Connecticut western news., 1880-12-01
NEWS OF THE DAY

during the late gales. It is estimated that SIG, ,000, GOO worth of property was destroyed, and many lives were lost.
 -Of one hundred and fifty recruits very recently sent to Afghanistan from England eighty have already died and forty are invalided.
 Two treaties, one of commerce and one of immigration, were signed between China and the United States at Pekin on the 17th instant, by which this country will control Chinese immigration.
 Daniel Scovil, freight conductor on the New York and New England Railroad, fell between the cars at Grams e ton, R. l., Thursday, and died soon af- ter.
 The Italian steamer Ortigia ran into the French steamer Oncle-J oseph near Spezzia, Italy, a few miles below Genoa. The Oncle-Joseph sank and of the 300 persons on board only about fifty were saved. The Ortigia arrived at Leghorn severely damaged.
 In Indiana B. s. Parker, Repub- hcan elector nominated in place of Gen. Thomas ". Bennett, has been defeated through the blunder of emitting his name from the Republican tickets. This will elect D. w. Chambers, the Demo- cratic elector, by about 5000 majority.
 A patient in the St. Peter (Minn ) Insane Asylum. which was burned re- gently, has confessed to setting fire to the building in revenge for alleged ill., treatment.
 The Mississippi is frozen over at Muscatine, Ia, the earliest for thirty eight years.
 At the meeting of the Veterans of the war of 1872 in New York on Thanks giving day only six veterans were pres ent. These were Gen. Abram Daily, aged 85 years; David Van Arsdale, 95 Thomas Blank, ST Samuel Ryckman, 88; Gardiner Lillibridge, S2, aud Will liam J. Sure, 82. They attended ser vice at St. Pauls Church, occupying the old double pew known as Washington's, s, and afterward sat down to dinner pre- pared for them.
 At Salem, Va, Wednesday, Marcus Hawley, who was executed Friday for the murder of Zachariah Hayes, was married in jail to Mamie Hawkins, who has borne him two children. He was subsequently baptized.
 During the gale on the Lakes on Saturday and Sunday nine vessels were driven ashore, and one man was frozen !. to death.
 On Sunday night number of per- sons were frozen to death in sections of New York and New Jersey.
 Six persons have died and thirty are dangerously ill from the effects of arsenic mistakenly used for salt in the prepara- tion of food for wedding feast at Col. Dai's, Tenn.
 James l.. Pugh has been elected to the United States Senate by the Alabama Legislature to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Houston.
 Mir. Forster states that the Habeas Corpus act may shortly be suspended In Ireland. Lord Beaconsfeld will move for it's suspension when Parliament meets.
 The British steamer Sandringham was wrecked off Cape Henry few weeks ago, and her captain obtained per- mission to have her repaired in the Norfolk Navy Yard. Friday work was stopped on account of her captains bitter abuse of the American navy, its officers and the flag.
 The annual report of the Secretary of War calls especially for the strength ening and improvement of the sea-coast defenses and asks for the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of War. The expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30 were $39, ,924, 773. .O3. Congress appropriated $41, ,993, ,63O. 40. The esti- mates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, are $43, ,627, ,055.54. The Mis- sissippi River Commissions report ex- hibited for the first time the estimates of appropriations required for works of improvement therein described amount ing to s, 133, ,00O.
 The Apaches attacked partyof Mex jeans on the 16th, on the road between Fl Paso and Chihuahua and killed nine of them. Sitting Bull is said to have announced that he has no intention of surrendering to the United States au- thorities.
 -The cable announces the death of Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice of England.
 The Secretary of War wants the army increased to 25, 900 active men.
 The annual report of the Indian Bureau shows that the number of
 
 of Alaska is 255, 938, all of whom, except about IS, 900, are more or less under di- rect control of agents of the govern ment. The civilized Indians now in the Indian Territory number 60, O,56O; and the uncivilized 17,75O. There are in round numbers 25, 900 Indians in Dako- ta; 23, 900 in New Mexico; 21, ,OOO in Montana; IT, ,O0O in Arizona, and 13, 900 in Washington Territory. It appears there are upward of 5000 Indians in New York State and more than 1O,OOO in the State of Michigan.
 Captain Nye, of the Sound steamer Stonington, was on Friday bound over to appear for trial at Norwich, Conn next December, on 8 charge of man. slaughter.
 An explosion of fre-damp occurred in coal-pit near Mons, Belgium, Fri day. Fifteen men were rescued, more or less injured. Twelve men are still in the pit and dead.
 The British steamer Mildred, which sailed from New York September 18th for Marseilles, has foundered in the At lantic, and the crew, twenty-four in number, were drowned.
 The expense of the Boycott military expedition will have to be borne by the County of Mayo, and this will be very heavy.
 Eleven persons were severely in- jured by the upsetting of an omnibus in Fitchburg, Mass, Thursday. The hor- es had become frightened by the noise of train.
 The official vote of the State of Oregon gives Garfield 2O,618, Hancock 19,950, Weaver 245. Garfeld's plu- rality, 66S.