Litchfield enquirer., 1881-04-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

~ "AS'eseS Land bill was resumed in the British Parlia- ] ,nent, Monday
 It is ru.hored that Lord Derby will replace
 Earl Spencer in the British Cabinet. . British wnrkmen are leaving Bradford at
 the rate of fifty week. Mir. Freman,le. the Controller of the Brit
 sh Royal Mint is to represent England at the Monetary Conference. The subscriptions for the Carlyle memorial l have stopped on acc 'unt of the public dissat- isfacton with his "Reminiscences y The report that Lord Daferu in may become Viceroy of India is revived. ... The Conservative leadership continues to perplex the Tories. The National Convention at Dublin has left | the care of the land bill in the hands of the Irish Parliamentary party. The steamer Begenland has arrived at Ply
 mouth in tow of the Sunatra; the Belgen-
 land had lost her propeller. . France. The sessi ms of the Monetary con- l ference have begun al Paris. Germany The conditions which Hamburg has put forward fr entering the ZJnverein have been accepted by Prussia. :s q | Spain. -Senor Castelar, has announced the 1 conditions of his candidacy at the coming l Spanish elections.
 I RAssiG Many persons have been drowned l ny the upsettins of ferryboat on the Dnies | ter.
 The Czar, it is reported, will consult com 1 "it'ee of elected representatives onS State qnes- 1 tions ,.5a. iG 5k1af t@ Several important arrests have been made at l St. Petersburg
 Rounaaaia A new Cabinet Las been form. Turkey. After repeated defeats of the AL 1 banans. Dervisch Pasha has entered Prisreud. 1 The Albanian league is dissolved. Greece. There is much discomfort with the
 Turk ish treaty at Athens a Tunis. The Bey refuses to sanction the oc-
 cupa!ion of Tabarca
 1 The French expe'tsionary corps has left Bona, Algeria, for Tunis.
 DOMESTIC. l In the United States Senator Mr. Blain intro- | duced a resolution declaring that an extra ses-
 sion of Congress should he called. 1 The president mas nominated General Long. street as United States Marshal for Georgia | The annual session of the National Acade- my of Sciences was held at Washington, last week. Af 1 In the New York Senate, the Forster resolu- | ti0ns to make the State canals free were or dered 50 q third reading. l Tie Rev. Phillips Brooks has declined
 chair at Harvard University. |
 sane. at Anna, was burned on the 18th inst,
 loss $150,0 900. . | A business block at Meriden. Miss, was | burned on the 18th inst. loss $250.000 l The boiler makers at Pittsburg, Penn, are
 on srke n | Great damage has been done at Rockford, l Ill.,, by an unprecedented rise of the Rock
 River.
 Three cases of cholera have been found in l New York City. s5 & l Postmaster Tyler. of Baltimore, has been l removed by the President.
 Great damage has been done in Illinois and ] Wisconsin ny sudden rising of river waters, 1 and more extensive damage is feared. a' | Representatives of various rapid transit schemes in Brooklyn adopted plan of union. Rowland E Trowhridge, late Commiss-
 toner of Indian Affairs. is dead l The United States Circuit Court at Phil
 adelphia has decided that the scheme of the
 Reading Railroad Company to issue deferred
 income bonds is illegal =. Thirty lodges of of Maricopa Sioux Indians
 allies of Sitting Bull have surrendered at
 Fort Keogh.
 l Annual Conferences of the Methodist l Episcnpal Church were in sessinn, last week, at
 Glens Falls N. Y, Bradford, Vt, and Clare.
 mont, N. H.
 | The Seventeenth annual report of the Chi cagt,, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Com.
 pany places the net earnings for the year 1880
 at more than $5. 000 900 | A call has been issued for a caucus meeting ! of Republican Uslited States Senators this 1 week.
 T. w. Cunningham, San Francisco com
 mission merchant, was shot and killed in
 street affray, on Friday
 J. N. Du Barry has been elected president
 of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Con- pany.
 The Rev. Dr. Henry Darling. of Albany,
 has accepted ihe presidency of Hamilton Cor lege. ,s.w as. 'sag
 Armed men murdere5 an entire. fam fly in
 Edwards Cnunty. Texas. last week A railway accident in New Mexico, Friday,
 resulted in the death of eight passengers, sev. l eral others were wounded. ~ stg 1 Great damage is feared from an unpreced.
 ented rise of the Minnesota River. Incendiary fires at Syracuse, Saturday.
 caused loss of nearly $60,000.
 Three women were burned to death, Friday night, at Salras. Cal. s. l A physician, sixty years of age, at Asbury I Park, has been arrested for practising without l a diploma. eS l Extensive life insurance swindles in Vest
 ern Maryland have come to light l The Union Pacific Railroad Company has
 filed heavy claim against the Government
 for money alleged to be due for sn,ail service. A burglar was shot and killed by the owner
 of store at Buffalo early Sunday morning. l There was almost a riot Saturday at Waco.
 Texas, between the employees on two rail- roads
 I Trinity Collrge has received $40, 900 as a
 gift from Colonel Chailes H. Nurtham, of | Hartford l The statue of Admiral Farragnt was un-
 yelled at Washington, Monday: President | Garfield accepted the statue in the name of
 ihe Nation. and addresses were made hy ex-s l Postmaster General Maynard and ex-Senator | VMlrheps