Connecticut western news., 1876-12-15

Unitarian churches in Laconia, N. H. ..... New Jersey elected four Democratic and three Re- publican Congressman ..... ulinois' official figures Hayes, 277,226; Tilden, 25s 602, and Cooper, 17, ,109.
 While Robert Lee, of New York, was sitting st the supper table with his wife and nine year-old daughter, he took new revolver from his pocket to show them, when it was discharged in some manner, the ball entering the brain of the little girl and causing instant death . The schooner Equal, of Rockland, Me-, from New York to Winterport, was run down and sunk oT Cape God The captain was lost and the rest of the crew were saved. ...... According to the treasury statement the public d obt at the close of November amounted to $2, ,221 6s5, 7s5s9, less $132, ,S49 6s6.47 cash in the treasury-sn increase during the month of &457, ,662.64. The amount of coin in the treasury is S79, ,881, All. "A the amount of our rency, $11, 743, ,215.2S and the special deposits for the redemption of certificates of deposit, e40, 725, coo. ..... Rhode Island's Legislature elected Presidential elector in the place of MT. Corliss, who is 6 United States Centennial commissioner. .. Iucendiaries started several fires in New Orleans and an immense confia-
  p1ent being comparatively helpless for lack of water. One hundred and twelve houses were destroyed with their contents, including twenty on Columbia street, twenty-four on Robertson street, th.rty-two on Villere street, three on Mars street and ten and St. Ann's church op Esplanade street. few of the structures were palatial residences, but the majority were occupied by poor families who lost their all and will suffer intensely during the winter. During Ihe progress of the confagration colored man, in the act of firing building, was fired at unnecessarily, and made his es- cape. Twenty fremen were more or less in iured by accidents during the excitement. A dozen buildings on the Exhibition grounds at Philadelphia, belonging to the board of finance, which aggregated $2, ,b00, 900 in their construo- ton, realized at auction sale only e296, 160. The Main building, being the only one of the principal structures put up for eale, realized $250, 900, and was bought for the Permanent Exhibition Go. The original cost was $1 ,600,- GOO. .. A colored man named Crutcher was hanged by mob in the woods near Nichols vile, Ky, for attempting an outrage upon the wife of J. G. Ooger, white.
 The secretary of the navy states that the London branch of Jay Cooke & Company do not owe his department anything, ail reports to the contrary notwithstanding ...... United States detectives made 8 seizure of an illicit distillery in New York citv, and left two officers on guard. That evening mob of men over powered the watchmen and succeeded in car rying eff forty-one barrels of spirits. ...... Mrs. Irene House, who shot her husband in New Jersey, has been placed in an insane asylum . The steamer Mary, of the Morgan line, from Morgan City for Texas port, with an assorted cargo, struck on Aransas bar and soon after went to pieces. The vessel and cargo, valued at $125, 900. will be total loss, and there was no insurance. No lives were lost An inundstion has occurred at Ad- rianople by which one thousand houses were swept away. Hayes official majority in Nevada is 1, ,089.
 United States Senator Morton has again in- troduced his proposed amendment to the Constitution, providing for the election of President and Vice-President of the United States. This proposition was originally intro- duced by Senator Morton iu 1873, was referred to the committee on privileges and elections, and reported back fAvorably in May, 1874. It abolshes the entire machinery of the electoral college, and provides that the President and Vice-President shall be elected by the direct vote of the people in the following manner {: Each State shall be divided into districts, equal is number to the number of representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress, to bs composed of contiguous territory. and to be as nearly equal in population as may he, and the person having the highest number of votes in each district for President, shall receive the vote of that dis trict, which shall count one Presidential vote |; the person having the highest number of votes for President in a State, shall receive two Presidential votes from the State st large, and the person having the highest numt CT of Presidential votes in the United States shall be President. These provisions apply also to the election of Vice-President. Congress is given full power to provide for holding and conducting the elections of President and Vice-P President, and to establish tribunals for the decision of such elections as may be con- tested. Senator Morton will urge the Senate to fix an early day for the considerable of this proposed amendment
 A revolution, headed by Ool. Alsina, minister of war, has broken out simultaneously in the city of Buenos Ayres and the province of Eutre Rios, in tue Argentine republic ,.... The secretary of the treasury submitted to the House of Representatives the estimates of appropriations required for the year ending July l, 1878. These are For Congress, S5,- 9SS ,250; executive proper, $7S, 400; depart ulent of State, $1,4i9,65 treasury depart ment, Sl65, ,24s.3 .3s9, war department S5l,- 251 1885; navy department, $22, ,501, ,96S; in- terior department, $3S 8O6, 722 post-of6ce de- partment, $6, 636, ,647 department of justice, e4, 422 990 department of agriculture, $227,- 29O. Total. $299. .611 66s. These estimates arc $15 ,O0O, ,0O0 less than those for 1877. It will be remembered that Congress appropri- ated $47, ,500, ,000 less than the estimates for that year.. ... The official vote of Oregon, as declared by the State csnvAssers, gives a Republican majority of 1165. A protest was filed, signed by Senator Kelly and eight o.her Democrats, against the issuance of & certificate as Presidential elector to Watts, and in favor of giving it to the elector who has tho next highest vote on flo..... The State board of canvassers of Wisconsin issued certificates to the ten Hayes electors. The highest ma jority for Republican elector is (, ,150. Tho majority of Doves, who lost by the Miner vote, is 1,245. All tho electors are eligible, and Hayes will receive all the votes Inc highest Green back vote in the State is l, ,509 The Temper ance vote is twenty-nine.
 l. was not believed that there had been se- rious loss of life at the burning of the Brook lyn Theater until about three o'clock in the morning, when the flames hsd subsided sufd- ciently to permit the tiremen to make an ir- vestigaton near the main entrance to the theater. Chief Nevins passed over the t, em- bling floor of the hallway ward the inner doorway. Inside the doors the flooring had