Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21

twenty minutes and nineteen seconds, being the fastest ever recorded in these races. T. G. Settle, formerly railway agent at Protosi, Mo-, who was removed on complaint of Engineer Samuel Cowell, shot and killed the latter in consequence, and then killed him. self ........ The czar of Russia will not abdicate, as his health has been fully recov- cred The Afghanistan aemir of Cabul has defeated his rebellious subject, the meer of Maimena. The latter lost three thousand men in the battle.
 MT. Alexander T. Stewart, the merchant prince, died in New York of inflammation of the bowels, brought on by 8 severe cold, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. MT. Stewart was born near Belfast, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish parents. After graduating atTrinity College, Dublin, he immigrated to this country in 1923, at the age of twenty years, and opened 8 select school in New York. He soon after ward gave up this project and started 8 small retail dry goods store on Broadway, which soon became noted for the fine quality of the stock displayed, and was literally patronized by the wealthy inhabitants. By strict attention to business, coupled with extensive but iudicious
 
 1848 that he was enabled to erect the large marble store at present standing on the corner of Broadway and Chambers street, and from that tune on his fortune increased with the greatest rapidity. Forseeing the necessity for an uptown movement on the part of the retail dealers, MT. Stewart erected the hand some eight-story building occupying the entire block from Ninth to Tenth streets, and from Broadway to Fourth ave-, and occupied it as a retail department, retaining the old store for wholesaling. The uptown store covers two and half acres of ground employs two thou sand hands, and the running expenses are over $1,000, ,000 per snnum-being the most extensive establishment of the kind in the world. The wholesale and retail establish ments have sold $50, GOO, 900 worth of goods in 8 year. Besides the two colossal stores, Mir. Stewart held large amount of New York city property, the elegant Grand Union hotel at Saratoga, immense mills near Fishkin, N. .Y., and the entire Garden City on Long Island, which was pet scheme of the founder, where he made great outlays in putting up houses and stores, con- necting with the city by railway run by his employees. His estate has been estimated all the way from $2O, ,OOO, ,OOO to $sO, 900, 900, but probably now nearly approaches the latter sum. Mir. Stewart, outside of business, was of 8 pleasant disposition, and delighted to enter tain distinguished personages in 8 royal man. ner. His wife survives him |; but as she is childless, it is conjectured that the bulk of the property is left to charitable purposes.
 John H. seiL one of the tellers and book keepers of the collaped Security bank, New York, who was assisting in winding up the in- stitution, is defaulter to the amount of $70- 900. Several of the transatlantic steamship companies have resolved to reduce the number of passages of their steamers .. Five of the principal stores in Keesville, N. r., were de- stroyed by fire, there being no fire extinguish- ing apparatus in town except a force pump, which was frozen. .... After fight between the Mexican state troops and insurgents, at the state troops fired on United States troops, when our troops replied with twelve-pound howitzers, silencing their opponents. ....By the falling of high trestlework at Little Falls, N. J., two men were instantly killed and three others fatally injured. All were terribly man. gled. .Advicss from San Domingo say the election passed of peaceably. Espaillat was elected president by an overwhelming ma jority .. .Philadelphia's sencus shows popu- lation of 817, ,48S.