Connecticut western news., 1880-04-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

as danfax, N. B., from St. Pierre, | Mlqueion, with the officers and crew, twenty-three in all, of the steamer Fern vile, of Sunderland, which was sunk by | the ice March 2. -. The Emperor William has refused to | relieve Prince Bismarck from office and | states that Prince Bismarck must submit | proposals to the Emperor and subse- quently to the Bundesrath calculated to bring about constitutional solution of the pending question between the Bum ] desrath and the Chancellor. H.- Before the Committee on the Revis- ion of the Laws, Mir. McCloud argued in support of his bill 'to repeal the legacy and succession tax" Under the law of 1862 this tax was made lien upon real estate until paid When it was repealed h 1870, all taxes aecrtling between 1862 and 1870 were left subject to collection, and in 1875 a circular was issued offering rewards for the discovery of such unpaid taxes. The object of the bill is to re- heve innocent purchasers of property.
 The Cincinnati En9uiier publishes an interview with Mir. Theodore Cook, Q leading Democrat who had just returned from visit to ex-Governor Seymour, of New York, in which the latter says In no clrcumstances, assure you, could become candidate even if thought the good of the party demanded it"
 -Complete election returns for Rhode Island give Littlefeld, for Governor (Re- publiean), 1O,09S; Kimball (Democrat), 7,239, and Howard (Prohibition), 5,062. The Senate contains 26 Republicans and ' Democrats; l remains to be elected in Provldence-and the House 59 RepubI- cans and 12 Democrats; 1 is yet to be chosen in Providence. ..a..
 A coach on the Bellaire and South western Railroad was thrown from the track eighteen miles from Bellaire, O. William Danford. son of ex-Congress- man Danford, and several other persons were killed. Ex-Congressman Danford was himself seriously injured by an accident on the same road a few weeks ago. s..
 The Connecticut Republican State Convention at New Haven chose delegates to the National Convention at Chicago. resolution was adopted urging the vigorous and loyal support of the nominees of the Republican National Convention. Of the delegates, five are believed to favor Senator Blaine, four ex- Minister Washburne and three Senator Edmunds. -'.-..' .>'-,-'-' -. H. Rhorer, defaulting cashier of the late savings bank of Louisville, Ky, for embezzling $1O,OOO has been sen fenced to the penitentiary for one year.
 -Small-pox is raging seriously in Chi eago .-.. -s a... Albert Scheu, city editor, of the Cleveland (Ohio) Anseiger, German daily paper, waded into Lake Erie few days ago and cut his throat
 The annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Potomac will be held at Burlington (Vt.) June 16. Secretary Evarts has been invited to deliver the ad- dress. Joaquin Miller will deliver poem.
 In the Iowa Democratic State Con- vention resolution instructing the dele gatlon to vote as unit at Cincinnati was laid on the table,
 The Rhode Island State election re- suited in no choice for Governor and Lieutenant Governor The Legislature Is largely Republican. It is understood that large majority of the Assembly men-elect favor the reelection of Sen ator Burnside to the United States Sen ate. s.t-. ..
 -Colored cadet J. o. Whitaker, at West Point, was found in his room at reveille bound and with his ears slit and with other injuries inflicted upon his person. He says three masked men at tackled him and committed the outrage. Great indignation Is felt among the cadets of the Academy and no efforts will be spared to bring the perpetrators to justice. .....
 At the Republican caucuses at Wor. cester, Mass, every ward was carried fol Senator Edmunds, thirty-two Edmunds delegates being elected to State and dis trict conventions.
 Tt has been decided to move the Pea body Normal School from Nashville Tenn, to Atlanta, Ga.
 Nine Patti's libel suit against tht St. Louis Post -Dispatch has been dis missed at plaintiffs cost.
 The Utah Republicans, dissatisfied with the action of the Territorial Com mittee in assuming to appoint delegates to Chicago and to reelect themselves fo < four years, have issued call for Terri torial Convention on April 20, in Sal Lake City, to elect delegates to the Chi cago Convention.
 Mir. Parnen has been elected to tn English Parliament in Cork City.
 The Straits of .Mackinac are opel and passable. :
 At Providence, R. l., John T. Dolan Jr., age eight years, and Michael Mur ray age six years, were struck by To comotive and fatally injured. ..
 Cox and Balbo, the two New Yorl city murderers, are to be hanged, the Su preme Court refusing to interfere in thei cases. .--.....
 -Messrs. Salter, Petroff, Rumberge and Crawford, who were convicted o bribing members of the Pennsylvani Legislature, have been admitted anew t, $2,000 bail for their appearance in cour on the 26th. -<r.-.
 Joe Walker, colored, was hanged a Lake Providence, La, Friday for tn murder of Mayor Gray, in October 1879.-
 New York city papers are all raisin, the prices of subscriptions on account o the high prices of paper. Those paper selling at two cents raise to three, anC those selling at three to four cents.
 The proprietor of the Chicago Time has closed a contract with Montrea firm for 1000 tons of printing paper He finds it cheaper to pay freight an, duties than to submit to the, price charged by the combination of pape makers in this country.
 -Heartrending reports come iron fanIine-stricken districts of Armenia. Il Van alone ffty-two persons, it is said have already died of starvation. Thou sands of peasants are endeavoring t. emigrate to neighboring Persian prov inces, but as the roads are covered witl