Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

| GreGt B7TtGin.-A resolution denounclng
 the extravaganza of the Administration has
 been rejected in the Commons 3O3 to 23O.
 England and France have sent joint note to the Khedve.
 Brown wen the championship belt in the
 London pedestrian contest, making 542 miles.
 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was opened last week at Stratford -on-Avon.
 Parole won the Epsom Handicap and the Metropolitan Stakes last week. He is to run for the Ascot stakes.
 France. Government declines ts grant amnesty to Blanqui.
 The Archbishop of Aix is to be prosecuted for attacking M Ferry's education bill. 1 Ge1m0ny.-The FrGnkfurter Zeit,t7ag is to be prosecuted again for assailing Prince Bis l marck. | Austri0.-There was grand procession in honor of the Emperor of Austria's silver we'd ding at Vienna Sunday
 Russta.-Houses are searched nightly in St. l Petersburg
 The Czar no longer goes out without mili- l tary escort, A high court of justice has been appointed l for the trial of Solovieff, who attempted to kill the Czar. Bulgar1a.-Russia favors the election of 1 Prince Battenberg as ruler of Bulgaria. | ItGly.-Garibaldi has issued manifesto in 1 favor of the universal suffrage movement. tSer0id. Servians have suffered 8 loss of TOO men in fighting with the Albanians. | Egypt.-The Khedive has established a Council of State composed of European and l native members. South 4 Afa5c0.-Lord Chelmsford has defeat l ed the Zulus and relieved the garrison at Eko- we.
 DOMESTIC. Captain Paul Boyton has reached New | Orleans The President has issued proclamation warning settlers, not of the Indian race, to keep away from the Indian Territory.
 The Rev. o. B. Frothingham closed min- istry of twenty years with a farewell sermon, at New York Sunday. The miners imprisoned by fall of coal at Wllkesbarre have been rescued they have been subsisting on a mule which was also bYSied in the mine.
 Vhe City of Houston, Texas, has been visited by flood. A telegram from Louisiana says that 5000 nergoes are waiting at one place on the river bank for transportation to Kansas. Preparations to aid colored emigrants were made last week in Boston, Cleaveland and Philadelphia. It was agreed at the postponement of the south Carolina elections, to abandon the vexa- tlous prosecution of Republicans.
 Gray, the assistant of Edwin Booth, has been committed to jail.
 Several committees were appointed in the Louisiana Constitutional Convention. The joint committee of the trunk lines and their Western connections decided to maintain inland rates on all goods for export from the West. At The New Y 7ork meeting in aid of Southern refugees, letters were read from Wendell Phil lips and William Lloyd Garrison, and addresses were made by Thurlow Weed, the Rev. H. H. Garnet and others
 The acreage of Winter wheat is 1! per cent larger this year than last. The body of Col. Dwight, of Binghamton, has been exnumed and new investigation IS in progress. Two new patents have been granted at Wash ington to M. Edison. The funeral services of General Dix will be held Saturday at Trinity Church. Minister Stoughton is to return home, and rumor says that he will resign. Hereafter 50 900 ounces of silver per week will be purchased for the New Orleans mint.
 The President has issued public announce ment of the death of General Dix
 Judge Bond ordered the jury to render ver- dict of not guilty in the Barnwell County, s. C., cases, yesterday, on account of defect in the information. George G. Barnard, the noted Tammany judge is dead.
 A verdict of $2,O ,OOO was obtained in Boston, last week, against the New York and New | England railread for injuries at Hyde Park about two years ago.
 Eleven Communists escaped from New Caledonia on the 18th of March, and at San Francisco last week.
 A man died of hydrophobia in Brooklyn,
 last week. The evidenoe is all in the Talma0e trial Argument begins today (Thursday) The New York Elevated roads have made a partial division of territory.
 Col John Groesbeck disappeared from the New York Fifth Av. Hotel fortnight ago l and is still missing. The Second New Hampshire National Bank was robbed, last week, by burglars of about $9,00o.
 A scheme for dispossessing the Indians of l their lands in the Indian Territory has been discovered, and will be thwarted.