Connecticut western news., 1879-03-12
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

reighborhood of Newmarket. England, have struck against reduction of shilling per week in their wages.
 General Butler has caused to be reprinted in the Congressional Re cord the speech against Chinese inn migration which he made at the Fourth of July celebration at Woodstock, Conn.,, in 1870. He says he has nothing to change in 1t after the lapse of nine years, and he believes that all treaties may be abrogated by act of Congress.
 Twenty journeymen printers have started 8 cooperative office in New York city to do book and job printing. The American schooner Estella, of Portland, Me-, and three of her crew have been lost.
 The Sutro Tunnel Company and the mining companies have failed to agree, and all negotiations are ended. The plague having broken out in several ports of the Egean Sea, strict quarantine has been ordered in Tunis. It is rumored in Hong Kong that 4,0OO Chinese pirates contemplate raid on the city.
 A fire at Binghamton, N. Y, de- stroyed several stores and tenements and caused loss of $2O, 900.
 A party of masked men fired the dwelling of an old negro near Man chester, Tenn, and afterward shot the helpless creature to death.
 Charles P. Stickney, the defaulting treasurer Of the Mauufacturers' Gas Co., of Fall River, Mass, has been sentenced to i've years Imprisonment with one day of solitary confinement.
 The Forfar, Scotland, inen-workers have struck against a reduction of five per cent.
 The Ohio State Temperance Con yention has decided to organize move ment to secure amendments to the con- stitution providing that no intoxicating liquors shall be manufactured, sold or gwen away in Ohio except for sacra- mental, medicinal or mechanical pur- poses also, that the Legislature shall have power to pass laws allowing one person in each ward or township to manufacture liquors for these purposes, subject to fine of $5, GOO for making or vending impure liquors.
 The girl found in trunk at Lynn, Mass. has at last been identified as Fannie McConologne, of Woburn, whose family left for California February 5. The girl accompanied the family little way, and returned. The body was first Identified by two companions with whom she had sometimes stayed at No. 8 h. diana Place. Boston.
 -Ebenezer Jarvise, of Huntington, IL. l., was warned that if he did not leave $50 in certain place his house would be burned. He paid no attention to the warning and the house was burned.
 The Department of State at Wash ington has information that no Ameri- can cattle have been landed in England in an unhealthy condition.
 A Chilian squadron is blockading Mexillones, Antofogasta and Caracotes, [ Peruvian ports. It is reported that 8 Chilian force has landed and taken pos session of the nitrate mines.
 From Afghanistan General Stewart reports that General Biddulph's rear guard was attacked at Kushii Nokbud by POGO Alizal Duranis. The enemy was repulsed with loss of 150 and pur- sued till nightfall. The British lost a major and five natives killed and 8 colonel and eleven natives wounded.
 All the business portion of Reno, Nevada, was destroyed by fire. Several Pacific railroad trains were burned up. The loss Is $1, 100000 upon which the insurance is only $150, ,000. Five lives were lost and number of persons in jured.
 The Citizens Savings Bank of New Orleans has suspended.
 The Governor of Maine objects to the double mileage charged in the Leg lslative payroll and will veto it.
 -Newfoundland's portion of the $5,- 100000 fishery award, $1,00O,O00, has been invested by the Government.
 Upper Michigan has been very much excited over the discovery of gold and silver in iron ore at Menomonee. The quantity turns out to be too small for profitable working.
 Frank Bassett has been found guilty of murder in the second degree. Mrs, Alexander, his convicted accomplice, has written a long rambling protest against her sentence, asserting her inno. cence, accusing Bassett of being the really guilty person and piteously plead ing for the prayers and sympathy ol Christians.
 The Montreal Corn Exchange passed resolution addressed to ths Domiplon Parliament praying tha American breadstuffs be not taxed.
 The Mayor of Sheffield, England says that in one district of that tow1 there are 4,000 persons destitute ans 40O families are actually starving. Tn relief fund, except about e8O0, has beer expended.
 The British loss in the fight il SOuth AfrIno 4ha oE T,~ including the native contingent, i estimated over fifteen hundred men.
 Three men convicted in New Yorl city of incendiarism have been sent t State Prison for life.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The recently enacted law giyin three months extra pay to officers an soldiers, and to officers, seamen an marines employed in the war wit Mexico, does not include those in tn volunteer service who have already re celved three months extra payunde the provisions of the act of July 1e 1S48. The records of the Secon Auditors office show that at least ninety nine out of every hundred who wei entitled under that law were paid th three months extra pay at the time discharge, or soon after, upon rolls pr, pared by paymaster general or by settl, ment of claims in the Auditors offic, 1t will, therefore, be a useless expens for such persons or their attorneys present claims that must be disallowe under the act of February 19, 1877 The claims of officers and soldiers the regular army and of such of u volunteers as have not received u three mOnths' extra pay shnn1d be nr