Connecticut western news., 1875-08-20
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

weather, and will harvest much better than expected, although still below the average.... Returns from ninety-one voting precincts in Texas show small majority in favor of & con- stitutional convention. very slight vote was boiled. . .Ex-President Johnson was buried with Masonic honors at Greenville, Tenn. The to VII was full of sympathizing mourners from all parts of the State. The government offices generally throughout the country were closed, and the flags f1oated at half-mast in token of respect for the dead man..... Detec- tives captured three counterfeiters and $10,00 worth of presses and other implements in Brooklyn, N. Y. They were engaged ill the manufacture of nickel fve-cent pieces. ..The Chicago Inter- Ocean correspondent in the Black Hills states that Prof. Janney's reports of paying gold are daily confirmed. .. Accounts from Australia place the gold yield this year at less than that of the previous year.. Sir Edward Thornton, umpire of the United States and Mexican claim commission, has decided nineteen cases, dissmissing fifteen, and award ing $97, 900 in the other four, against the Mexican government. ... The proposed new Spanish constitution declares the State re- lgion to be Roman Catholic, but guarantees re- lgious liberty to all.
 Divers at work on the wreck of the steamer Schiller have recovered $100, 900 of her rreas- ure. .... The secret service agents seized four hundred barrels of illicit whisky in Chicago, which was stored away at the time of raids last spring. .... The barge Braley broke loose from tow of the propeller Allegheny on Lake Erie and it is supposed to have gone to pieces. The crew of five persons have prob ably perished. The Braley belonged at sagi- nav. coo. Reports from scioto county, Ohio, state that three thousand acres of corn in that county were washed entirely away by the flood. The crop promised yield of sixty bushels to the acre. ... The Central Pacific railroad officials have finished the investiga- tion into the accounts of Woodruff, dlias Moler, one of their officials, and find the deficit to be about $1, 900, GOO. Woodruff has gone to China . The bishop of Paderborn who was deposed from his functions by the Prussian law courts and has since been interned in Vessels, has without permission quilted that town. On leaving he addressed 8 letter to the governor of the district assigning for reason for his departure impaired health and his duties to his flock The three-mile race at Saratoga, for 8 purse of $1,000, was won by Rutherford in 5.38. ..... The secretary of the navy has issued general order definitely set ting the question of rank between line and staff officers. .. Hon. Richard OGorman de- livered the address at the meeting held in Brooklyn, N Y., in honor of the centennial anniversary of the birth of Daniel O Conneli. .... Hans Christian Andersen, the pleasant author and poet, died at Copenhagen, Den mark, at the age of seventy years. .,... Moody and Sankey have sailed from Liverpool for New York in the steamship Spain. Friends from all parts of the kingdom were at the wharf to bid them farewell.
 The celebration of the hundredth anniver- sary of the birthday of Daniel OConnell was observed in Ireland, Rome and Canada Inn pressive services were held in the Dublin cathe- dral by Cardinals Cullen and Manning, four archbishops, forty bishops and five hundred priests The inhabitants of China still manifest their dislike of foreigners. The last attack was made upon an old dttdche of the German legation who was severely beaten.... Disastrous floods have occurred in the north western provinces of East India, and it is feared that there has been 8 serious loss of
 
 to pay it's. coupons left unpaid by Duncan, Sherman & Go. at the time of their failure.... Ex-State Treasurer Parker, of South Carolina, against whom verdict of $75,000 was re- gently rendered, has escaped from jail at Columbia. An unarmed body of recruits on their way to Fort Shaw, Montana, were at tackled by Sans Arcs Indians near Carroll, and several of the men were killed or wounded.... Reports from Illinois place the damage by floods at $3,000,000, and the Indiana losses foot up as much more. .. ..An engine of a con- struction train on the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad ran off the track and overturned into the Hooking river, killing two men and wound ing nine others .... fl water-spout burst over the town of Kirn, in Rhenish Prussia, inun- dating the place and doing much damage. bridge and many houses were swept away, and thirteen persons were drowned. ... The army worm has made it's appearance on Long Island. By tho explosion of boiler attached to & threshing machine at work in field in Maury county, Tenn, two white men and negro were instantly killed and seven others wound | ed, two of whom will die. The thresher and the wheat crop were destroyed by fire. ..... | Wm. G. Carson was arrested in St. Louis and taken to Massachusetts on charge of embez- | zling $150,000 while superintendent of the | pork-packing establishment of John P. Squire x Co.,, at East Cambridge, Mass.
 | The fishing on the north side of Prince Edwards Island is prosperous, the mackerel being plenty. The latest advices from Labra- dor say that fish are very scarce. The | committee appointed to examine the treasury accounts, have reported that they counted and | weighed every coin, and counted all the paper money-the result of which is that they find deficit of $47, 7,s19.41, including the $47, ,0O0 stolen few months ago. ... Superintendent Chapman, of the New York State insurance department, has debarred the Kansas Insur- ance Company of Leavenworth from doing business in New York State, on account of their loose manner of business. The company had some twenty-five agencies in the State.... The report of the Hamilton (Canada) board of trade urges curtailment of manuf actures decrease of importations, and the cessation of long credits as the means of bringing about 8 sound financial condition. ..... Wm. Alder dice general assignee of the bankruptcy court at Richmond, Va, has decamped, leaving deficit in his accounts of $15, 900. John H. Hol- den, agent of the Oneida (N. Y. Community in Boston, has been held in $10, 900 bail to an swer the charge of embedding $20,00O belong ing to the Community .. The Lendon branch of the banking house of Drexel, Morgan & Company will cash Duncan, Sherman X Co.,. s letters of credit, MT. Duncan's father being their security .... New York revenue officers have been very successful recently in catching smugglers of cigars. The smugglers were in