Connecticut western news., 1876-09-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

items or Interest from Home and Abroad.
 A prisoner named Osborn, in the Robinson | (Kan.) jail, assaulted and mortally wounded Sheriff Henderson. That night 8 masked mob stormed the Jail and hanged Osborn. .... The Indian commissioner has ordered that the sale of arms and ammunition to Indians shall cease, and any violation of the orcer reported to him. .... The Soldiers Orphan School, at Phillipsburg, Pa, was totally de- stroyed by fire. Loss, $20, ,000. The cause of the confagration is 8 mystery. %. Congress sional nominations: Ohio nineteenth district, Gen. Garfell, Rep; Ohio, tenth, John H. Hudson, Dem; Michigan, seventh, Omar D. Conger, Rep. ... Sitting Bull made overtures o the Blackfeet Indians of Canada to aid him, but they refused y. .. The horse Gov. Sprague won the first purge in the 226 race at Pough- keepsie, N. Y., in 2O1, 2 24t, 2.21A ...... Ten thousand Knights of Pythias from all parts of the country held grand parade in Philadel- phia, presenting 8 brilliant appearance.
 Congressional nominations Illinois, eighth district, Geo. ". Parker, Ind; West Virginia,
 first, Benj. Wilson, Dem. Alabama, eighth, W. w. Garth Dem. Kentucky, J. O. s. Black
 ..AG Courtney and Robinson of the Union Springs (N. Y.) club won the double seull race in 9:19
 beating the Atalantas, of New York, and the Vespers, of Philadelphia. DOVES and Eustis of the Atalants crew won the pair oars in 1O10A over the Nautilus of New York; and Argonauts, of Bergen Point. . . The Servians defeated 50,000 attacking Turks before Alexi
 natz .... A flood in Mississippi caused 8 weak railway bridge near Tugaloo to give way while train was crossing, resulting in the wrecking
 of several cars, by which two passengers were
 killed and sixteen wounded .... A plague of
 oaterpiars has appeared in Alabama. IA prize fight in Delaware between Fiddler
 Weary, of New York, and Dick Gillespie, of | Philadelphia, resulted in victory for inc lat | ter after thirteen rounds.
 The New York Republican State convention
 nominated Edwin D. Morgan for governor,
 Sherman s. Rogers for lieutenant governor, | George F. Danforth for associate judge of the
 court of appeals, Daniel G. Spencer for canal commissioner, and Charles W. Trowbridge for | State prison inspector The resolutions adopt
 ed by the convention reaffirm the platform
 adopted by the National Republican oonven- | ton, and heartily approves the princip es set
 forth in the letters of acceptance of R. B.
 Hayes and Wm. A. Wheeler is in favor of 8
 reformed public service insists that the equal
 be protected, and that the government must
 be restored from the consequences of the war by those who saved it, and not by those who
 attempted to destroy it. On the financial
 question it says: Whereas the date of the
 payment of our obligations bearing no interest
 after maturity is of the very essence of it's full
 and entire validity, and the postponement of
 it's payment repudiation to the extent
 of the usual interest from the date ot
 promised payment, we therefore denounce
 the repeal of the date of specie resumption Ly
 the Democratic House of Representatives
 without making the dishonored notes bear the
 current government rate of interest, as ar
 act of repudiation and disloyalty and an oper
 violation of the section of the fourteenth
 amendment to the United States Constitution
 which provides that the validity of the publi, debt authorized by laws shall not be question
 ed. The alacrity and great unanimity of th' Southern Democrats in the House of Repre-
 sentatives to repeal the date of payment of thu
 United States notes, without consideration il the form of interest, and in violation of th' plighted faith of the government, shows tha
 they are not safe custodians of the nationa [ faith, and that fidelity to public honor re
 quires that the national administration shal , not be subject to their control, dictation o 7 management. It arraigns the Democrati party for it's faults, and concludes as follows , The Republicans of New York tender to th l n.~. T Al. TY.-:A- C preaching completion of his official term, tn assurance of their profound respect and grati , tude for those illustrious pubic and patrioti 2 2 services which will secure his name an lmpel . ishable place in history.
 There is no hope of Cardinal Antonellis re
 covery. He was the Pope's chief adviser. ..
 Secretary Morrill, has concluded contrac
 with the syndicate (headed by the Rothschild and embracing the principal American banl , ers), by which it is to take $40 00O, ,OO0 of tn o new four and one-haH per cent. loan at gol V par less one-half per cent. commission. , Congressional nominations: Iowa. eighth al. h triot, Andrew Hastie, Greenback; Illinois a eighth, Greenbury L. Fort, Dem.; Illinois J. tenth, John A. nungate, Dem.; Michigan r ninth, John H. Kubourne Dem; Michigan !, first, Henry M Dutfield, Rep Virginia, thirt :, G. c. Walker, Conservative; Ohio, sixtl : Frank H. Hurd, Dem.; Alabama, fifth, R. ] Sigon, Dem.; Missouri, twelfth, John . Glover, Dem.; Pennsylvania, twenty fftl 0 Geo. A. Jenks, Dem; West Virginia, secon' ,' B. K. Martin, Dem. ..... In the free-to a # race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Goldsmith Ma s won the first heat in 2161a, distancing Lul 7, Smuggler and Judge Fullerton. all of who IS acted very badly. Bodne was the Maids on
 contestant for the other heats which we $ trotted in 21Sh and 2.20. ... S. W. Crawfor 5. 8 qusck doctor confined in jail at Berkel' le Springs, W. V., for poisoning citizen, VI K taken out at night by masked mob al n hanged. 1.-The final heat between the crey 7' of the Atalanta club and Columbia Colleg Il for the amateur championship, at Philade 1i 2, phia, resulted in foul, and on 8 second 8 Al tempt ono of Columbia's boys was disabled :, cramps, and the Atalantas pulled over u
 course alone.
 ,a MT. Marratt, of Bowdoin College, walk, Il from the top of Mount Washington, N. H., r. Portland, Me-, 8 distance of ninety miles, in al day. .. The White Cross steamer c. D. Punch, from New York for Antwerp, W in burned with her cargo. No lives were lost. |.
 The funeral of Speaker Kerr took place St N 10 Albany, Ind The gathering of sympathizl Us friends from Kentucky aud Indiana was ve ys lzrge. .... Prince Milan, of Servia, declar 10 to the foreign consuls at Belgrade that ~ wished for peace. ... AS the murderer Murp o wss hanged at Dayton, Ohio, the rope bro 10 and he fell full length upon the scatfold. IT, he was pulled up second time he grasped t ,s sheriff in death grip, and it required t f. exertions of several men to release it. O. died hard.