Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
OHr HrWNeeklF=NpWss Summary;
THE LOSS OF THE ArAeAMA.

Alstter from Lima says seThe fine steamer Atacama, belonging to the Pa elfic Steam Navigation Company, went to Piecss on the rock known as Rompe Oias, short distance south of Caldera, on the Chliian coast, on the night of the 50th of December The captain, all of fthe officers, and many of the crew and pas sengers were lost. In all it is estimated that 101 persons were drowned, and twenty7nine were saved. The accident occurred at o'clock, P. M, when the majority of the passengers were below, and so instantaneous was the breaking usot the. sbip that no time was given to s.aslIS Dhilians 5iourneying between the ports i One very sad incident took place. MT. Kennedy, agent for the Pacific SteaR Navigation Company of Chanaral, was. iretuFAing from Valparaiso yon his wedding tour. After spending part of the evening with the captain, he went to his cabin and said to his wife that he had been talking about the Etsn, and it was such 3 nasty night he felt little nervous He suggested to. Mrs. Ken nedy that they should try on the new cork jackets recently. purchased by the company, and placed ia all the cabins, one for each bed. They did so and were laughing at their mutually ludicrous ap- pearanoAMhen the ship struck and they presently found themselves struggling for lie in ;the midst of the breakers. Mir. Kennedy managed to keep his wife afloat for nearly three hours, when the poor lady was struck on the head by 8 piece of wreckage and instantaneously killed. ME.Keunedy was also injured; but succeeded in reaching the shore.
 The, New Hampshire Prohibitionists will hold their State nominating conyen- tion in Manchester on Wednesday the 23d inst The call reads, :. ss We have the only living issue of the day.aa Let poitiE ca1idolatry be abolished Let the dead hnry their dead. -.l Reform never woa D victory by acting as chief -nourner in a political funeral Come to the front. D s..G1The projectors of the Texas Pacific RailYoadlcl claim that they have a majority in the. United States Senate and House in favor of their projected road.
 Dennis, alias s' Buckley Donne1ly, @ notoious Mollie Naguire, was sen- tenced to death at PottsvllIe, Pa, for the murder of Wm. Sanger at River Run in September, -1eF5.% He made speech before being seutaneed, declaring his innocence of the crime, 4.-.-...-.
 Sadie, Sharp and Ella Hazeltine, aged respectively eleven and fifteen, broke through the ice on a pond near Hyannis, Mass and,were drowned.
 1-Coloradp $ gold and silver yield for 1877 was $7, ,s79, ,432.
 -Biron Carroll, a lawyer of Rome, N. Y.s. aged 50, dropped dead while en route to the funeral of his brother, the Hon. Geo. R. Carroll, of Camden, who dropped dead three days before. Their father and brother both dropped dead, making four in the family who thus ter minated their existence.
 .--Halifax has been visited by the most severe storm of the season, and serious damage was done.
 The Custom House employees of the United States are to be uniformed.
 A desperate engagement occurred on Jan ld near Bogroy. The Turks at- tempted to surround five battalions of Russian infantry and a brigade of cav airy, but were defeated, leaving 1000 dead on the field. The Russians lost 200 men. The Russian detachment un- der Gen. Dandeyille, who. supported Gen. Gonrkho in his movement over the Balkans, had 5 men frozen to death in one night, and S20 ffost-bitten,
 --The United States .Aaasy ,Register for 1878, shows the aggregate strength of the Army to be 27,489. This aggre- gatsinclndag2, 2,146commissioned officers. During the past year there were in the ranks, of. the Army .s16 casualties, B deaths, and B discharges, one of which was the result of cashiering.
 A bloody fight occurred on the south side of Red River, in the Panhandle oi Texas, between 2 hunting parties ot Cheyenne, Pawnee and Arapahoe Indians Thirty Cheyenhes and ;12 Pawnees are said tohape been killed the loss of the Arapahoes IS not stated. 9 The cause ea the fight was trespass by the Pawnees on thehunting grounds of the Cheyennes
 The English government has par doned number of the Fenian pE1sonert eondemhed to penal servitude. ,
 IA private dispatch received at St Petersburg announces that only 40, ,OO( Turks have retired into Roumelia. The remainder of the Ottoman forces, mum beEing 70, 900 men, remaining north ot the Balkans. are distributed among the foFtresses of the quadrilateral.
 .--Leuis B, Dorlon, the City Treasure, ofQuebeo, ,lis defaulter to the amount so far as known at present, of $500, ,O0O
 During the six months ending Dec 31, 1877 there was net increase in tht revenues of ethel United States from al sources clover $1 ,o00, 900, as compared with the same six months of last year The expenditures for the six months ending1Dec 31, 1877, were SIS, ,916, 80 against ST, ,472, 1898 for the correspond ing six months of 1876, an increase ovel last year Of '$1, ,544, ,1e2. : e'---s' --s @
 Jacob Harris was executed at Gin ton. BPenn.~ for the murder of Isaac White in 1863. ....
 There has been a. severe drought and much ering in Java.
 The report of, the AdJutant Genera of New York State shows that the labor strikas sriot cost 2007 26A. R7- ii, r,au anc