Connecticut western news., 1878-02-28
2 rrna f.rse,hsc,, National Convention

The Greenback National Convention met at Toledo, Ohio, on Feb. 22d, and organized the National party. Twenty eight States were represented. Judge Francis W. Hughes was chosen Prcsi- dent, and, on taking the chair, made speech explaining the purposes of the new party. The platform advocates National currency which shall be legal tender for all purposes, taxation of Gov ernment bonds and money, and legisla- tion in the interest of labor, and opposes land grants to corporations, prison con- tract labor, and Chinese immigration.
 Walter D. Estes,s young lnwyot, died at Richfofd, Yt., from the use of poisonous well water, making three deaths from that cause. Several others are not expected to live. 7
 The London masons by ballot voted to continue the strike that has for some time been in progress
 The damage by the flood ill the Sac ramento Valley, California, is estimated tH De over $lO, ,UUU,UuV. .+ @r
 Martin Coylc, John O'Brien and third man, name unknown, employees of the Pittsburg, Wheeling aad Kentucky Railroad, attempted to cross the river on flat, boat, near Wheeling and were drowned. All three were intoxicated.
 A fire which broke out in the Excel sior Building, on West Twenty third street, Now York, soon assumed the d1- mansions of most destructive contlagra- tion.. The Excelsior Building, ip which the armory of tho Eighth Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y., wns located, the West Twenty third Street Presbyterian Church. and the Third Reformed Presbyterian Church were destroyed, and several ad jolning houses damaged. The total loss exceeds $1 ,0OO,O ,OOO. ~
 The mansion of Dan1el Webster at Mansfield Mass, with it's contents has been destroyed by fire.
 Gen. Crook is organizing nn expo dition to strike the hostile Sioux Indians
 Fourteen stores at Medway, Bullock county, Ala,, were burned, entailing { loss of $50, 900. The fire originated iron kerosene lamp.
 Fifty three Republican members o the Legislature of Louisiana have signed an appeal asking Executive clemency il
 behalf of Thomas c. Anderson.
 The steamer City of Dallas wa
 burned in New York harbOr with ful
 cargo of cotton.
 Mrs. Nancy Van Martcn was fatall.
 burned in Trenton, N. J., by the OK
 plosion of kerosene lamp which sh
 was filling while it was lighted.
 The design for the new silver dollar
 if tho Silver Bill becomes a law, ha
 already been decided upon. It has head of Liberty, firm and expressly profile with luxuriant hair, crowned wit
 the traditional emp, and coronet, wit
 shafts of wheat Above the head is tn q motto "E Pluribus Unum." Below tho date, "1S7S." On the reverse ar an eagle with uplifted wings, two stars in semi-circle the words United State of America" and beneath them tn
 pious motto "In God we trust" whil below the eagle is stamped "On l Dollar"
 3 Near Shelbyvillc, ky, Reubc ! Dennis, colored, was taken from h : house by six masked men and shot
 death. Dennis is stated to have been l hard case.
 0 At Kennedy, N. Y, Andrew Gust : fanson, unable to obtain employmen t coolly folded his arms, placed his nee h across railroad track, and was instant y killed by a passing train.
 S The Supreme Court of the Unite e States has decided in substance that u J. assignee in bankruptcy does not, by vi }, tue of his appointment as such, becon seized in entirety as trustee of every a n ticle of property ill which the banlru1 l. has any interest, but only of such as ia unaffected by vested rights in others. a Miss Dickie, the young daughter
 wealthy parents in New York, who h !. been confined ill a lunatic asylum f. !, seven years, has been released, and 70. declared sane. She was crippl,
 dwarf, and 1t is known that she was co ;, fined in the asylum to keep her out ," sight of her parents. She is wealth r. and desires now to live among strange to rather than with her own relatives.
 The British navy was never so DC re erful as it is to-day, even taking into (
 count the progress made by it's comp' 10 itors. From 1866 to 1874 $57, ,OOO, o
 were spent on new ships. The prose in fleet consists of nearly 400 vessels of ot kinds, with tonnage of about 900, ,OO( d Living at College.