Connecticut western news., 1880-01-28
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 -AnAdveatist preacher at NewHaap ton, .h., ig believed by, the people pi that town to have repeated the Pocasset (Mass. horror and sacrificed his son,
 General R. s. Gibson has been elected to the United States Senate by the Louisiana Legislature.
 A dispatch from Fort Reno to the LevspWorth (Kan.l Times reports that Major Brownhead, Pay ymaster, U. s. A., has been robbed of $20,O0O while jour. neying between the above points.
 Tt is rumored that Prussia will take no further direct steps to reopen negotiations sRith the Vatican, but that certain clauses of the Church laws will be abolished. A bill has been presented to the Bundesrath proposing additions to the German armiess also for raising the present. peace force. -'
 Conflicting reports, of 8, series oI earthquakes in San Salvador come from Panama by mail: Two small villages about nine miles from the capital had been destroyed, and it is apprehended that the city of San Salvador has been levelled. All who, could had left the city. Tho lake Of sIlopango had given warning by it's actions. San Salvador has suffered Severely from earthquakes. On two occasions in 1854 and in 1872, the loss of life was very heavy. ... .-'-t
 A frightful colIiery explosion oc, curred- at Newcastle under-Tyne. Tine explosion is attributed to the gaseous nature. of the coal seam. At the time of the disaster v persons were in the minea only $ of them were saved. The bodies of the dead were shockingly burned.
 -GeaerA Garcia Cadena, Governor of Zacateeas, Mexico, IS believed to be about to attempt movement to make himself President of Mexico. Another Cabinet crisis is also reported there.
 News comes from Lisbon concern ing sa smob in Rio de Janeiro which destroyed the cars and tracks of street. car company and fired at the troops. Three persons were killed and thirty
 The Slavery Abolition bill was adopted as a whole by the Spanish Oortez, the vote beirg-y eas, 230; nays, AVs AAO AAAAAOAAOy mOAO dUS04bs
 The. Cincinnati Times asserts that the 4pemOcsatic National Convention will besheld in that city. =,z =< '.s...
 Jennie. Sails (colored), alleged to be l6 years old, died at Wyandotte, Kan.stlH zs,s.4,i ,.'sLl- : ' --."
 Six men, and three women were ar- rested at Oswego, N. r., for counter Nhox
 The Steamship City of Picking brings word to San Francisco from Tokio that on December 26 nearly 15, GOO houses were destroyed by fire and 1000 per- sons were rendered destitute.
 In New Haven, on Monday after noon, the Hayden jury came into court and reported that, after over seventy fours hours of deliberation, they were unable to agree on 8 verdict. As the foreman would not say that an agree ment was impossible, the Court sent them ont again. In the evening they reported that they could not agree, and the Court discharged them. They stood eleven for acql1fttal and one for a yer dict of murder in the second degree.
 Reports confirm the killing of two citizens of Lancaster County, Va, by non- resident dredgers, but the hostiIities oI the oystermen have now ceased.
 As the Buffalo express train No 15. bound north, was approaching North Wales, on the North Pennsylvania Division of the Reading Railroad, the engine jumped the track. The engineer, James Daley, was killed, and the fire man, Thomas Rheinay, was slightly injured. A. sleeping car was badly wrecked but no passengers were in- William Beaver, for the murder of his wife, in October, 1879, at Louisa Court-Heuse, Va. ,has been sentenced to the pententiaFy for eighteen years.
 In Washington Miss Lucy Walton Rhett Horton, charged with an assault with intent to kill John H. Morgan, son of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, was held in $1 ,00O bail to await the action of the Grand Jury.
 John McKernan, of Rock Point. P. E. l., perished in the late snow storm. It is supposed, that he was intoxicated and fell from his. wagon, the team re- turning home without him, and the next day his frozen body was found.
 -I WASHINGTON ITEMS. 1
 The House Committee on Railways and Canals ha5 agreed to report favora- ply the bill for the survey of @ water route to connect Lakes Erie and Michi- gan. It contemplates the cutting of canal across the State of Michigan.
 The House Committee on the York town Celebration has instructed 8 sub- committee to draft bill appropriating $lOO, 900 for 8 monument at Yorktown.
 The discussion in regard to the Mexican War Pension bill has dsveIoped the fact that there are not as many sur ylVors as was at first supposed. The Second New York, which went into the var with 1000 men, has only 57 sur- vlvors. The Palmetto Regiment, South Carolina, out of 1,037 men has only 34 left.
 The National Woman Suffrage Con- ventlon met at Washington. Among the resolutions offered was one by Mrs. Sara J. Spencer maintaining that General Grant won his first victory through the military plan and genius of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland.
 A Acommunication from the Secretarv ot War was laid before the House We'd nesday inclosing plans and estimates TOT a permanent building to complete the principal depot for the general re- cru1tlng service at David's Island, N. r., at an estimated cost of $15O,OOO
 The President has nominated James Russell Lowell to be Minister to Eng land, John W. Foster to be Minister to Russia, Lucius Fairchild, now Consul General at Paris, to be Minister to Spain, and Philip H. Morgan to be Minister to Mexico.
 The House Committee on Military Affairs took action on the Fitz John