Connecticut western news., 1875-09-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Items of Interest from Homo and Abroad.
 The Khedlve of Egypt expects to be called upon by the Turki,h authorities to aid in put ting down the Herzegovinian rebellion. and is consequently calling in his officers on furlough The Republican Bonner and the Union American, of Nashville, Tenn., the oldest papers of the Southwest, have been consoi dated under the name of the American. The total outstanding currency of the United States September 1st was $415, 9S8, 229. O2. Hon. J. H. Thacher, commissioner of patents, has re- signed, to, enter upon the practice of patent law in Chicago. Two of the Franklin county 1u.) Ku-Klux have been held in $1, GOO bali to appear for trial. Six more of the outlaws have been arrested. The testimony shows that there are 400 of the organization in Franklin county, and six hundred in Williamson Wis count de Meaux, the French minister of agri- cnlture recommends manufacturers to exhibit at the Centennial exhibition. Auditor Thayer testified that the canal board let contracts for the Champlain canal improvement in direct violation of law, and expended $253, 900 with out any law whatever. :. The paint factory of Baxter, Bell & Co.,, at Brooklyn, N. Y, was de- stroyed by fire, involving loss of $15O,000
 signor Pietro Vaini, an Italian artist resident in this country, committed suicide at City Island, near New York, under singular cir cumstances, and from inexplicable motives. While reciLing some verses from the tragedy of Phaedra, at & clambake, and just as he had uttered the words God who judgeth all things, will also judge this act of mine" he suddenly placed pisitol to his head and blew his brains out, to the horror of the assembled guests, who at first thought it was part of the fictitious tragedy but were convinced of the true nature of affairs upon lifting the body from the ground . A special dispatch from Berlin says that after the recent appointment of Mahmoud Pacha as grand vizier of Turkey there is less hope than ever of the insurgents coming to terms. .... .Advices from Hayh state that seventeen followers of General Canal, who are now under the protection of the United States minister, MT. Bassett. were condemned to death on the twenty-ninth of July; and it was stated that the government contem- plated 8 forcible entry into the American con- sulate to take the refugees into custody, they having been condemned as murderers and assassins by the Haytian Tribunal. .....A German ministerial order has been issued de- claring that the bishop of Paderborn has for feited his rights to citizenship by his departure without leave from the city in which he was "interned." A slight shock of earthquake was felt at St. Thomas, West Indies. ... The association for the reform and codifcation of the law of nations was formally opened at Hague. Delegates from the United States were present. The secretary of the treasury has issued calls for the redemption of $13, 900, 900 of fve-twenty bonds of 1884, of which $8, ,000, 900 are on account of the sinking fund. The post-ofice department has changed the color of the two-cent stamp from brown to red. The seven, twelve and twenty-four-cent stamps will be withdrawn. The Atalantas won the four-oared race over the Beaverwycks, at Troy in eight minutes and thirty-four ano one quarter seconds. Courtney won the single scun over Riley, of Staten Island, in nine minutes and forty-six seconds. In the pair oar Union Springs won over Beaverwycks and Neptunes in eight minutes and fifty and one half seconds.
 The Planters National bank, of Louisville was robbed of about $100,000 by the teller who invented a cock-and-bull story about burg lars taking him out of bed and forcing him tc deliver the keys of the safe ...... A parade oi the trades at Louisville, Ky, was six miles long ...... The Democrats have carried the election in California, electing MT. Irwin governor. ... The British war vessels Iror Duke and Vanguard came into collision in the British channel and the latter was sunk. Nc lives were lost ...... A heavily loaded trair from the national camp meeting at Wesley grove near Goshen, N. Y., while on the way tc Kingston, broke through 8 rotten bridge neal Shawaugunk station. Five of the cars wen down an embankment and twenty-five persons were injured, & few seriously ..... During { quarrel over game of marbles, in Baltimore 8 boy of eleven years threw a brick at hi opponent, hitting him in the stomach and pro ducing death IA Republican clambake 8 Old Orchard, Me-, was attended by twelve l thousand persons. .. The republic of Ecuador l has been declared in state of siege and th' | governor clothed with the extraordinary facul ties provided for by the political code of thu | country .... The running race at the Hartfort | (Ct.) meeting was won by Kadi in one minute and forty-one and one-qaarter seconds for l Searcher's celebrated record by half second
 ..... AS two brothers named Messerve, aget nine and fourteen years, were playing abou
 their home in Paterson, N. J., they found tw' | guns, with which they commenced playing soldier. The elder boy raised his gun towar' his brother, not thinking it was loaded, when
 went off, blowing the small boys head en
 tirely from his shoulders ...... Congress Hall
 together with the Sulphur bathing houses, 8
 Sharon Springs, N. T., were destroyed by fire | involving a loss of $100 O0O.
 The London Telegraph says the prospect
 are favorable for the hop harvest, which ba
 already commenced. Damage done by mol
 and vermin is below the average. e. Si
 murderers were executed at Fort Smith
 Arkansas, at one time James H. Moore
 white, one of the unfortunate men, shot
 sheriff's officer who was pursuing him fo
 horse stealing. Daniel H. Evans, white, mur
 dered man last November. Sam. w. Tooy
 8 quarter black Cherokee, murdered youn
 man for $500. Wm. J. Wilmington, white
 murdered man in the Chickasaw nation
 while infiamed with drink, Edmond Camp
 bell, colored, killed man and woman. Tn
 other was Smoker Mankiller, 8 full-bloode
 Cherokee .. |. .. Rehm the bank teller of Louis
 ville who robbed the bank and then confessed
 has been held in $5O,0OO bail. His propert
 has been attached by the bank, under charg
 of embedding $2O, 900. :. The London 1tnes
 in it's financial column, says: "It is know
 that we shall have to import an unusual
 large quantity of wheat, and it is equally ce,
 tain that all the mailing barley will have t
 come from abroad" ... Owing to rain ia
 of seven and half inches within few day