Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
NEWS OFTHEDAY.
GENERAL ITEMS,


 evening they started to drive home, and ]. later their dead bodies were found lying | jn the road between Monticello and l .Wurtsburo. They had driven over @ | asbank sixty feet higS. Tbe horse was l but little hurt, and when found lay en- | tangled in the harness and still attached | to the wagon. A large number of silk weavers and factory operatives are on their way from England to the United States. By fire in the French suburbs of Montreal, forty houses were burned in- hicting much misery on the poor people. aA -The Spanish steamer Paiaro del zOceano was burned at sea in the Baha- ? mn Channel, W. l., October IS, and of the sixty passengers and crew on board but.27 are known to have been saved. < It is reported from Grayson, Ky., that John W. Kendall and Wm. Mo Milan, two outlaws, were taken from the jail there by 200 men and lynched. Charles D. Schuyler, of Buffalo, who a short time since abducted the daughter of Townsend Davis, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to Auburn for seven years.
 The gasoline tank in the State House of Correction at Ionia, Mich., exploded, killing Charles Crystal, pris- oner, and seriously injuring Louis Essec, the engineer.
 A man at North Amherst, Mass, has been fined $2, 800 on his second trial for slandering an unmarried lady. On the first trial, from the judgment of which he appealed, he was fined but $2,000.
 The official count in Ohio gives Foster majority over Ewing of IT, ,129. The authorities say that the loss of life by the floods in Spain will exceed "A dispatch from onstantinople says that the Austrians have not yet suppressed the revolt in Nevesinie. The Austrians have lost 400 killed and wounded. The insurgents are in- trenched among the mountains.
 The tonnage oS American shipping with Japan is greater than that of all the European countries combined, ex- cepting Great Britain.
 The number of cases of cholera in Japan during the season was 138, 953 l; deaths, 76, ,342; still suffering, 0,449. The action of our Government in sus- talning the quarantine has been highly appreciated by the Emperor and the public.
 Lieutenant William B. Weir, ord nance officer, while out hunting in the White River country, was killed and mutilated by Indians. All the available cavalry started on the trail. A soldier of the hunting party is also missing.
 -Wm. Blaikie, referee in the recent Chautauqua Lake boating affair, has written letters to Hanlan and Courtney suggesting that the present difficulty about the payment of the purse be settled by the men actually rowing 8 race together. - Reports from Pesth say the distress in Hungary on account of the bad har- vest is very great. The Government has suspended the collection of taxes until the next harvest in fifty-seven towns and villages in Temes county. The greatest distress prevails in Sares county, where some cases of starvation have occurred, and forty parishes are threatened with famine. Frightful ac. counts have also been received from the counties of Abanj, Heves and Zemplin.
 "A company of volunteers numbering thirty men was massacred in New Mexico by the Apaches numbering 10O One of the volunteers only escaped. It IS known that over 100 settlers have been killed by the Indians.
 The Gdulois asserts that the ex. Empress Eugene, notwithstanding all efforts to dissuade her, will embark next February for Zululand to pray on the spot where her son was killed.
 At Syracuse, N. Y., Judge Daniels sentenced Nathan O. Greenfield to be hanged at the Onondaga Penitentiary on December r.. A bill of exceptions will be argued.
 A dispatch from Los Pinos, dated October 16th, says that courier has just arrived from the camp of the hostiles, bringing information to Ouray that the White River Utes are in the mountains, about hundred miles north of Los Pinos. The women and children of the White River Agency are safe, he says, but the Indians will hold them until given assurance that the troops will not harm them. Ouray desires that the murderers have civil trial.
 Clark Smith, aged fifty-five years, sn inmate of the jail of Cumberland, Md, while trying to swallow a large piece of meat at dinner was choked to death.
 The Afghans lost forty killed and POO wounded in the attack on the British camp at Al-Kheyl.
 The remains of the late Major Thorn. burgh's command, including Captaln Dodge's colored company, have arrived wounded, including the three officers Dr. Grimes, Captain Payne and Lieu tenant Paddock. All are doing we'll The body of the late Lajor Thornburgf also arrived.
 At Carson City, Nev., Theodore Winters's colt Connor, 8 two-yeaI-old by Norfolk, earring eight pounds ovel the rule weight, ran a three-quartel dash iD l. .15&, the fastest time ever made by colt of that age.
 Arrangements are making for { mammoth national Methodist camp meeting at Old Orchard Beach in July 1880, which is proposed to be gather ing of all the Me thodists in this country
 The value of exports from th' United States of live animals of al kinds increased from S5, 844, ,643 du1ine the fiscal year of 1878 to $11, ,487, 75. during 1879. Seventy -one per cent. wer' sent 10 Great Britain. The value O. cattle exports increased from &, ,S96, ,91s to $8, ,379,200. Of the cattle seventy nine per cent. were shipped to Grea Britain. Their valus increased iron g. 408, ,S43 to $6,6l6,114.
 Later reports give narrowing ac counts of the floods in Spain. In Mur oia one hundred and nineteen corpsel have been recovered. Four villages ar, in ruins and thousands of peasants ar' wholly destitute.
 The commission on slavery in Cubl