Connecticut western news., 1878-06-06

Colonel Markovitz, 8 Geeek priest, and six others were publicly shot on Sunday at AnjeloIatz. , There was~a terrible scene, some of the prisoners desperately resisting the executioners.
 As compared with last year the United States customs and internal revenue receipts show falling oil of nearly eight million dollars.
 The marriage of Lieut.. R. IL. Hoxle, of the army, to Miss Winnie Ream, the artist. was solemnized at the Ascension Church, Washington.
 No appointments as cadets to the Military Academy, or of cadet engineers and cadet midshipmen to the Naval Academy, at large, will be made this year uAtl the pending bill prescribing the manner of those appointments is dis posed of.
 In the Pennsylvania State Conven- tion of the Prohibitionists the following ticket was nominated Governor, Gen. F. H. Lane, of Huntingdon county ]; Lieutenant Governor. John Shallcross, of Philadelphia Secretary of Internal Affairs, Calvin Parsons, of Luzerne county; Supreme Judge, Daniel Agnew, of Beaver county. --
 While constructing barn in Hei- delberg county, Pa., the axe of one of the men flew off the handle, and injured two of the workmen so badly that neither are expected to recover.
 MT. William Cullen Bryant was seriously hurt in New York by fall from the steps of his house.
 If the news in San Antonio be cor rect the Lerdo party in Mexico are not yet crushed. Eight hundred of his ad- herents are said to be near Laredo pre- pairing for an attack on that town.
 In the vicinity of Fall River, over 4,OOO operatives are idle, through the stoppage of the mills. q
 The Army bill, as finally adopted in the U. s. House and sent to the Senate provides for force of 20, 900 men, trans fers the control of the Indian Bureau tc the War Department, and prohibits the use of Federal troops as a posse coa,e5 tattts. . stEE t.b
 The U. s. Houseb bill for the reissue of legal tender notes passed the Senate by vote of Al to IS.
 Earl John Russell of England is dead.
 Calcutta telegrams say that virulen cholera has appeared at Morar. O. forty. one Europeans attacked thirty died One hundred cases among the native population are reported.
 In the U. s. Senate MT. Burnside R. I), from the Committee on Educa tion and Labor, reported adversely or the House joint resolution to provide fol the enforcement of the eight-hour law and also from the same committee ad versely on the Senate bill to regulate the hours of labor.
 [ In Arlington, Ill.,, Samuel Carney who had been refused permission te | visit Miss Cullenblne, went to her room cut her throat with razor, shot he1 with revolver, and being met by MT and Mrs. Cullenbine on his way dow1 stairs, shot the father in the hip, GU Mrs. Cullenbine severely with 8 butche, knife, and rushing out into the yart drew 8 razor across his own throa several times, and expired almost in stantly. The parents are severely bu not fatally hurt. The daughter ivet but few moments.
 At the Chantilly spring meeting il Paris, the Prix de Diand French Oak was won by Baron Rothschild's Erie, M Lupin's Pristina second, and Rosco1 third
 -Stewart's Women's Hotel, in Ney York, having proved failure, so far 8 the object for which it was designed concerned, IS to be made general hotel Although it would accommodate LOO women, it has only had fifty, the rate being so high that working women coul' not pay them. .. l A block of thirteen wooden tene ments at Bridge and Centre streets, Hull Canada, was burned.
 The trotting stallion Bashaw Chic died in Cleveland, of congestion of tn lungs. He was owned by Thos. Elwood and valued at $2,50O.
 William Day, young chor boy in the family of a MT. Hamilton, g
 Taylorville, Illinois, murdered Mrs Hamilton by cutting her head open wit an axe while she was lying upon sot asleep. The act, the boy says, was con mitted in revenge for a correction sh
 administered the day previous. Mrs. Folks two children wer
 burned to death in Meriwether county
 Ga., by fire caused by the explosion ( kerosene lamp.