Connecticut western news., 1878-12-25

The British Government have aban- toned their intention to ask Parliament o vote money for the aid of the Rhodope ugitives.
 The large tobacco manufactory of Thomas c. Williams & O., Richmond, Va., was burned. Loss, $75,OOO.
 An extensive system of swindling has been discovered in Boston by which 'onslgnments of all kinds of produce on credit have been obtained by an gang by fictitious circulars quoting high prices. After the goods Ire obtained they are fraudulently dis posed of in this city at very low rates. The law, it is said, cannot reach the guilty parties.
 The printing house of Short & Forman, of Cleveland, O., one of the largest establishments of its kind in the West, was destroyed by fire, causing loss of $50,0OO.
 Senator Thurman declines to be the next Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.
 A Boston ship has been forced to re- turn all the way from Africa without landing all her cargo, the yellow fever there compelling it.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 A telegram to Lloyd's, dated Ga lata, half-past three o'clock D. m., Dec. 18th, reports that the steamer Byzantin, from Marseilles for Constantinople, has been sunk in collision. One hundred and fifty lives were lost. Fourteen per- cO1 0t1Ir IL ,1@ came into collision with the English steamship Rinaldo, near Galiipoli, in the Sea of Marmora, about 150 miles from Constantinople. She was con- manded by Capt. Dueros.
 -Bayard Taylor, Minister of the United States, died at Berlin, Dec. 18th, The fatal symptoms appeared suddenly. He had been out of bed and was transacting business with the officials of the American Legation the day before. His death was peaceful and painless.
 The seven experts to accompany the House Committee on Yellow Fever to the South have been chosen.
 The President has nominated l.. Bradford Prince to be Chief Justice oi New Mexico.
 A call for the last $1O,OOO,Oo0 of the Five-Twenties of 1865 has been issued.
 The tobacco manufacturers are ar guing very earnestly in Washington about reduction of tax.
 MT. Hardenbergh, of New Jersey, succeeded in securing a postponement of further interference with currency questions by the House Committee on Banking and Currency until the middle of January, when resumption will have gone into effect.
 General Sherman gays that on the whole he favors the bill for the reorgani. zation of the army which has just been reported from the Burnside Commission.
 -Only a preliminary report will be made to the present House by the com mittee which has been Investigating the causes of the depressiCn in business, anC the inquiry will be continued by those members of the committee who have been reelected.
 District Judge Lowell has been se lected by the President to succeed Judge Shepley, and will be himself succeeded 1t IS said, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, ir
 The bill introduced in the U. s Senate by Senator Grover "to regulat, the employment of labor op the publi, works of the United States,'' prohibit the employment of any person who i not citizen of the United States, o who has not declared his intention t, become citizen.
 Senator Conkling, to whom the Ne1 York nominations were referred in tn Committee on Commerce, has written Secretary Sherman asking why Genera Arthur and MT. Cornell were removed
 The House Committee on Apprc prlations has agreed to favor appropr atlng the money to keep the postal cal rnnning.
 The Senate appropriation for th purchase of the Freedman's Bank builc ing for the use of the Court of Claim was reduced to $155,0O0.
 Tho Senate Committee on Appr, priations does not seem disposed to a, cept the reductions proposed by tE
 House, and this may lead to contrt
 versy greatly impeding the passage necessary bills. The House will prob
 ply insist that the appropriations for u
 present year are large enough, and T.
 fuse even in conference committee {
 increase them.
 Secretary Sherman has issued 6 ci
 cular stating that after the 1st of Jan ary no distinction between coin al
 United States notes will be made in SC tlingethe accounts of United States of , cers involving transactions which oco,
 subsequently, to that date. Paymen
 of interest or principal of the public del , will be made in coin or paper, as tl
 holders prefer.
 SENATE.
 Mir. Beck offered resolution in tin
 Senate requiring Secretary Sherman t
 appear before that body and expIai why he had not responded to deman
 made by the Senate for certain informt tlon in regard to the payment of the il
 terest on the bonds in silver. MT. Blair
 got his Southern election resolution bt fore the Senate in spite of motion Senator Matthews to take up the Texs Pacific bill. which WAS rejected by 26 to 8
 4 motion to lay the whole subject on u
 able obtained only three votes. M l ThuIman's amendment was adopte without opposition. The propositio ' to make the investigation an open or } was twice defeated by 30 to 30 and b
 28 to 29, in each case Q strict party vot l Secretary Sherman sent to the Senat
 his reply to the request of M". Beck ft information concerning the payment l silver dollars for interest on the publ
 debt, which was in effect that they ha . not specifically been so applied. I'll l Senate amendments to the Milital
 Academy bill were insisted on and committee of conference ordered. IT :, amendments of the Appropriations Con mittee to the House Diplomatic Al 11ror1riation bill restOrino oll +I