Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

Great Britain.-It is reported that Sir Aus ten Layard and Sir Henry Elliot have resigned as British Ambassadors.
 The absence of the Prince Of Wales from the wedding of the Princess Frederika of Han over caused remark in London.
 The English are endeavoring to put an end to the competition of the French cable.
 The steamer Galatea is aground at Von- mouth, England.
 Mir. Lorillard's Passaic and Dakota ran in one race at Epson, and were beaten
 The COW named First Duchess of Oneida, which was sold for $50, 500 in 1873, is dead.
 Germany. German Government asks State ald for the German South Sea Trading Company
 The American display at the Berlin Fish cries Exhibition is deemed very fine
 Itoy.-The Pope favors strongly active le- gal fesistence to the anti-Jesut decrees.
 Spdin.-The Congress has adopted the Cuban budget.
 Stockholm to welcome Professor Nordens- kjold.
 Turkey.-Th Porte has gwen explanations regarding the Albanian troubles.
 AtghGnistGn. General Stewart has routed the Afghans in battle fought about twenty five miles from Ghuznee.
 DOMESTIC.
 A new art school is to be established in New York.
 Eugene Fairfax Williamson the prosecutor of Dr. Dix, pleaded guilty of forgery.
 A lively contest is expected at the Phila- delphia Democratic Convention.
 Governor Cornell has refused to pardon Moett.
 There were forest fires in Pike and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania, last week.
 The steamer Strasburg has brought 1914 emigrants from Bremen to Baltimore
 It is said at Washington that the Depart ment of West Point will be abolished.
 An intimate friend of Mir. Tilden says he has no thought of withdrawing.
 There was an inquiry, Saturday, into the causes of the death of thirteen children on board the steamship Ohio. The Massachusetts Legislature has finally adjourned
 Ezra B. French, Second Auditor of the Treasury, died at Washington, Saturday. The forest fires in New Jersey have thrown 300 families out of employment
 Lawyer Grill has been hanged at New town, IN. J. -a..,.. :.... #,
 Both of the Democratic Conventions at Syr- acuse last week, elected delegates to Cincin- nati, and nominated Presidential Electors: the Tilden Convention ignored the Tammany Convention.
 The loss of life by the tornado at Marshfield, Mo-, is about one hundred the storm extend ed over three or four States.
 The Massachusetts Prohibtionists elected delegates to National Convention.
 Republican Convention to elect delegates to Chicago was held in Utah. OF the 20th inst.
 The New York Mutual Life Insurance Con- pany sold large amount of real estate, last week, at good prices
 The Illinois Greenback Convention has nominated State ticket, last week.
 The Texas Democratic Convention declared for Hancock, but did not instruct the dele gates
 Four-fifths of the Vermont delegates are for Hancock.
 A part of the wall and of the roof of the Madison Square Garden fell, Wednesday even- ing, killing four persons and injuring at least twenty two.
 The latest advices from the tornado in the West report 100 dead and 200 wounded in one county with many casualties elsewhere.
 The Albany Anti-third- term Conference adopted resolutions and appointed State Committee.
 Trouble with Little Chiefs band of Chey- ennes is threatened.
 The Virginia Republican Convention in structed their delegates to vote as unit for Grant.
 The anti-Grant men controlled the Georgia Republican Convention.
 On Friday evening, Charles De Young was shot and killed in The Chronicle ofice,- San Francisco, by J. M. Kalloch, son of the May or.
 The loss by two fires in Richmond, Va, last week, will be $117,000. The Georgia Republican delegation is great ly divided as to presidential preferences In the Whitaker inquiry Expert Paine re- ported that he could not tell from the samples given him the writer of the anonymous note. Another forest fire is raging in New Jersey MT. Hendricks says he must not be renom- mated for Vice President.
 John Kelly made an emphatic speech against Mir. Tilden on his return from Syracuse