Connecticut western news., 1878-11-27
A great demonstration of English agricultural laborers is reported.


 unanimously in the Georgiai Senate and almost unanimously in the House. ~ A severe shock of earthq uake is re- ported from Southern Illinois and the adjoining States , N8
 .ss-Thomas Dowd and Eliza Ward have been sentenced for the murder of Thomas Ward to be hanged at St. Andrews, N. B., on January 14.
 reward for the apprehension and conviction of the robbers of the Stewart vault has been increased to $50, 900 for them all or $10,OO0 for any one of them.
 Superintendent Clark gives notice that navigation on the Black River and Oneida Lake canals will be closed on November 30. ~.s
 The bark Victor picked up at sea the crew of the brig Ella B., which was capsized. The eight sailors and officers who composed the crew were three days ln an open boat without food or water. - The Howard Association of New Orleans announces that $50, 600 will yet be necessary to enable the Association to- pay off it's debts and close its labors.
 --rhe volcanoes; ofa Izaloo and Santa Ana, in San Salvador, which have long been inactive, are showing signs of an approaching eruption and the inhabi- tants of neighboring regions are re- moving for safety. There have been several. severe earthqualses recently in the southern portion of the republic. s
 Official returns from Minnesota show the Republican majority on the State ticket to be 17,924 Pillsbury's majority last year was 17,324.
 A severe earthquake .wes felt in Manizales, the capital of the state of Antioquia, Columbia, on October g. One hundred and twenty-one houses were destroyed. No lives were lost. The damage done will exceed $1OO, ,OOO. i
 Sunday night a carriage containing fivepersons, going through Hamlet Vil- lage, .Woonsoeket, Mass, plunged into a trench forty feet wide, containing nine feet of water. John J. Hall, the driver, got out and called for assistance. Thomas Kennar, his wife, Mary, and Miss Lizzie Callahan, all of Pawtucket, were drowned. Kennar's daughter, Bridget, was rescued in an exhausted condition, and will probably recover.
 Brown, who finished third in the first Astley long-distance pedestrian contest and second in the recent one, has put up the money to bind match with O. Leary at Chicago or New York. ;. Some rufians, Iplayfully called "rogues," in 8 despatch from Water town, N. r., for their Sunday amuse- ment plugged the mouth and nose of a helpless drunken barber with mud, and thereby caused his death.
 Governor Hartranft has issued a warrant for the execution on December 18 of the notorious Molly Mcguire, John Kehoe, for the murder of F. s. W. Langdon, in Schuylkill County, in 1862, and also for the execution of Martin Bergen, of Schuylkill County; Charles Sharpe and James O'Donnell, of Carbon County, and Alexander Sayres, of Phil adelphia.
 The complete returns from every voting precinct in New Hampshire, show a majority of 488 for, Matt Head (Kep.) for Governor. The vote is as follows: Head 38, ,085; McKean (Dem.) 31, ,OS3; Brown (Greenback), 6,385; scattering 129. '
 The wrestling match at Beethoven Hall, in Boston, for $1, ,0OO side and the championship of the world, between James Owens, of Vermont, the present champion, and Charles Conner, of New York, resulted in victory for Owens by two falls.
 The town of De Ruyter, Madison. county, N. Y., has voted to repudiate $103, ,000 bonds, due in 1890, issued in aid of the western extension of the Mid land Railroad.
 The. California mining-stock panic continues and there is great excitement in San Francisco.
 Otto Montgomery, living at the St. Paul House, St. Paul, made an attempt to commit suicide by shooting himself, inhicting a severe wound ill his head. His son, about twenty years old, while standing at his fathers bedside, ia inted from exhaustion and dropped kero- sene lamp he was holding, and it ex- ploded, setting fire to the bed. The father was burned to crisp. The son revived and rushed into the street, where his burning clothes were extin- guished, after severe injuries had been 1 inflicted.
 An able-bodied negro washerwoman died in Delaney street, New York, having de6ed death for 104 years. At last 8 cracker bakers wagon ran over her,. and so she left the shifting scene. A Mrs. Ssull, of Port Washington, O., the mother of seven children, has confessed to sending a decoy letter to and murdering her husbands alleged paramour. # ...r. | The boundary question between Chili and the Argentine Republic, which has led to demand from Buenos Ayres on Chili for the surrender of the American bark Devonshire, seized by Chii in. the Straits, of Magellan, has also caused serious riots in Santiago de Chili, in consequence of published article favoring the Argentine claim. Eighty people were killed and wounded before the riots were suppressed.
 The official vote of Pennsylvania shows the majorities for Hoyt Rep.) tc be 64, 256 those for Dill (Dem. Al, ,937.