Connecticut western news., 1881-08-31
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

puy SlClhnS O1 the ffeS1QonG announced that they had no more encouraging symptoms to report, and informed Mrs. Garfield that, though hope is not yet abandoned, there is nothing to justify hope. By vote of five to one the phy sicians decided that it would be unsafe to remove the President from the White House. The President himself was very anxious to leave the White House. On Thursday night the Cabinet felt that the case was hopeless and Vice-President Arthur was notified to hold himself in readiness to return to Washington at any moment. On Friday morning it was believed by all that the President was dying. He was in stupor most of the time during the night and wander ing in his mind during the day. Once during Friday he recognized his wife and asked her to go and take some rest. When she asked to stay with him he desired that she might be allowed as they must soon be separated. At 10 p. m., Friday, the physicians noticed a slight change for the better, but at mid night there was little to give the phy- sicians hope.
 The United States steamer Alliance
  her cruise in search of the Jeannette.
 The excess of exports from the United States over imports during July was $10, 699, 460.
 Captain Payne, the leader of the celebrated Oklahoma colonists, alleges that he has discovered silver mines in the Indian Territory.
 TIo RFao,o 1o,. vention nominated the following ticket :: For Governor-Israel W. Andrews, of Danvers; Lieutenant Governor-Geo. Dutton, of Springfield Treasurer George Foster, of Lynn Secretary-A. B. Brown, of Worcester Auditor Wilber T. Whitney. of Ashburnham !: Attorney General-D. O. Allen, of Lynn. The platform repudiates and stigmatizes the two old parties, monopolies general ly. national banks, railroads, etc., and generally conforms to the previ ous greenback platforms.
 The New York Greenback State Convention nominated a full State ticket as follows: Secretary of State, Epenetus Howe, of Tompkins; Comptroller, John Hooper, of New York; Attorney General, Dennis 0. Fealey, of Monroe; Treasurer, Allen G. Woods, of Steuben; Surveyor General, J. H. Gould, of Cattaraugus; Associate Justice of the Court of Ap- peals, l.. G. McParlan, of Niagara The Convention adopted the platform of the National Convention held in Chicago June g, 1880.
 Three hundred workmen on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad have Gkr Ror o1x ko lo~ with ten hours work and weekly pay.
 The long-continued drouth is se- verely felt in Morristown, N. J., and vicinity. Many of the old wells and cisterns are being filled with aqueduct water from the fire hydrants, while the lawns and market truck gardens are in numerous instances total failures.
 A steamship line, under the auspices of French capitalists and the Dominion Government, has been established be- tween Brazil, Canada and France.
 Abby F. Goodsell, of Chamber a burg, Pa, has accepted the position of lady principal of Vassar College. She is the first graduate of the college who has reached place in the Faculty.
 MT. George W. Riggs, the Wash ington banker, is dead.
 Troops are being dispatched from Fort Assiniboine to drive back the Cana dian Indians who are in the habit of crossing the line to hunt buffalo and steal ponies.
 In Peru, General Hurlburt, the new American Minister, presented his cre- dentials to President Calderon on July 26. Pierola's forces are multiplying and disbanding. The Montaneros are rav- aging the country and lowering in the neighborhood of Peru.
 The National Board of Health has issued 8 warning against vessels from Havana, some of which are said to have yellow fever on board.
 At Evansville, Ind, Wednesday, { man was killed and property of tho value of $200, 900 destroyed by fire which burned down several wholesale stores.
 MT. John F. Reeve, United Statel Consular Agent at Port Limon, Cost, Rica, is dead.
 An Ithaca, N. r., paper publishe detailed charges to the effect that Shin kel, the Cornell stroke, was in leagu with certain betting men and that h. threw the Vienna race in accordanc with that arrangement.
 A fire in Philadelphia, Pa., Tues day, destroyed Warner & Merritt's frui warehouse in North Delaware avenue and the falling walls of the warehous crushed several adjacent stores. Tn total loss was about $30O,0
 Additional embezzlements to tn amount of $50, 900 have been discovere against Captain Howgate late of tn Signal Bureau.
 A Bonfire, started on Monday nigh by number of children at Passaic City N. J., set fire to five dwelling house and caused damage of $11, ,5OO.
 The report that Henry G. venno, the Canadian geologist and "weathe prophet" is to be appointed to tn Signal Service Department is again re vived.
 On Monday the cable steamer Fars day spliced the shore end of the secon cable of the American Cable Compan at Whitesand Bay and sailed westward paying out 1, 500 miles of the deep-se section.
 Tn au engagement at LaKo valley N. M., with the marauding Apaches Lieutenant Smith, of the Ninth Cava ry, was killed and his command onl saved by the arrival of force of miners
 A private letter from Mazatla1 Mexico, gives the following details ( the explosion there: One hundred an fifty pounds of powder blew up. On th first day thirty corpses were remove from the ruins, and on the following si days four or five daily, when the al thorities interdicted further removal considering the work dangerous.
 was presumed that more corpses we