Connecticut western news., 1877-01-05
Statesville, N. C., on his twenty-second birth day for the murder of his mother-in-law. The crime was committed for plumber.

Statesville, N. C., on his twenty-second birth day for the murder of his mother-in-law The crime was committed for plumber,
 The Pennsylvania Dcmucfati6 State commit tee net at HafEisburg to consult regarding the Presidential election and after deliberation issued an address declaring, that samuel }iT
 Tilden and Thomas X. Hendriqks were, cn tie seventh day of Noverobot last, elected President and Vice~Ps5sioent of the United States The i address appeals to the people of the State as follows The Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States have, by the Constitu- | tlon, the sole and exclusive power to settle all questions which relate to tho validity of the electoral votes of the several States. In one event tle Constitution gives the House of Rep resentatives the power to elect tti6 President
 We, therefQre, earnestly invoke from you every effort cognSsable by law for the execution and support of the constitutional methods by which is to be determined who are the lawfully elected President and Vice-President of the United States. The Senate and Hampton House of South Carolina adjourned sine die before Christ mas. Before adjourning, the Senate appoiuted committee of three Republicans aud thfoe Democrats, to confet and tliake a report on the | constitttiOnality of the Mackey House. :. The | supreme court of Florida sustains the Drew demurrer to the answer of the canvassing board and grants peremptory order to the board to recanvass from the face of the returns.
 At least one hundred persons we're drowned on the northeast coast of Scotland during two days of the recent severe gale. The loss with in fortnight is estimated, at the least, at 250 men and s150 vessels .. Owing to the care
 lessners D. gas men in leaving bad leak in the building of the American Exchange bank, New York; an explosion took place when the watch man struck a match to see what the matter was. Over one hundred large plate glass win dows were shattered in the building and sur rounding edffres, aiid the watchman was se- verely burned In the course of quarrel at ChattanOOOa GaOrpa ShO Chris. Smith three times, and was twice shot by Smith. Both men will probably die. . A train on the Kansas Pacific rar off the track on 8 bridge at Hays City, and four cars took fire and Five iron oil tanks with 35 900 barrels of oil were destroyed by fire at Oil City, Pa., owing to a steam boiler bursting and driving in the side of o..e of the tanks. Loss, $200, ,O0O. ... False alarms of fire in Washington and Newark (N.J.) theaters caused an immediate panic among the audiences and an exciting rush for exits, during which numbers of persons we're more or less in ]ured. ....A passenger car was completely overturned by a broken rail near Bellefontaine, Ohio, and eight passengers severely in3ufed.
 The electoral vote of Florida was cast and sent to Washington before the decision of the supreme court of the State that a new count of the popular vote be made. President Grant having heard the report that he is likely to be elected United States senator from Illinois to succeed Mir. Logan, promptly and rnequivocally declares that he will not be tandiGate. He gives lrumbeF of ftasbns why he will not be candidate, the principal one being that he strongly favors the reelection of Senator Logan. A call is issued for convention of colored delegates to meet in Washington to consider the political situation. .Tiieie are four Democratir Presidential electors the le- galty of whose election is disputed by the Re pnblicans. They are Frost, of Missouri, who is laboring under political disability imposed by the Fourteenth amendment Moore, Of Ten- nessee, whose political disability has not been removed; Williamson, in New Jersey, who is 8 United States commissioner, and Holloway, of Virginia, who United States Centennial commissioner. .... The final announcement of q termination of the coptrnversv bhtwseh the United States ara Gfeat Britain, concerning the extradition of criminals, is diplomatic vic tory for United States Secretary Fish. The British government recedes from its position assumed when it refused to surrender Winslow, and ar- cepts the view of the United States government, and Brenh Grns; Winslow and Ellis will all be given up if they can be arrested.