Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 Governor Farnham, of Vermont. has Vetoed the bill practically doing away with the Grand Jury, and giving the indicting power to the State Attorney.
 The total population of Montana Territory is as follows Males, 28, 18O i; females, 10, ,977; native, 27,642: foreign born. 11,515; white, 35, ,46S; colored 3,6S9.
 -Dr. Albert G. F. Goerson, convicted of murder in having poisoned his wife, has been sentenced to death in Phila- delphia, Pa.
 The census returns show that Oregon has @ population of 174, 767, composed as follows Males, 1O3,3 1888 ; females, T, 1879 native, IA, 327 :; foreign born, 30, 440; white, 163, ,0S7; colored, 11,660.
 The Centennial Association of Washington, have decided to invite Robert 0. Winthrop, of Boston, to E deliver the oration, Governor Holiday, of Virginia, the opening address, and John Barron Hope, of Norfolk, grandson of Commodore Barron, the poem at the Yorktown celebration.
 The total population of Maine &C., cording to the census returns is GAS, 945 Of this number 324, ,O84 are males and 324, ,861 are females, 59O,07 are native and 58, 869 are foreign born, 646, 9O3 are white and 2, ,042 are colored
 Gen. O. O. Howard is to succeed Gen. Schofield in command of West Point and the Military Academy.
 The mines of the United States have produced during the past seven years about $290, 900, ,O00 of gold and $271, 800, 900 of silver. About 954 per cent. of the gold and 60a per cent. of the silver was converted into coin or bars.
 Senator Wade Hampton, in 8 cor respondence, denies that he ever in- tended challenge to Secretary Sher- man in his correspondence with him which was published before the recent election.
 During the past season, from April to December, the tolls collected on the New York State canals amounted to $1, 555, ,257. 53 miles cleared by boats, 10, 398, ,046 !; tons of articles transported, All, ,344.
 -Knaxton Wardman, overseer of the Washington Mills in Lawrence, Mass, shot and killed Avis Pinkham, twenty nine years old, with whom he had illicit relations, and returning home fatally shot himself.
 Hiram Holbrook, agent of the Amer ican Express Company, at Dubuque, Ia, while laying abed fatally shot his two-year-old daughter and then fatally shot himself dead His poor health is the supposed cause.
 The Supreme Court of Louisiana has sustained the legality of the late municipal election and declared the can didates entitled to the offices to which they were elected.
 Jay Gould's conservatory at Irving ton, on the Hudson, was burned on Sat urday. The loss is estimated at from 5 $50, ,000 to $200,00 Many rare plants were destroyed.
 The annual report of Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels Dumont cor rects the public impression of an un- usual number of fatalities last year. But 185 lives were lost by steamboat acci- dents during that time.
 During serious confagration in Cincinnati, on Saturday, five fremen lost their lives by an explosion.
 The city of Pensacola, Florida, was nearly destroyed by fire on Saturday. Fully nine-tenths of the buildings in the city were burned. The loss is $500, ,OOO, upon which there is an insurance of 2e0, GOO. Work of rebuilding will com = se at once.
 .he total population of the Territory of Utah $ shown by the census to be l43. .907-74,471 are males and 69, 436 females; 99,974 are native and 43, 933 of foreign birth.
 The house of Charles Fisher was burned in Baltimore on Sunday and two servants in the family were burned to death.
 The suspension of the firm of Bowie Dash & Co.,, coffee dealers, of New York city, was compelled by the decline in coffee. The liabilities are $1, 100000.
 FOREIGN.
 The cattle belonging to Mir. William Bence Jones, of Lisselane, which were forwarded from Cork by the Great Western Railway, having been refused shipment by the steamship companies in consequence of the threats of the Boycotters, have not yet left Dublin.
 Ut IS stated in London that there was painful scene between the Queen and MT. Gladstone at Windsor over the Irish question, Her Majesty urging the Premier very decidedly to resort at once to force and crush the disorder in Ire land.
 The Princess of Wales narrowly escaped severe injury while hunting on Wednesday by being thrown iron her horse. She was saved by Sil Dighton Probyn.
 Gladstone has in hand scheme tc give state aid to emigration iron Ireland.
 At the Cork, Ireland, Assizes Joh1 Power, who was identified as one of th' party who forcibly entered house iron which the tenants had besn evicted near Tralee, County Kerry, about fortnight ago, and slit the ears of tn occupant, bailiff, has been acquitted although he was fully identified by tn prosecutor.
 MT. William B. Jones, large land owner in the County of Cork, has bee, deserted by all of his laborers, and eve, large shippers refuse to do business.wit them. He and his family are now unde the care of the police.
 Several tradesmen of Dublin wh have been drawn to serve on the jury the case of the indicted Land League1 have been warned by their customers a over the country that in case the Ian Leaguers are convicted their bushes will be cut off. A Dublin merchant has been sun