Connecticut western news., 1878-10-23
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.

crew of twenty-five men, on whaling voyage. At 12 o'clock that day she en- countered hurricane, capsized, drown ing nearly all the crew. Eight men were in the forecastlc at the time the ship capsized. These men got on boards, chests and dunnage stuff, and kept above the water and were there all night. Sunday at noon two of them dove down into the water and came up outside through the companions way. Five others finally fell through into the water and were drowned. One other stayed in the forecastle. The two who had got out dashed themselves on the weather side of the wreck. The New York pilot boat No. 8 fell in with the wreck and took off the two men who were on the outside, and cut through the bluff of the bow and took out the man inside alive. Three men only of the ships company of twenty-five were saved,
 An immediate advance on Candahar is reported from India.
 The Rothschilds have agreed to raise loan of $50, 900. .Oo0 for Egypt.
 Mir. s. J. Tilden, in card, denies any knowledge of the cipher telegrams, and any connection with attempts at bribery.
 -Gen. Pope has been summoned to appear before the Fitz John Porter Committee, to give his evidence in the case and to submit to cross examina- tion.
 On his visit to Spain Gen. Grant received royal attentions at all hands.
 Two United States surveying par ties are missing in Nebraska, and much anxiety is felt regarding them. There are forty men in the two parties.
 The Delaware State Greenback Con- vention nominated Dr. K. J. Stewart, of Lewes, for Governor. The platform demands the payment of bonds in greenbacks.
 Five people were drowned near San- ford, in Orange County, Florida. Two were ladies named Hughey, and two were children of Calvin Martin. The fifth was man named McIves. They were in 8 wagon, en route for home from camp-meeting, and drove into deep hole at the lakeside. A sixth person was rescued after standing up in the wagon for several hours with the water up to hls chin.
 The official returns from Ohio give Barnes (Rep.) 3,154 plurality for Secre- tary of State. The vote for each candi- date was as follows: Barnes (Rep) 274, 200; Paige (Dem. ,,27O, ,966; Roy (Nat'D, 38, ,332 Robinson (Pro ), 5,674; Barnes's plurality, 3,154. Eleven Dem ocratic and nine Republican Congress- men were elected.
 The Prohibitory State Convention of New Hampshire nominated Asa S. Kendall, of West Swanzey, for Gov ernor.
 A most terrible and heart-rending scene occurred 1n Lynchburg, Va, We'd nesday night. A marriage ceremony was progressing at the Court Street Colored Baptist Church, which was packed to it's utmost capacity. Some of the ceiling plastering fell, and the im- immense crowd at once became panic stricken and many who had taken seats in the galleries jumped from the windows of the second and third stories; others threw themselves headlong down the stairway on the crowd below. Men and women crowded each other to the only door of exit there was in the lower building, and most of the killed were literally crushed to. death. Twelve women were killed and large number injured.
 The number of business failures in the United States for the third quarter of the present year was 2,853, with liabilities aggregating $66, ,O0O. OOO, against 1,816 failures, with liabilities amounting to 42,O0O, 0O0, during the corresponding period Inst year. The aggregate ndmber of failures in the United States during the first nine months of the present year was 8,678, representing liabilities amounting to $197, ,211, ,129, against 6,565 failures in the same period last year, with liabilities agyregating $141, ,862, ,256.
 -On Sunday party of five men who had been drinking pretty freely of lager beer, started out in small rowboat, for sail on Saratoga Lake. The boat capsized and two of the party were drowned.
 Seventeen persons have been drowned at Cortemiglia and Millesimo, in Northern Italy, by the overflow of the Bormida river.
 A severe gale did serious damage along the coast of Massachusetts. At Vineyard Haven, Provincetown, Wellheet and other points large number of ves- sels were driven ashore, and serious damage was done.
 The instruction is spreading in the French colony of New Caledonia, and many lives have been last.
 The town of Edenburg, Pa., was burned, inhicting loss of over $35O, ,OOO. Over 200 buildings were destroyed. The fire was the work of an incendiary.
 The troops who have been after the Cheyennes have returned, failing to reach the red skins. The number of white settlers, ranchmen and herders killed by the Indians during their sweep through the northwestern part of Kan sas is at least seventy-fve. Doubtless many have beon killed who will never be heard of. Some twenty-five or thirty women were outraged and murdered by the savages.
 The diphther1a is raglng frightfully