Connecticut western news., 1878-11-13

ble for resumption. There are out standing about $326, ,O0O,OOO in United States notes to be redeemed, if pre- sented. The plates for the $5,OOO and $10,000 greenback notes are nearly con- pleted.
 The schooner John P. March, with crew of four men, is reported total wreck and all on board lost at Good Harbor, Little Traverse Bay, Lake Lichigan. Several minor casualties are reported. Old sailors Say that the storm was the most terrific known on the lakes for sixteen years.
 -"John had liquor, and me killee him, is the confession made by Chinese laundry-man who murdered his en- ployee, John Ling, at Quincy, III.
 Several disasters have occurred on the lakes, attended with loss of life.
 The United States debt was reduced $1, 708, 402. 80, during the month of Oc- tober. The total debt is now Qess cash in Treasury, g, ,O25. .9O8, 485. 5s.
 Cornell has challenged Harvard to row an eight-oared four-m1le race.
 Russian papers of influence depre- cate the giving by Russia of any direct assistance to the Ameer of Afghan1stan and advocate neutrality.
 A dispatch from London says German Government has sent 5000 marks for the relief of German sufferers by yellow fever in the United States.
 The result of recent elections for municipal delegates in France leaves no doubt that the Republicans will have a decided majority in the next Senate.
 The applications of the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank to be admitted to bail have been refused. The matter will be carried to the highest court.
 -Forty-nine Indian children from the Missouri River agencies of the average of fifteen years are to be sent, under the charge of Captain Pratt, of the regular army, to Hampton, Va, to be educated.
 Southern papers are congratulating themselves that the fever is at an end. and by Nov. 20th business in all de- partments will be on the flood tide again.
 The liabilities of John Leckie & Go, of Glasgow and London, whose failure is announced, are estimated at 925O,00O. R. Shore & O., brokers, of Liverpool, have failed liabilities, e175,- 900. Messrs. Matthew & Nielman, mer- chants, of Glasgow and Leith, have failed.
 The local steamboat inspectors have revoked the license eff the engineer of the Adelphi, whose boiler exploded last summer.
 Fire damaged the building an furniture of the Clarendon Hotel, at Saratoga, to the amount of $1O,OOO.
 A nephew of Senator Cockren vas murdered in country store in Missouri, In which he was clerk.
 The Indian news is that unless a satisfactory reply is received to the English ultimatum at Peshawur by No- vember 20 the troops will at once invade 
 The Oldham England) cotton ope- ratives held meeting on Saturday and unimously resolved to resist the pro- posed reduction of ten per cent. in their wages. Twenty thousand hands and 8,O00,000 spindles will be affected by this action.
 The international pedestrian match at Agricultural Hall, London, was won by Corkey, who covered 521 miles. Brown was second.
 The Grand Jury of Richland coun- ty, s. O., in it's general presentments, true bills against ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlain and other late State officers.
 A Norwegian whaler just returned from the Arctic Ocean reports that off Nova Zembla she was boarded by two piratical Russian schooners and robbed of everything portable.
 The St. Petersburg Globe declares it to be impossible for Russia in the present situation to carry out the treaty of Berlin.
 Alexander Smith, of Yonkers, N. r., who had been elected to Congress from the Twelfth District, died on hear ing of his election. He had been ill for two days. He was an extensive carpet manufacturer.
 Australia has been visited by very severe snow storm.
 The Ameer of Cabul in his recent reply to Lord Lytton is reported to have declared that he was not bound by any Russian alliance, and did not invite the Russian embassy to Cabul.
 The municipality of Marselles has adopted, by a vote of 26 to 7, a motion in favor of general amnesty to Com munists.
 The tolls received on the New York canals for 1878 amounted to $169, ,3O9.O8.
 A statement is published that Great Britain has concluded the purchase of pelagoa Bay, in Southeastern Africa, from Portugal for 8, ,OOO,OO9
 Two alleged stage robbers were taken from the custody of their guards near Laramie City, Wy, and hanged by five masked men.
 An unsuccessful attempt at body snatching occurred at Detroit. At Cleveland, O., one Minor has been sen- fenced to four months imprisonment and to pay fine of $1O0 upon convic tion for the same crime.
 The Lord Advocate has accepted $75, ,0OO bail for John Stewart, one of the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank.
 Fever from Milk.