Connecticut western news., 1879-05-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

s-s--oAae O4 NIn1AuS pIo6out6O 1S %O,O0t3 65l 49 and the total assets are $1, 181,- 569. .47, of which amount $418, ,536 28 is ciassed as doubtful.
 The Porte has informed it's repre- Hentatives abroad that Greek brigands recently ambuscaded forty-six Turkish soldiers in forest in the district of Trikala, killed fourteen, cut their bodies in pieces and hung the pieces on trees. -Reinhardt was convicted in Rich mond County. N. J., of murder in the first degree. His victim was his wife and the affair was the notable and for long time mysterious Silver Lake murder. Judge Dykman sentenced him to be hanged on July Il, and sub- sequently granted stay of proceedings. Fire on Friday destroyed Fl. P. Beatty's Touring mill at Davenport, Ia. causing loss of about $100,00 sev- ersl buildings in Monroe, Wis, worth so, 900, and Wheeler's woollen mills, at Salem, N. H., valued at $100,O00.
 A meeting to protest against Sab bath dissertation was held in Lowell, Mass., Governor Talbot presiding. Resolutions were adopted calling on off, cers of the law to enforce the statutes on thus subject.
 "A recurrence of the drought iu the province of Ceare, Brazil, is feared. Eench's menagerie was destroyed by fire in Detroit The elephant Sultan, live lions, zebra, leopard, stag, and many other valuable animals were "cre- mated" The whole blishment, con- sisting of the animals barn, two dwell- ngs and a blacksmith shop, were burned. While endeavoring to secure Sultan, MT. French was knocked senseless by the frightened animal and barely escaped with his life.
 The Prince Edward Island Legisla- tive Council will be abolished at the end of the present session.
 The time for holding the annual convention ot the Catholic Young Mems National Union in Richmond, Va, has been changed from June to June IS.
 An exploding grist-mil boiler at Fostoria, O., killed one man, seriously injured four others and demolished the machinery and the walls.
 An official dispatch has been re- ceived announcing that an engagement has taken place between the Turkish troops and insurgents at Periasia, Thessaly. The Turks lost 450 men in killed and wounded, and the insurgents seventy men, including their leaders.
 The Worcester county (Md.) Grand Jury has indicted Miss Lillie Duer for murder in the first degree in shooting her companion, Miss Ella Hearll, at Po- comoke City. The two girls were fast friends, and Miss Duer is charged with shooting Miss Hearn because she thought she had been supplanted in Miss Hearn's s affections by another young woman.
 At Norwich, Conn.,, Wesley w. Bishop pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree in conspiring to kill Mrs. Kate Cobb's husband, and was sen- fenced to imprisonment for life.
 The convention of colored people at Richmond adopted resolutions approv- ing emigration to other States if colored persons should not be granted all the rights of citizens.
 The body of Colonel John Groes- beck, who disappeared from the Fifth Avenue Hotel on April 12, was found iu the North River. There were no marks of violence upon it.
 The news from India is very dis quieting, robbery. by armed gangs and incendiary fires having become frequent and added greatly to the distress from famine and cholera. The boldness of the outlaws is shown by remarkable manifesto which they have sent to the Bombay Government.
 Bismarck declares the free-traders mistaken if they think they can wear out his patience.
 -Blanqui and Rochefort are to be pardoned, but without the restoration of civil rights
 L- Longbehm, German, living on A vegetable ranch near Antioch. California, took his little boy and girl. aged respectively six and four years, into the fields, beat them to death with club, cut their throats, went back to the house an2 blew his own brains out with shotgun. He was insane.
 A Renter dispatch from St. Peters. burg reports that a great confagration IS raging in Petropawlovsk, Siberia. Several quarters of the town are ir flames.
 At the bicycle race in New York the two De Noilles, father and son. made 900 miles in three days. The Iowest score of the eight participants was 17i miles.
 On Sunday 8 small steam yacht cap sized in He'll Gate, N. r., and three per sons out of seven on the yacht were drowned.
 A frman of the Porte has been reaS Tn Pristina and Novi-Bazar threatenine oeath to any persons who attack the Austrian troops.
 A dispatch to the London Time, from Calcutta says that the report tha+ from 20, 900 to 30, 900 persons died iron cholera while returning from 8 religion, fair is repeated.
 So far as known, the popular vote il Switzerland stands 166, ,824 for and 138. 692 against the re-establishmento of capi tai punishment.
 Judge Asa Packer died at Philadel phia in the 73d year of his age. Hi, funeral took place at Mauch Chunk. hi home. ---' WASHINGTON NOTES.
 "A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald says: MT. Hendricks. ot Indiana, who has just declared for the fourth or fifth time that he twill not bt candidats for Vice President with an1 one, adds, "and so far as am con cerDed the old ticket will not be in the field. :"
 The House Committee on An propriations authorized favorable re port to be made to the House on Rep resentafive Cannon's bill, making ad dtIonal appropriations for the pay oi letter carriers. The bill appropriates $l5l y0O for the fiscal year of 1880, and $zo, o,OOO to meet the deficiency for 1879. There were two dissenting votes in the committee to-day, namely, those oi MesSTs. Monroe and McATahoD of Ohio