Connecticut western news., 1878-12-25
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

D pen6aOn came up 1n the House Com mittee of Military Affairs. Objection was made by Harry White, on the ground that the same bill had been lost in this Congress, and hence could not be brought | up again. The bill, which was defeated n the Senate, had a clause putting Gen. Grant on ths retired list It has been held upon 8 motion to reconsider.
 One of the editors of a prominent New York daily paper, and a great bull ionist, declared at dinner party in | Washington, that tho Government would | be compelled to suspend specie payment before the 10th of January that com. bination had been made by the banks to take all the gold Mr. Sherman had in the Treasury.
 There will be no action taken by the Senate Finance Committee on the sub- ject of the proposed reduction of the to- bacco tax until after the holiday recess, nor will any further arguments be heard on the subject until Congress reassem- bles.
 Thomas K. Flowers, Philadelphia customs officer, has been found guilty in the United States District Court in Philadelphia of defrauding the Govern ment by collecting illegal duties from emigrants from foreign ports and ap- propriating the money to his own use.
 Hunter is to be hanged Jan. 10th, for the murder of Armstrong. The exc cution will take place in the Court room. Extra iron doors and gratings are being placed at the avenues of e2ress and en- trance to the county buildings. The gallows to be used Is the one upon which John Ware was hanged ten years ago for shooting his father.
 "A clergyman in New York city found two aged sisters in tenement house on the verge of starvation.
 Raymond and Ellen Osgoed, brother and sister, were hanged in Liberty county, Virginia, for the murder of Sam Gauldin.
 Near Allentown, Pa., the clothing of child of Mrs. Minich was accidentally set on fire, and in an attempt to extin- guish the flames the mother ard child we1e burned to death.
 During the past six weeks large number of children have fallen victims to diphtheria in Carbondale, Pa.
 A call has been issued by the Ex- ecutiye Committee of the National party of New England for a mass-conference, Co be held at Boston on January 2, for the purpose of perfecting plans for a systematic organization. General But Ter will be present.
 A telegram to Lloyds, dated Ga lata, half past three o'clock, p. m., Dec. 18th, reports that the steamer Byzantin, from Marseilles for Constantinople, has been sunk in collision. One hundred and fifty lives were lost. Fourteen per- sons only were saved. The steamship came into collision with the English steamship Rinaldo, near Gallipoli, in the Sea. of Marmora, about 150 miles from Constantinople. She was com manded by Capt. Dueros.
 In Cohoes, N. Y, Patrick Rourke and his family, consisting of five children, were consumed by the burning of their house.
 .Juhn Kehoe, the most notorious of all the " Molly Maguires," and who is credited with having had share in nearly all the assassinations of the las ten years in the mining regions of Penn sylvania, was hanged in snow storm al Pettsville for the murder of F. W. s. Langdon in Audenreid in 1862 He de. nied the charge to the last, and declared his innocence of the crime.
 The railroad managers in confer. enee at Chicago have agreed to raise freight rates at all points immediately The two committees which have had charge of this matter in the East an6 West have been consolidated; with MT Finck as Chairman.
 Samuel R. Ludlam has been indicted for setting fire to his hotel, the Ocean House, at Cape May, on the 9th of No vember, and will be tried in March. The failure of the banking house o c. F. Adae x Co.,, of Cincinnati is an nounced, with liabilities amounting t, $700.000. The assets are placed at tn same figure.
 "A men named Sedgwick died o hydrophobia at Wilmington, Del.
 Warren s. Waite, proninen musician of Toledo and formerl Assistant Postmaster there, fell fror the roof of his house, on to which h had climbed while walking in his sleer and sustained injuries from which h died.
 The investigation of the bakin powders is getting to be serious ma ter, as most of them are found to b adulterated.
 At coal sale in New York the ave age price realized was $2.72 per ton.
 Two men were killed and six il lnred by a falling building in Kanss City, Mo.
 "A desperate fight took place betwee revenue officers and "moonshiners, under the lead of the notorious Morgan on the borders of Overton and Fentres counties, Tenn, and 1t is claimed ths ten or twelve persons were either kille or badly injured. :
 The debate in the English Parli. ment on the Afghan war was concluded ene GcTefnment's motion providing tn: she expense of the war may be defraye eh whole or in part from the India revenues being carried without divisio aIter NIT. Fawsett's amendment decla, ing such action unjust had been reiecte by 235 to 125.
 -John s. Mortonsuid Samuel I Bu''n, of the Market Street Railroq company, Philadelphia, were each SC, fenced to ten years imprisonment f. Iraudulently oveEissuing stock of tt company.
 -HoE the first time since 1861 go] PES sod at par in New York city.
 it is proposed to re-establish capit punishment in Switzerland.
 -Ex-Secretary Robeson had deman, ed to be heard by the committee whic wants to impeach him.
 The tobacco manufacturers of Phi adelphia have sent an earnest protest Washington against further tobacco tt fffrifafinr