Connecticut western news., 1879-01-01
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Greystoke. +.,-''' -It is reported that the Arehduke R1dolphe, Grown Prince of Austria and H lngary, is shortly to be -betrothed to the Princess Mathilda, of Saxony. --~ The would-be assassin of King Alfonso has been finally sentenced to. death. -. ..l..- ...-..-..-. Terrible suffering from smallpox and famine is reported in Northern Brazil.
 The Duo D'Audihfret- -Pasquier has been elected to the chair in the French Academy rendered vacant by the death sf Mgr. Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans. John Cunningham fell into a stream of molten metal in 8 Pittsburg iron mill and died. 4' '-'
 An old soldier patient at one of the Pittsburg hospitals wandered out at night, got drunk, and was found frozen stiff. .,5 '0--'- --- s a. .''.-'' , . s'17 The Municipality of Havana has pre- Eented General Jovellar with a large and massive gold tablet, elaborately orna. mented and bearing an inscription com A%@SAAAOA~o1A6 UAAO HoCAANhOAOA Ox b11c 1S- land and the names of all the members of the municipality. ....-...... ........
 The ice in the St. Lawrence, near Quebec, broke away Tuesday night, taking with it twenty-seven fishing cabins and two men.
 Captain Wm. H. Nelson, of the ship Sacramento, now in New York, says he saw on July 16, 1877, a ea-serpent which had teeth. ,t.... The evidence in regard to the Hot Springs item shows that it's omission from an appropriation bill was aeci- dental. "4t' .-- 7 ~'." .+ The President will appoint Mir. Nell son, of Worcester, Mass, Judge of the United States District Court of Massa- chusetts, vacancy caused by the pro- motion of Judge Lowell. to the Circuit Judgeship. MT. Nelson is the law part ner of Senator Hoar.
 A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph, from Berlin, states that the captain and officers of the steamship Pommerania have been acquitted. The inquiry de- cided that human effort did all that wes possible to avoid collision and loss of The Court of Appeals of St. Louis has decided that divorce cases cannot be referred toVa referee. The, decision put quite number of persons, whose suits were placed in the hands of referees, in very unpleasant positions.
 The boiler in the Dominion Com pany's paper mills at Kingsley, Quebec, exploded, almost destroying the build ing and injuring number of persons. Two men are missing.
 The Daily 7ezegraphs Vienna dis. patch says that forty per cent. of the Bosnians who. have returned to their homes will have perished by Spring if the weather does not moderate. s9s.@. s
 -On Christmas day forty-eight ohil- dren were drowned by. the breaking of ice on pond at Chapelle- -Moehe, in the Department of the Orne, France. Ar Eva Leroy, a young woman, was found lying in the road badly frozen near Rogers city, Mich, and died. She was woman of bad reputation who had been driven out of Alpena without funds. Be- coming exhausted, she had fallen by the roadside, where she was found. 1t is sald she was once a. beautiful girl. She was native of Cleveland, and went to Detroit, where, 8 few years ago, she created sensation, but afterwards sank lower and lower, until no one would give her saelter. l. s<-a4--e...- ss.e..,. e,.
 Italy is said to. have proposed the joint occupation by France, Germany and herself of some of the Turkish Trovincss in the contingency of further troubl-.
 General Browne confirms officially the occupation of Jelalabad on the 20th of December.
 -Grave distress exists in the east of London. sis. ..-.ls s-es-s..s.4-.s,s
 Tho German Government denies that it desires to acquire American ter ritory. sss...1.s :.
 Prince Bismarck's instructions re- garding tariff revision are strongly pro- tectionist. -.- > z 4'- : e..'- '. x. -'-7
 -Repressive measures are being car ried out in Russia. ' :. ..., 7. . ~
 The Europe and the Asia, two 'y yes- sells built at Philadelphia presumably for the Russian navy, left that city under the names Columbus and State of Oalifcrnia, flying the American flag, and with American clearance papers for Sitka, Alaska. The Europe takes 300 and the Asia, 200 ( passengers.', The vessels will be transferred to Russian officers when once outside the iurisdic- tion of the United States. i..,.5.. 4. ..s
 The State .Canvasing. Board oi Florida has finally given a certificate to Hull (Dem.) for Congressman, his ma lority being thirteen. 4ii4. .4 ,s.si
 "A startling story of outrage. is re- celved from Boston. A New York lady stopping at hotel in that city is said to have been robbed over week eince by man who entered her room, broke open her trunk, inflicted severe personal injuries upon her and has thus fal escaped arrest.
 "A large number of wrecks durina the storm of Saturday are reported along the Massachusetts coast. The vessels were all coasters and were mostly coal laden. =s=.-' = - '.-'';'''''
 Ut is believed that nearly all the passengers of the Byzantin, which. col. fided with a bark in the Straits of Dar. danelles, are saved. 2 SF---7
 Raymond and Ellen Osgood, ,colored man and wife, who were sentenced to be hanged at Hinesville, Liberty county Ga, for the murder of colored mar named Samuel Goulden, escaped from jail. Simon and James Osgood, colored convicted of involuntary nlanslaughter and sentenced to the penitent1ary, alse escaped.
 Thomas K. Flowers, a Philadelphia