Connecticut western news., 1876-02-04
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.

SUMMAh1 VI NE VSe Items of Interest from Home and Abroad. It is now discovered that Thomas, the author of the Bremerhaven crime, was charged, in 1866, with scuttling ship on board of which he had goods insured in England for .e24, 900. He was arrested, but subsequently, effec his release. =. .. Nineteen carloads of goods arrived in Philadelphia fram Japan via San Francisco, to be exhibited at the Centennial . The archbishop of Cologne has taken refuge in Holland, where he lately met the bishop of Paderborn. ... The operations against the Malayans at Perak have been altogether suc- cessful ... The Kentucky Legislature elected James B. Peck United States Senator in place of John W. Stevenson, swhose term expires next year. .... Ex-Gov. s. J. Kirkwood has been elected United States Senator by the Iowa legislature ..... A young German in New York; on account of being refused by young girl shot pistol at her, inhicting 8 slight wound, and then swallowed sulphuric acid and attempted to shoot himself. He afterward died from the effects of the poison. ... The noted New York Seventh regiment, having been refused funds by the State to build new army, are collecting the same from it's friends.
 The books of the Post-ofice department show that under the new postage law some of the leading papers paid as follows for postage for 1875: New York Tribune, $2O, ,294. 16 Chicago Inter Ocean, $13, ,029.84 New York Times, $11, 5S6.O2; New York Herald $8, ,O43. .O2; Cincinnati Times, $4,963.OO; Cincinnati Ga- zete, $4, ,48e. .32 Boston Journal, $4, 052. IS :; st.Louis Republican, ,$3, 961.38; Chicago Tunes, s3, ,646. 60 Chicago Tribune, $3,O04.sS; Cincn- natl Commercial, $1,726.72; St. Louis Globe Democrat, ,$8, ,30O.82. The Italian government has closed the Catholic seminary at Como for it's refusal to admit 8 government inspector. This is the strongest step yet taken in the States dealings with the church, and will doubtless produce great results. .... The debt of Alabama has been fixed at ten millions. : .. Gen. Lees birthday was generally observed throughout the South. " The Turks were routed near Ragusa by the insurgents under Gen. Peko. The Turkish loss was consider able.
 Montenegro threatens to make war on Tur- key if the latter menaces her. .. Owing to the numerous applications for space in Me- morial hall, at the exhibition, the Centennial board of finance have decided to erect an additional building for the accommodation of fine arts, and have already given out the con- tract. ... Maine has selected her delegates to the national Republican convention, and in str: cted them to vote for Blaine for Presi- dent. . At one of the Moody revivals in Philadelphia, 8 collection (being the only one during the revivals there) was taken up in aid of the new building of the Young Men Christian Association, and $100, ,000 were re- alized. ..... By 8 fire originating from the explosion of an oil lamp, in Apollo, Pa, two squares, comprising about forty buildings, were entirely destroyed.
 Wm. M. Evarts has been reelected president of the Yale Alumni Association. =. The Lon don Tunes indorses Senator Sherman's pro- position for the establishment of 8 common unit of money for the United States and Eng land .. Victor Hugo issued an address to the senatorial delegates from Paris and France, asking them to found 8 democracy which shall end foreign wars by arbitration, civil war by amnesty and distress by education .. .. The dead body of Elizabeth Trombarcher Ger man girl, fourteen years of age, was found at l her throat, and she had evidently been stran- gled. The verdict of coroner's jury was that she had been ravished and murdered. .. The Pope is ill. ... The scale shop of E. & T Fairbanks & Co.,, at St. Johnsbury, Vt., was destroyed by fire. The loss is covered by in. surance. The shop will be rebuilt at once.
 Jacobs was hung in Joliet, Illinois, for murder ing his wife. John Kelly has bought the NeM York Eoeniag Express, to be published il the interest of Tammany.
 The direct cable has again been broken.
 he Havana journals aver that the sugar crol will certainly be thirty per cont. less than las yesl they also consider the coming tobacco crop of Vuelta Abaj jo almost totally destroyed owing to drought. At Barboursville, W. Va. Mrs. Meeling and her paramour, Edward Williams who were under arrest for the mur der of Mr. Meeling, were taken from the jai by masked mob, and after full confession
 Williams was hung. No one being willing t. put the rope about Mrs. Meeling's neck, sh
 was returned to the jail. The police O
 Kingston, Jamaica, searched that island fo
 Boss Tweed. .... Another revolution is looked
 for in Hayti.
 Two masked men rode up to field in whicl
 "Doc" Magrum was working, on the Ten
 nessee river, and shot him dead. As Magrun
 was noted for his daring and cruelty as
 Federal guerrilla during the war, it is probabl
 that some atrocitv committed at that tim
 brought about his death ... The commia
 eiouers to examine into the State debt o
 Alabama, report the totalindebtedness at $50,
 GOO, 900, and the assessei value of property i the State at $160, GOO, 000...... Recent report
 from the Black Hills state that there ar
 twelve hundred miners at work, and that tn yield averages one dollar per hour per man
 ..... John Scannei who murdered Donohu in New York in 1872, and escaped hanging O
 the plea of insanity, for which he was confne
 in State asylum. has been pronounced in
 sane condition at present by the proper ofticers
 and will shortly bs released. .. The Reforme , church ip Rockville Center, Long Island, va burned recently. It was built two years agt and cost $14,000.... New York's Attorne. } General Fairchild paid to Comptroller Gree $555, 345 94, proceeds of the judgment rt covered by the State against the estate James Watson, late of the ring. ...Marsha
 Grain, one of the notorious Williamson CHI county gang, was hanged at Marion, Ill.,, f. the murder of two men. Grain confessed u
 crime.