Connecticut western news., 1878-10-30
NEWS OF THE DAY


 that the condition of the island, since the instruction, is hopeless. About 100 negroes have been executed, but the insurrectionary spirit remains alive. St. Thomas has lost over $15O,000 by the instruction, while 8, ,oOO, GOO would not cover the damage done in Santa Cruz.
 There has been revolt at Azua, Santo Domingo, in favor Baez. V Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, and Duke Charles, brother of the King of Denmark, are dead.
 A disaster attended with serious loss of life occurred on the Chesapeake Bay in the great storm. Capt. James T. Barker, of the steamboat Express of the Potomac Transportation Company, who sailed from Baltimore on Tuesday, returned to Baltimore and reported the startling intelligence that his vessel had been wrecked in the bay early on Wednes- day morning. Of the crew of twenty-two mon and of the nine passengers, the Captain and six of the crew only were saved. The vessel went to pieces, but those saved clung to the debris for nine hours, before they were rescued.
 John D. Vacelet, his wife, and two sons were murdered at their house about two miles south of Vincennes, Ind. On going to the house the neighbors found the two sons, aged IA and 16, in bed, the father lying in doorway to an adjoining room, and in the next room the mother in her bed, all dead and cold. The crime had evidently been committed with an axe, the heads and throats of the victims being cut by such weapon. Two or three bloody axes were found. Provost, Q farm hand, is under arrest, and can give no satisfactory account of the affair. He claims to have also been attacked by the murderers, and escaped; but this is al- ready proven untrue.
 The American ship A. s. Davis, of Searsport, Me-, Captain Ira M. Ford, loaded with guano, from Callao and bound for Hampton Roads, ran ashore eight miles south of Cape Henry station The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The crew, consisting of nineteen men, were all lost with one exception. Nine bodies were washed ashore one and half miles south of the station.
 In Philadelphia damage to the amount of $3,00O,OO0 was done by the late storm. Three hundred and eighteen houses were demolished, and as many other buildings were either wholly or partially destroyed. Thirey-one churches were seriously damaged. It was the most severe storm ever felt on the coast.
 The Greenbackers of the Fourth Massachusetts District nominated Wen dell Phillips for Congress.
 -Abean, Boone county, Nebraska, a village of 25O inhabitants, was destroyed by the prairie fire.
 The late storm became a violent gale at many places. At Philadelphia over forty churches and hundreds of dwelling houses were unroofed or otherwise seriously damaged. The railroads there suffered great deal. One was demolished, and several were damaged considerably. The loss of pro- perty along the rivers was large. Several other places in Eastern Pennsylvania suffered severely. In Chester seventy buildings were unroofed, and eleven manufactures were damaged to a great extent. The storm was also very severe at Trenton and Albany. At Mount Washington the wind blew at the rate of 120 miles an hour. A number of marine disasters are re- ported. The damage in New York City consisted chiefly in the uprooting of trees, the overturning of chimneys and telegraph poles, and the breaking of windows.
 Indications of active sympathy on the part of Russia with the Ameer of Afghanistan are becoming apparent.
 The joyful news is g1ven that the heavy frosts in the South are crushing out the fever. No more money is need ed in the fever stricken regions, but the sufferers need clothing.
 The Socialists of St. Louis have 6 full city ticket in the field, made up oi candidates on other tickets indorsed by them.
 -E. M. Sherman, a commercial traveller registering from Jamestown N. r., fell from the third story window of hotel at Northeast, Pa., and was instantly killed.
 The town of Largentiere, in the South of France, has been partly flooded and valuable property destroyed
 The British invasion of Afghanistan is postponed until next Spring.
 Destructive prairie fires are reported in Kansas.
 Heavy frosts are reported from sev era1 Southarn States.
 George W. Jones, the witness wht swore so positively that he was in boa fishing, and saw Jesse Billings drive UT to George Washburn's door before hear ing the shot fired which killed Mrs Billings, has been arrested on complain for perjury, and is in jail.
 Destructive prairie fires hay, occurred along the line of the Omah, and Republican Valleys in Nebraska the northeastern portion of the Stat, suffering most severely. The losses t, property will be immense. Seven per sons have been burned to death, anC many others have been severely injured
 Reports from the yellow fever dis tricts say that there have been 24, ,OO cases, and over 10, ,000 deaths. Louisian, rnrnrAn 1E nnn o.a snn 1I