Litchfield enquirer., 1876-10-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

Great Britain. The Right Hon. Rob- ert Lowe advocates the immediate reas- sembling of the British Parliament. ss The Spiritualist Slade is being prosecut- ed for fraud in London.
 France Four Republican and two Bonapartist Deputies were elected on Monday.
 Ihrkey.-The armistice between the Turks aud the Seryians is at an end. and active hostilities immediately commenced in which the Turkish army suffered se were loss but were finally victorious.
 South America A new Revolution is reported from Ecuador. General Venti- mila took possession of the Government, and notified all the foreign consuls at Guayaquil that perfect order should be preserved.
 At the recent auction sale of coal in New York, it brought much higher prices, 1t being from 25 cents to $1. % per ton higher.
 Twenty-six thousand pounds worth of American eagles have been withdrawn from the Bank of England, for shipment to the United States. Lucius Hopkins, a native of New Hart ford, Conn. and an old and esteemed mer- chant of New York, died of heart disease, Sept. 28. He was formerly President of the Importers and Traders bank, and was interested in several leading insu- rance companies.
 On Friday, 18th, three story brick building, used as store house and for pork packing in Springfield Mass, col lapsed, and took fire. Four men are known to have perished in the ruins. A pilot on a Hudson river steamboat went to sleep on Wednesday night and tLe boat run upon the rocks, fortunately none of the sixty passengers were injur- ed.
 The Cornell crew are going to challenge the winning crew of the Cambridge-O OK ford race which takes place next March, to an international match next summer A fine statue of Wm. H. Seward, has been erected in Madison Square New York. The formal ceremonies of unveil- ing and presenting to the city took place Sept. 27. MT. Evarts delivered 8 fine oration upon MT. Stewards life and career. Capt. Joseph Baker, of the United States Marine corps, was found dead in his bed on Monday. He served in the late war with great credit.
 The eighth annual meeting of the Amer ican Woman's Suffrage Association opened in Philadelphia, Tuesday evening, with a large attendance. The savings banks of New York are ex- periencing run, but have as yet been able to pay all demands promptly. A large delegation of German working men, en-route for the Centennial, arrive in New York on Monday.
 At the races in Philadelphia, Black wood, Jr., was awarded the silver cup for best time. This makes him the champion stallion of the country. Goldsmith Maid tried to beat her record of g. 14, but could only make it 2.174.
 John Bullard, living alone near Wor- cester, was found murdered Monaay night in his house. Tramps and money are supposed to be the causes.
 It is rumored that the United States has been trading Iron clads with Russla for portion of Siberia. .... Gen. Babcock has been acquitted of the safe burglary conspiracy by the Jury at Washington.
 The public debt was reduced in Septem- Der. $3, ,915. .355, ,35.
 Efforts are being made to extend the closing of the Centennial to the last of November instead of the 10th. boiler on farm in Plymouth, Indiana has exploded killing five persons.
 Rev. Thomas Williams, Yale 1900. the oldest living Yale graduate died at Provi- dence, Saturday.
 On Sunday. Moody and Sankey opened their meetings in Chicago to an audience of seven thousand people. Henry Ward Beecher preached his first sermon on return from vacation, Oct. 1st. at Plymouth Church. An immense crowd filled the church and hundreds went away l unable to get within hearing distance. James Lick, the celebrated philan- thropist of California, dled Sunday morn- ing in San Francisco. He was eighty years old and had amassed a large for tune. and was known all over the world for his munifcient gifts to charitable and educational institutions
 Joseph Warner of Buffalo, prominent editor and politician of Western New York dled suddenly on Sunday. The Churchman, the best Episcopal newspaper in the country, removes it of | flee from Hartford to New York.