Connecticut western news., 1876-04-07

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 The Democrats of Pennsylvania met at Lam caster and elected delegates to the rational but refused to pledge them to any candidate. The platform adopted dsclares the civil service of the government corrupt; de- mands searching investigations into all the and the punishment of offenders, whatever their station; commends the House majority for their reduction of expenditures; advocates general amnesty to all persons en- gagged in the late civil war as 8 fitting act for the centennial year; upholds the separation of church and State demands the repeal of the statute for the resumption of specie pay ment on January 1, 1879, as 8 standing threat to business men, paralyzing industry; declares gold and silver the only basis for currency, and asks Congress to take such steps for re- sumption of specie payments as will most, surely and speedily reach that result without destroying the business interests; rejoices in the opportunity to celebrate the centennial of the emancipation of the country from the British crown . The Indians in the vicinity of Custer having run of considerable stock, the miners got together and attacked them. Thir- teen Indians and one white man were killed. .o... A young man carelessly threw down a lighted match in Jupiter powder factory in Woodlawn Heights, N. r., and instantly there was terrific explosion, which demolished three buildings and killed three men and seriously wounded three more. The bodies of the three were completely dismembered by the force of the explosion, while the buildings were blown to splinters and the earth beneath scooped out to depth of ten feet. A jeweler in the ex- treme upper part of New York city was knock ed down, bound and gagged in his store in broad daylight by eix men, who succeeded in carrying of 2,250 worth of jewelry. Seven of the crew of eight men of the brig Hattie Eaton, from Boston, were drowned by being wrecked on Kttery Point, Me. ... The New York Republicans, in convention at Syracuse elected delegates to the national convention and after considerable opposition from George Wm. Curtis and others, pledged them to Roscoe Conkling for President The platform demands the inviolative preservation of the results of the war and the constitutional rights of every citizen condemns the dishonesty of every officer who is faithless, and indorses the injunction to "let no guilty man escape D; comments the administration for protecting the treasury and punishing public offenders {; states that President Grant, in laying down his trust will have the lasting gratitude of the American people for his patriotic services in war and peace.
 The Rhode Island Republicans renominated Gov Henry Lippitt and the other present State officers. .... .Jacmel, Hayti, is in the hands of the insurgents, but is blockaded by the government steamers. The insurrectior is spreading, and business is almost suspended ..,... The bill making Queen Victoria empress of India passed it's third reading after eharr discussion. ..... Killing frosts have hurt tho early crops in South Carolina and Georgia. George s. Stevens, judge of the Nelson county (Va.) court, has been impeached by the legis lature for conduct unbecoming his judicia character, in that he gambled and won money | ....... The greater portion of the town o Jackson, La., was destroyed by fire. Loss | $70,000; insurance, $7000. ..... The boiler O. the Union Pacific Co.'s rolling mill, at Lara mic City, Wy, exploded with terrific force completely Wrecking part of the mill and kill ing seven men and wounding ten more. Th' boiler was blown through the stone walls O. the mill quarter of mile on the prairie Loss, ,$150, ,000. .... Servia has 30,000 capable men in case of war. ....... Lieut.. Gov. Davis, O. Mississippi, was found guilty of the charges il the recent impeachment, and has been re moved from office and disqualified from here after holding any place of honor, trust O profit. .. Scranton, Pa., has lost it's oper, house by fire.
 It is rumored and generally creditdRin St
 Petersburg that the ozar, weary of the car
 of government. intends to retire from tn
 throne, and is to appoint the czarowitch re
 gent. The fishing schooner Edwin c. Dol liver has returned to Gloucester, Mass, iron
 Grand banks, having lost three of her crew
 =. The revolutionists in Mexico have take
 the town of Ja;apa. The state of Vera Cru
 is declared in state of siege. An American
 Episcopal church has been opened in Rome
 ..... Mrs. Mareh, in her testimony befor
 the committee denied that Mrs. Belknap ha1
 admitted receiving share of the Kentuck
 Central railroad award .... The gauge of tn
 Erie road is not to be narrowed at present.
 Heavy rain storms in Arkansas swelled tn
 streams to such an extent that great damag
 was done. Nearly all the railways suffere
 from serious wAshouts, and trains were dc
 layed ln consequence ...... Brazils goods fo
 the Centennial have arrived, as have also tn
 Exhibits of France.
 Herzogenbosch, Holland, had it's dikes swer
 away by floods and the water flowed in upo
 the city, destroying the roads and bridges
 thus cutting off communication. Hundreds
 houses were destroyed and six thousand pe
 sons were rendered destitute and homeless ...... The wife and three children of Willial
 Hogan were drowned at Winchester, H.,
 their horse and wagon running of the end ( a bridge. 70. This years sugar crop in Cuba
 $50, 100000 short of that of last year
 A Calcutta dispatch reports that the khan Khelat was completely routed by his rebellion chiefs in recent battle. The Chinese go ernment propose opening the towns of Wuhi Tchang and Wenohas to foreign trade IT Russians have established a settlement Mantchoora on the Amoor river, much to u dissatisfaction of the Chinese, which gover
 ment has forbidden trade with the new settl
 ment. B. P. Rogers, for many years u , trusted paying teller of the Fulton ban
 Brooklyn, N. Y., absconded with $25, 900 cash. .... Chas. H. Earth, of the Quarterma S ter's department, at San Francisco, is 8 d /; faulter to the amount of $6O, 900. .... Japan y suffering from & cattle plague. .... .Osak y Japan, lost six hundred houses by 8 fire. IT
 village of Kozuchi also lost three hundred fire. ... Heavy rains throughout Conneeticr Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and in the T. cinity of New York city, did damage amounti . to over 8 million dollars, by sweeping aw }, bridges and mill dams, causing washouts 5 railways and undermining buildings. Twel
 lives are reported lost. .. Fire destroyed t
 boot factory of Clafin, Ooburn & Co.,, at He , kinton, Mass, involving loss of $2OO, ,0)O. !. Col. Gordon, the English explorer in Afrit