Connecticut western news., 1878-02-07

agalnst It. NeW England gave but votes to the resolution. The seaboard Middle States, exclusive of Pennsyl- vania, out of fl votes, gave it but 9. Pennsylvania gave it 14. The Western States, Kentucky and Mis- sour being included, gave 97. The South gave 64, and California 3. In Is States, casting 1OS votes, not a negative vote was found, and all these States are west of the Alleghanies and south of the Potomac. n The United States Vice Consul al Shanghai sends home the following |: Appalling famine is raging throughout four provinces of North China. Nine millions people reported destitute. Children daily sold for food. Foreign Relief Committee appeals to America and England for assistance requests you to form American relief committee. Collect funds and deposit with Agent Hong Kong Bank.
 Mexican officers have invited the United States troops to pursue cattle thieves across the boundary and into Mexican territory.
 By boiler explosion at Constable's Point, N. J., one man was killed and an other seriously injured. e-- s= -. The debt of the United States was reduced $1 $50, ,OO0 in January.
 "A. Canadian missionary named | Mackay had been attacked by mobs in Tamsin, Formosa, and threatened with death if he remained on the island. He re fused to withdraw, though the Chinese officials declared they could not protect him. The result of his persistency is ndt yet known. | The Cubans have lately burned five sugar estates, captured Spanish con- voy with money, ammunition and pro- visions. and sacked the town of San Miguel de Nuevitas.
 -Ex-President Grant has written letter endorsing President Hayes South ern policy.
 In New Orleans a family of four persons was poisoned, and Mrs. Lam- bert, one of it's members, aged sixty two years, fatally, by eating oysters friend in corn meal with which arsenic had been mixed by Mrs. Lambert's son-in.law to kill rats.
 A Turkish war vessel on guard be- fore Batum was sunk by Russian tor pedo, and all on board drowned.
 The New York Post-office refuses to receive trade dollars for stamps. Its reason is that the Sub-Trcasury will not receive them on deposit.
 The United States House Commit tee on Public Lands has directed Gen. eral Rice to prepare bill to extend the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific road, extending the land rights of the company for ten years. A clause is to be inserted in the bill confirming the rights of settlers to their lands along the line of the road.
 Clayton Dixon, 8 boy nineteen years old, fell through bridge on the Balti- more and Potomac Railroad, distance of sixty feet, in the dark, and, of course, was fatally injured.
 -=German newspapers state that J. & l G.. Ritterhausen, the Hanabs.ses- cotton importers, whose failure was announced 8 few days ago have both committed suicide. ...... l At Norfolk, Va., Jordan Berry was sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitenGarY, for poisoning his wife and four children. t
 Frank Lynch, arrested at Pittsburg for attempting to commit suicide, con- fessed to having murdered his child a few weeks before, and that his con- science so troubled him that self-murde1 was his only relief.
 Instead of setting out on raid, Sit. ting Bull and his party are living quiet ly in Canada. ,-.'' ..- 'fi- | A New York church sexton threw vitrol on party of boys who were playing about the doors of his church, danger ously lnJuring several of them. l Two more lives, making twenty five in all, nave been lost at the new Balti, more water works.
 The United States Vice Consul al
 Shanghai sends home the following
 Appalling famine is raging throughout four provinces of North China. Nine
 millions people reported destitute
 Children daily sold for food. Foreign
 Relief Committee appeals to Americs and England for assistance requests you, to form American relief committee Collect funds and deposit with Agen Hong Kong Bank. -Wm. H Jackson, believed to be resident of Boston, and an escaped luna tic, gave to the chief of police of Trenton N. J., minute and terrible story of murder which he alleged had been com
 mitted at Bristol, Pa, on the day pre- vious. He said that the person mur dered was his wife, and that the murder . CTS were two of the police officers of tho borough of Bristol. He was locked up The trial of the parties charged witt having been engaged in the riots 1T
 Reading, Pa., on Monday, July B, was concluded, the jury returning a verdic
 convicting Hezekiah Wooten, Joh1 Squint, Thomas Francis, John Noll, ant
 Aaron Dease, and acqultting Peter High A nolle prosequi was entered in the cast of John Calls.
 Sad Disaster at Coney Island. Tho c4o,.,,o ,F