Connecticut western news., 1878-01-10
Our Weekly News Summary.


 liabilities of over $s, ,OOO. 900, with assets of about one half that amount.
 The proposed income tax is to offset the proposed reduction in the tax on to- bacco. Considerable excitement exists in Washington ou account of outrages per petrated by negroes. So many of these outrages have been committed that in- dignation meetings have been held to take steps relative to the matter.
 England has another South African war on her hands, and troops have been sent forward.
 In the New York Legislature the of- ficers nominated by the Republican caucusses were elected.
 The schooner Nabob, Captain Isaac Bartlett, went ashore off Greensburg Point, Md, during storm. The cap- tain and two of the crew were drowned. Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian h. stitution, reports that Prof. Forester, of Berlin, announces the discovery by Pa lisa, on Dec. 29, 1877, of a planet of the eleventh magnitude, in seven hours eight minutes right ascension, 39 deg. 37 min. north decllnation, possible Eva. In Newark bay boat was found floating with the body of German 1n it frozen stiff.
 A party of horse thieves, five in number, were captured in the Tejon mountains, California, and lynched, all baino banued fo one trea
 There was less drinking in New York city on New Years day than on any opening day of the year for long time.
 Nova Scotia was visited by snow storm which blocked up all the railroad tracks and impeded traffic generally.
 While making New Years calls in Cleveland. Ohio, two young men were thrown from buggy, one instantly killed and the other fatally injured.
 Never was there such season of lawlessness in Colorado as now. In one two fatally stabbed.
 A frightened team of horses backed wagon, containing Mrs. Morris Good Joe and four children, off bridge over the Obion River, near Nashville, Tenn. 7, and all of the children were drowned.
 A terrible explosion occurred from nitro-glyeerine with which car on the Northwestern Railroad, one mile north of Negannes, Mich, was being loaded, and caused the death of ten persons The engine, car track and telegraph wires were completely demolished. Only four of those killed were recognizable, the others being completely torn to pieces. Several buildings in the vicinity were demolished.
 The Servians lost 700 killed at the taking of Pirot.
 The business portion of Salem, N J., was destroyed by fire, with heavy loss. Salem is place of 5000 inhabi. tants.
 An official statement of 170 savings banks in Massachusetts for 1877 shows deposits aggregating $254, ,596, ,614. 18 against $243, $40, ,642. 75 for the previous year.
 January 1, 1877, the debt of the United States Government, less cash il the Treasury, was $2,O92, ,921, ,241. By the statement of January 1, 1878, it ii $2,O45, ,955, ,442. During the year 1877 therefore, the total debt was reduced $46, ,965, 799.
 Jacob Harris was executed at Clin ton, Tenn, for the murder of Isaa, White in 1863.
 Dr. Lambert, the ex-President o the American Popular Life Insuranc Company, was refused new trial an' sentenced to five years in State prison His crime was perjury in swearing t false statements of his company.
 During the year 1877 the Unite' States shipped to foreign countries 21, 527, ,242 lbs of butter, valued at $4, 424, 616 and 107, ,364, ,616 lbs of cheese value' at SIP, 700, ,627. The shipments ar largely in excess of those of 1876.
 In Guatemala and Ecuador, s. A. the insurrections have been quelled an quiet again reigns. A rebellion ha broken out in Chii and considerabl property has been destroyed, with som loss of life.
 The Public Debt statement of tn United States makes better showin for Janaary 1st than the statement di last year.
 The following are the balances i U. s. Treasury Currency, $4, 497, ,566 special fund for the redemption of frat tional currency, $9,8O6. .OO2; special de posit of legal tenders for the redemptio of certificates of deposit, $39, ,S65, ,OOO coin, $136, ,374, ,925, including coin eel hicates amounting to $32, ,19O, 300; out standing legal tenders, $351, ,34O, ,2S8.
 At Wilkesbarre, Pa, ten miner convicted of riotous conduct during th strike In August, were sentenced to in prisonment from 30 days to six months and fined in sums of from $1 to $50. George B. Bigelow. promine1 lawyer of Boston was arrested on wa rant charging him with the embezzl ment of $4O, ,OOO held by him in trust.
 Official intelligence has been r eived announcing the success of u Chinese troops in Kashgar. They hs fortified Touchtongaran and Aska, tv strong strategical points. The inhab tants were fleeing in terror into Russia erritory.
 It is said that Osman Pacha is to l tired by military court of the highe jurisdiction for alleged cruelty to Ru slan prisoners. No Russian prisone were found at Plevna, and it is believe that all of them were killed by Osms