Connecticut western news., 1876-11-24
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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 The Mexican congress has declared itself into an electoral college and re elected Presi- dent Lerdo de Tsjsds- The insurgents are throwing down their arms, being almost con- pletely without ammunition or supplies ...... The food accompanying the recent hurricane in Cuba extended over an area of about forty square m-les, and totally ruined dozens of plantations. Eight thousand Chicago busi- ness mon. have signed petition and forwarded 1t to Judge McAllster, requesting him to re- sign, on account of his behavior in the recent murder trial of Sullivan. Mrs. B. A. Lock wood applied for permission to practice in the supreme court, and the motion was denied. Cardinal Ansonelli, for many years prime minister and chief adviser of the Pope, is dead.
 The new Dominic n loan, which has recently been placed on the London market, is being taken up with more rapidity than was antici- pated :. Japanese insurgents were attacked and routed by government troops near Hsgri, in the province of Nsgato ...,.. The Duchess of Aosts, ex-queen of Spain, Is dead...... During drunken discussion over politics, in 8 New York runshop, John Fitzsimmons had an umbrella jammed in his face the tip pene- trating the brain, through, his eye, causing 8 wound from which death soon resulted. .... Numerous suicides are reported daily from all parts of the oountry-mostly on account of de- pression caused by want of work. A scoun- drely attempt at vandalism was attempted in Springfield, H., the villains making des- pefste effort to carry of the remains of the late President Lincoln, in the hope of making 8 bargain with the authorities whereby Ben Boyd, 8 notorious counterfeiter, serving 8 ten years, sentence,l would be released from prison. The plot was discovered by detectives, who have since had the sarcophagus under supervision, and were rewarded few nights since by surprising the scoundrels at work upon the doors of the vault. Owing to the &C., cidenta discharge of 6 revolver in the bands of an officer, the vandals were warned ard es- eaped. s-,a TsaEs +'.: .rT
 Tho vote of tho city of New York, at the late election, was as follows: Robinson, Dem., Ill, ,b19; Tilden, Dem., 111,26s and Ely, Dem, III, 2ss. Mr. 1ly's majority is the largest (6S, 706), because Dix went behind his ticket. Tilden's majority is s, 262 over Hayes, and ss, oar over all. Robinson's majority is 52, 7s4. Calvin, Dem, for surrogate, has majority of 10, 900. Of the district aldermen nine are from Tammany, one from Anti-Tammany and three Republicans. The board will stand seventeen Democrats to i've Republicans. The Democrats elect seven of the eight Congre ss- men, MoCook, Bep., beating Ward, Dem., in the eighth district. Tammany elects fifteen assemblymen, Anti-TsmmAny one, and the Republicans nve.
 Tho district of Baehergunge, in the north eastern part of India, has been ravaged by a oyclone/ i 4 thousand native houses were de- stroyed. Tho town of Dowlutkhsn was sub- merged by wave and five thousand persons are believed to have perished. The govern ment sent relief to the desolsted section. .. Much gold coin has been withdrawn from English banks for shipment to New York. .. |. Relief works have been established in the sholapore district, India, where there were fears of famine, and forty-fve thousand of the inhabitants have been given employment. There is now plenty of grain in the district. .... The khan of Khiva, in consequence of the complaints of his subjects, has offered to cede the remainder of his territory to the Rus sian government. .... Georgia is harvesting 8 fifteen or twenty per cent. more cotton than last year .. ... The United States steamer Frat kin, having on board Tweed, as & pris- oner, has been forty-three days on her voyage from Vigo, Spain, and fears are felt for her safety Alex R. Shephard, of Washington, D. O., is financially embarrassed. co. Peter Lusbey, who was acquitted few months since of the charge of numbering colored man in Uniontown, was found near Foust- vile, St. Georges county, Md, with his head crushed and two bullet holes in it. It is of the colored man killed by him.
 The total officially reported admissions to the Centennial Exhibition were 8,004, PA, and the cash receipts at the gates were $3,67 884.74. The number of guests provided for by the temporary hotels in West Philadelphia was 2, ,564, GOO. The smallest attendance to the grounds was on May 18th, 7,066, and the largest on Pennsylvaria day, September 18th, 257, ,169; of the admissions 651, e83 were on twenty-fve-eent days. Ninety thousand four hundred and forty y-eight people visited the live stock exhibition. :. President Grants proclamation, following the late election in the United States, contains the following Should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side it should be reported and denounced At once. No man worthy the ofice of President should be will kol lo1L kol Iv> by any fraud. Either party can afford to be disappointed in the result, but the country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of illegal or fslse returns.. The electoral college of the United States does net vote as . corporation, but each eleotor has one vote for President and one for Vice-President. In case of the absence of any elector, either cannot cast his vote. In 8 case supposed MT
 Hayes had 18s votes and MT. Tlden 1s4; if one of the Hayes electors died, neither Mir. TiIdeu or Mr. Hayes could be declared elected, be- cause neither would have received 1855 votes. The result would be the throwing of the cleo ton into the House of Representatives.
 Cardinal simeoni, recently the pspal nuncio 3S 31@A4SAt A&@ OOWA @PkOAAIS0 SO b0OSoo0 bAe late Cardinal Antonelli So secretary of state to the Porte : It ia estimated that over twenty thousand persons perished in the cyclone which swept over portions of India October 31st
 In the town of Burriahol, capital of the Back. ergunge district, three hundred houses were leveled with the earth. Letters from surviv. .vors report that great wave, nine feet deep swept over the large island of Dakhin, Sha-