Connecticut western news., 1880-09-08

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 IA fnghtf1 catastrophe occurred at Logrono> Spain, 8 beautiful town oni the bank oftahe river Ebro. A regiment of -tha- line was 4crossina na-aa-=a-aaatoon bridge, the band playing gayly, when an awful crash was heard. The bridge gave WaE,s ,eass,4isg intosathm risers nore.rt9fan AgAe :htane men aid officers, Ascghe sat tisbIi a iadsRoE Horror. &aB paa1ie- -striekgMn Beld dfefS. s8Hsi shore .Xere- .upahla- ta.as -thsit1d 1droMhing comrades, @ ushtp Gwefe's clinBgiing to the sp tS dsaa result was that=aaoshaofsthe sank to rise no more, aRbeang. ii iii mar rcfhdfhgs attire and armed with -heaxx rifles and supply cartridges. Ehe bodies mifiye officers and seventy men ssSte-YYere44 re4, 4,,--.atlff aatltff others were aild. .hYjYllIagaEs lower down the mver, .wlferetsheywefe carried by the stream. The hoHtoofi bridge had been erected to enable passengers to cross the river while the-s -stesse-sriage was being repaired and had been pronounced safe by engineers. SaNenty-nine persons nall are known toihave been drowned -'.' " ..'., ''. '' .,'. ,.' -aE There is very little doubt that the steamer City of Vera Cruz, of the Mex lcan hna, which sailed from New York On'ths 18th tof August for Havana and Vera, Cruz ,sMent down in the recent hnrricaae, which. has already strewn the Softth ern coast with wrecks., Only the faiatast hopes remain that any. of her npasssngers, have survived Her mail ana, cargo is strewn. along the Flor idaeoast: 's. The City of Vera Cruz was ah%9oden vessel of 1,874 tons. register, and was built at Greenpoint, l.. l., in 1874 She had about thirty passengers h board. .... .....a .'a' ,..,s .,., -
 The British steamer Hardwick, of 678l ltons, from Odessa for Bristol laden with barley, shifted her cargo and foun- dered, and all on board were lost with the exception of one fireman. The Mer- chant Shipping Act of 1876is officially re- turned as having since its enactment to early in this year led to the detention on the grounds of defect of 390 vessels. Of this number 33776 were found to be unsafe, six were safe and five were liberated, hay ing been improperly detained. As many as 425-vessels were detained for overload ing and improper loading, and they were all found "unsafe."
 -Chii and Peru have opened nego- tiations looking to a settlement of ex- isting difficulties.
 --Geaeral Weaver, Greenback candi-- date for President, has declared that he does, not sanction any unioa,''of the Gfeenbaekerss with tie Democrats in, MaipesnoEW with the Republicans in West Virginia. 'E-'''+ '.'i5 - '--,- t.f.~'' .-Tha.. lemao,cesratsl l1of. Massachusetts. hold ai1..to VNoraocAhYs n11 Wednesday, and nominated Charles P. ThemPsea, ef- -GGleHeestef, for Governor and the following State ticket: For Lieutenant-G Governor, Alpha E. Thomp son, of Urburn; Secretary of State.- Michael F. Donohue, of Somerv11e; Treasurer, FrahcisJ. Parker, Of Newtb1;; Auditor, Charles R. Field, of Greenfeld;- : Attorney General, P. A.. Collins, of Bos- ton, .Presiqentid Electors at 3, large, Josiah 6. Abbott of Boston and Jonas H. French of Gloucester. The platform maintains that the Republican party, so called, is sectional and, not national; that its continual flaming of the embers of'sectfonaF strife weakens the sentimeht of union and retards the, prosperity of the country, ,y,.saty1,, .;Iof,siinI4;
 The Democratic State Convention in
 
 on the fourth. ballot for Governor. The platform approves the Cincinnati plat. form and .faYoEs protection to home in- dusstry. After the nomination I6 for Governor, the -Conventioh nominated the following electoral ticket and then ad.- journed!! At Earge-G -Gottfried Krueger, of, Essex, ,and. .sJ ohm H.. Dialogue, of Camden. District, ,Electors-1st, George GfGfeea, of Gloucester 2d, Timothy Al EtByrnes, of Atlantic; Sd, "; H. Hendrickspn, of Monmouth ;4th, Rymer H. Veghte, of Somerset; 9th, O. A. Wartendyke,. of Bergen; 9th, James F.. McInteeia,9lof Essex; 7th, .E: Mi O. Young, Of Hudson. :: ;.o.. r.,,,. , :.l.. =. .:5
 -Hke Kansas Republicans have re- nominated GoVernor. John P. St. John for Governor. D. A. Valentine was : nominated forrAssoeiate Justice of the Supreme CourtY....--r a-.-,-,, Iioa.
 AAt tie; Republitt ttan' an State Convehtion in Nebraska the State officers were; re- nominated except the Land0 Commission CTS and the Superintendent of Public h. struction.
 The meeting. of the Society off the Army tofnthe Cumb berlandin Toledo, O., will take place on;September 22 and23. General james B. Steedman is Chair man of the Executive Committee, and H. s. Brenker Co responding Secretary.
 1.-The United States internal revenue receipts for the month of August, 1880, amount to $10, 497 ,091, a gain of $1, ,O69,- 127 over the corresponding month of 1879. The total gain in receipts for the first two months of the present fiscal year, July and August, over the same months in 1879, is $2, ,428, ,937. r..-.. "'
 The people Of Callao have not an agreeable prospect to contemplate just now. The Chilian blockading feet is preparing to send in toward the shore Q steamer loaded with dynamite and gun powder, and explode 1t with a time fuse in way to blow to pieces all the bat teries... Compared with this the destruc- tion of the Loa would be but the prelude of tragedy. The idea is essentially the same as that of the famous powder boat of Fort Fisher. e., ...: -.sora.
 The wife of William c. Hea1y, of Aga#an, Mass, hanged herself Tuesday
 In New York the Colby Democratic State Committee, chosen at Shakespeare Hall, Syracuse, by letter addressed tc the Democratic electors of the State re. voked it's, call for State Convention issued on the 14th, and ratified the cal of the Faulkner State Committee for { convention at Saratoga on September 28
 -The Viceroy of India telegraphl that a messenger who left Candahar o1 the 26th of August reports that Ayoul Khan's force was on the Argand-Ab 23, 900 strong. The English force is abou Q Fit.
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