Connecticut western news., 1876-12-01

quites. ... Wm. Mekees pardon from prison,
 where he was confined for fraud in the whisky ring, followed shortly after Avery B. The
 vote of Virginia-all tho counties being heard
 from-gives Tilden 9512 and Hayes 95, ,268.
 Tilden's majority, Al, 244 Two of the Con-
 gressional distriess wifi be contested =. The
 Vermont House, by vote of 129 to 19, pas. ed bill to fill the vacancy in the electoral college caused by the ineligibility of MT. Sollace. The Democrats are contesting the matter, declar- ing that Amos Aldrich, 8 Democratic elector, was elected. ..... The result of the can7assing of the votes in South Carolina gives the Hayes electors the vote by majorit;es ranging from 230 to 1, 133. The smallest vote for Republican electors was 91 1,1SB, and the highest vote for Democratic electors was 90, 9O6. They report that the Republican, secretary of State is eleot- ed by 227 majority Republican attorney general by seven votes Democratic comp.rol- ler-general, 7,256 majority; Democratic super intendent of education by 442 majority, aud two Republican members of general board by 161 and POS majority, respectively.
 Gen. Sherman, in explaining why troops arc sent to Washington says: "We must protect the public property, you know, and We must guard the arsenals, particularly the arsenals, whatever the eventful settlementrof the cleo ton may be-" It is also said that fears are entertained that an attempt would be made to rob the United States treasury if the city was left unguarded by troops. The treasury con- tains at all times about one hundred millions of dollars in gold silver, currency and bonds. ......The majority in Alabama for Tilden aud Hendricks electors is 34, 383. ... The English gunboat Lap Wing was lost near Chofoo, Chin in the great gale. All the lives on board were saved. ..The assessors valuation of property in Massachusetts is $71, ,299, ,192 less this year than last, the shrinkage in Boston alone amounting to $44, ,965, ,685. .... During the voyage of the bark Daring, from Liverpool to Newburyport, Mass, one seaman sprung over board and was drowned, to avoid ill treatment at the hands of the officers. On the arrival in port the officers were held for cruelty on the high seas The greater number of the people who expired in the Indian cyclone re- sided on the large islands Hattiah, Sundeep and Dakhin Shahabazpore, which, with the adjace;t mainland, was swept by tidal wave twenty feet high. Houses, stock, and all port able articles We're swept into the sea. The SUI vivors mostly saved themselves by climbing into the tall palm and COG anut trees; but as all supplies are gone, numbers will starve to death unless the government finds means to relieve them. The bodies of the drowned have begun to putrefy, and cholera is feared. ..... The report that Bismarcks physicians fear a softenipg of his brain is announced to be 8 fabrication. A fve-etory brick building in East Cambridge, Mass, occupied as a furniture and cheese factory, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1OO, ,ooO. e. George Shrewsbury (col- ored) chief of the Charleston 6. O. detective force, was fatally shot by white man in quarrel over 8 woman. .... Joseph Edwards, aged ninety years, cut his throat near saco, Me