reduction of the tariff on the articles
 specified on the law of June G. 1872 be re- ] pealed.
 A dispatch from Padang announces that the
 Dutch troops ill Acheen have made general
 assault on the works of the Achinese and
 carried nine forts with a loss of 21 killed and sI 65 wounded. The enemy lost I'll killed and a
 large number wounded A locomotive on
 the Baltimore and Ohio railroad exploded her
 boiler when near Moundsville, instantly killing
 the engineer named Maurice Husted The 1 fireman named A. Iyell, had leg broken.
 None of the passengers were injured. .. The
 First National Bank of Carbondale, Pa. was
 robbed of $10,000 in currency by two men, who
 seized and bound the cashier, during the ab-
 sence of the other officers of the bank . A
 report was current in London that the natives
 of Santa Cruz Island, ill the South Pacific, had
 captured and massacred the crew and officers : | of the cnttar Iar1yiro Ayhich th a, b11inad