Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-03
FOREIGN.

excluding all other matters from consideration in the Commons. MT. Gladstone's resolution giving precedence to the coertion bills hai passed and they have been under discussion ever since, the Home Rulers pursuing theiI policy of obstruction. The House was in ses son through Monday night. MT. Gladstone attributes the outrages in Ireland in great measure to the Lan. League. John Bright has spoken in favor of the Coer cion bill.
 The jury in the Irish State trials were un- able to agree and were discharged. It is proposed to call . conference of Eng. fish authors and publishers to discuss the copyright question. Thomas Carlyle is reported dying France. The proprietors of Paris news. paper Lave been fined and sentenced to i'm. prisonment.
 The French Senate has passed the bill to grant subsidies to merchant shipping.
 The first meeting of the Panama Canal Company was held in Paris. Monday.
 Germany. Prince Bismarck opened the session of the Prussian Ecohomic Council, Thursday.
 1'uhsy. Conference of Powers at Con. stantinople to discuss the Greek question will be held. it is said, soon.
 
 Servla has been discovered
 Asia. General Skobeleif pursued the Tek- ke Turcomans thirty seven milt from Geok Tepe
 Atrica.-The Egyptian cotton crop is ex. pected to exceed the first estimate by abou, 30 per cent.
 The Boers have defeated Gen. Colley and killed four British officers
 The Boers in the Orange Free State have resolved to send horses and cattle to those in the Transyaal Republic.
 Austra6a.-A bill authorizing the construc. tion of All miles of new railroad has been passed in New South Wales
 CaaaGda.- meeting has been held al Ottawa to aid the Irish land movement. .s .- DOMESTIC.
 United States Senators were elected, las. week. in Texas, West VirgiDia. Wisconsin and New Jersey. t
 Bills were introduced, last week, Tn both Houses of the New York Legislature, to pre-. vent the telegraph consolidation.
 There is no prospect of present break in the deadlock at Harrisburg.
 1n Luzernc County, Penn., Wednesday, two miners were buried beneath fall of 2, coo tons of top coal.
 San Francisco commercial exchanges favor the Nicaragua Canal plan. ,r I
 Smallpox has broken out at the Wisconsin Penltentiary. ..5 , :. ..0-. s-,.,..4. ....
 Several persons were severely injured by a railroad accident near Milersburg. Ohio.
 further reduction in immigrant passenger rates was made by the Pennsylvania Rail. road. r.
 Indians have recently murdered a number of persons in New Mexico
 hN. Okeechobee, Fla, with the view of reclaimine valuable sugar lands.
 Ex-Governor William Sprague has filed a petition for divorce in the Supreme Court, ot Washington County, R. l. r The charges against General di Cesnola are declared to be unfounded.
 Captain Eads has made apersonal statement in reply the strictures upon the Tehuante. pee Ship Railway bill It has been found that two tellers of the De. troit Savings Bank. brothers, have for years systematically embedded the money of the bank
 Secretary Sherman spoke before the Mer. chants Club in Boston, Saturday, on the Ma. tionaI finances. The Illinois wheat crop promises to be larg. In a railway accident near Middleburg, Penn., Saturday, fifteen persons were injured, five of them seriously. On Saturday night the New York Lotos Club gave dinner to Mayor Grace and ex. Mayor Cooper
 Rink Kalakaua is at San Francisco. on his way eastward. He IS trying to organize em. igration to the Sandwich Islands. 2 A bill was introduced Tn the New York Senate, Monday, to incorporate the Mexican Southern Railway Company. number of Indiana Republicans visited General Garfield Monday. to urge the recog | hilton of their state in the Cabinet 1 It has been learned that Colonel Potter, oi the United States Geological Survey, was mur. dered some time ago by Mexicans. l Seven persons, composing family living near Caneyviile, Ky, were murdered, recent 1 ly, and the house burned to hide the crime. A broken rail on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, Monday. caused ser 1 ious accident Eight Chinese have been buried alive by s landslide near Santa Cruz, Cal 1 Recent rains in California were almost fn cedibly heavy.
 A fire in Philadelphia, Monday, caused los. of $210. 900.
 l John A. Swezey. New York commisaiou merchant, has become a. fugitive, after forg ing notes to the amount of $75, 900. l CONGRESSIONAL. The Military Academy Appropriation bill has passed both Houses The House Committee on Territories ha, decided to report adversely the bill to mak. Dakota a State. - t4 sl Conferences of Democratic Ssnators and Representatives have been held to consiIe, l plans of counting the electoral vote
 The Ponca Commission has submitted a n