Connecticut western news., 1878-08-08
OUR NEWS SUMMARY,


 tional Greenback party elected their en
 tire ticket of thirteen candidates by ma
 jorities ranging from 4,O0O to 5000 polling about 16, 900 votes. Memphis is in Shelby county.
 A severe gale swept the coast of Cuba. Nine vessels are known to have
 been lost and six more are ashore.
 Policeman Smith, of Jersey City, was found dead in his bed with his skull broken. His wife lay beside him when the murder was committed. She claims that she was chloroformed and knew nothing of the crime until she awoke to find her husband dead beside her.
 The South Carolina Democrats re- nominated Governor Hampton upon a platform which denounces the Republi. cans and deprecates cooperation with them, asks for amnesty to illicit distil- lers, and declares for exact justice to both races.
 The Vermont Greenback party met at Burlington and adopted a platform calling for a legal-tender currency. in which all Government officials shall he pad among others, ,denouncing Secretary sherman for the sales of 44 per cent. bonds;-aad favoring an income tax nominations will be made August %.
 In Monroe, La, mob of masked men broke into the jail, took out four colored prisoners and hanged them. The negroes were implicated in murders.
 The Republicans of Maine, in their State Convention at Portland. re.nomi. mated Governor Connor unanimously. The platform which was adopted de- clares for temperance Legislation. the sovereignty of the Union, the rigid maintenance of the nations pledoes in regard to the bonds and currency. speedy resumption, and the navigation laws and 1t takes ground against the payment of Confederate war claims.
 The treasurer's office of the Atlantic City Railroad Company at Camden. New Jersey, was broken into by five masked robbers, the watchman gagged and ff- teen hundred dollars stolen.
 James Redmond, aged %. was drowned while bathing Tn the Hudson river at Dudley's Grove. He was mar r1ed on Sunday, and accompanied his bride and his two sisters on an excursion.
 There has been 8 conflict in Herze- govina between the Mohammedans and some returning refugees, and many of the latter were killed.
 In New Orleans, J. E.. Gauthier seventeen years old, being mistaken for burglar, was shot and killed by Chas. Hernandez, in whose house he was room- ing.
 "A family consisting of four persons | was poisoned in New Orleans, by using | oxallc acid by mistake for sugar. in cooking. One of the party died.
 -Reports from Professor Draper, Pro- lessor Langley and others, show that ex- cellent observations of the eclipse of the sun were obtained along the line of to- tality in various places in Wyoming. Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The corona was visible for some distance from the sun, and was fun of detail. East of the Mississippi the sky was overcast with clouds. and no observations were obtained of any sclentlfic value. The eclipse was only partially visible in the East, and in many places 1t was not seen at all. The notes taken by the astronomers in Colorado were'of an interesting character.
 "A riot occurred at Bottonville, Flor ida, between negroes, in which two were killed and third fatally injured.
 The Maine Republican State Con. yentlon declared in favor of an out-and- out hard money platform, of gold or it's equivalent.
 At the mouth of 8 coal shaft at oteubenville, Ohio, man by the name of Darque was precipitated to the bot tom of the pit, distance of one hundred feet, and almost crushed to atoms. Three other men were thrown at the same time. put saved themselves.
 Reports from the Mennonite settle. nent, forty miles north from Yankton. D. T., bring the intelligence of a cloud burst In that region, submerging large portion of the country and drowning even persons. The west branch of Yer nilion river, which is ordinarily two 'ods wide, is filled to width of over a nile and depth of from ten to thirty eet. Much destruction of property is eported.
 The workshops of the new State prison at Concord, Mass. were burned with loss estimated at $15O, ,OOO. The sailboat Nautilus, forty-fiye :, lays out from Boston, arrived at Fa1- mouth, England. The bridge near Clarksonville. Ark .. n the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail Eay, which was undermined by heavy aslnIs. gave way, and the rear passenger oach of the train going west was ; atched. Several persons were badly injured. The territory which has been opened homestead settlement under the re- ent decision of Secretary Schurz is not nly of vast extent, but it embraces the cry best lands in the Vest Miss Minnie Stevens, daughter of Y ae latee Paran Stevens, Of New York. as married in London to Captain Ar 5 aur Paget, son of Lieutenant-G General u ord Alfred Paget. The Prince of Wales nd Duke of Connaught were present at ]. le wedding. The Massachusetts Republicans will | old their convention to nominate State eket Sept. 18, at Worcester. q John Shehan, the third person sus- u ected of being concerned in the mur- a er Of EuQana Sulliuan in Po,.tara o..4h O