Connecticut western news., 1876-09-29

1,545; Canadians, ,490. Johnson, of the Irish team, did the best shooting of the day counting complete score of seventy-ive at the 500-yard range by fifteen consecutive bulls eyes. Mitchell, of the Scotch team, made fourteen tull's-eyes and an inner at tue 10O0-yard range, counting seventy-three out of possible seventy-fve. The second days shooting, while good. did not equal that of the frst-the wind being little fercer and more f1tful. At the 0-yard range the Ameri- cans and Scotch tied at 625 points, the Aus tralians scoring b22, the Irish 6O2, aud the Canadians 492. On the 90o-yArd range the Americans made 515 Australians, 494, Irish, 4s5, Scotch, 462, and the Canadians 465. The grand total now showed the Americans forty four ahead of the Scotch, who were four in | advance of the Irish, and they were eight be- | yond the Australians so that the 1,000-ya range vas shot at amid great excitement, the immense crowd of spectators breaking into | wild cheers when their favorites made excel lent shots. The score of this range showed that the Irish had counted 535, the Americans 509, Australians 501, Scotch 459, and tne Canadians 476-giving total for tho day of
 American, 1,549; Irish, 1,522; Australian,
 1,517; Scotch, 1,477; Canadian, 1,4Ss. The
 grand total of the two days shooting stood
 American, 8, 126 Irish, 3,104 Scotch, 3,062
 Australian, 3,062; Canadian, 2 2923-thus
 giving the championship to the American
 team by twenty-two points.
 Congressional nominations: Connecticut.
 first district, Joseph R. Hawley, Rep.; Tennes-
 see eighth, J. D. 0. Atkins, Dem; first, L.
 Mcfarland ..Advioes from Natal, South Africa, are to the effect that the natives are
 defeating the Boers at all points, and that
 the president of the Transvaal republic has
 been requested to ask England to aooept the
 country as & province, in order that the people
 may be protected. The funeral of ex-Gov.
 Henry A. Wise was attended in Richmond, Va, | by an immense concourse of people of all na-
 tioualities, as well as military and civic sooie- | ties While Daniel Bourne, a dissipated
 butcher, of New York city, was beating his wife,
 his sister -in-law, EMrs. Sebourgh, interfered to
 protect the woman, when Daniel pioke up 8
 stick of wood aud beat Mrs. Seabourgh about
 the head until she died. He was secured.
 Two masked men boarded the express car on
 the Utah Central railroad a few miles west of
 Salt Lake Oity and binding the Wells, Fargo &
 Co.'s messenger, took $15,0OO from the safe
 and escaped ..... A man died in New York
 hospital in terrible agony from hydrophobia,
 having been bitten by pet spitz dog few
 weeks previous. .... By . collision on the
 Lehigh road near White Haven, Pa., three
 locomotives and fourteen cars were wrecked.
 The train hands saved themselves by jumping.
 The troops under command of Gen. Terry
 in the Indian country have broken camp and | khoir haNk with fho nYCantiOn Of
 two infantry regiments, which will winter on the Tongue river. One hundred thousand dollars were lost by the burning of the worke of the Rhode Island Bleaching and Dye Co.,, at Providence. ... "A gristmill, four icehousee
 and eawmin of Otis Putnam, at Danyers
 Mass, were destroyed by fire ...... Congress
 sional nominations : New York, twenty-seconc district, Geo. W. Smith, Dem.; Ohio, sixth , E. B. Hall, Greenback Alsbam~, fourth James T. Rspier (col.), Rep...... A single scull race of two miles for $500 a side between . Johnson (colored), of Boston, and Landers | of Salem, took place on the Charles river, il . the presence of ten thousand people. Ian ders won in 14.O2-Johnson. becoming ex ' hansted ... Violent hurricanes are reporte from the West Indies =. The "Old South | CnuECu OA DObGOu AHo bocA 0OAA AOA %3OOIVOS to be used as historical museum ...... Ger s. many and Great Britain have proteste against the acts of intolerance praoticed O Protestants by the Spanish authorities.
 n New York city sent ten physicians, . carg e of ice, and & cargo ot tar acids to Savannah a ... Gen. Crooks command has had an CT gagement with the Indians. A large villas l. was surprised by Col. Mills, with detachmer l. of one hundred and fifty men, and entirely d. l. stroyed. Busters Little Big Horn guidon ws a lecaptured with valuable stores of robe ponies and plunder. It was complete India ,l defeat, many braves and some squsws bein .a killed and captured and the balance of u
 band scattered. The troops met with col . siderable loss, number being killed or woun A cd. Lieut. Von Lentwtz was shot in the kn' H and suffers amputation of the leg. The hu " gry and wayworn troops are to be supple with food from the Black Hills, where 8 cou y oil of war is to be held as to further oper
 tions. Gen. Sherman will preside at the cou
 oil. ... The Tarkish government ordered
 ten days armistice to talk over matters T
 lating to the troubles in her colonies. IT
 equinoctial gale which extended along u ~ Atlantic coast and for some distance in ,;. the interior was very severe and did nut T dam ge. =. Henry Smith, from St. Lou -. with one companion and . pack train, le ,;s Yuma for Los Angeles, and wandered fo W days on the Colorado desert without wsts . Smith opened veins of his arms and drank L :. blood, which clotted in his throat. He th +v cut his windpipe to remove it and died in f. " hours after. His companion reached the st ,o tion in the last stage of exhaustion. On t ,4 nineteenth of September the Jews througho the world inaugurated the New Year, 56,; ou with great solemnity ..... The topographic IT,, union of Philadelphia have agreed to & redr . tion of ten per cont, to take effect on 8
 after October 2. This applies to book as W
 as to newspaper work. A dispatch frt on Madrid says William M. Tweed aud Wilii' uu Hunt, who was arrested with him, were 0 no parked at Oorunna for Cuba ss prisoners no the twenty-hrst of September. .... Beef All now sent from the United States to Eugla Do- on the steamers in houses prepared for { no purpose and packed with ice. Tho cattle "ie slaughtered in Jersey City the day the stean Uo sails.
 During gale in Chesapeake bay tive ~, barges broke away from tow and nine 'A' them sunk. The persons on board of " sinking barges took refuge on the other thr s, which drifted toward the shore but befor' ..' was reached one of them sunk, and all ''o board, eight persons, were drowned. oA0 other two barges, having on board twonty-f, 'e persons, reached the shore safely. .. In ard s~,,. .o,.uoo., .,,o c;o,,~ a,. a., ,,;,a, .r nee , .,, I,.,;., ,..uo -a,,.os .,;t,, Io,, ,ral ~,,;4o =, .l.n, h;uo5 .,d ,,;,,o ,ro,,,,d " o"iA Fourteen dead Indians were found on the 'nS tlefield ,and four bodies are known to have bt on- carried off. Thirty-hve Indian lodges W nv burned by the whites, with all their conter ho' During tbo 6oht Indiana raCaiva6