Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14
orr1orAb TEXT OF THE PROTOCOL.

First-The erection of Bulgaria into @ Principality.
 Second IA war indemnity or territory compensation.
 Third-The independence of Rou- mania, Servia and Montenegro, with increase of territory for each.
 Fourth-Reforms in Bosnia and Her zegovina.
 Fifth An ulterior understanding be- tween the Sultan and the Czar regarding the Dardanelles and the negotiation of a final treaty at either Odessa or Sebas- topol.
 Sixth-The evacuation of the Danubian fortresses and Erzeroum.
 But, according to the above official information, there are only five conditions, the evacuation of the fortresses being part of the armistice conditions, not those of peace.
 The British officers in Canada are re- ported to have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to join their corps at once.
 A lynching case took place in New Franklin, Howe county, Mo. An edu- cated colored woman, who teaches country school, was on her way home, encountered two negroes in the woods, who overpowered and outraged her. Upon her arrival at the nearest house she reported the facts, and a party was organized to pursue the negroes. They traced the ravishers to vacant house, but one of them, seeing the party coming, fled; the other crept under the floor. The latter was captured and hanged to the nearest tree.
 Balances in the United States Treas urry: Currency, $3,636,528 {; special fund for the redemption of fractional currency, SIG, 1000, 900; special deposit of legal tenders for the redemption of certificates of deposit, $32, 700, 900; coin, $129, ,658, 645 (including coin certificates for. $$47, POS, 100 ) outstanding legal ten ders, $349, no, 424.
 Two bills relating to pensions have just been introduced in the United States House by Representative Joyce, of Vermont, providing that soldiers and sailors, having lost one hand and one foot, shall be allowed pension of $36 per month for each disability the other, by MT. Cummings of Iowa, allowing a pension of $24 per month to persons hay ing lost their hearing in both ears or on account of disease contracted while in the military service.
 A delegation of five Chippewa chiefs has arrived at Washington, to represent the distressing condition of their people at White Earth Reservation, and ask for immediate assistance, their crops having for three years been destroyed by grass hoppers.
 The London Globe says '' Osman Pacha will certainly be court-martialed He is charged with burying Russian prisoners alive. The Russians are so exasperated against him that he rarely leaves his lodgings. The police are instructed to prevent a public demon stration against him." The coast defenses of Canada are to be placed in an effective state at once.
 A tornado swept over Augusta, Ga. , destroying many buildings and causing number of deaths.
 The Chicago elevators, as per off, cial figures, contain 1, ,38O, ,916 bushels of wheat, 679, 767 bushels of corn, 213, ,394 bushels of oats, 183, AT bushels of rye, and 759, SAP bushels of barley, making a grand total of 3, PIG, 1888 bushels.
 Europe has been relieved of sus- pense by the announcement that the preliminaries of peace and an armistice were signed on the part of Russia and Turkey, at Adrianople. The conditions of peace amount to the dismemberment of Turkey. The armistice went into effect at once. There have been great reioicings at St. Petersburg in conse- quence of the conclusion of peace.
 The brig c. c. Overton, from New York for Nassau, went ashore near Cara. cothe Inlet, North Carolina, and is g total wreck. The sea was heavy, and nc
 boats could reach her or reach the shore from her. Capt. Harry Allen and all the crew of the brig were lost.
 A telegram dated Shanghae, China
 February 3, announces that an asylum for women and children at the City O.
 Tien-Tsin has been burned. Over two thousand persons are stated to have per
 ished in the fire.
 At Calais, France, during per
 formance at circus, there was faIs alarm of fire, which caused great rusl
 of the audience. Ten persons were suffo
 cated or trampled to death. Severa
 others were hurt.
 + Richard J. Dell, farmer, abou eighty years of age, living near Wood bury, N. J., entered his cattle yard, an, attempted to drive young bull ava.
 from the gate by throwing piece 0 7 wood at him. The bull then rushed a 5 MT. Dell and threw him against ston wall, partially stunning him. Befor the aged man could be rescued he wa fatally gored.
 . In the Legislature of Ohio tn . House joint resolution asking .Congres = to repeal the Resumption act was adopt
 cd by party vote, Democrats in tn affirmative, Republicans in the negative In Milwaueee, Wis, Frank Faul f went out riding with the Misses Helen and Emma Jacobs, daughters of tn !. cashier of the Second Ward Bank. whe f a backing freight train of the NIilwauke Q and St. Paul railroad struck the carriage I demolishingit it and killing MT. Faulk an n Helene Jacobs, who lived about fiftee