Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
Lord Beaoonsfield has been invested

Lord Beaconsfeld has been invested with the Order of the Garter.
 The Boston Belt company has sus- pended payments, owing to irregularities by John c. Tappan, the treasurer
 Catherine Young, aged '34 years, of New York, attempted to drown herself by leaping from Grand street ferryboat. She said that her husband was out of work, and there was nothing to eat Ill the house. Her husband, angry at get ting no supper, abused her. She asked what she could do. His reply was: ."Go drown yourself, - you" Putting on her hat, she ran to the foot of Grand st., begged passage to WiIliamsburgh, and tried to leap into the water, but was prevented.
 Among the seventy-fve nominations for Congress already made, fully one- half are new members.
 German naturalized citizens visiting Germany this season will find pass port very important document to have. | By the breaking of a bridge on the Panhandle" Railroad, about 13S miles east of Chicago, heavy freight train was .precipitated into the Tippecanoe river. The engineer and bridge-tender were killed, and several persons were wounded.
 The steamship Adriatic, just after she left Queenstown, run down and sank 0 schooner. All but one of the schooner s crew were lost. This is the third vessel the Adriatic has run down.
 It is reported from Vienna that some days ago one hundred Bashi- -Bazouk raiders were killed and wounded in Bal matia. -r z. .. ----.
 On Sunday serious storm passed over the country, doing much damage. At West Albany, N. Y, buildings were demolished. At Middletown, N. Y., at Springfield, Mass, and other points serious damage was done. At Glouces- ter, Mass, five houses were struck by lightning. Mrs. Julia McPhee and Mrs. George Byers were instantly killed. ....
 The steamer Alaska took the first lot of Chinese laborers sent from San Francisco under three years contract to work on sugar plantation in Peru.
 As party af ladies and gentlemen were standing on bridge over the Erie railway at Shin Hollow, six miles east of Port Jervis, N. Y., the railing gave way, precipitating four of the ladies to the track, a distance of about twenty five feet. All more or less injured, and Miss Sarah Monahan received inju- ries which will no doubt result fatally. ,4 The New York State convention of Nationals met at Syracuse, and chose MT. Ferguson as temporary chairman. After an excited contest, all of the four New York delegations were entirely thrown out of the convention, and the latter then went off and resolved to hold 8 convention of their own.
 In Ohio, the Nationals adopted a platform, and nominated Andrew Roy for secretary of state. The platfo denounces almost all the financial acts , passed by Congress during or since the war, and makes many demands in the name of the workingmen. A movement favoring repudiation was silenced by { speech from Gen. s. F. Gary. s. The loss to the grain crop in Mins nesota by the recent heavy rains is sai6 to be from 30 to 40 per cent.
 The town of Defiance, Ohio, has , suffered from Q heavy fire.
 The reports sent from Memphis O the murder of a family of eleven per sons, named Sample, in Tlppah county : Miss, are without foundation.