Connecticut western news., 1881-06-15
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

in the Conkling- Platt or the Democratic figures. Speaker Sharpe was examined touching the alleged Bradley-Sessions' bribery case and corroborated Mir. Bradley's account of the interview al which the latter handed him g. GOO. MT. Armstrong gave evidence as to the offers made to him by the lobbyist Ed wards.
 Five persons Twin near Solomon CityyKan., were killed on Thursday by a cyclone, which also destroyed many buildings.
 Twelve men were severely scalded Friday by the explosion of boiler in Pittsville (Pa.) rolling mill.
 -A number of officials have been driven out of Perryville, Ark, by armed Kuklux, and serious trouble is feared.
 The Virginia Republican Executive Committee adopted an address calling on Republicans to stand by the party and repudiating coalition with the Readjusters.
 Cotton crop reports from Texas, Ala bama, Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia Florida and Louisiana show that an in- creased acreage has been planted and that the crop is in good condition, but late.
 The State Department has pub ished @ pamphlet establishing the purity and wholesomeness of American pork. It has been learned that Limerick bacon Is made in Chicago and sold in Ireland as the genuine article.
 Sixty eight cadet midshipmen and twenty-one cadet engineers has been graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
 Mrs. Jennie Ducy, wife of the Hon. J. c. Ducy, prominent citizen of Gen. tral Illinois, recently committed suicide in very appalling manner. She burned herself to, death by turning coal oil on her clothes and igniting them with fire. In few minutes she was burned to crisp. For some time past she had been suffering from slight insanity. She was woman quite we'll known in Gen. tral Illinois for her literary culture.
 The Council of Administration of the New Jersey Grand Army of the Re public has concluded that, if the annual encampment. is held, it will be during the last week in August, at Monmouth Park, Monmouth County. -At'Richmond, Va, Richard Thornp- son, colored, was struck by lightning and instantly killed recently. There was osstorm and very small cloud was passing over the city at the tirue, from which only one flash of lightning issued accompanied by moderate re- port of thunder.
 -Atfhe annual meeting of the Ameri- can Home Missionary Society, at Chi cago, committee was appointed to o1 4.>T T1, subject Of Mornonism.
 At the soldiers reunion at Hart form, Conn.,, General Sherman replied at length to charges made against him by Jefferson Davis in the ''Rise and Fall of the Southern Confederacy," more particularly those relating to the removal of n-combatants at Atlanta and to the burning of Columbia.
 On the eighth joint ballot for U. s. Senators at. Albany 1855 votes were cast in the joiut convention, MT. Depew receiving 51, the highest number yet recorded on the Republican side There is no change of importance in the posi- tion of the other candidates.
 The divorce suit brought by Mrs. Agnes Robertson Boucicault against her husband, Dion Boucicault, was begun before Judge Donohue by motion for alimonv. Affidavits were offered by each side.z $ .s'@s.-s
 At the Ohio Republican convention at Cleveland, MT. Foster was renomi- mated for the Governorship. Senator Sherman made 8 speech lauding the Garfield Administration and indirectly hitting at MT. Conkling. The platform contains a plank favoring the submis- sion to% the people of amendments to the State constitution relative to the liquor trade. Y
 -ThesseVenth ballot in joint conven- tion. at Albany, for the election of Uni ted States Senators, showed no special change in the result, except partial concentration of the anti-Platt men on Depew, who received 42 votes.
 A gang of roughs connected with circus attacked dancing party in Che saning, Mich. on Monday night, killing policeman and badly wounding dozen or more villagers.
 The long. trial of Cadet Whitaker by court martial is ended at last tes- timony and arguments all submitted, and the~iudgnient of the Court is next order. < ss < , ss-+
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Tues day consummated the purchase of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- more road by paying to the Boston syndicate the $15. 900, 900 agreed on.
 The census appropriation is ex- hausted, and it is proposed to continue the larger part of the force of clerks as volunteers in expectation of payment by the next: Congress.
 --Havemeyer & Elder, of New York, have filed petition in Chicago asking for an injunction against refining company which, 1t Is claimed, is buy ing and adulterating the petitioners sugar.
 In joint session of the two Houses of Legislature at Albany, the second weeks balleting for United States Senator's to succeed Messrs. Conkling and Platt, resigned, opened with large list of absentee members. Only 100 votes were cast. For Senator for short term the vote stood Conkling, 26; Cornell, Is; Wheeler, IA; Rogers, 13; Jacobs (Dem. ), 25, and six scattering. The ballot for Senator for long term re- suited: Platt, 23; Depew, 21; Cornell, g; Miller, 9, Herman Oem.), 26, and 12 scattering. The convention then took the usual one day recess.
 The Southern Confederates are or ganiz1ng to welcome the Federal Army of the Cumberland to Chattanooga, Tenn.
 The steamship Chong, manned and offered exclusively by Chinese, sailed from Hong Kong for Victoria, B. C., on the 1st instant with 800 Chinamen to &Lo. ID