Connecticut western news., 1879-07-23
river on the 25th of June, killed two men and six women, burned several kraals and captured quantity of cattle.

river on the 25th of June, killed two men and six women, burned several kraals and | captured quantity of cattle. The persons arrested in Boston as concerned in the Lynn trunk mystery have been indicted, and failing to recog- nize in $15, ,000 each were all committed.
 One of the most melancholy incl dents of the late storm on the coast is the sad fate of the Dundon family, of Charlestown, Mass. The party, number ing six persons, and consisting of MT. Thomas Dundon, engineer on board of the ightship at Woods Hole, his wife, two sisters, Misses Mary Ann and Susan Dundon, his niece, Miss Lizzie Dundon, and Master Arthur Ream, left Charles town about half-past eight o'clock in the yacht Myrtle, and passed the early portion of the day below. Seeing the approaching storm, MT. Dundon made sail for the city, and was met by squall on Birds Island flats. Finding it i'm possible to reach the city, MT. Dundon placed his wife, two sisters and niece in the yachts tender, and before the boy and himself could get on board the tender was blown away from the yacht and swamped, the yacht meeting the same fate. Mir. Dundon was forward when the yacht went down, and he clung to the mast as long as it was out of water, and then he drifted toward the shore, and was picked up in an exhausted con- dition by the tug Vim, which had brig in tow. The bodies of Mrs. Dundon, his sister Mary Ann, aged forty-fve, and his neice Lizzie, aged twelve, the daughter of Captain Dundon, of the buoy boat Daisy, were also recovered by the crew of the tug Vim.
 The New Hampshire House by a very large majority has indefinitely postponed the bill for the abolition of capital punishment.
 The failures in Nova Scotia during the past six months aggregate 112, with total liabilities of $1,674, $50. During the corresponding SIX months of last year there were 96 failures, with ia- bilities aggregating $1, ,235, ,GO0.
 Six cadets of the Military Academy, West Point, have been dismissed for hazing.
 The heat was so intense in Wash ington on Wednesday that many English sparrows fell dead.
 The strike of two thousand colliers in Tamworth, England, against 8 reduc- tion of wages, which began one month ago, has been compromised.
 Courtney defeated Riley by half a eng til on Silver Lake, the race being a single scull two miles and return. Time, 27 m. 372 s.
 The Nationals, of Pennsylvania, nominated H. c. Baird, of Philadelphia, for State Treasurer.
 The breaker at Prescott's colliery, Centralia, Pa., which cost $15O, ,OOO, was entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday. A vein of coal is burning fercely and will probably entail heavy loss. Three hundred and fifty men are thrown out | of work.
 Daniel Rouger, @ well-known tenn. perance lecturer, was drowned in the Miami river at Dayton. He vas one of the most prominent leaders in the Mur- | phy movement, but of late had broken his pledge and was drowned while under | the influence of liquor.
 A statement just issued by the Blu reau of Statistics shows that the value of the exports of domestic provisions and tallow from the United States dur | ing the month of June, 1878, was s. 326, ITS; in June, 1879, it was $9, 1O2, STA. The new Canadian 4 per cent. loan has been fully subscribed. The tenders at the official minimum of 95 per cent. will receive about 90 per cent. of the amount of their tenders. All tenders above 95 per cent. will receive the full amount bid for.
 Losses of life by sunstroke have occurred in St. Louis.
 In Hinton, W. Va., fight took in which several of the latter were se' verely whipped.
 The outstanding ten-forty bonds will be called by the Secretary of the Treasury during the present month. One call for $1O, ,O0O, ,O00 was made July g., another for $160, 100000 on the 18th and all the remainder amounting to $22,. 100000 and fraction will be called ere the end of the month.
 A special dispatch from Washington says that the customs receipts for the last fiscal year are $6,O0O,OOO in excess of the receipts of the year before. This
  | report and indicates @ largely increased import trade.
 R. G. Dun & Co.'s Commercial, | Agency report the number of failures in the United States for the first six rnonths of 1879 at 4, ,058, with liabilities amount ing to $65, ,779,398. In the first six months of 1878 the failures were 1895, with liabilities amounting to S13O, 832, 766.
 A statement has been issued by the War Department giving the number of men furnished the Union army by each State from April 15, 1861, to the close of the war of the rebellion. It shows that the total number of volunteers was g. 678, ,967, divided as follows: Maine, 72,- IA; New Hampshire, 36, 629; Vermont, 35,262; Massachusetts, 142 2,O48; Rhode Island, 23, 699; Connecticut, 57, ,379; New York, 467, ,047; New Jersey, 81 ,O1O; Penn sylvania, 366, 107; Delaware, 13,67O; Maryland, 5O,3l6; West Virginia, 3D. 068; District of Columbia, 16,872; Ohio, 319. .659; Indiana, 197, 147; Illinois, 259,- 147; Michigan, 89,372; Wisconsin, 96,- 424; Minnesota, 25, ,O52; Iowa, 76,3O9; Missouri, 109,111; Kentucky, 79,O25; Kansas, 20,1 ,151; Tennessee, 31, ,O92; Ar kansas, 8,289; North Carolina, 3,156; California, 15, 725; Nevada, 1,08O; Ore gon, 1,810; Washington Territory, 964; Nebraska Territory, 3, ,157; Colorado Ter ritory, 4,903; Dakota Territory, 206; New Mexico Territory, 6,561; Alabama, 2,576; Florida, 1,290; Louisiana, SPA; Mississippi, 545; Texas, 1865; and the Indian Nation, 35, ,O3O. The troops fur nished by the Southern States were, with the exception of those of Louisiana, nearly all white. Florida furnished two