Connecticut western news., 1877-01-19
NEWS ITEMS.
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 have been advanced about forty per cent .. .. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, has issued call for payment of ten per cent. of the State taxes to his officers :. David Dudley Field was elected member of Congress from one of the New York city districts in place of Smith Ely, Jr., who resigned to accept the mayoralty. In order to secure funds to con- ptete the railroad to it's coal mines in the Shen- andoah valley, the Royal land company of Vir- g1nla has mortgaged it's property to tho Fidelity insurance company of Philadelphia for $3 ,500,- OO0.. The steamship Emile sank off the Florida coast and man and infant were dfown- ed. A boatload of passengers had not arrived ashore at the time of sending the news, but hopes were expressed for their safety. Heavy snow broke in the roof of the carriage house of A. Garcelon, Boston livery stable keeper, and ruined a large number of carriages and sleighs. Loss, $1O, 1000. By the burning of Forshays hotel, ill New York city-a small frame build ing--a number of boarders had narrow escape from death, as all communication with the lower part of the house was cut off by fire, and it was necessary to take them from the win dows with ladders, most of them escaping in their night clothes. A boarding house at Alta, Utah, was completely buried by snow slide, and four of the inmates perished, two others being rescued in an unconscious con- dition. :. The infantry of Gen. Crooks expe- dition, end Gen. Mckenzie with the cavalry and artillery, arrived at Fort Laramie and the whole force was disbanded. .. The report of the canal auditor of New York State shows the total re- cepts the past year to have been $1, ,4S7. 332. .99 and the expenses $1, 149, 194.61 net receipts, S338 13S. 28-.a falling off from the previous year of $120, 0,541.40.
 Capt. Eads, the engineer of tic Mississippi improvements, has gone to Washington to re- ceive the first payment on the jetties. He re- ports clear, deep channel, two hundred feet deep from deep water in the river to deep water in the gulf: The Congregational church at Windsor Locks, Conn.,, was destroyed by fire. Loss $2O,0O0 insurance, 2,OOO. Henry Creighton, of Bloom Township, Ohio, was mur- dered by his crazy wife, She shot him twice and then cut his head off with an axe A train in Belgium conveying one hundred la borers to clear snow blockade ran off the track. Nine persons were killed and thirty severely hurt. Eight hundred laborers have been thrown out of employment by the burning of mine belonging to the Lykens Valley Go. near Pottsvile, Pa. It was necessary to turn Bear creek into the burning colery in order to subdue the flames. Experts say it will take year s time to get in working condition again. l.. The trains on the Grand Trunk railway of Canada have been resumed-the striking en- gineers giving in to the company Eph Horn, the negro minstrel so well known about the country, died in New York. The Tiffany block in Oollinsyille, Conn.,, was damaged by fire to the amount of $10,000. The Newark (N. J.) presbytery, by vote of nineteen to twelve censured minister for allowing Q woman to occupy his pulpit. The public debt of the State of Pennsylvania is $13, 924, ,O3977 =. -Thos. w. Ferry is reelected United States Senator from Michigan. .. The amount of the funded debt of the State of Connecticut is S5, 5,014, 800. The expenditures of the State for the last year were $1, ,2O4, ,6S5 21 . A personal encounter occurred at the Union club rooms in New York city between Frederick May and James Gordon Bennett, editor of the Herald MT. Bennett had been engaged to sister of May and the wedding was to have taken place early in January. For some reason the engage ment was broken off, and young May consider ing himself aggrieved, assaulted Bennett with a rawhide. .. On Sept. 30, 1875, the total funded debt of the State of New York was $2S, ,32S,- 6S6. 40. On Sept. 30 1876, it was 1928, 315 999 48 Deducting unapplied balances of sinking funds 1t was $9,127, ,870.34. The receipts during the fiscal year ending Sept. 3O 1876, were SIS, ,623,- 8S629; payments during year, $17, ,SS7, I'll. .49 balance in treasury Sept. 30 1876, $8 923 O53. .89 During the fiscal year the State paid out for educational purposes $3, ASA, ,539S5, of which S2, 959 725. 13 were the proceeds of direct tax for one and quarter mills for common schools For the support of asylums (deaf, blind, insane idiotic), $4150S9.05. The gross valuation of taxable property in 1866 was $2, 521 ,229, ,636 in 1876 it was $2, ,466, ,267, ,273 increase in ten years, $9S5, o37, ,637 increase from last year, $93, AIS, IT. The State tax for current fiscal year is 1124 mills expected to yield, $9, 529,- 174.32.
