Connecticut western news., 1880-11-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

day. Many vessels and twenty-slx lives are reported to be lost on the English coast and five lives in Dublin. In the latter city fifty families are left destitute. Great floods are reported ill Monmouth shire, Oxfordshire and other parts of the country,
 Mrs. Gould, the cashier of the de- funct Ladies Deposit of Boston, has been released on $10,0O0 bail.
 James B. Doyle, the forger arrested Tn Chicago Friday last, was held for trial in $2O, GOO bail
 Four counties in New Hampshire, Belknap, Carroll, Grafton and Merri- mac, have totalfpopulation of 121, 253, of which 60, AT are males and 60,S36 females.
 Ida Van Etten and twenty others, of New York, have filed articles of in- corporation at Albany of the Society for the Care of Infants and Young Children. Sara Bernhardt, the French actress, arrived in New York on Wednesday and met with cordial reception.
 -Kenward Philip, writer for Truth, "as arrested Wednesday iu New York on charge of criminal libel in connection with the "Grafield Chinese letter." He waived examination, but the prosecution insisted upon presenting number of affidavits. The prisoner, Philip, was re- leased on $5, 900 bail.
 The steamer Illyrian fell in with the ship Isaac Webb on October 25, from Antwerp for New York, in sink ing condition, and took off the crew, twenty-four in number, and took them to New York.
 A proposal has been made by Buenos Ayres to grant subsidy of $l00,00 yearly to O line of steamers between Buenos Ayers and New York.
 There were 716,233 votes cast in Ohio at the recent election and the aver age Republican majority on the State t!cket was p, 228.
 -Disastrous floods have caused the loss of much property and few lives in the Santa Catharina colonies, Brazil. Great distress is prevalent there.
 MT. Thomas P. O'Connor, one of the most prominent leaders of the Land League, says he is still of opinion that the arrest of the leading members of the Land League will be followed by bloodshed and anarchy in Ireland He insists that the Government will be re- sponsible for it and not the Irish people. It is stated that the weekly remittances to the League from America amount to between $1, ,500 and 5000.
 The Ansonia clock factory in Brook lyn, N. Y., was burned on Wednesday. The loss is estimated at from $75O, 0OOto $l,000,000. Over 1,200 workmen are thrown out of employment.
 The Second Chamber of the States General of the Netherlands by vote of Al to 20 has refused to re-establish capi- tai punishment.
 A misplaced switch on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Allentown, Pa, Tuesday, caused the wrecl1ing of an engine and twenty coal cars. The damage is estimated at $iO,O0O. No one was injured.
 The body of Michael Hendricks, nephew of Governor Hendricks, of h. diana, was found near Leadville, Col It is supposed that he was murdered by two of the McCollum Brothers, he hay ing been implicated in the murder of their brother and acquitted.
 The British Government has begun the prosecution of the leading members of the Land League by arrestlng MT. Thomas Healy for intimidating land lord. Other arrests are expected to fol- low immediately. MT. Parnell intends sending out new delegation to the United States to raise men and money for the outbreak that now seems inn pending.
 The Constantinople correepondent of the Manchester Guardian says : s'The fund for the relief of the Batoum refugees at Ismidt is exhausted. All the children are dead, the women dying, and the men are certain to succumb."
 A dispatch from Iquique, Peru, dated on the 23d inst, states that the town has been almost totally destroyed by fire.
 Census bulletins just issued show a population of 599, ,549 in Kings county, 90,547 in Queens, 53, 926 in Suffolk and 38, ,994 in Richmond. Rhode Island has 276,530 and the District of Columbia 177, ,638. Brooklyn has 566, ,689, Wash ington. 147, ,307 and Providence 1O4, 852.
 -Of the 14,50O,o 900 zuintals of grain imported into France during the first eight months of the present year, 9,OOO,. 900 quintals came from America,
 The registration in New York city this year was PIG, ,S95. In 1876 it was 1S3,064.
 Geo. Lovett quarreled with his wife Friday evening near Charlestown, Mo, and beat her brains out with a fat-iron and then committed suicide.
 There is much excitement in Eng. land over q rumor that the Fenians arc about to wreck railway trains, and sev. eral companies are setting watchmen or their lines.
 The Postofice at Manchester, Eng land, was destroyed by fire on Sunday. Great alarm is felt, as there are plain indications that the fire was set by in. cendiaries, and it is believed by many persons that this indicates an intention to organize disturbances in England in aid of the Land League in Ireland Two regiments of infantry are ordered to Manchester.
 Gable dispatches say that notwith standing the continued refusal of France and Germany to join with Great Britain in pressing for the immediate satisfac ton of Greece's claims upon the Sultan MT. Gladstone will insist single handed in the name of England upon the full surrender of the disputed territories, al action which, it is seen, points directl to general European war.
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