Connecticut western news., 1880-03-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TTEaas,

ab nIs res1Qence. General Melikoff wi
 not hurt. The culprit was lmm ediatej
 selzed by a Cossack. The bullet passe
 through the back folds of General Mel
 koffs cloak. The assassin attempted
 Ire second shot before he was seize,
 but was prevented by blow f. om th
 General.
 The Republican members of th
 Malne Legislature have chosen the fo
 lowing delegates to the Chicago Nations
 Convention Messrs. Eugene Hale
 Jas. R. Bodwell, B. T. Gill and Almo
 "A. Strout. Resolutions were adopte
 urging the nomination of Senator Blaine
 A decree has been published i
 Spaln fixing the force of the army fo
 the year 1880-81 at 20, 900 men for Spair
 oS, GOO for Cuba, 10000 for the Philir
 pine Islands, and 3,395 for Porto Rico
 A negro named Louis Kinder com
 mltted an assault upon a Mrs. Byrd il
 Ooneton county, s. O. Kinder was cap
 tured: While going to Walterboro t
 lsl, the guard were overpowered, an,
 the prisoner was taken to the woods
 where he was hanged, having first con
 iessed his guilt, and also acknowledged
 fne killing of coiored girl and othe
 crimes.
 The warehouses of the Domesti, Sewing Machine Company, Seventh
 avenue, New York city, and the planinc mill of Farnham & Comstock. with thei1 contents, altogether valued at $I75. OOO ing.
 .., The steamer Vingoria, from Bom. pay for Kurrachee, has foundered at sea. Six Europeans and sixty-two na- lives were lost.
 The Iowa Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale ot oleomargarine under heavy pen- altles by fine and imprisonment.
 A movement is on foot to establish anational Soldiers Home at Erie, Pa.
 Both houses of the Virginia General Assembly have repealed the MofEett bell punch liquor law and reesiablished a license system which is to go into oper- ation on May l.
 The pork packing for the winter sea- son m Cincinnati, just closed, amounts to 534, ,559, which is S9, ,025 less than last year. '--''-- -''''
 The steamer Alexandria. from Sfenoa, arrived in New York with the nve passengers and forty-fve of the crew of the steamer Hindoo, from New York, sunk in mid-ocean, and with the crew of the English brig Julia, also sunk In mid-ocean. Three officers of the Hindoo were drowned.
 Two carloads of Chinamen from San H'FQnnTnnn ,L s1 New York. About 500 more will soon follow.
 A London Nea0s dispatch from Con- stantlnople reports that the Greek bri- gsnds near oSalonica have sent letter demanding @15, ,000 ransom in ten days or they will send Colonel Synge's head to Salonica.
 At Jamestown, N. r., Jonathan F. Southland, farmer, was riding with ms wife when the horse became fright ened and upset the buggy. MT. South land secured the horse and assisted his vie into the buggy, and then dropped dead in the road.
 The Irish societies in New York city have decided not to parade on St. Patrick's Day.
 County Clerk Gumbleton of New York has sued Ex-Governor Robinson for $5O, ,O0O damages for removing him ldumbleton) from his Clerkship.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 "A further hearing was given by the Ways and Means Committee on the memorial asking reduction of duty on chrome iron ore and bichromate of pot | ash. MT. Riker, of New York, made an argument Tn favor of the reduction from | which 1t appears that the firm of Ryson | & Co., of Baltimore, is the sole manu- facturer in this country, and through | the present tariff enjoys monopoly of | the business.
 The Senate Committee on Appro. l priations has agreed to recommend the | passage of bill to repeal all laws which | provide for permanent and indefinite | appropriations, except so far as they re- late to the Sinking Fund and to the pay ment of interest on the principal of the | public debt, or of bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad companies, and to cer- tain other specified objects, such as the support of the Marine Hospital Service. The bill also proposes a number of im- portant changes in the laws concerning lapsed appropriation.
 The House resolution amendatory of the last Sundry Civil Appropriation act authorized the Director of the Geo. logical Survey to extend it's operations into the States. The Senate committee | has amended this clause so as to make | 1t read: "And he may extend his ex- animation of the geographical structure, | mineral resources and products into the | respective States when requested by the | authorities thereof"
 -Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, an ophthalmic surgeon of Boston, gave series of ex- periments before the House Naval Com nnittee illustrating color blindness, which he asserted was found in four per cent. of males. He appeared in connection with memorial signed by large num- Der of the leading scientific men of the country, in favor of law of control in the navy and merchant marine of color blindness by an international commits sion.
 The House Committee on Com- merce have had under consideration MT. Ross's bill providing that no vessel engaged in the coasting trade shall be compelled to pay pilot not voluntarily employed on passing through Heil Gate. Delegations representing the Boards of Trade and the shipping in. terests of New York, Boston and Philadelphia were present and urged its passage. A further hearing will be given, after which the pilots will be heard in opposition to the bill.
 The bill introduced in the Senate by MT. Bailey to refund the national debt, authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever the bonds now out standing shall become due, to issue bonds in exchange bearing per cent. interest and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after twenty years