Connecticut western news., 1879-07-09

and hand were severed from her body and found in 8 bucket. Mrs. Myers. the proprietor of the house, has been arrested.
 --The boilers of the pleasure steamer May Queen on Lake Minnetonka, a summer resort near Minneapolis, Minn. exploded while she was landing at a wharf on the upper lake. The boat sank in five feet of water and is & con- plete wreck. Five or six persons were killed and large number injured.
 A heavy thunder storm visited Paris Sunday night. Several persons were killed.
 The coffin containing the remains of the Prince Imperial, on arriving at PietermaritZburg, was wrapped in the French colors and bis helmet and sword were placed thereon.
 Thomas J. Berry, of Tioga County, Pa., was found dead in bed at the Home stead Hotel at Elmira, N. Y. He was forty years old and one of the most suc- cessful horsemen in his section.
 Erwin O. Shattuck, the youth who entered his grandmother's house in Newport and drugged her for the pur- pose of robbery, has been sentenced to prison for eight years. Gondolf, his companion, got five years.
 The yacht Jeannette has arrived at San Francisco, and will sail on her Arc tic voyage in few days.
 At Clarksburg, Ont, two children, eleven and nine years old, sons of Alfred Stoutenburg, took shelter under 8 tree from passing storm and both were in- stantly killed by falling limb.
 MT. Joseph A. Blair, who is teller of the Mechanics National Bank of New York, and who lives in Montclair, N. J., shot and mortally wounded his coach man, John Armstrong, as he says, in self-defense.
 The London Times, in financial article, says: "The total amount oi bullion in the Bank of England, namely, G35, 143, 525, is the largest on record. At present there is no reason to think that this immense sum will not be con. siderably exceeded"
 -,Stock-raisers report terrible ravageE among the young pigs by the hog cholers in Wisconsin and Illinois. A Galens dispatch says that hundreds are dying and the disease not only extends from drove to drove, but is always attended with fatal results.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 Tt is said that an extra session in the fall will be called, notwithstanding the assertion by the President in his veto message on the first Judicial Expenses bill that the Revised Statutes permit the mourning of a liability for the payment of marshals' fees earned in the discharge of the duties imposed upon them by tht law.
 The following are the principal public acts passed by Congress during the special session For the construction o a refrigerating ship and for the disintec tion of vessels; to prevent the intro duction into the United States of con tagious diseases changing the law relating to vinegar factories the Army Appropriation bill (vetoedO; to prevent military interference at elections (ve toed); the Legislative Appropriation bill (vetoed); to exchange subsidiary silver coins for legal tenders and to make them legal tender to the extent of $2O to authorize the District of Columbia tc redeem certain funded indebtedness, not 3.65s, in tweuty-year five per cents tc procure site for post-otfice ill Balti. more; the Legislative Appropriation bill the Judicial Expenses bill (vetoed) the Army Appropriation bill to provide for the appointment of a Mississippi River commission the Judicial Ex- penses bill the Additional Post Office Appropriation bill; providing for filling vacancies in the United States Engineer Corps; Marshals' Appropriation bill (vetoed); to authorize the release of cer- tain lands of the United States to the State of New York. Among the joint resolutions adopted the following are important In relation to the Australian International Exhibition in 1879 and 1S80; authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to place vessels and hulks at the disposal of the Quarantine Commission. CTS. Congress has passed fifty six pub. lie acts, twenty-four joint resolutions and eight private acts.