Connecticut western news., 1880-01-07
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

were reported ID New fork cliy In 1873. i S,iiIs Ii@hi!Is;ss aIG 9Ga oa2 sseAs. a 160,G3 Tn 1878 there were 917 fail 1 uTes, with liabilities amounting to S64,- GOO, eco in round numbers, and assets of $18,CG0, ,0C0-the largest record for any yesr since tie panic of 1873. In 1877 there were reported S47 failures. with liabilities to the amount of S51,- GOO, 0,000.
 The Board Of Canvassers in Louisi- ma have completed the official count. The ne7 constitution IS adopted by a majority of 59142, and the debt ordi- nance by 10,4s7 majority.
 William Donahue and Thomas Magee were struck by train on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, at Philadelphia, ard both were killed.
 Fifteen thousand colored immigrants have left the South and are now in Kan aaF. There is much suffering among them,
 Andrew Jackson Hall, of Rochester, N. Y., was shot in the head by his jealous wife, but will recover. They lived unhappily together for over twenty years. She Is a Catholic and ha Protestant.
 -Gov. GaTceion of Moine removed the State arms at the arEena. at Bangor 10 Augusta. No opposition was CHered by the people of Bangor to the removal. -Chairman Cameron, of the National Republican Committee, has issued the f0l!oUinc call A National Convention of the Republican Party will meet at Chicago on We tuesday the 21 day of June next, at F o'clock noon, for the nomination os candidates to be SUD- ported for President and Vice President at the next election.
 The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the balance of trade for the yeer ending November 30, 1873, was S266, ,2S8, 672 in favor of the United States, not counting specie. There was an excess of imports of specie amounting to S61, TAO, 3S5.
 A French bark and eight lives were lost during Sundays gale of the British Isles.
 Sixteen Indian gtudents-eleven girls and five boys-for the Hampton Normal School, have arrived at Fortress Monroe, Va. from the Yankton Agency. Their ages range from seventeen to twenty years.
 A French bark and eight lives were NoANS OOA@eS S1lO Oh I14o DI11ASu Isles.
 A terrible dynamite explosion occurred in the brick works at AItofen, Hungary, killing several persons.
 There arc now 10000 miners on strike in the Mons district of Belgium. , A dispatch from Sherman, Tex, reports the burning of the Opera House and adjoining buildings in that place. Loss, $40,000. Insured for $20,000.
 -Postmaster-G General Key has direct. ed Postmaster James of New York city not to deliver mail matter containing money or money orders addressed tc bogus bankers and brokers.
 Two shots were fired at the royal carriage containing the King and Queer of Spain. The first shot passed close 10 the head of one Of the royal footme1 and the second passed quite close to the Queens face. A boy of nineteen named Gonzales was arrested and has confessed the crime.
 Tine disaster at the Fay Bridge in Scotland shows it to be mos serious sffair. The details of the tragedy will never be known in detai as not single person on the ill-fateC train escaped. The train left Edin burgh at fifteen minutes past four in the aitelnoon. It consisted of four third class cars, one frst-class and one second class snd the brakesman's van. The night was one of bright moonlight, but the wind was blowing a hurricane It is believed that during the gale tht gap in the bridge was made and that the train ran into the gap. Perhaps the bridge gave way with the train. The gap in the bridge is about half miIt long, comprising eleven of the longes spans, each 245 feet in length, and ont span of 145 feet in length. It is no known how many persons were on tht train, and the number is estima ted at from 200 to 300. Only 8 few bodies have been found. Int water at the Gap is twenty y-fve fee deep, but at the bottom is quicksanC into which the bodies would soon slnk The affair will be investigated.
 At Pittshurg, Pa., the roof of tht large building occupied by Edgar A Thompson as an iron and steel works fell ill with great crash, burying be heath it's ruins number of men. The, were extricated as soon as possible iron the debris of fallen beams and bricl work, but nine of them were found tt be seriously injured, two fatally.
 In Boston fire was discovered at tn, rear of Rice, Kendall & Co.'s pape warehouse, on Federal street. In short time this building was consumed and that of Houghton & Osgood as vel as other buildings adjacent. The los is $1 ,000,000.
 The six-day walk in Madison Squar, Garden ended in great excitement. Tn, house was packed for hours before tn, close. The most remarkable feature o the walk was that the leaders continued to the very finish, and eight men GOV cred 500 miles and more. The sever winners of prizes, with the miles walked and prizes won, are as follows:
 NAME. MILES, PRIZE