Connecticut western news., 1876-05-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Interesting ItemG from Home and Abroad.
 Rubenstein, the Polish-Jew under sentence of death in Brooklyn, N. Y., for the murder of Sara Alexander in East New York, died in his cell. The Massachusetts supreme court has decided that the Old South church can be sold. Also that the ten-hour law is constitu- tional. %. An alarming revolt has broken out in Bulgaria, agitated by Servian emissaries, and the Turkish government is hurrying all available troops to that quarter r.... General Diaz, the Mexican revolutionist, had to give up an expedition to capture Monterey on account of the scarcity of water along the route. Many of his men died of thirst and great number deserted .... The grand jury of the district of Columbia criminal court have found an in- dictment against ex-Secretary Belknap for cor ruption Mrs. Elizabeth Guire, of Brooklyn, N. Y, committed suicide by drowning while laboring under an insare fit brought on during the Moody and Sankey revival. An Omaha jury decided that railway company had right to eject gamblers from the trains when their occupation was notorious.
 The Centennial exhibition was formally opened at Philadelphia by President Grant, in the presence of two hundred thousand peo- pie. The President and the emperor Dom Pedro started the machinery in Machinery hall; the machinery in the Women's pavilion being started by the empress of Brazil. ..
 Advices from Liberia are most unsatisfactory and discouraging, and the new administra- tion's financial statement is looked forward to with great anxiety ...... By the breaking of 8 boom in the Trent river, Canada, nearly one hundred thousand logs were carried out into the bay of Quinte. A MT. Barton, of Walton N. T., while under religious excitement, laid his left arm on workbench, and taking an ax cut gashes every inch and half from his shoulder to the elbow, where the arm was completely severed. Every blow cut through the bone. He was properly cared for. ... At the Lexington (Ky.) races Aristides won the four-year-old sweepstakes of two miles and an eighth, in 3.4511-msking the best time on record for the distance, and beating Ten Broeck.
 Kansas wheat crop promises to be twenty per cent better than last year. .. |. The city collector of Chicago, George Won Hollern, is 8 defaulter to the amount of over $1O0, ,00O. He escaped to Europe. Gambling led to the act. ...... West Virginia Republicans appointed delegates to the national convention and passed resolutions commendatory of MT. Blaine. .....A general massacre of the Christians in Turkey by the Mussulmsns is feared .. The Prince of Wales received an enthusiastic re- ception from the populace on his return to England. There were 336 deaths from the plague in Bagdad during the week ending April 22.. In consequence of the failure of the Johnson gingham factory in North Adams, Mass, two hundred hands were thrown out of employment. A Mrs. Carson, of Newport, R. l., committed suicide by shooting. A few months ago she was waylaid and outraged by g ruffian. which so preyed upon her mind as to unsettle her reason.
 The Oxford boat club will not send crew to America. ... The war between the Central American states of Guatemala and Salvador is at an end-the former having been successful after few battles in which the mortality was slight Salvador now sues for peace.
 The spring freshets throughout Canada are the most disastrous ever known. Immense quantities of logs and manufactured timber has been swept away. The entire Connection
 valley is flooded and railway traffic in tha portion of Vermont was stopped on account
 of serious washouts .. During the Lexington races Bill Bruce won the three-quarters o1 8 mile dash, open to all corners, in 1.1511-be ing within one-quarter of second of thu fastest time ever recorded.
 The cholera is raging fearfully in Mandala! among great numbers of people, who are erect I onk1 Pou kk,ol oR D,,-
 Three children in 8 boat were swept over thu
 rapids and drowned in the river Sault au Re
 collet, Canada. .... Aristides won the two-and
 one-half- mile race at che Lexington meeting
 in 4.273-being the fastest time by one secon'
 ever recorded. Ellen Jackson, of Brooklyn
 N. r., threw her husband, aged fifty years
 down flight of stairs, breaking his neck an
 killing him instantly. The Williamspor
 (Pa) incendiary was captured in t.e act o
 firing lumber yard. His resistance was s
 great as to necessitate shooting him thre
 times. He appeared to be insane. A colore
 church's delegates were denied admission t
 the South Carolina Episcopal convention.
 The European steamship Rhein struck fish
 ing smack lying at anchor in the fog off tn
 banks of Newfoundland, cutting her com .pletely in two. All the crew were saved. The Senate bill to allow the khedive c , Egypt's diamond gift to General Sherman
 daughter to pass the custom house duty fret
 has passed the House ....... The Mar chester (N. H.) calico mills, employing fiv
 hundred hands, have closed on account of tn
 low price of goods. e. A military excursio train was thrown from the track by broke rail near Richmond, Va. and number of pel sons killed or wounded. . Information frol Laurel Hill, La., states that posse of oolore
 men went to the store of white man, an calling him to the door, riddled him with bu let's. party of white men demanded tn body, and on the negroes refusing to delive it fierce fight ensued, resulting in the kill
 ing of four white men and eight colored m CT Four negroes were also captured and hanged , The excitement increased, and whites an blacks were congregating in large bodies. Tn , sheriff has asked for military aid. Tn British navy will simply blockade the port of Dahomey, and not lombard them. ... Two colored men were hanged in the presenc of three thousand persons at Springfield, Ga for the murder of two ladies.