Connecticut western news., 1876-09-22
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strychl1ine ... The American ship Sonora
 and the Spanish steamer Vivar coldod of
 Holyhead, England; and both sunk in few
 minutes. Only one life was lost: :. .. In the | first beats of the race for professional fours
 at Philadelphia, the names crew. beat the
 American crew in 18.2115-the distance being
 three miles. In the second heat, the famous | champions of the world, the Paris crew of St.
 Johns, New Brunswick, were beaten badly by
 comparatively green crew from Halifax, Nova Scoda time, 17.58.. Gen. Terry's com
 mand is again on the march, after rest of one week, to recruit. the health of the men | | and horses. ..... The thirteen distillers, rec tifiers, etc., who testified for the government in the recent whisky trials at Chicago have at last been discharged. The Democrats of | Arkansas have elected their State ticket by a large majority Further dispatches from Servia confirm the report of all overwhelming victory for the Turks at Alexinatz. The car mage on both sides was terrible. .. By the breaking of one of the supports of scaffold
 about an elevator in New York, four laborers
 were precipitated thirty feet deep into ditch
 of water, one of them being killed and the
 others seriously injured. ..... While John and
 Matthew Brennan were loading cart with
 clay from bank in Brooklyn, N. r., five tons
 of earth caved upon them, crushing John
 80 flat that his entrails were spread on either
 side of him, and injuring Matthew fatally.
 Horatio Seymour, of New York, gave the
 following reasons for declining the nomiuati
 rendered him by the Democratic State conven-
 tion: The Democratic convention, acting un-
 der misapprehensions put me in nomination
 for the office of governor of New York. This
 it's members would not have done if they had
 known the facts regarding my health For
 many reasons ought not to be their candi-
 date. Duty demands that I should decline
 the proffered honor. While am grateful for
 the friendly sentiments which prompted their
 action, my declination is compelled by obsta-
 cles which I cannot overcome. For some
 months my health has been infirm, and & re-
 cent illness has unfitted me for mental or phy-
 sical exertion. My own opinion, confirmed
 by the judgment of my physicians, convinoes
 me that am unable at this time to perform the duties devolving upon the governor of New York. could cheerfully sacrifice my own purposes and feelings to meet the wishes of my friends I would not hesitate to peril my
 health to uphold those principles in which
 I believe, or to promote the public welfare i;
 but I feel that should sacrifice the interests
 of the party which placed me in nomination if I accept it's action. Even the superior strength l of the party with which l act could not elect a ticket with the known fact that it's nominee for , governor was unequal to the performance of the labors of that office. could not consci- entiously enter upon them. I cannot do my friends the wrong of placing them in false , positions by trying to do so. I therefore fee
 constrained to decline the nomination.
 l Vermont elected the Republican ticket by g 3 large majority ..... An outbreak occurring : among the natives on the west coast of Africa l. three British gunboats ascended the Niger an6 6 fought the inhabitants. Several villages were ]. burned. .... In the contest for the first heatl 7 of the pair-oared race at Philadelphia, Greer , and Thomas, of the Thames crew, defeated | two others of the same crew, in 21.443 Jost . and Gil Ward were beaten by the Boston crev 1 of Faulkner and Began in 20.22 Braley, O |, St. Johns, N. B., won heat in the singl 2 souls over Ellis Ward, in 22 063; Hanlon, o n Toronto, also won 8 heat over Plaisted, o d New York, and Luther, of Pittsburgh, il o 2L453 .... AS workman was handling fftee J. pounds of nitro-glycerine on board scow o1 l. Astoria, Long Island, where the excavation 1T has been made to blow up Hell Gate, the entir o mass exploded killing three men instantly an
 wounding nine others, besides doing consider l. able damage to surrounding property. .... u Twenty-two hundred people were rendere |, homeless by the recent fire at St. Hyacinthe 1' Can. ..... A storm did $50, 900 d damage t .' buildings and crops in the vicinity of Leaver worth, Kan. Six private residences an ,+ the Argyle hotel at Durham, Canada, were d. 5 stroyed by fre..... The Massachusetts R' d publican convention renominate6 Gov. Ric D. and the entire State ticket The platforI d calls for speedy return to specie; demand v. 8 thorough civil service reform thanks Ger a, Grant for his services in the late war, an 10 commends him for his action on the finant 1f question and the rebuke he administered {
 the last House of Representatives.
 The final contest at Philadelphia botwee
 the Thames and Halifax crews for the 8, 4. premacy in the four-oared race, resulted in is victory for the Thames crew on account rk Halifax fouling them. Hanlon, of Toront 5, easily beat Braley, of St. Johns, in the sing in scull contest; time 1.O9. The pair-oare J. final heat was won by Faulkner and Began,
 
 L1s Thames crew. .... An accident on the Kans on City and Northern railroad caused the death e. two men and two children. Twelve othe l!o were injured. A bronze statue of Lafayett m lmi' presented to New York by Frenchmen, ar . erected in Union square, was unvailed wi ;, great ceremony :. The Greenback party non . hated State ticket in Missouri ... Charl m Francis Adams was nominated for governor in exclamation by the Massachusetts Democrac to The platform indorses the St. Louis conve k tion; demands the payment in coin of the de Ire represented by l gal tender notes held by u aw people st large equally with the bondt de ,n, held by capitalists; charges the Republic he party of incapaciry, as illustrated by elev fe, years experience praises the last House Ao it's successful efforts, in spite of oppoeition, au reduce the expenses of the government to .nL economical basis; rejoices in the revivi 1to social order and prosperity which has follow ,, the restoration of Democratic control of offit "a in the Southern States; lays at the door ,o Republican standardization the prese nd prostration of industries demands the mn duction of expenses in the State and coul an. affairs and the abolishment of all sinecure ent deplores the rapid increase of public taxati U, and indebtedness, and invites all citizens Tor join wi h the party in the endeavor to rig of the wrongs. ..... Richard D. Hubbard V ng nominated for governor by the D ,mocrats les Connecticut. The platform indc ses the lo, tion of the St. Louis convention charges u 7ie the Republican party has become arroga ''i selfish and corrupt from it's long continual
 in power, and notwithstanding it's pretensic
 to reform, opposing the economic and
 trenchment policy of the Democratic Hou