Connecticut western news., 1879-01-08
OUR h,EEIMlysS SUMMARY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

met 4Raston to discuss the best method for, conducting the campaign. After an addfess by Carl Mohr, of Worcester, who favored Q financial system similar to that of France, Q resolution favoring the forming of some Greenback organi- zatien, in which all the New England States should be represented, was adop- ted. A resolution was adopted setting forth that the paramount issue Tn the Greenback Labor movement IS the lnl- mediate substitution of greenbacks for National Bank currency.
 Tho London iron operatives have determined to resist any increase in the number of working hours the final action of the Employers Association will be taken on Tuesday next. The South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire miners will resist 0 reduction of wages. There were 15, ,059 failures last year ill Great Britain and Ireland.
 Caleb Cushing died at his home at Newburyport, Mass, at the age of seyenty-nine.
 If ffty-three more immigrants had arrived at Castle Garden during the year 1878, the Superintendent could have re- ported an increase over 1877 of 16, ,000. One-seyenth of the entire arrivals land cd in the merry month of May, but only Q seventieth part in tempestuous Janu- ary year ago. In all there were 79,- S02.
 -Sixty-o one failures were reported in New York city in December; the liabil- ities amounted to $1 ,842, 284, and assets to $1 ,014, 754. This shows an increase ar L Q r.. 60n 900 in liabilities. There is no marked falling off, however, from the record of December, 1877, when the total failures were 100, and gross liabilities about $8,000,000. The greatest number of failures was in the clothing, dry goods, fancy goods and wooden ware trades.
 Tt is reported that the members of inc French Ministry have decided to ask for kind of reinstatement from the new majority in the Senate.
 Property of tine Union Cotton Press Company of Charleston, s. C., was de- stroyed by an incendiary fire to the ex- tent of over half million dollars.
 The Democrats ana Greenbackers secured the organization of the House of Representatives in Maine.
 -Ex-Judge Charles T. Sherman, 8 brother of the General and the Secretary and the father-in-law of Senator Don Cameron, died at Cleveland.
 A Japanese steamer and eighty three lives were lost by an explosion of gunpowder.
 The product of gold and silver for 1878 is reported by Wells, Fargo & Go. as ST, ,000, 900 less than in 1877.
 The revolt of Tartars at Kazan has been suppressed. Two hundred rioters have been publicly foggod.
 Upward of 13,OO0,0OO pounds of codfish and Il ,000, 900 pounds of halbut from the Banks and 23,000, 900 pounds of codfsh from Georges were landed at Gloucester, Mass, during the year just closed.
 A bridge of ice formed oyer the river below the falls of Niagara and has been crossed by large numbers of people. So fine an ice bridge has not formed so early in the season for many years past, and there is every prospect of its remain ing for several weeks at least. The weather is clear and cold and there is good sleighing. The thickly frozen spray on trees and buildings, especially at Prospect Point and near the Horse shoe Falls on Goat Island, presents @ sight the beauty of which has not been eGualled since the similar exhibition in the winter of 1874.
 The agents of the Emily B. Souder have given up all hopes of hearing from the missing boats, although the captain, the chief engineer and some other per- sons put off on raft composed partly of the life raft of the steamer.
 Governor Clellan of New Jersey, has refused to call session of the Court of Pardons to consider Benjamin Hunters plea of his insanity at the time he murdered Armstrong.
 Halifax is going to try to compete with Now York for the trade of Havana, and steamer will sail from the former city in January.
 A dispatch from Kingston says that the two survivors of the Emily B. Souder shipwreck saw the boat which carried the passengers from the ship capsized.
 -O'Leary, under the influence of stinulants, finished his end of the six. day walk at Gilmore's Garden, New York, at 10:43 Saturday night, having made only 400 miles. Three minutes later, Campana, much more under the influence of stimulants, finished 357 miles, and stopped and made speech congratulating himself on the prospects of 8 peeketful of money. The walk was a put mp job on the public.
 -The steamer Emily B. Souder, from New York for Santo Domingo, foundered of coa <>RD 70 Cape Hatteras; only two of the passen- gers and crew are known to have been saved, although her owners hope and believe that others have been picked up, and that the loss of life will be small. She had on board thirty six persons, nine Of whom were passengers.
 -The Cocheco Print Works at Dover, N. H., suffered loss of nearly $75, ,OOG by the burning of the shearing room.
 Philadelphia mourns the loss of its female chimpanzee, the pride and boast of it's Geological Gardens.
 Three men and the shed they were mixing dynamite in were blown to atoms at the J. L. Rand Rendrock Works near Paterson, N. J.
 The miners in West Yorkshire. Eng land, are taking steps to resist reduc tion in wages.
 -Lerma, the Mexican chief, has beer defeated, and eighty of his adherentl were hanged.
 An almost incredible story is tol6 by young girl, named Maggie Lahre of Peoria, Ol., to the effect that she was kidnapped by two unknown masked men, taken in sleigh into the country tied to tree and her clothes set on fire having first been chloroformed. The : AaInes hurnnd tha thinns uith -uhiol