Connecticut western news., 1879-02-12
NEWS OF THEDAY,
GENERAL ITEMS.


 York. He testified that he had no official connection with the Democratic National Committe of 1876; that some of the alleged translations of the cipher dispatches received and sent by him were, he believed, incorrect, but that he received from Mir. Marble the proposition of the Returning Board of Florida to sell the vote of that State and accepted It, and from MT. Weed the similar prop osition from South Carolina and ac- cepted that that both these |" arrange ments" were made by him entirely upon his own responsibility and without MT. Tilden's knowledge, and that he intend ed to lay them before members of the committee when the money came to be raised. In the case of Florida he had no occasion to do that, his acceptance of the offer from that State having been sent too late to take effect. In the case or South Carolina he testified that he informed Mayor Cooper of the object of his visit to Baltimore, where he met Weed and intended to pay over $6O, ,OOO or SS0, ,OO0 for the vote of that State. He could not remember, however, how MT. Cooper received the information. When he telegraphed for the money, Mayor Cooper, he says, replied that Git could not be procured" or in similar words, and 8 dispatch from MT. Tilden ordered Pelton home. MT. Tilden did not know he had gone to Baltimore and reproached him for going on such an errand.
 It is believed that the Russian plsgue has made its appearancein in Thes- salys The precautions taken by Austria Id Germany to prevent the disease om entering their dominions is bitterly denounced by the press of St. Peters burg as attempts to ruin the Russian trade.
 Concession will be made by the London masters and operatives to the striking engineers. The decision affects some 2, 1000 men. Tn Liverpool, 5000 coal beavers not affected by the reduc- tion of wages have struck in support of the dock laborers.
 Proposals have been made to the German Tariff Commission for the taxa tion of imported cereals and live stock. The New York Legislature passed 8 bill abolshing shoe-making in the State prison.
 Mrs. Anna Ferback, sixty years old, of Vermillion, Ohio, is charged with poisoning her husband last summer. She was committed to jail without bail.
 The treaty of peace between Turkey and Russia is to be signed on the sur render of Podgoritza to Montenegro.
 The distress among the laborers of Glasgow is decreasing, although 1000 persons are still supported by charity.
 Five of the six members of the French Cabinet are Protestants.
 Twenty tramps had pitched battle In Philadelphia station-house at night and one man was killed.
 The crew of the schooner Helen. from Charleston to Boston and wrecked of Cape Hatteras on January 12, have arrived in 8 small boat at Kingston. Jamaica, with the loss of the, steward only.
 An Improved Red Man of Baltimore committed suicide, presumably because his bank account as Treasurer of his lodge showed but SIS to his credit when 1t should have been nearly $2,000.
 The venerable Richard Henry Dana died at Boston, and General George Cadwalader died at Philadelphia.
 In the Reno inquiry Colonel Ben- teen reiterated his belief that Custer conducted the battle badly. The bodies of all his officers save four were found lying together and apart from the pri- yate soldiers, showing bad organization. A very destructive fire took place in Lee, Mass. The Cleaner office was destroyed.
 The Liverpool dock laberers are on 8 strike.
 In the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania bill was introduced ap- propriating $4 ,000, 900 for the payment of losses cf property occasioned by the riots in July, 1877.
 Col. Percy Wyndham, soldier oI fortune, formerly with Garabaldi, and with the Northern Army in the Ameri- can war, has been killed at Rangoon in attempting balloon ascension.
 At Norwich, Conn.,, Wesley Bishop was allowed last interview with his aged mother, who is on her deathbed. She had earnestly besought him to con- fess his complicity in the crime and il was through her intercession that his confession was made. Her feeling toward Kate Cobb is that of intense hatred, she accusing Mrs. Cobb of mis. leading her son.
 The plague in Russia is extending and the infected districts are shut of from other parts by double quarantine This quarantine extends outside o Russia, for Austria, Germany anG Roumania will let no one enter thei, territory without passes from tn, sanitary authorities.
 "A recapitulation of the statement O the National de ot of the United State, shows the entire amount to be S2. .4O8. 346, S26.39. The reduction in six month, IS $S,S90, I'll. 39. The cash in tb, Treasury amounts to 1882, 45O, ,695. 96.
 The perils of the rail have bee, notably reduced ot late years. Tn, number of accidents reported last yea on American railroads was TAO, agains 7Sl in 1877, and 1,2S3 in 1873; whil the number of passengers killed O Wounded was thirty per cent. less thai m 1877. Gases of broken rails are yer, rare now, the chief cause of disaster he ing the misplaced switch.
 William Brown was arrested il Kentucky for murder. He was confine, m Mt. Sterling jail. Browns friend set the town on fire in order to effect hi release.
 There was slight fire at Willard Hotel in Washington.
 The profits of Sing Sing Priso from its l, TIP convicts during Januar were S, ,458 70.
 Samuel P. Bowles, ex-Count Engineer of Hamilton County, O., ha been arrested for forging and raisin county bonds to the amount of $22, ,OOC
 A speed of mile minute wa attained hv an ce-vachf in a ,aco on tb