Connecticut western news., 1876-12-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
lssn.s or 1atsrs.s from Home and Abr

Official returns from all but fourteen small plantations in Maine, which cast less than three hundred votes in 1872, give Hayes 66, 130 votes; Tilden, 40, 40, and scattering, 480...... The official vote of Pennsylvania is as follows: Hayes, 384, 148 .Tilden, 366, ,2o4 Cooper, 7,- 2O4; Smith, Prohibitionist, 1, SIS, and ticket headed by local candidate, eighty-three. The official count of votes in New Jersey shows that Tlden received 115, ,s5s ballots to Hayes 103, ,520; TIden's majority being 12, 438. ..... Rhode Islands total vote as officially an- nouuced was 26.527, of which Hayes received 15,7S6, Tlden, 10,713, and the balance were scattered. .... Four masked men stepped mail coach ton miles from Los Vegas, Texas, and took everything of value except some silver bricks, which they said wore too heavy to carry =. The extensive foundry and car works at Toronto, Canada, owned by Messrs. Hamilton, were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $500 0O0 insured for about ESQ., 900. .. The Belgian steamer Delloye Matthieu has been wrecked on the island of Gothland in the Baltic sea. Eleven persons on board, were drowned. .... The Massachusetts State debt is given as $3S, ,556, AGA, 8 decrease of $S30, 1000 during the year. The czar of Russis, in conversation with the British am- bassador, ''pledges his sacred word of honor v that he has no intention of acquiring Con- stantinople and that if necessity compelled him to occupy Turkish ground, it would be but temporarily, while protecting fellow Christians. He deplored the mistrust manifested by Eng land, and considered absurd the rumors that Russia intended the futuro conquest of India. He also denied that there was any intention of Servia and Roumania having & separate kingdom ...... Many ooasting vessels were wrecked during the recent severe storm which prevailed on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida .... Gen. Crook has issued an address of eongratulation to his soldiers on their fight ing abilities, and names the honogably wounded.
 Governmental matters in Mexico have as- stunned somewhat complicated state. Lerdo de Te ja6o has just been re elected president and is receiving cougratulatory dispatches from all parts of the country. Meanwhile, ex- Chief Jus:ico Iglesias has proclaimed himself provisional president and formed his govern mont at Leon, in the state of Guanajusto, where he is sustained by the governor and legislature. The procession which escorted Iglesias to Leon attacked American mission aries with the cry of " death to Protestants." !" Tho missionaries barrica6ed their doors until rescued by the police. Government troops are already marching against tho town of Leon, and consequently Iglesias will coon he forced to dissolve his government. Gen. Disz, the chief of the original insurgents, is still holding Oaxaca. The official vote of K insas, except two counties, give Hayes 77,510 votes and Til 0en 37,471, Hayes ms jority being 40, 039 eco. The official vote of Connecticut shows 6 total of 122, ,12O of which Tilden received 61, ,934 i; Hayes, 59,034; Cooper, TIA, and scattering, SIS. Wisconsin's offi,ial returns give Hayes maj 1rity of 6,141 ...... The captain-general of Cubs is causing the arrest of all suspected persons in the Spanish towns, and has ordered large number to De shot. Spain declares that on the capture of the Cubans who took possession of the steamer Moctezuma, they will he summsrily shot. ..... A "rowing as- sociation for New England Colleges has been formed by the students of Dartmouth, Brown and Trinity Colleges. They decided on 8 four-oared race to be pulled at New London, Ct. IA loss of $40, 900 was ocoasioned by the burning of Paine's grain elevator in New York city. .. A joint resolution has been passed by the Vermont Legislature instructing it's Con- greesional delegation to use it's influence for specie resumption by January, 1879. ..... Miss Emma Jared, residing near Keytssville, Mo, rejected the marriage proposal oi Joseph B.. Brown on command of her parents, whereupon the young man shot her dead. The Ameri- can brig Frances Lewey was run down and sunk in Chinese waters by the British steamer | Laonore. Six of the crew and passengers were drowned. .. .Japan's official army consists of S, coo mon. ... The Younger broth ers who made the unsuccessful attempt st bank rob- bery in No1thfield, Minn., for which they were hunted down by the entire population for days, have been sentenced to imprisonment at hard | labor for life ... The latest reports give the following ss the status of the newly elected Congress of the United States: Democrats
 153; Republicans, 140. Democratic majority thirteen. Ghe present Congress stands: Demo crats, 1s3; Republicans, 110. Contested seats and members 10 be el cted may change the figures of the next Congress, but not ma
 teria!ly.
 A bridge SS0 feet in length on the Delaware and Lackawanna railroad near Nicholson, Pa.
 was destroyed by fire. ... Gen. Sherman's re
 port of the army gives the total number O
 men as 25 32l Yale, Harvard, Columbia ant
 Princeton Colleges have formed football as
 socation and adopted rules to govern thu
 games :. .Wm. M. Tweed, whose mysteriou
 escape from the sheriff's offlcers, while callinl
 on his wife at his own house, created such
 sensation in New York and whose arrest wa
 effected at Vigo, Spain on his arrival iron | G,ln al Iao Ne1
 York and been transferred to his old quarter
 in Ludlow street jail. The United State
 frigate Franklin having him on board wa met in the lower bay by the sheriff, to whor
 the chief officer of the Franklin delivered tn
 noted prisoner. Mir. Tweed was ehabbil
 dressed, and appears to be utterly brokel
 down, having lost all his former buoyancy o spirits His hair has wbitened greatly, an his size has been so reduced during his worri scme journeyings that his former well fittiD clothes now "bag" about him. He will prot
 ably spend the balance of his life in jail, 8
 there are numerous indictments against him
 all of which will be pushed with the utmoE vigor. The official returns from Minnesot
 show the majority for Hayes to be "A, ,0Os.
 The entire vote of Iowa gives Hayes, I'll, ,327 Iuoen, A1z,oS9; cooper, S,Uol scatterlne , twenty-six Hayes, over Tilden, 59,226. Tn , Republicans elect every representative in Cor , gress, and all the circuit judges, fourteen i , number. .... Eighteen colored men who wer engaged in tho attack on 8 constable and poss , at Stafford's cross roads, s. O., have been al } rested. The official returns from Ne Hampshire giyo Hayes 41,522 votes Tlder 8, ,449, and scattering, seventy -four. ......
 large amount of counterfeit money, we'll ir
 tended to deceive, was found on two me
 arrested in Indiana ...... Advices from Sant Domingo say the situation there was improV 2 ng. The only port continuing in arms agsins l 4I,n oP Hop1oIna xuoS Aba so,,kho~