Connecticut western news., 1880-02-04
NEWS OFTHE DAY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 -Gharlsss J. sFreeman, the Pocasset (Mass. child murderer, was remanded to jail to await the. May term of the Court. No doubt exists of his insanity. ssSJames Anderson, an undertaken, of Dover, N. I.,,c while walking on the rail road track was struck by the Oswego express and instantly killed. He leaves a widow end daughter.
 Tn Maine, on Wednesday, Jan. 18th, the Fusion Legislature, after @ secret session, ediourned to meet on the first Wednesday in August. Gov. Smith and some of tho members (Fusion) returned hoa8e. st0ther Fusionists took seats in the aLegislature. Two military com- panles were removed from the State Rouse The contest in the State is now believed to be at an end. s. In Paris Q New York bank clerk wba abscended with $20, GOO, has been arrested there with $10,000 in bis possession. -,,,.. 2-,. ....s.. -... .... The Lond Standards Bombay dispatch says. an army corps will ad- vance to Herat, which district will be trs1sfaSred to Persia. Operations throughout Afghanistan will begin about Msrch lS.s,1, ,@..... '.,. ' .-., ,,'. LA steamer loaded with fresh meat is on her way to England.
 At New Orleans a duel between Majors Bnrke and Hearsey was fought with pistols: distance, ten paces. After firing two Hounds each, friends inter- posed, and the difficulty was amicably adfp pstad.Il.,
 At Weytunk, N. J., George Ran some, while cleaning pistol, discharged achamber, the bullet piercing the brain of his seven-year-old son, killing him instantly.
 1.-The text of the reply of the Supreme Court of. Maine to the Fusionist ques- tons is in effect that the Fusionist body was not legally organized, and that the two houses in the Capitol building con- btitute the only legal Legislature.
 ei-A9dispateh from Valparaiso, Dec, 3l, says 300 lives were lost during the revolution in Lima when Senor Pierola became Dictator. -. .
 1.-The public buildings in San Chris tobal, Cuba, have been destroyed by earthquake seventeen members of the CiZib tfuards were wounded by falling walls ca the night of the 22d of January.
 The steamboat Charmer, with 2, 100 bales of cotton, was totally destroyed by fire fifteen miles above the mouth of the Red River! Eight lives were lost-two cham nbermaids, two cooks, two cabin boys, -one- fireman and one deck-hand. The boat and cargo were valued at $130. .OOQ. 'a,9 gS,.. - '-- ''''
 -4 Mitchell, Ind, dispatch states that William Harris, colored, killed his wife with an axe. A week ago she gave birth to g child and had been suffering from fever since. To-day she became delirious and attempted to get out of bed,. to which Harris objected with threats. On her renewing the attempt he seized an axe and killed her.
 At the Lunatic Hospital for Incur ables in Worcester, Mass, Thomas Dwyer, of Webster, B patient, was killed by another lunatic named William Rice, of Concord. Rice was originally shut up for killing his father, but for fifteen years has been apparently harmless
 The public buildings in San Chris tobal, Cuba, have been destroyed by earthquake; seventeen members of the Civil Guard were wounded by falling walls on the night of the 22d of January
 Both branches of the Republican Legislature of Maine have passed reso- ludons providing for constitutional amendment for electing the Governor by g plurality instead of majority vote: Governor Davis, it is said, will command the dispersion Of the Fusion Legislature after the Supreme Court renders its dacision.J .l..5 .,- ..-.-
 In New Haven the Rev. MT. Hayden was admitted to bail in the sum oi $5.O00, his counsel, George H. Watrous and LJ M. Hubbard, being sureties.
 The London StandGrd's Constan. tinople dispatch asserts that terrible distress prevails in Adrianople. Fifteen persons were found dead from hunger there in one day. In some cases pieces of wood were found in the mouths oi the corpses. ' .--
 The Spanish Legation has received Q dispatch from Havana announcing that the first guerrilla battalion has routed General Guillermon at Macios Abajo, killing and wounding several and taking some prisoners and military supplies. Many insurgents have sur rendered in consequence. At Nebuejas General Oarrera surrendered with his command. ij7.li T ..... -'.-r .-.' ~.'-
 "A boiler explosion occurred at ( sawmill in Transfer, Penn, instantly killing Joseph Grant and Seth Dec Garno
 The schooner Plymouth Rock o Gloucester, reports that on the 7th o December three of her crew were drowned by the capsizing of dory.
 t.as.s WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 A memorial signed by twenty-fou, gentlemen of eminence in the medica and scientific world will be presented te Congress at an early day, asking tha body to take into consideration "a gen eral law of control in the navy and mer chant marine of color blindness anG visual aeuteness. and an agreement bJ an international commission of definite and uniform standards of testing these necessary qualifications.
 The Committee on Coinage. Weight. and Measures adopted several importani amendments to Representative Warmers bill to stop paper imitation and provide for the increase of therrvolume of paper currency by the free coinage of gold anG silver and gold and silver certificates The bill as amended provides that from its,paasage the issue of additional banh notes shall cease, and the volume o such notes shall not be increased be yond the amount which the banks may be entitled to receive at the date of tho passage 'of. the act. For any needed in se'of currency the hints are to b, open to, the public for the coinage oi gold and kifVer into afandard cnina oY the same terms as to receipt and coin age, gold coins to be returned for goli bullion and silver coins for silver bull