Connecticut western news., 1876-03-17

governor, and candidates for other offices, OF 8 strong hard money, reform, free school and no third term platform; Marshal Jewell was proposed for President, but no action taken. .... The Redpath sugar refinery, ot Montreal. Can, has been closed on account ot financial difficulties, and three hundred hands | discharged.
 The entry of the Alfonsist troops into Madrid is to be celebrated by three days bull fights and other festivities. ..... Spain is about to send thirty thousand men to Cuba The direct cable has been again. repaired, and is now in good working order. The officers claim that the ends of the broken cable showed conclusively that it had been cut from malice .. Col. Gordon, the Egyptian explorer, has returned to Cairo, after unnecessarily en- deavoring to survey equatorial Africa. A Vienna dispatch reports that fifty-fve Hun- garian villages near the Austrian border are entirely submerged, the water over some of them being nineteen feet deep. General Sherman wants two more military posts in the Black Hills country, and thinks he can build them for $21O,O00 Minister Schenck pub Ished 8 card in the London papers declaring the statements about him in regard to the Emma mine as 8 tissue of infamous false- hoods, and stated that he had leave of absence and would leave immediately for the United States to confront his calumniators. Eight ladies graduated from the Boston medical school this year ... .Portugars contribution to the Centennial is about ready for shipment. ..... The clerk of the Bingham House, Phila- delphia, was found guilty under the civil rights law for refusing 8 room to colored clergy man. ... The February statement from the Treasury department shows the total debt to be $2,232, ,57O, 43S.70; less cash in the treasury, $2, 11S, 23s, ,OSs.80 decrease during the month, $s,272, 7ss.
 The House committee on military expendi- lures had it's attention directed to abuses on the part of Secretary of War Belknap, and quietly proceeded to investigate the same. In the course of the examination, Mr. O. P. Marsh, of New York, appeared in answer to 8 subpoena, and testified to the fact that he had been appointed post-tender at Fort Sill by the secretary, and had mmediately sold the con- tract to the man holding the position at that time, for which he received subsidy of $12, ,OOO per year, one-half of which he turned over to Mrs. Belknap, and like sum paid annually since 1870, The committee summoned the secretary before them, and he confessed to the transaction. Afterward he went to the Presi- dent and handed in his written resignation, which was instantly accepted. The President was deeply affected, and the secretary was in terrible state of excitement. The utmost as- tonishment prevailed throughout Washington on the disclosure being made The committee, on presenting the facts to the House, demand ed the impeachment of the secretary for high crimes and misdemeanors and resolutions of impeachment were adopted by the House unanimously.
 A fire occurred at Little Popo, on the African gold coast, which destroyed half the town. In nearly all the houses gunpowder was stored, and as the flames spread explosion followed explosion. About fifty natives were blown to pieces while attempting to plunder the burning and abandoned houses The British steamer Bothnia, Capt. Soarlett, from New Orleans for Liverpool, cotton laden, twas burned at sea. The crew were saved. A scow engaged in removing the Instructions at Umatilla Rapids, Columbia river, Cal, blew up while at work The boat was blown to pieces. One man was killed, two were fatally injured, and twelve are missing. The Herzegovinian insurgents have issued manifesto scouting the idea of peace propositions. ... Charles O'Conor has taken charge of the $6,0OO,O0O suit brought against Tweed by the city of New York. ... When the Third National bank of Baltimore was robbed, some time ago, $26, ,OO0 worth of bonds belonging to MT. Boyd, which had been deposited as collateral, were taken by the robbers. The bank offici als claimed that, in- asmuch as they had taken due precaution, they were exempt from making good the bonds, but the highest State court decided to the contrary, and MT. Boyd reco vers his bonds with interest. ..... Garibaldi has accepted the presidency of the international arbitration congress to be held in Rome . Isaiah Grifins, colored, aged twenty eight years, was hanged at Portsmouth, va., for outraging his brothers wife. Further impeachment proceedings against Gov Kellogg, of Louisiana a have been suspended by the House.
 The Porte has notified the guaranteeirg powers that it will remit tithes for one year and all other taxes for two years to all refu-
 
 Carlos has issned manifesto to the Spanish people, declaring that he will never sign 8 compromise, but will wait for an opportunity to redeem his cause. .... A hand-to- hand con- fict occurred between Spanish and Cuban army in Cuba, in which the Cubans were put to flight. The revolutionists in Mexico have been defeated at several points The Sable iron works, owned by Zug & Co.,, at Pitts burgh, Pa., have suspended, with liabilities amounting to $580,000. It is claimed that the assets will fully cover that amount An Italian bark bound for Baltimore went ashore on the North Carolina coast and nine of her crew were drowned. life boat from station near by went to the rescue, but the boat WAS swsmped and it's occupants all drowned Mrs. Plum, of Bridgeport, Vt, poisoned her seven-year-old boy with corrosive sublimate and then took dose herself, but the prompt ness of physicians probably saved her life. Her husbands assertion was the cause of the crime. The House committee, which inves- igated Secretary Belknap's case, appeared be- fore the Senate and demanded his impeach- ment by that body. The President directed Attorney-General Pierrepont to take imme- diate steps toward the criminal prosecution of Belknap, Marsh and others concerned.
 A three-mss.ed schooner, drawing thirteen and one-half feet of water, passed through the new government jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi being the first merchantmen through. ..... The large dry goods house of Wood Marsh & Co.,, at Philadelphia, was de- stroyed by fire, and number of their neigh bors badly damaged. The loss amounted to $25O, ,0OO..... On learning that ex-secretary Belknap was preparing to leaveSthe country, Attorney-General Pierrepont had writ issued against him, and he was arrested. Permission was given him to remain in his own house,