Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.


 1urkey.-The new constitution has been proclaimed. 1t gives Turkey con- stitntiona1 government.
 The prospect of peace from the confe- renee is not very fattering.. It is feared that the Turks will refuse such guaran- tees of the local self-government of the ference has adjourned till Thursday.
 4iae Swiss rufuso t0 seud trUOps tU UC- cupy Bulgaria.
 Sir Henry Elliot, the British Embass- ador at the Turkish Court, is about tossre. turn home.
 Midhat Pasha has been appointed Grand Vizier.
 It is expected that the armistice will be prolonged six of eight weeks.
 Commotion has been caused at Bel grade by Servians firing musket shots at an Austrian monitor.
 Greece proposes. to raise an army of 200, ,OOO men.
 It is supposed Persia will place troops in Bagdad in case of war.
 Great Brstain. hundred and twenty vessels were lost by the recent gale on the coast of Scotland.
 Charles Brent has been surrendered to the American authorities.
 The London theatrical managers have been warned to provide precautions against fire.
 FrGnce:-The Senate has been making cause of difference by inserting items in the supply bills that had been struck out by the House of Deputies.
 Changes among the projects are to be made in France.
 Germany = The German Parliament has passed the penal code and adjourned.
 Emperor William spoke hopefully of peace Tn his speech at the close of the German Parliament.
 Russia. Students have been arrested for revolutionary demonstration at St. Petersburg.
 Ladi0.-Preparations are going on to proclaim Queen Victoria the Empress of India" at Delhi.
 Sk. Domingo. Gonzalez has been deposed and Baez invited to return.
 Merico. There is state of anarchy in Lower California.
 DOMESTIC.
 The Western Union Company has de- termined to resist the call for tele- grams.
 : Efforts for consolidation of the two Atlantic cable companies are in prog ress.
 On Friday night George William Cur tis, Dr. Taylor, Mayor Wickham, Mark Twain, and others, made addresses at the New England Society's dinner in New York.
 The Johnston art sale at New York last week, amounted to $332, ,719.
 Gen. Miles has again defeated Sitting Bull. and 200 lodges came in and surren- dered.
 Mr. .Seelye has submitted new plan for an Indian bureau, to be constituted in the form of permanent commission without pay.
 M 0. Butler of Hamburg notoriety has been elected United States Senator by the Democratic House at Columbia. ! The Sioux Commission report in favor of removal of the Indians, and against placing them under control of the War Department. Gen. Sheridan telegraphs that Major Randall and his party have not been massacred.
 The Court of Alabama Claims is pre- par1ng to close up this month; there will be $8, COG, 900 undistributed. The losses by the Little Rock fires amount to $350, 900. The fires are be- lieved to have been the work of incen- diaries.
 Senator Morton maintains that Tilden elector in Missouri is still under disability.
 Mir. Cronin has not yet delivered his certificate of election to the Vice-Presi- dent of the Senate.
 A fire and explosion at Oil City, Penn. has caused loss of $2O0, ,0O0.
 Six masked burglars rif1ed two houses in Astoria.
 The Supreme Court of Florida has ordered a recanvass of the vote.
 A gas explosion in the N. Y. American Exchange Bank shattered 100 plate-glass windows and injured one man, last week.
 At New York three overdue ocean steamers have arrived after tempestuous voyages.
 The northern Congressional Committee Investigating the election, find no evi dence of fraud in New York.