Connecticut western news., 1881-07-06

-Commissioner of Internal Revenue Raum gave an opinion that all foreign bank capital employed in this country should be taxed. ssz
 There have been issued to date $217, ,S75, ,55O extended i've per cent. bonds. ..., ,'e
 Postmaster Henry 0. Cadmus, of South Amboy, N. J., shot himself on Tuesday. It is thought his accounts were not right.
 The new Anti Gambling law went into effect in St. Louis Monday, and every gambling-house in the city has closed. ... -'.'' -----
 The schooner Eustace, of Mazatlan, was blown up by the mad cook, who had previously stabbed the captain. The vessel had 2,30O kegs of powder on board. The crew escaped.
 The Harvard crew defeated Colum- bia by thirteen seconds at New London Monday.
 Later advices from the scene of the great railroad accident on the Morelos Railroad, Mexico, show that floods had undermined the bridge over the Sau Antonio River, and that when the train plunged dowl one hundred barrels of brandy in two vans took fire and added to the horror of the calamity. Seven- teen officers and 197 men of the Third Mexican Regiment were killed, besides many civilians.
 At Albany, Monday, the twenty eighth ballot was taken with no change in the situation. Before the voting MT. Spinola protested in behalf of the Democratic members of the Legislature inasmuch us there was not quorum of one branch of the Legislature present. It is claimed that the excursion steamers in Massachusetts harbors and on the little strip of New Hampshire coast last year carried more than II, 900, 900 passengers without accident to any one of them.
 The Census Bureau gives us the grain product of the United States for the year 1879. From these tables we learn that from 62, 326, 952 acres planted in corn there were raised 1,772, ,909, ,846 bushels from 35. 487, ,O65 acres in wheat the yield was 2S7, 745, ,626 bushels :; 36, 150, ,61l acres of oats produced 407, ,970, TIP bushels 2,005. .466 acres devoted to barley gave us A, 149, ,479 bushels; the l, ,S44, 321 acres sown in rye brought forth 16,919, 795 bushels, and the 856, BOA acres of buckwheat gave return of 9,S21, 721 bushels. The total acreage for cereals in 1879 was 11S, ,665, ,619, and the yield nearly three thousand millions of bushels, or an average of 54 bushels to each individual of our 50, ,000, ,000 oi population. ....-..
 W. G. Whitney, son of Myra Clark Gaines, was shot dead ln a hotel at Washington by J. Y. Christmas, her son-in-law. The two men had quar- reled over their business relations.
 The Greenbackers of Minnesota have nominated o. B. Roberts, of Olm. stead county, for Governor, and full ticket for the other State officers.
 The comet is now moving away from the earth (this is the conclusion al the Cambridge Observatory at the rate of 300, 900 miles day. It will prob. ably be visible for several months, and be conspicuous during that time to the naked eye. It reached it's maximum or Thursday night. Its nucleus is prob. ably 1000 miles in diameter, and the in ner head at the envelope 12,00O, while the coma is vastly more than that. The tail is at least 4. 900, 900 miles in length. These computations were made by Mr. s. 0. Chandler of the staff of the ob servatory. .......... ....,.. A number of cattle men who started out to avenge the murders by the Pah Ute Indians have been cut of and killed in Utah.
 The Irish census returns show that the population has fallen off 25O, ,00C since 1871 and 5000, 900 since 1841.
 There was an affray between the mili- tary and the mob at Michaelstown,C Coun. ty Cork, Ireland, Thursday. Evictions had been ordered on the Countess oi Kingston's estate there, and the people barricaded the streets. The soldiers and police charged, and forty-two people and several police were injured in the melee. The tenants meanwhile hac pad up and the evictions were stayed MT. Chamberlain, President of the British Board of Trade, is considering the possibility of arranging Q convention with America to check the practice O. c1mplng Seamen.
 The Russian Ministry of Marine il examining plans for additions to thu | fleet, estimated to cost 216, ,000, ,00t roubles.
 Sentence of death has been passet | upon Midhat Pasha and the other per sons concerned in the murder of Abdu Aziz. Two accessories received tel years penal servitude.
 Herr Most, editor of the Londol | Freiheit, has been sentenced to sixteel months imprisonment for the articles 'inciting to murder" the present Czar The French Government intends t, increase the force in Algeria. Franc has again complained to the Porte of tn unfrieudly attitude of the Governor o Tripoi.
 The Italian Chamber of Deputies Wednesday passed the Electoral Reform bill by vote of POP to 116. | The Marquis Townshend was fnet 950O and bound over to keep the peace for year for assaulting Lord Edwart Thyme, and Colonel Nepeau and MT Francis Ellis were fined g100 each fo aiding and abetting in the assault. h May last the Marquis horsewhippet Lord Edward, who some years ago wen off to the Continent with Lady Towns bend.
 The Italian Press asserts that Franc is anxious to pick & quarrel with Italy and counsels patience, so that Italy ma, choose her own time for war.
 The total amount of the subscrip tions received by the Land League il Ireland from America since the organ ization of the League is about G100, OOI sterling.
 The radicals in England, now tha the Land Bill is well under way, ar turning their attention to domestic re forms, viz, the assimilation of tn