Connecticut western news., 1879-02-19
OUR NEWS SUMMARY
GENERAL HrEafs.


 burned. Out of ejghty-six horses not more than fifteen were rescued. About ! eight sleighs were burned and 150 sets of harness destroyed. Two fremen were seriously injured. The total loss is about 10000. --.
 -Two-thirds of the Duferin Break water at St.. John, N. B., was washed away by the recent heavy storm, caus- ing considerable loss and damage to wharves and the old breakwater.
 The London Daily Neaos condemns the action of the English Government in regard to the importation of Ameri- can cattle as needlessly nasty and severe. The Grand Jury of Rensselaer, County, N. Y., has indicted Poormaster Ford, his two sons, and Henry Cox and Dr. Hegerman for complicity in the frauds recently unearthed in the Aims house at Troy.
 There is deficiency in the accounts of the late Luther H. Conklin, Treas urer of Oswego, N. Y., of $60,O00.
 Herr Forkenbeck was reelected President of the German Reichstag.
 General Grant has arrived at Bom- bay. Secretary Sherman declares that there will be deficiency in the revenue of $27, 1000, 900 this year.
 The new capitol building at Albany, N. r., has been formally dedicated.
 A bill appropriating $1O, 900 toward enforcing heaLh among cattle was in- troduced, passed by both houses of the New York Legislatlire and signed by the Governor in one day.
 The doctors of Halifax deny the ex- istence of Cyprus fever in that city.
 -Yhos. J. Latham has been appoint ed receiver of the city of Memphis, and all creditors are ordered to file their claims on or before May 19.
 In the Cape Colony on January p British force, consisting of portion of the Twenty fourth Regiment, 8 bat tery of artillery and eco native auxilla ries, was annihilated by 10000 Zulus who attacked the headquarters column while it vas weakened by the absence of the commander and 8 portion of the troops on areconnoitering expedition. A number of officers and 500 troops were killed and 5000 of the enemy. A panic ;n the Cape Colony ensued, and appeals 10 England for help have been made. Seven subsequent attacks, however, failed and confidence is somewhat re- stored.
 The disaster to the British army in South Africa Was most serious. An official report says:-The Zulus came down in overwhelming numbers, and in spite of gallant res istance by five com panies of the first battalion of the Twenty-fourth regiment, one company of the second battalion of the Twenty fourth regiment, two guns, two rocket tribes, one hundred and sixty-four mounted men and about eight hundred natives they overwhelmed them. The camp, containing all the surplus ammunition and transport of column No. 8, was taken and few of its defenders escaped. Our loss, I fear, must be set down at thirty officers, and about five hundred non-commissioned officers, rank and file of the imperial troops, and seventy non-commissioned officers, rank and file of the colonial troops. The loss of the Zulus is estimated at 2,000.
 The plague has appeared at Kavala, in Macedonia, and has spread to Rostov and to village on the Kief Railway, while small .pox and {" an unknown epi- demic "are ravaging other districts in Russia.
 Senator Christianoy, of Michigan, has resigned his seat in the United States Senate.
 M. F. Page, of Boston, has again been indicted for defrauding his credi. tors of $22, 800, and is held in $25, ,00C bail.
 Tt is officially announced at St. Petersburg that there has been no cases Of the plague at AstruChau shICe the 9th inst. Arrangements are being made for the establishing of cemeteries for tho interment of persons succumbing to the epidemic. The Roumanian government has given eight days notice at St Petersburg of the prohibition of cer tain articles from Russia or Bulgaria and of sanitary supervision over person crossing the frontiers.
 England has purchased the Islant of Cypruss.
 The order in council recently passed by Canada, touching the importation c American cattle, has been amended, an, it is ordered that from and after the 6tI of February the importation or intro duction into the Provinces of Ontario Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scott and Prince Edward Island of cattle iron the United States be prohibited for thre months.
 In the Army bill, as it passed Con gress, the effective strength of the arm is limited to twenty-five thousand men
 Josiah White, the Sheriff of Perqui mans county, North Carolina, was me on the road while going home from tn court house by party of highwayme and assaulted and robbed of $1, ,500 i currency.
 Charles H. Taylor, bookkeepe1 aged twenty-six years, resident ( Ithaca, N. Y., was injured while coas ing and died. The sleigh, containin thirteen persons, ran off the centre ( Buffalo street into the gutter and thre' Taylor against projecting plank. Tn others on the sleigh were injured, bU not severely.
 At Dalles, Oregon, James Cor was hanged for the murder of Georg Croug.
 At Portchester, N. r., riot too place among some colored people in saloon. The citizens assembled to que the riot, fired on the mob, two of who1 were seriously injured.
 Before the Potter Sub Committe in Now York, Manton Marble testife that the translation of most of tn cipher dispatches in the Tribune wer wrong.
 -Schaefer beat Slosson in the Ne, York billiard tournament, winning tn championship and the first prize. Hi average was 85-the largest on record Slosson made run of 464-,he largeG on record. Schaefer did not lose gam in the tournament. In the opening ( this last game, Schaefer. was badl worsted by Slosson on the start, but h