Connecticut western news., 1877-02-02
,SUMMARY OF NEWS.


 Maine Legislature to serve the, long term end ing in 1888. .. Senator Wm. Windom of Min nesota, was reelected for another term
 Senator T. W. Ferry, of Michigan, was again chosen by the Legislature to represent that State in the upper House .. . The mercantile report, give the total number of failures in the United States for tbe year 1876 as 9,O92, with liabilities amounting to $191, IF, 786. In 1875 the failures numbered 7,740, with liabilities amounting to $201, ,060, 353. In the Dominion of Canada the failures in 1876 we're 1, ,728, with liabilities amounting to 1925, ,517, ,991. In 1875 the failures in the Dominion were 1868, with $28, ,843, ,967 liabilities. In the United States there are 630, 099 people in business, and in the Dominion of Canada, 4, ,282. ... "A report from compromise with Iglesias. He attacked the forces of Iglesias in Guanajuato, commanded by Gen. Antillon Antillon was defeated, and surrendered his whole army to Gen. Ignacio Martinez. Iglesias has asked to be allowed to retire to private life. Gen. Terry announces that a dispatch received from Col. Miles, via. Boze1nan, states that on the eighteenth of De- cember three companies of the Fifth infantry, under Lieut.. Frank D. Baldwin, struck Sitting Bulls camp in the Redwater, and defeated him, with the loss of all the property in the camp, and sixty mules and ponies. The Indians es- capped with little besides what they had on their persons. =. An earthquake shock is reported from California ...... Testimony before the cofOner Ill the ASnCaDtla case was CO the eHecG that some of the braces had slipped three in ches out of place previous to the last painting of the bridge - A. H. Garland was elected by the Arkansas Legislature to succeed Senator Powell Clayton. #
 New York's State agricultural society elected Patrick Barry, of Monroe county, president for the ensuing year. ,... The New Hampshire Democratic convention nominated Daniel Marcy for governor. The resolutions denounce the conspiracy organized at Washington to thwart the clearly expressed will of the people through the action of illegally constituted and corruptly controlled returning boards, as revolutionary and reasonable in purpose and effect, inas- much as it strikes at the very life of the cleo tive franchise, which is the basis and vital principle of this government ; deprecate the use of military by President Grant in South Carolina and Virginia call upon the represeR- tatives of both houses of Congress to unite in securing peaceful solution of the difficulty in of Congress relating to the Presidential ques- ton, and close thus Believing that Mir. Til den received 8 majority of the whole number of electoral votes, we pledge him our hearty and authority in conformity with the Constitution gV nmS @ W nead s S for nh the relief of the famine stricken people in Mad ras and Bombay, according to the report of the home government. Rear-Admiral Joseph Smith, of the navy retired list, died in Washington, aged eighty-seven years. ..... Five tons of powder in mill at Troy, N. Y., exploded with deafening sound, completely demolishing three buildings, but fortunately not destroying any life. The losses amount to S20,0O0. IA shower of living snakes, each from twelve to eighteen inches in length, is re- ported to have occurred in Memphis, Tenn, during recent heavy rain The Poles are greatly excited over the probability of Russia being engaged in war, and there is proba- biity of blow being struck for freedom when Russia becomes involved with Turkey. A plausible, gentlemanly appearing man repre- sented himself to a Wall street (New York; broker as connected with the N. Y. Life Ins. Co.,, and after number of interviews, deposited certified check for $64, ,0O0 against that insitu- tion, for which he received part gold and bal ance bills. The check turned out to be 8 clever forgery, which the cashier of the Union Trust Co. had certified as being good-the signatures being so perfectly counterfeited. On Mir. Moody's last night in Chicago, his call for funds to carry on the good work drew out a collection of $67, ,000.
 Under the arrangement for the settlement of the election difficulty, the grand committee is to consist of five members of the Senate and five of the House, each party choosing it's own, members n caucus, and, besides these, of four members of the supreme bench, selected from the whole number according to geographical divisions of the country. Accordingly it is be- heyed the judges of the first, third, eighth and ninth circuits have been agreed upon, these being Justices Clifford, Miller, Strong and Field. These four are to select fifth. To the commit tee of fifteen members, thus composed, are to be referred the questions relating to the dis puted States, which are understood to be Florida, Louisiana and Oregon. The commit tee, composed of members of both houses and experts, as many other committees have been formed, notably the silver commission, will report it's conclusions to the two houses and it's report will stand unless both houses unite in rejecting it. Finally, the measure will come into operation as soon as 1t is passed and signed by the President, and the count of the vote will not therefore wait until the usual time, the fourteenth of February, but will proceed at once. Thus the country will be the sooner re- ieyed of it's anxiety. ... Gen. Augur, comman- der of the Department of the Gulf. sent to Gov. Packard, of New Orleans a communication charging the latter with nlisrepresenting the state of affairs there. Gen. Augur denies that he has made any request of either claimant, but says he did send members of his staff to 'in- quire" of both if 1t were not possible for them to make some arrangement which would result in the dispersion to their homes of the armed men on both sides. This could not be construed as intermeddling with the politics of the State. " It was simply a suggestion" says Gen. Augur, '' in the interest, as thought of peace and to give moments quiet to the citizens of this ex- cited city"
 The last proposals offered by the European pQW6FS to were T6J0CI0u Dy GIl6 grand council in session at Constantinople, during great excitement and cries of "Death before dishonor.". A tunnel at Newcomersburg Ohio, used by the Pittsburgh and Cleveland railroad, caved in near it's mouth, burying five laborers. Daniel Price, colored, was hanged at Warrenton, Mo, for the murder of colored man last summer. He protested his innocence of the crime to the last a. In addition to the fleet of Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooners reported lost it is now feared that four others have succumbed to the late fierce storms. They are the schooners Modena B. Jerrold, Howard Steele, Robert Emmett and the Wyom- ing .Ex-Gov. Alvin Saunders has been elected senator by the Republican majority of the Nebraska Legislature .... .. Hon. George Wells, president of the Annapolis (AId) Far amount of 565, GOO. He has been considered one of the first citizens of the place ...... De- tectives succeeded in arresting the forger and issuer of the bogus $64, GOO check on the New York Life Ins. Go. His name is Horace E. Brown. =. An election riot occurred in De Lisle, Canada, between the French and Eng fish. .... The money order department of the New York post-office did business to the amount of $35. .556, 178.30 in 1876 ... Indians raided 8 ranch and drove off fifty horses within fifty warehouse. on Hunters island, off Elizabeth port, N. J., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 0o0 ~ Three masked men boarded the ex- press car of an outgoing train when it stopped at 8 crossing in Chicago, and after overpower- ing the two occupants. forced open the safe, containing $25 O00, from which they took, how ever, but 143 in cash, with which they escaped.
 England has prohibited the importation of cattle, sheep and goats from Germany France and Belgium, on account of the prevalence of the rinderpest in those countries. The disease is spreading over Europe. .. The commissioner
 of internal revenue estimates that illicit stills
 and the fraudulent manufacture and sal of tobacco in the mountainous districts of the Southern States annually defraud the govern
 ment out of $2,OOO,O0 duty. He has called fol l ing this state of affairs. Canadian news is tc | the effect that five hundred families of Sioux
 Indians recently at war with the United States
 have crossed the border into Canada to take uI
 their abode. They are peacefully inclined.
 Wm. Heaths hat factory in Brooklyn, N. Y.
 was destroyed by fire, with two adjoining