 Commodore Vanderbilt, whose death is an- nounced. was born near s apleton, Staten Island, May 27, 1794. At the age of sixteen he bought boat with which he piled between the island and New York, and at eighteen he owned two boats and was captain of third. At nineteen he married, and at twenty-three was free from debt and was worth S9,000 He was identified with the leading steamboat interests of the country until railroads began to take their place, and then he became the leading spirit of the Hudson River and Central roads He died very wealthy. He lived most active business life. It was peculiarity of his that he invested little money in real estate. The steamboat was his hobby as long as that was p o6table and then he took up the railroad when the day of steamboating was over.
 William Windom was reelected United States senator by the Legislature of Minnesota. .... James G. Blaine was elected by the Maine Leg islature for the short term in the United States Senate, and also for the full term of six years, beginning March 4, 1877. .... Over one hundred prisoners at the Ohio penitentiary were made sick, with symptoms indicative of poison, the cause being impure baking powders used by the cooks of the building. .. In tho United States court at Yankton D. T., John Mccall, convicted of the murder of ''Wild Bill" was sentenced by Chief Justice Shannon to be hanged on the first of March. Massachusetts during the past year reduced her State debt $336, ,OO0. In 1875, by large expenditures for public improvements. the debt was largely increased In the Mans field (Pa) coal district three thousand miners are on strike. .... The State debt of Maine is S5, 129 107. The governor estimates that tax of three and one-fourth mills on the dollar vii! be all that will be necessary to meet the current expenses this year. =. United States vessels patrol the Rio Grande to prevent outrages by the Mexican authorities. The late C0mmo- dore Vanderbilt was in active business life from sixteen to eighty-two, period of sixty-six years .... The State debt of Pennsylvania is $22, 865,- 021.5S.. Six thousand men are at work cut ting ice in the Hudson river. The three rich est men in the United States-Astor, Stewart and Vanderbilt-have died within fifteen months.
 The Methodist church at Antwerp, N. r., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $20, ,OOO in- surance, $16,000. ...., The Democratic commit tee of Maine passed resolutions declaring that Gov. 1i!den is elected President, and that all attempts to defeat him. by counting in min orlty candidate, be opposed by every legal and constitutional remedy .... The supreme court of Massachusetts has decided, in 9 case growing out ct an Israelite keeping open store on Sun day, that the Hebrews must be held amenable to the laws regulating the Sabbath An ex- press train was wrecked near Hamilton, Ohio, but no serious casualties are reported E. w. Major suffered capital punishment at Concord, N H., for the murder of his wife. He died easily, It is also supposed he poisoned his slster-ln-law .... Four -men were seriously if not fatally in jured near Marietta, Ohio, by the explosion of a porta lie boiler ..... An extradi- ton treaty between .,pain and the United States reference to Judge Mackeys interview with Gov. Hayes that Mackey was not authorized to speak for him on the Democracy of South Caro- hna. He believes that Tilden was fairly elected, and that the people desire peaceful constitu- tional solution of the question. An explosion occurred at Duponts powder mills near Will mington, Del, demolishng one of the build ings and killing Frenchman, who was an en- ployee .... .Chas. H. Fletcher, president of a Western railroad company, while sick in his friend Browns house was carefully nursed by Miss Brown, a sister, whom the scoundrel in duced to leave homo with him on his recovery. The grand jury indicted him for seduction, and called Brown and the young lady as witnesses On Brown entering the courtroom he was con- fronted by Fletcher, and drawing a revolver shot the seducer dead, ..., Mrs. Egbert, a sister of the late mmodore Vanderbilt, died