Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

and has been in public life for half a century. After the revolution of 1S48 he surprised people by going over to the Republic and voting for the exile of the Orleans family, to whom he had formerly sworn fealty. He was made Minister of the Interior by General Cayaignac, but soon retired from that place, only to be called back in June, 1S49, by Napoleon, and dismissed in October of the same year. In the Assembly he fought the Empire with all his energy, and when the coup d'etat took place retired to private life. In 1869 he accepted the Presidency of a committee formed in Paris to sustain the candidacy of M. Thiers for the Corps Legislatif He was bitterly op- posed to the plebiscite, and openly de- nounced the policy of non-interference recommended by the majority of his political friends.
 The yellow fever commission say that at least eighteen thousand (and probably as many as twenty thousand) deaths from yellow fever have occurred during the late epidemic. Of this num- Der some three-ffths were minors and two-fifths were adults,
 A Vienna dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph says party of insur- gent Arabs attacked a caravan near Hediax and killed 600 persons.
 "A bill has been introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature to reduce by twenty-five per cent. the charges of railroads, express and telegraph com panies within the State jurisdiction.
 B. F. Jonas has been nominated by the Democratic caucus of the Louisiana Legislature to succeed Mir. Eustis in the United States Senate.
 The bill repeating the charter of the Louisiana Lottery Company has passed the Louisiana House, to take effect March 31, 1879. The company will appeal to the courts.
 Four houses and church were des- troyed by 8 tornado at Inka, Miss, and six colored people killed. The bodies of two children were found quarter of mile from home.
 An idea of the magnitude of the counterfeiting business may be formed from the remarkable statement of the engraver Ulrich before one of the United States Commissioners. In the course of 8 year he and his associates printed commercials amounting to three hun dred and fifty thousand dollars, many of them on New York banks. The strang- est part of his story, however, is that the gang to which he belonged was sus- tained by capitalist whose name he de- clined to disclose.
 President MacMahon's resignation of the Presidency of the French Repub- lie was presented to the Senate and Chamber of Deputies and accepted. A congress of the two houses elected M. Jules Grevy to succeed him by 536, to 99 for General De Chanzy and 43 blanks. President Mahon's resignation was caused by his refusal to sign the decree making changes in the army demanded of him. He declared he would not sign Q decree superseding brave Generals my friends and comrades"
 Capt. Adams denies that he made any report about a pirate to the English Admiralty. He says the whole thing is hoax, and demands an investigation.
 A post mortem examination was held on the body of John Q. Adams, g mine cracker boss," of Moosic, Penn. who was supposed to have been frozen to death, and it was decided that he had been murdered.
 Mrs. Walters, of Cairo, Greene County, N. r., was drowned in Catskill Creek, near that place, while crossing with sleighing party.
 It is claimed that the Edison electric light is already perfected, but requires to be cheapened to make it of practical benefit.
 Seven Winnebago Indians, while crossing the Missouri on the ice few miles north of Council Bluffs, broke through and were drowned.
 Mrs. Louisa Avery was arrested al Montgomery, Maes., on charge o knocking down, dragging on the hool and causing the death ot Mrs. Betsy Wright, aged eighty, town pauper whom she had contracted to board. Mrs Avery claims the old woman caused more trouble than she expected.
 The Clean, Bradford and Warre1 Railroad Company received new loco motive from the works of Gibbs & Ster rett of Titusyille. It was fired up anG party of employees started on trial trip. The boiler exploded and six O nA10 Acu WcI0 h1A1cUs 4u0 flCt1uS O1 buS casualty all leave families. It is sup posed that the explosion was caused by the water being low in the boiler, anc the fireman turning cold water in whil, the boiler was heated.
 A recent fire in Hong Kong de stroyed 368 houses, valued at abou $1,000, 900.
 San Francisco is jubilant over tn passage of the anti Chinese bill by tn House, and the leading journals of tn State, both Democratic and Republican approve the measure, while Deni Kearney denounces 1t. At the Chimes Consulate in San Francisco it is believe, that the bill will result in complication with England.
 Sitting Bull has crossed the borde near Fort Belknap, Montana, accom- panied by 0 number of British Indians and their presence in such large mum bers is considered of grave import.
 Father Pelletier, of St. Franci Xavier, New York. fell dead in tn church during marriage ceremony.
 One hundred of the men who wen to Brazil year ago to build the Madeir and Mamore Railroad returned in rag ged and destitute condition.
 The Supreme Court of Florida ha declared Mir. Bisbee Rep.) elected t Congress, but Governor Drew refuses t give him a certificate.
 -Herenden, the scout, testified in tn Reno court that he believed Reno order for the troops to remount was i1 duced by 8 number of demoralizin events, the chief of which was the deat of the Indian runner, Bloody Knife, whose brains and blood splashed o Reno.
 A shocking crime took place i