Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

t4AO OC4Gu5c pub llIHs OOUD tue BbdQu. All that Bishop testified to of his rela- tions with her, of the presents, the po- etry, the clandestins meetings and the i'm proper conduct, she denied seriatim and gave her version of all that had occurred | between them, insinuating also that Bishop, without her knowledge, had given in various ways to her husband the poison of which it is alleged he died. | Considerable damage was done in a 1 coal mine belonging to the Pennsylvania Coal Company near Pittston, Pa., by an explosion of fre-damp. Fortunately no lives were lost, and but two men were in- jured, neither fatally.
 The message of the Governor of New York State critlcises the cost and utility of the new Capitol it demon strates the successes of the new canal and prison systems; it leaves to the Legislature the overcrowded state of lunatic asylums; it follows the criticisms already made upon the wretched condi- tion of jails and poorhouses it com mends the good condition for effective service of the National Guard;" it argues against further taxation for high schools and free colleges it reprehends the local rulers who "played with debts aud courted taxation as for pastime," and recommends the formation of sinking funds in all towns; it adopts Lord Duf- ferin's project for an international park at Niagara Falls it suggests one plain statute about the preservation Of game. A battle is reported to have been . fought in Afghanistan in which General Roberts was victorious.
 The Bey of Tunis has yielded to the demands of France.
 The British steamer Bayard was lost December 10; ten of the crew es- capped. The plague has caused general panic in Astrachan and Saratow. A Correspondent of the Golos writes that the plague began in village in the District of Enotaievsk. Precautions against the disease were at first neglected, as it was mistaken for typhus. When the weather became warmer people died like flies, and the dead lay unburied m the streets. The infected district has been surrounded by troops. Com stopped. General anxiety prevails throughout Russia.
 The Bey of Tunis has sent Pleni- potenrary tO Far1S.
 A conspiracy in the Peruvian Army has been suppressed.
 "A reply has been received by the Harvard College boating men to the let ter asking whether challenge for Q race next summer would be accepted by Oxford University, to the effect that it would be impossible to TOW as late as August. As the Harvard men cannot arrange for a contest any earlier, nc crew will be sent across the water this year, and Captain Bancroft will retire from the university boat.
 Morton McMichael of the Philadel- phia North American, ex-MRyor oi Philadelphia, ex-Centennial Commis. sioner and Fairmount Park Director, died in Philadelphia.
 The cause of the explosion on the British turret. ship Thunderer is still C mystery. The gun which exploded will be sent to Woolwich for examination Several of the wounded have since died and many others have become blind.
 -1he Post Office Department has been very unIucky in Chicago. Or Saturday its employees were driven from their querters by fre-for the thiri time in seven years. In this instance however, the valuable mails were nearly all saved, and thepublic will suffer bu little loss.
 Juan Moncasi, who attempted tt assassinate the King of Spain on Octo Der 25, was put to death by the garrot' at Madrid in the presence of grea crowd of people.
 Charges are made and denied il p,~sI 410ak his walk in that city, when he claimed to have made 52O miles, was fraudu lently kept, and that the distance h. really walked was far less.
 Great consternation has been caused in England by the suspension of thu Cornish bank at Truro, Cornwall. Itl deposits are said to amount to LOGO. 900 pounds, and the stoppage will cause West Cornwall and will further checl industry in the Cornish mines.
 The French Senatorial election have resulted in great Republical victory, all the retiring Senators of tha party having been reelected, while tn places of all but IA of the AT retirin Conservatives have been filled by Re publicans also, so that they will have majority in the Senate of about 56.
 The State line steamship State ( Louisiana, which went ashore on Decen Der 24, has finally gone to pieces.
 -Suleiman Pasha has been finally d, graded and sentenced to perpetual exil for his conduct while in command of or of the principal Turkish armies durir the late war 1; he sues for pardon.
 Numerous floods have been cause in England and Scotland by the sudde thaw
 Charles Doty, superintendent at u gas works at the Central Lunatic Asy charged with attempting an assault upo Flora Carodi, seven years old. He we removed to jail to prevent possible vii lence by indignant friends of the lit girl.
 At South Byheld, Mass, John I Caldws wsll, while kneeling in family pra; CT. was instantly killed by his inFa1 wife, who split his head open with ( axe. Mrs. Caldwen's s sister was presel and kneeling at the time. Caldwell VI an intelligent farmer in easy circur stances. His age was forty-ive.
 -Loulsa Blaskowitz, fifty-eight yea old, was burned to death in her ov AouSo ue kOyEAcuS0 Wu40 u1Ouos d clothing had evidently caught on fl from the kitchen stove.
 In San Francisco Thomas Crossle shoemaker, shot and fatally woundt his wife, and then cut his own thro with shoe-knife, causing instant deat Mrs. Crossley refused to state the eau of the tragedy.
 While crossing op the ice betWe. Richmond and Melbourne, Canada,