Litchfield enquirer., 1881-04-07

LegistaRare granting the right of way for ship canal; the projectors of the canal pro- pose c9npany with ! capital stock of $30- | 00U, ,O00
 A bill requiring medical practitioners to
 register has passed the Pennsylvania House Thomas C.. Gemme,s City Attorney of BaYonne City. N. !. is missing Commander Charles T. McDougal was drowned at Mendocino, Cal, on Monday of last week.
 dinner was given to Ex Judge A. W.
 Tourgee at the Union League Club on Tues
 day evening of last week s--'a.=s,a--zs- -.s , In the Massachusetts House bill to give
 municipal suffrage to women has been de feated. --rv .f , A circular to holders of called bonds has
 been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. James Currie, who murdered Porter, the
 actor,z has himself been murdered. @ In Randolph County, Ala, last week, John
 Embrey and his family were killed by cy- clone
 General Lew Wallace has declined the ap, 1 pointment of Charge d'Affairs to Paraguay and l In the Deleware Senate the local option bill 1 has been killed
 Great damage to property and loss of life by 1 storms and floods in the West are reported. A motion to revive the matter of the adju- dication of bankruptcy of the Boston. Hart | ford and Erie Railroad has been granted in the United States District Court at Boston. | The attempt to recind the resolution of the l New York Assembly in approval of the nom l nation of William H. Robertson for the New
 York Collectorship has practically been prac-
 tically been abandoned. The Fish Cultural Association concluded it's session on Thursday ! Serious railway accidents occurred, last l week, near Toledo, Ohio and Councils Bluffs, Iowa.
 The foreclosure sale os the old Pacific Rail-
 road Company to- Commodore Garrison has
 been sustained in the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis.
 Last week witness in the Whitaker case l declared that Mir. Southworth was not trust worthy expert. | A perfected signalling system has caused
 the dismissal of a number of brakemen on the | New York Central and Hudson River Rail road.
 Jewels valued at $4, 900 were adroitly stolen l from store in Chestnut-st, Philadelphia, on 1 Thursday.
 The Massachusetts House has defeated the prohibirory bill,
 l On Friday fatal accident occurred to a
 train on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Man
 toba Railroad near Fergus Falls. Minn. Several persons were injured by the explo l sion of a locomotive at Tyrone, Penn, on | Friday.
 The public debt statement for March shows
 a reduction of more than $6, 900, 900. 1 The Massachusetts Senate has rejected
 measures for the sale of the States stock of | the New York and New England Railroad | It is reported that train on the Atchison, l Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was attacked near Albuquerque, N. M., by robbers, and | hot 6psnarata fioht tnOk plaop The Mayor of New York has made formal l charges against Police Commissioners Nichols, l French and Mason for neglect to clean the l streets, and the Grand Jury made present.
 ment to the Court on the same subject The capital stock of the Pullman Palace Car | Company has been increased at Chicago from l $60OO, 900 to $s, 900. .O0O. Four men were scalded to death by the ex- plosion of boiler near Norfolk, Va, on Sat 1 urday. et
 A fire at Cincinnati Saturday, destroyed ! property valued at $10O, ,00O
 Andrew D. White has resigned his posi- 1 ton as Minister to Germany. State elections were held in Michigan and Wisconsin, Monday. Charles Tomlinson, of Trenton, N. J., com ! mitted suicide.
 General Grant and party left Galveston, Tex, for Vera Cruz, Sunday morning. noted desperate was lynched at Sidney Ne b., Sunday. .,--.. The Republican Senators met in caucus, Monday, and decided to persist in the attempt to elect officers of the Senate; in the Senate
 the political debate was continued The Supreme Court of the United States IT ade an important decision. Monday, revers- ing the Supreme Court of Utah in trial af- fecting polygamy. It is stated that the Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks
 has been offered the chair at Harvard to be
 vacated by Dr. Peabody. Alvin Harvey, postmaster at Oceanic, N J.,
 has been arrested ou the charge of em bezzle- ment '1