Connecticut western news., 1876-10-20
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

every prospect Of successful rev1vAl or re- ligion. .. Congressional nomin ations: Mas sachusetts, second district, Edward Avery, Dem; fifth, N. P. Banks, Rep.; New York, twenty fourth, Chas Rhoades, Dem. .... Dur iug quarrel in . tavern at Bloomington Md, the proprietor. James Casey was shot and his son cut with knife. Neither is expected to live .... An unsuccessful attempt was made to ssssssinate President Canal, of Hayti. .... Judge Shipman rendered an important de- cs;on that erroneous revenue assessments are not conclusive against the government. Colorado has elected the Republican candidate for governor by 1,50o majo. ity. Jacob Lout, New York butcher, attended his be- trothed's burial in Greenwood cemetery, and as the grave was being filled in he drew re- volver and committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Tho Dwinell mill, at Oldtown, Me, was destroyed by hre Loss, $61 ,000; insurance. $50, SIS, 1O4, GAO in money orders were issued by the post- offices throughout the country during the past fiscal year, of which $67, ,035, ,97S were domee- tic. ,. During the second days raess at New York's Jerome park, Jsnette Norton wen the milo match over eight competitors in 1 494. The mile and three-quarter race was won by sultana in 3 16}. The three-mile race for four-y year-olds was easily taken by Tom Ochil tree, in 5.43}. Virgil was the victor in the mile and half dash in 2.46. -.-
 Wm. Henry Harrison, grandson of Presi dent Harr. son, dissipated man of forty years, on being refused as 8 husband by Miss Mary More in Broome county, Ky, stabbed bar mir in ha ing fatal wounds. .... The Christian iphabi- tants of Pera, 8 suburb of Constantinople, fear massacre by the Turks, as tbere have been menaces made.. The Democracy of Georgia elected their State ticket by . large majority, the vote being large. Everything passed of quietly ..... ElPert A. Woodward, formerly clerk of the board of supervisors and agent of the Tweed ring, against whom an indictment was found for complicity In the frauds perpetrated, which he evsded by es- csping from the country, has been arrested in Chicago, where he was recognized by New York gentleman. Woodward was registered a5 the hotel there ..ss an Englishman from Liverpool. ..... A loss of $S5, 900 was inflicted by the burning of the cutting shop of the glass works at Corning, N. Y...... The straw goods factory of D. 0. Curtis & Co, at New field, Mass, was destroyed by ire. LOSS nearly S100,000 :; partially insured. The natives of South Americs have so completely demoraized the army of the Transvaal repub- lie by frequent defeats that the families of the Dutch boers are in danger of being massa- cred one native chief having forty thousand men under him. A steamer just arrived at St. Johns, N. B., reports the loss of thirty seven vessels with their cargoes on the coast of Labrador ~ Gen. Martinez Campos has been appointed governor-generalo of Cuba. Nominations to Congress Connecticut, first district, George M. Landers, Dem.; third. Thomas M. Waller, Dem.; Massachusetts, seventh, E. R, boar, Independent; sixth, George B. Loring, Rep. first Wm. W. orapo, Rep., and Joseph M. Day, Dem; Rhode
 Island, first, B nj. T. Eames. Rep; second, Lstimer W. Ballou, Rep... During Septem- ber the Philadelphla Exhibition received
 1.5s1, ,23s visitors at fifty cents head and
 474, 6S3 st twenty five cents. The total receipts from May 10 to October first amounted to $2 150, ,469 40 at the main exhibition, and $1S,
 76s.75 at the live stock exhibit.
 l
 colored man shot two men, dangerously in
 turing them. He was arrested, but was i'm.
 mcdiately rescued by his friends, who attacked
 the officers with razors ... .Wm. Raferneck
 & policeman, approached the jail at Farioault
 Minn., in which the North6eld bank robbers
 arc inoarcerated, during the night, and wher
 ordered of by the guard, replied: Don't you
 know mel" and continued to advance. The
 guard again ordered him to stop, and on hi
 not obey ing, shot him dead. .Congressiona
 nominations Massachusetts, eleventh dis
 trict, Geo. D. Robinson, Rep. sixth, Chas. P
 Thompson, Dem. Connecticut, fourth, Lev
 Warner, Dem. New Jersey, fifth, Aug. W
 Cutler, Dem .... The Cuban insurgent
 burned th @ towns of Las Tuuas and Oalimete
 ..... The racing at Jerome Park resulted il
 victories for Galway in the mile and hal
 race for all ages, in 2:451s Vigil in the na
 tional handicap, two miles and 8 quarter, il
 All Rhadamanthus in the mile heat race i
 1:474, 1:47. 7...... An express train on tn
 Canadian Great Western railway was ditche near Princeton by the breaking of vince
 Five of the train hands were killed. None C the passengers were seriously injured. ... | , place in the Philadelphia Exhibition grounds , was partially destroyed by fire, which origin' l in the servants department after bushes hours. $25, ,OO0 damage was done. Du ! ing the month of September the United s at' hints coined $8, ,O21, ,610-of which $2 577, 0t were silver.
 An extra train bound east, containing sc
 5;nrs froro a reuniop af Tpdiapapolia cOlli , ed with freight train near Greensburg, Ind
 and number of passengers and employe I were injured ..... The thirty-sixth call of u . Treasury department for the redemption F S1O,t co, ,OG0 worth of 5-2O bonds of 1865, NJ . and November, has been issued. ... Congre sional nominations: New York, first distrie ? saml. R Bick, Dem twenty ninth, E. l L4veridge, Dem.; Connecticut, first, Jam , Phelps, Dem. A passenger train was throw from the track of the Erie road near Genese N. Y.. by striking horse, killing the engine and ipjuring six other persons, three seriou - ly.... Four thousand additional awards ha
 been announced by the managers of the Ph
 sdeiphia Exhibition. .. Through eating toa | stools in mistake for mushrooms, Miss < Emma Baker and Louisa Crane, with Geor t Mellrath, died of the poison at Connectic @ Farms, N. J ..... The British minister to Tu t key has been instructed to demand reparati' J. and justice for the Bulgarian outrages.
 . Baron Lsgar, better known as Sir Jol !, Young, governor general of Canada from IS U U to 1872, is dead .. The entire block of han " some buildings on the east eide of Main stree . between Preston and Congress streets, ! Houston, Texas, was destroyed by fire. Los q $350, 600; insurance, $220, 900. A controver if has arisen at Tripoli between the Unit q States consul aud the authorities on accou r. ot the former having given shelter to 8 ru v away slave, and declining to surrender him Y It is reported from Constantinople that (
 Sultan MuEad is dying John l. Burbar