Connecticut western news., 1879-09-24
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TTEMs.

E rise in the price of breadstuffs is there fore anticipated.
 The police have been notified of the ! d appearance of 0. Fl. Cutting, Bos- ton salesman, who was traced to Ston- 1ngton boat and who it is feared was killed for &, 800 he had with him.
 MT. Daniel Drew died suddenly at hls residence in Forty street, New York, of supposed heart disease. MT. Drew was born at Carmel, N. Y, in 1197, and was one of ten leading stock speculators of his day. At one time he was worth $20, ,000, 900, but he lost most of this money in his speculations. He commenced life poor, as a drover, and rom this as he accumulated money went into steamboating and railroading and stock speculating.
 The late Daniel Drew was a pen sioner of 1872 and for several years has drawn his pension of $96 year.
 ". H. Wynkoop and Mrs. Catha- rIne Zell were arrested at Carlisle, Pa. charged with administering poison to Mrs. Mary Kiehl, an aged lady, who died suddenly last May. The body has been exhumed and a post mortem ex- animation showed the presence of ar- senie.
 A great fire broke out in Ekateri- noslsy, South Russia, near the Dnieper. le originated in the most populous part of the town and the damage is immense. General Butler has been nominated Tor Governor of Massachusetts for the tnlrd time this year by 8 party known as the Butler Independents. The whole of the State ticket nominated the day before by the Butler Democrats was sdopted by this convention. The plat. form ignored railroad issues and dealt exclusively with State questions.
 The State Convention of the Butle, Democrats of Massachusetts met in worcester. The following ticket was nominated For Governor, B, F. But Ter, of Lowell; for Lieutenant Governor, A. Q. Woodworth, of Chicopee: for Secretary, M. T. Donahue, of Fair. maven; for Attorney General, W. F. Norfhend, of Salem; for Treasurer, D. ~. SkiiliDgs; for Auditor, D. J. King, oi boston. The platform ignored Ma. nonal issues and devoted itself to State questions. The Civil Damages act and convict labor were strenuously denounc- cd. The control of Corporations was advocated. '' .-Oficial returns from Humboldt County, California. show that Berry Dem.) IS elected to represent the Third Congressional District.
 A Greenville (Miss. special report rays that there is yellow fever at Con- coroia. One hundred and fifteen per- sons remain in Concordia, unable to get through the shotgun quarantines, Nurses and supplies are being sent to Concordia. '
 Further particulars of the Cabu] massacre, as given by the trooper who escaped, are published. It is now said that sergeant and several men of the escort escaped. A tenement house was burned in Soutn Boston, and three persons were purned to death. One was killed and TWO others were severely injured by jumping from windows.
 A dispatch has been received from Oape Town dated August 29 announcing mat Marter captured Cetywayo the day DeIore. Marter was in command of a squadron of dragons. The agent of the Eastern Telegraph Company at Alden confirms the report of the capture of Cetywayo by Major Marter with a de- Iacnment of the First Dragons serving under Lord Clifford in Northeast Zulu. land on the 18th of August.
 A dispatch fully confirms the ac. counts of the capture of King Oetewsvo He was utterly prostrated and his fol lowers were foI1 wool, 4 ....:l mn King and his followers were taken tf Ulundi. During the march clever tiled 10 escape and six were successful the other five were shot, The Kine will be taken to Maritzburp and from there to Greytown.
 The Legislative result in Maine i, as follows Senate Republicans, 19 Democrats and dGreenbackers, 12. House or Representative es-Repub blieans, 90 Democrats and Greenbackers, 60. II one district the result is in doubt. Tn, be 37. ' 0''--0' WA
 The Republican State Convention of Massachusetts nominated John D Long, Of Hingham, for Governor ant Byron Weston, of Dalton, for Lieu tenant Governor. The other places ol the State ticket were filled by renomina ton of the present State officers, Tn, platform is in favor of hard money.
 The Wisconsin Deaf and Dumb Tn stit9te, at Delavan, was entirely destroy ca by flre. Most of the furniture wa, saved, as were also the outbuildings aui snoPs. There were 147 pupils in at tendance, all of whom escaped with thei1 baggsge. The loss is S1OO, ,0OO, upor which there is no insurance.
 On account of the large accumpla ton of gold coin in the United States treasury, arrangements will soon be made to exchange gold and silver coir TOT United States notes at the severa ouo-Treasuries where convenient.
 An explosio occurred at the Ouake, City Oil Works, in the Twenty -fiftI WaId of Philadelphia, whereby Georof ,. Emery, son of the proprietor. wal Killed, and Andrew Emery, another son and James Sanger, a machinist. were sf badly injured that their lives are des paired of. '
 The nail card was further advanced ss meeting of the manufacturers of wheeling, W. Va., to $3. The milll nave been declining orders, on account or the advanciDg tendency of pig-iron and the number of orders already or hand. o- At Ottawa, Ont, woman named Marenesu, and girl named Fortie were drowned by walking off the whar into the water in the darkness.
 Official returns from Maine witt the exception of twenty small towns an, plantations is as follows: Davis (Rep. 68. 8.O12; Smith (Gbk. ), AZ, ,O88; Garcelo1 lDem. ), 21, 181 The Republicans lacl 258 of clear majority. As far as hear, from there were 311 scattering vote cast.