Connecticut western news., 1880-05-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

0ENENAh TERMS.
 The Pennsylvania Democratic Con. yen6on resolved to oppose the abroga. ton of the two. thirds rule in the Ma honal Convention. Of the delegates elected to Cincinnati thirty-nine arc op. posed to Mir. Hlden's nomination and nineteen are supposed to favor him. Two delegates-at large were chosen from MT, Wallace's friends and two from Mir. Randalrs. The California Republicans Instructed their delegates for Blaine, while in Arkansas the same party elected a Grant delegation.
 Severe storms have taken place in the Southwest and serious damage has been done the crops in Texas and Mis- sissippi
 It is estimated that million and a quarter dollars have been paid out by the Treasury during April on account oi pensions The debt statement for April shows g decrease of about twelve millions of dollars.
 "A private letter, dated Las Vegas, New Mexico, 26th of April, says it is re- ported there that Joseph Brown, ex- Mayor of St, Louis, with other persons from St. Louis have been murdered by Indians.
 An express clerk and two old men committed suicide in New York City on Thursday.
 : A bottle has been picked up at the junction of the rivers Weaver and Mersey containing paper inscribed: |" H. M. S. Atalanta, 16tn March. Fearful hurri- cane. Dismasted. Going down fast. Off the Lizard" It is feared that the At alanta has gone down with all on board
 The excess of exports over imports If the United States for March was $6, AT, ,362 for March, 1879, $24, 298, 134. The excess of imports of gold and silver coin for March, 1880, was $7,599; for March, 1879, the excess of exports was $1, ,875, ,090.
 The Connecticut Democratic Con- vention at Hartford passed resolutions in favor of the two-thirds rule in the Ma tional Convention, but left the delegates to vote as they saw fit. The Ohio Re publicans elected Sherman delegation to Chicago and instructed for Sherman. Blaine has ten of the delegates The South Carolina Republicans instructed for General Grant.
 The Coroner's jury in the De Young case at San Francisco rendered verdict charging Kalloch with the murder. One witness testified that De Young fired the first shot.
 -Twenty-six thousand weavers in the Blackburn district, England, have given notice of their intention to strike unless their wages are increased.
 Tt is unoficially reported that a workman named Shevitch has been ar- rested and has confessed having caused the explosion in the Russian Winter Palace last February.
 -Diplomatic relations between France and Mexico are to be resumed.
 The Hon. P. V. Deuster, of Wis consin, has received through Baron Won Schloezer, the German Ambassador, 8 letter from the Commissioners of the h. ternational Fish Exhibition in Berlin, Thanking him for his instrumentality in causing the United States to participate in the Exhibition. The letter states that the Commissioners were astonished at the extent of the United States ex- hibit, which far exceeds their expecta- tons.
 The members of the Massachusetts State Press Association on visit to Washington, were received by the Presi- dent and Mrs. Hayes Monday evening.
 A heavy storm passed over Macon, Miss. Monday night, demolishing twenty two houses, including the Mobile and Ohio Railroad machine shops, depot and master mechanics office. Sixteen cars were blown from the track and seventeen persons were killed and twenty-two wounded. The loss of property is not less than $100,000.
 A decision of public importance was rendered by the Supreme Court in the case of the town of Scipio against William F. Wright, from the Circuit Court for the Northern Districtef New Yolk. This was suit brought upon certain bonds issued by the town of Scipio to aid in the construction of railroad from Lake Ontario to the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad The Court holds that the Circuit Court erred in declining to in- struct the jury that, upon the facts proved in the case, and not contradicted, the plaintiff, Wright, was not entitled to recover upon any of the bonds because the Supervisor and Commissioners did not issue them for borrowed money, but transferred them to the railroad company in payment of the stock subscription Its judgment is therefore reversed and the case is remanded for 8 new trial The opinion was delivered by Mir. Justice Strong.
 General Grant has written letter stating that he will not be present at the meeting of the Army of the Potomac So- ciety at Burlington, Vt, June Is. He expects to go to the Rocky Mountains for a few weeks, and will not go east of Illinois before fall Joaquin Miller will deliver the poem at the reunion, and Judge Bradley, of New York, the ora tion.
 In the battle between General Stew art and the Afghans on the 18th of April, the British lost seventeen killed and 126 wounded and the enemy 1000 killed.
 Berlin correspondents report that Mir Gladstone's accession to power in England is received herewith but little apprehension. Earl Granville's appoint ment is gratifying to the Germans, as 1t is thought there will be no radical change in the foreign policy of the Gov ernment
 At Red Bank, N. J., the three-year- old daughter of Stewart Mitchell, of Port Monmouth, was accidently burned to death by her clothes taking fire from @ stove.
 At Freehold, N. J., John Halloway, age sixty, weI-to-do farmer, committed suicide Sunday night by hanging him. self to rafter in his barn.
 James Langdon was shot and fatal ly wounded Sunday evening by David H. Brown, in East New Brunswick, N. J., whom he attemted to rob on the high way.
 The members of the Massachusetts,