Connecticut western news., 1879-12-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,


 m Saxony among the peasants anG weavers.
 The Chillans defeated the Peruviant aud Boivians at Tarapaos, infictine severe loss, but near Loa 1,500 ChilianE were captured, with all their arms and cannon, by the allies.
 The London 1Snaes's Berlin COT. respondent explains that the Czar's railway journeys are generally made with two trains-one for himself and suite and the other for the servants and baggage. Hitherto it has been custom. ary to allow the latter train to act as g kind of eclaireur. On the present Journey this order somehow became re. yersed, and the imperial train took the front position. Unaware of this change the assassins calculated upon the Czar being on the second train and exploded their mine accordingly.
 John Piggott, soldier at Quebec, died of an overdose of chloroform while undergoing medical operation.
 Twenty villages in the KirdschaIi district of the Rhodope Mountains of Turkey have risen in arms, and 500 of the insurgents have seized the local fund and made prisoners of the gen. darmes.
 News has been received at Liver pool that war has broken out between rival chiefs in New Calabar, West Africa. and that two hundred persons had been slain and wounded and the prisoners killed and eaten. The Europeans in New Calabar have requested British naval officer to interfere. It is ap- prehended that the outbreak will spread from Opobo to Brass.
 The Chemnitz (Saxony) Tdqeblatt says an explosion of fire-damp occurred in mine in that district, and that over seventy persons have perished.
 About three hundred weayers at McKean & Raphael's cotton mills, at South Easton, Pa. struck for an increase of 10 per cent. in their wages or 8 de- crease of one hour in a day's labor. Both demands were refused, and the strikers were discharged.
 A fresh attempt was made mon the life of the Russian Czar, at Moscow. An internal machine was exploded on his passage. Fortunately it did not burst until His Majesty had passed. The Czar escaped without injury, A Berlin dispatch says that he was about to inform the nobility of Moscow, at 8 reception, of his determination to call 0 number of unofficial advisers to assist him in the government of the Empire. The Council was to be purely delib- erative, without any right of control or interference.
 At the meeting of the Massachuse it's State Board of Agriculture at Green field, Mir. James s. Grinnell said that in the hill towns only old men are left to work the farms, the young men having gone West or to the cities.
 The lumber shipments from St. John, N. B., to Europe, during the past eleven months amounted to 143, GOO, GOO superficial feet, carried in 215 vessels. The shipments during the preceding year were 1S6. ,O0O feet, carried in 308 vessels.
 The schooner Mary Anderson, from Bull River, s. O., to Baltimore, was wrecked hear Kitty Hawk, N. O., and is Q total loss. The captain, Silas Swan, bolh mates and the cook were lost. Three of the crew were lost.
 The tide of immigration is strong again. For the year preceding the first of November there was total of 1892. 7l5 arrivals at New York, against ll9,- O69 for the previous twelve months. Subtracting the SC tjou1ners and the Git lzens of the United States returning. there is total of 124, 615 genuine immi. grants for the period in question. against 80, 14S for the equal period just preceding.
 The large paper warehouse of Theo- dore Megargee & Go. and adjoining buildings in Philadelphia were de. stroyed by fire, with loss of $500, ,OOO,
 It turns out that Jackson, the grave. Iobber, who was arrested at Chattanoopa. Tenn, has been for some time engaged | In the business, as sixteen shipments | have been traced to him. Jackson is well known, and was a candidate for l Alderman at the last election. Newton Carroll, IS g negro, and has been em- Ployed at the cemetery for the past three years.
 In Chaplin, Nelson County. Xiv. Anthony Kelley, colored, was persuaded by negro woman, claiming to be able to work n iracles, to murder Kate Miller in order to sell her body to students for dissection. When the neiehbors. alarmed by boy, came to the scene of the crime, they found the cabin on fire and Kelley lying in the doorway with his throat cut.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 The Treasury Department is in re- ceipt of information that the British Government has issued an order revok- ing previous instructions in regard to sheep exported from the United States to Great Britain. Hereafter sheen ex- ported from the United States will not be required to be slaughtered at the place of landing, the restriction. in con 'equence of the foot-and-mouth disease j 1av1uR been removed. The order went nto effect November 23. ( The appointment of 200 postmas- ( CTS IS to be acted upon by the Senate before the 1st of April, besides any E manages that may occur through death, eslgnation or removal. The bill introduced in the House elat1ng to Fitz John Porter revokes the entence of the court-martial in his case 'nd relieves him from the penalties at ! ached thereto. It restores him to the ! ! my as major general from the time T h1s dismissal to the close of the war. | makes him a colonel of infantry in f ne army from the close of the war, and t the President to place him | m the retired list with the rank of ma- C or,general. The passage of this bill I will give General Porter S93, ,879 and a i alary in the future of s5, ,625. ( The United States mint for Noyem- per per coined 391, ,933 gold pieces of s3,- t 1o9, lo5 value, and including en $3 l pieces, ten quarter-eagles and ten dol ] ars. There were also coined 2,499,OO | ,tandard snn silver dollars, 400 5 cent pieces, ' t0O 3-cent pieces and 3,120, 400 1-cent |