Connecticut western news., 1876-01-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
In.ere.sinr Hem. from Home and Abr,os.a5d

s auction for $6S, csc, against $71, 165 last year.
 The highest pew brought $77O, including rent and premium. For the first time since the church was organized, Mir. Bowen failed to buy 8 seat. A wheel factory and six tere- ments at Armsbury, Msss., were destroyed by fife. workman was burned to death while endeavoring to save his tools. ...As soonspiracy has been discovered in Belgrade to make Karageorgewitch reigning prince of servia. Several arrests havsbeen made. Prince Milan does not venture to leave his palace ... |. The cargo of fresh meat sent from this country to England arrived in good condition and sold rapidly. ..... The college regatta will be rowed at Saratoga again this year. Harvard will
 withdraw from the association after the race.
 ...... Lord Lytton has been appointed viceroy of India in place of Nord Northbrook, who re- tires because he feels unable to sustain the heavy labors of the office. Capt. A. Low re- ports that in the burning of the steamship City | of Waco of Galveston forty-nine persons
 perished, and the money loss was $597, 7,000. The section of the Brazilian cable between Lisbon aud Madeirais broken. .. The southern tier poultry show opened at Elmira, N. r.,
 with nearly five hundred entries and the quality of the fowls in harmony with the num- Der. Many prominent places were represented,
 and the affair attracted much interest .....
 Russia advised the prince of Montenegro to preserve neutrality by all means as regards the revolt ..... An explosion occurred in 8 coal mine at Take, Staffordshire, England, and five persons were killed. 1.-The report of the Erie railway oficsrs shows the total re- ceipts to have been $17s s677, ,746 49, andthe ex- penditures $19, 91I. 26-lesving deficit of
 $l, 953, l64. ". The total cost of road and 1 equipment is put down at $115, 997, 946.63...
 Landis has been indicted for murder in the first degree for the killing of Carruth, the
 Vineland (N. J.) editor, year ago...... The Republican State convention of New Hamp- shiIe renominated P. 0. Cheney for governor.
 erous, and forbearing policy toward those
 lately in arms against the integrity of the
 Union, yet demanding 8 full recognition in
 practice ss well as in theory of the letter and
 laws cf Congress made in pursuance thereof {;
 8 tariff for revenue; a currency based on coin,
 and which shall be made redeemable in coin
 regards as conclusive the President's declara-
 ton that he is not candidate for renomins-
 tion, and with profoundest gratitude for his
 patriotic services, in both military and civil
 life, reafirms their unalterable opposition to
 the election of any President for third term.
 The ninth resolution calls the free public
 and approves MT. Blaine's amendment to the constitution.
 l New York city.s debt is $116, ITS, 722.0s. ...
 Gen. Meyer, chief of the signal service, has
 been awarded letter of distinction by the in-
 ternational congress of geographical sciences,
 held in Paris. |. The gold and silver yield of the States and territories West of Missouri in-
 cluding British Columbia, for 1875, was ESQ.,
 889, ,037...... Counterfeit ifty-cent currency,
 of the issue previous to the last, are in circula
 ton. ... Minister Washburne writes letter
 declining to run for the Presidency ...... Col.
 Lamar was unanimously nominated United
 States Senator from Mississippi. .. Alexander
 H. Stevens is still in very feeble condition,
 and it is doubtful if hewill be able to take his
 seat in the present Congress- .. William
 Murray and Frederick Myers were hanged i1
 Pittsburgh, Pa, for the murder of Gotthard
 Wahl.... Massachusetts, debt is $33, ,ss6, 464
 Mrs. Van Cott converted over three hun.
 dred persons during the revival held at New
 burgh, N. Y..... The grand vizier of Turkey
 rejects the idea of foreign mediation in set
 ting the difficulty with the insurgent districts
 ...... The schooner Jefferson Borden, O ; mutiny fame, has been lowed into Aberdeen
 Scotland, disabled, after being sixty-seve1
 days on the voyage from Maine. The crey were famishing and unfit for duty, the wate rations being reduced to teacupful per day ..t The City of Brooklyn ran down an Italian ] bark on the Irish coast, sinking her, witt
 three of the crew.. .. Richard Coke has beel nominated for governor of Texas by the Demo ? crats,. .:.. Three men were hanged in Ten
 neesee one day Frank Scott, colored, g 2 2 Memphis, for the murder of Ransom Phippa
 colored, on Cbrtmas eve., 1874 Milton Me g Lean, white, at Jackson, and Bill Williams
 colored, at Bartlett. ....A vessel has saile
 from New Haven, Conn, for Turkey, havin g on board 2O,000 rifles, ,0OO scabbards, 12 z 100 coo bullets and 13 500, ,o0G shells. ..Th
 Louisville (Ky.) banks have organized cleal
 ing-house with 5000, 900 capital. =. Bishop
 College, in Lennoxviile, Quebec was burned The grammar school chapel and the principal 2 dwelling were saved. The library WAS ha, v consumed.- ~ "
 l. City Administrator Brown reports the cit Q debt of New Orleans to be over $21 00O, ,G0t e An effort will soon be made to compromis 0 with the bondholders at sixty cents on tl @ dollar, the city issuing new consolidated bono Il at this rate in lieu of the outstanding oblig. lI tions. .. The reporsof the librarian Of Cor n gress shows that there are in the library 'e present 293 507 books and e0,000 pamphlet '" He earnestly petitions for new building. All the shoe manufactories of Rocheste = N. Y, are shut down, as the Cfispins will n ,z accede to 8 twenty per cent. reduction ts wages A train filled with military recrui ss ran of the track and plunged down an er IA bankment near Odessa, Russia. The wreckt G. cars caught fire before all the men could ] Id extFicated, and many were burned to deat n, The total number of persons killed was sixt ,h eight, and ffty-1our were injured, sever IS fatally .... Lste advices from Khodjen s CT it is estimated that ,O00 insurgent rurc 5h mans are assembled in the neighborhood ss Andijan, which is expected to be the chi '" theater of war. Audijan has been forti6e
 and is capable of offering strenuous resis ance ...... Angus McIver was hanged at Wi }. nipeg, Cansda, for murder. He maintain II, to the last that the night of the murder was - blank to him u. At Osborn, Mo-, burgla I,s broke into drug store and stole a bottle to chloroform, with which they drugged t n whole town. They robbed both hotels, all t he stores, and many private residences Tn e- secured several thoueand dollars and eecape 10 At Milwaukee new telegraphie invention W D, tried, and sixteen messages were sent oy og one wire at once -. An addition T hortic m tural building is to Do erected on the Cente ss, nial grounds, to accommodate the applical