Connecticut western news., 1880-09-29
NEWS OFTHE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Army of the Cumberland is to hold its next meeting at Chattanooga, Wednesday and Thursday, September 21 and g, 1881. Gen. B. H. Br1stow was selected as orator, and Judge R. H. Corcoran of Wheeling, w. Va, as alter nate. Lieut.. Gen. Phil Sheridan was elected president, with ice-president from each State. -----
 The centennial of the capture of Major Andre was celebrated at Tarry- town, N. Y., on Thursday. About 30, ,OOO people were on the grounds. Ex-Gov- ernor Tlden presided and Chauncey M. Depew delivered the oration. A Te Deum service was held at Christ Church at a. m by Rev. J. s. Spencer, and at 10 a. m., the hour of Andres capture, there was another salute by the artillery and the Minnesota, which lay in the rIver, and at the same time the bronze statue of Andre was unveiled.
 The Democrats of the Sixth Con- gressional District of New Jersey nomi- mated Edward Balbach for Congress.
 The Chief of the Bureau of Statis- tics at Washington furnishes the follow ing information in regard to immigra- ton There arrived in the Customs dAol11CGo Ol OOoGOu, DCbIO4p3 Huron, Key West, Minnesota, New Bed quoddy, Philadelphia and San Fran cisco during the month ended August 31, 1880, 5S, 972 passengers. of whom 50,509 were immigrants, 5,974 citizens of the United States returned from abroad and 2, ,49O aliens not intending to reside in the United States. Of this total number of immigrants arrived there were from England, 6,239; Scotland, 1,737 Wales, IT; Ireland, 6,157; Ger many, II, ,919; Austria, 1,235 Sweden, 3.003 Norway, 1,677; Denmark, 492 i; France, 412; Switzerland, $50; Spain, 49; Portugal, 49 Holland, 281 Bel gium, 151 Italy, 624 Russia, 576 Po- land, 224 Finland, 37; Hungary, 487 l; Dominion of Canada, 13,506; China, 996; Cuba, Ill, and all others, APO.
 The body of Peter Woodland, the Assistant Superintendent who was killed in the Hudson River Tunnel disaster, was recovered on Thursday. Woodland was the man who exhibited such great bravery at the time of the disaster, sac rifcing his own life that he might save others. '- -...'
 In South Africa twelve hundred Basutos attacked Mohaleshock on the 20th inst. and 5000 attacked Mafeteng on the 21st inst. The fighting continued all day at both places. The rebels were ultimately repulsed. The casualties to the colonial forces are not known.
 The Massachusetts Greenback State Convention nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Horace Binney Sergeant; Lieutenant Governor, George Int Ions SleO1s tozsx1 SNf S&otn %Io1, Arnold Treasurer, Wilbur F. Whitney; Auditor, Charles T. Warner; Attorney General, John M. Raymond; Electors at-Large, H. B. Rowley, B. J. Flaherty. The resolutions reafim the Chicago platform; demand the substitution of full legal-tend greenbacks for national bank notes, and that the national Gov ernment only issue the money of the people and control it's volume oppose the refunding of the national debt, and demand that the bonds falling due this year and next be paid off, as far as prac- hcable, with the cash now on hand and by the substitution of greenbacks for national bank notes; declare that the hours of labor shall be shortened and the employment of young children in factory labor shall be prevented; demand new system of dividing the profits of capital and labor, and rigid en- forcement of the ten-hour law relating to the employment of women and child ren; favor graduated income tax oppose any increase of the standing army in time of peace; demand the abo- ition of the contract system in penal institutions; oppose the granting ot our public lands to railroads and other corporations, or the sale of the same tc speculators, but demand that they be retained for actual settlers, and that the laborers of our overcrowded cities bt afforded Government aid to settle o1 such lands, instead of granting subsidie, to wealthy institutions.
 The Maine Greenback Convention met in Portland Tuesday and nominated Fusion Electoral ticket consisting O four Weaver and three Hancock cleo tors. Of the 465 delegates presen thirteen bolted and nominated straigh Greenback electors.
 A dispatch from Lahore says "B, a land-slip at Naini Tal, Bengal, elevel British officers, fifteen soldiers and elev en other persons were killed and fou injured"
 -Silas M. White, the defaulting Pres ident of the First National Bank of Brat tleboro, Vt, was arrested at Omaha Tuesday, Last June 1t was discovere that he had committed forgeries to tn extent of $25O,0OO.
 Donald Mckay, Q native of Nov Scotia, who when young man pe1 fected himself in the art of ship buildin and who subsequently owned an i'm mense shipyard near East Boston, die on Sunday at his home in Hami ton, Mass, aged seventy years. H built some of the most notable clippe ships in our merchant marine.
 Owen Dunn was shot and kille during quarrel with Antonio Balto, a Italian, and his wife in Brooklyn o Sunday night.
 -Patrolman Enoch Perry, of Jerse City, Monday morning shot and kille Lewis Shaughnessy, an ex-convict wh resisted him and had taken his clu from him.
 In New York Mrs. Louisa Lans bein on Sunday threw hot water on tw troublesome boys to frighten then Their injuries are serious.
 A maiden lady named Nancy He, wood, living with her brother in u GoWu Ok pOchlduu, WIS.,, was murQore Sunday night. Her brother found ht under 8 woodpile with her throat cl and covered with wood and boards.
 A dispatch from Columbus, O., sa, that all is quiet at the mines in Cornin The Columbus Battalion are guardi1 the entire mines, and an occasional stre fight is all that dlsturbs the quiet.
 Lee Brumbaugh, prominent g torney of Miamisburg, O., was shot al killed Monday by George Ware, of Da