Litchfield enquirer., 1880-05-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

ton Tn diplomatic circular.
 The deficit on account of the Afghan war
 will be $20, 100000. Dock laborers are on strike in Liverpool. MT. Parnell will sit in Parliament for Cork.
 Sir William Vernon Harcourt has been de- feated at the Oxford election.
 The British Government has been asked ito
 provide for tbe distress in Ireland Michael Davitt is coming to the United
 States to aid In organizing Irish land leagues F%0nce.-SiXty Roubaix factories are closed
 on account of strikes Germany. German Reichstag passed the Anti-Secialist bill, last week. The threats against the free cities produce much dissatisfaction in Germany; and it is
 expected that Bismark will come to a con- promise in regard to Lis proposed encroach- ments.
 Ialy-The Ministers have promised an extension of the suffrage Turkey Government is in great straits l financially.
 The Albanian declaration of independence has been published at Scutar Merlco. General Meiia has been put for
 ward as candidate for President Senor Sierra, an editor, has been killed in a duel.
 DOMESTIC. A meeting toexpress sympathy for Dennis Kearney was held at Cooper Union, in New York, last week. The jury in the Madison Square Garden in- quest censured the Harlem Railroad Company
 and the department of buildings. Several important resolutions in regard to
 local preachers, etc. have been introduced in
 the Methodist General Conference Mir. Tiden still insists that he is candidate. A new forest fire is reported from Ware town N. J.
 i Governor Cornell, of New York has vetoed
 the bill taxing foreign capital. John Sollinger of Hartford shot himself m | the New York Central Park, on the 9th. infiict. ing severe wound, and then reloaded his bis. ! tol so that he should not appear to be a sui. 1 eide
 Judge Dixon, at Paterson, N J., directed 1 the Grand Jury last week, to indct at leas, the leaders of the Paterson rioters The cornerstone of Wesley Hall of the Van. derhilt University in Tennessee was laid on the 1 9th
 D. T, Ames, the fourth expert called by the
 West Point Court of Inquiry, advanced the theory that the writer of the anonymous note had initiated somebody else's handwriting. ~. The Beard of Supervisors of San Francisco has authorized the Finance Committee to insti | thte judicial proceedings against Mayor Kal | loch
 An insurance suit, said to involve S1 .OOO. 900, was begun it New York, last week. The United States Courts have no money fo,
 fees to pay jurors and witnesses | Tine New Hampshire Democratic Convention
 elected Tilden delegates, Wednesday. MT. Geo. B. Roberts has been elected President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com. pany in the place of Colonel Thomas A. Sdott, | resigned.
 The Tennessee Republican'Convention elect. ed the Grant candidate for chairman by vote | of 265 to 256; and are 16 of the 24 delegates | for Grant .- The New Jersey and New Hampshire and Delaware Republican conventions of last week 1 sent Blaine delegates The Mississippi delegation to, Chicago is about half for Grant, the rest for Blaine and Sherman.
 | The Ohio Democratic Convention has in. | structed for Thurman and adopted the unit l rule. The Anti Third-Term Convention at St. Louis adopted resolutions protesting against | the nomination of General Grant for President, and appointing committee to take further action in the event of his Nomination. The Maryland delegation to Chicago is about
 half for Grant; half for Sherman and Blaine At the Blaine headquarters in Washington
 they claim to have list of 2S New York dele gates who will vote against Grants nomina- | tion.
 The Grant delegates. who were in minority, l bolted from the regular Republican County | Convention in Chicago, and held another else
 where The regular convention selected a | complete anti Grant delegation. On Monday four men were killed outright | by boiler explosion at Rome, N. Y, | The Methodist Enioconol Copforaroo t,~ -, | adapted a complimentary resolution in regard | to President and Mrs. Hayes l The inquiry into the conduct of Gen. War
 ren, at Five Forks, is proceeding at New l York.
 | A fire has destroyed part of Kinderhook,
 N. Y.
 There was an accident, Sunday, on the Iron ! Mountain Railroad near Bismark, Mo. two | men were killed. 1 Eighty houses and large quantity of oil
 have been burned in Rixford, Penn. G Thurlow Weed is out in letter, approving
 the anti Grant bolt in the New York delega-
 tion to Chicago. | Another expert has testified at the West l Point inquiry. l MT. McManus, Pennsylvania delegate, has
 published letter opposing the unit rule. CONGRESSIONAL. Senate. Tuesday of last week the Hal | laday claim was debated Senator Vest spoke | on the Kellogg resolutions; and the bill au- thOrizing canal convention with Nicaragua was passed in secret session. On Wednesday the bill making an -appro- priation for public printing was passed; an | amendment making an appropriation for the
 pay of Marshas was rejected; the District of Columbia bill was passed On Thursday public printing bill passed :: MT. Bayard offered bill containing the pro- visions of the vetoed bill regarding appoint nent of marshals,. 5-s-Z On Friday the conference report on the h.