Connecticut western news., 1881-04-27
MEMS OFTHE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

-The superintendent of the New York State Capital reported to the xiHopse an opinion, that the edifce can be completed for an additional expen- sE dituree of s2, ,208, ,54s 23. The original estimates of the entire cost were $3, OOO,- 900. It has already cost between 3D. 0O0Oo0 and SIS, ,00O,000
 Arrangements will be made at once whereby foreign holders of the six per cent, bonds can have their bonds con- tinded at three and half per cent. An agency for this purpose will be estab- ished in London Immediately.
 '''a@ -@ A meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee has been called by the Chair man Benator Edl1nunds) to consider the T- s1kieet of Bankruptcy, with a view of obtaining national legislation early next winter.
 During the last year the money orders in the United States for payment in Great Britain and Ireland amounted s toabeut g, 100000 The orders issued in the United Kingdom upon the United States Exaggerated about $350,000.
 e-In the Senate Friday Senator Mor- Till defended Senator Malone against the charge of having made corrupt bargain with the Republicans. Senator -SBsck replied to him bri efy, and Senator Sherman declared, during the debate, that he meant to vote for Riddleberger as an officer of the Senate Senator Jones, of Louisiana, read the dispatches from Judges Bridger and Caldwell rela- tive Co the Heath affair, laying all the -ez blame of the lies on the unfortunate ~-S man Heath, whom he had described as "venerable martyr."
 -a= .A,sA.A passenger train on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad fell through trestle work bridge near AL E bany, la, Thursday morning. The dis gsgaster was caused by 8 serious flood in Ssthe rver Eight lives were lost. sS It is rumored that there is to be general strike of street-car drivers on the street railroads of New York city. They. are now receiving from ,fs$1. 50 to s$2 per day for fourteen hours 8s work, and the strike will be for an in- .S crease of pay. ~
 A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says General Joseph Lane died at his home ins Roseburg Tuesday night, at -shtheagelof seventy nine. ''" -On and after June 1, no printing or writing w1l be permitted upon the ad- dress side of postal cards, except that imprinted thereon at the manufactory, and such as may be necessary for the proper direction of the same
 
 Wednesday Mn Frye, of Maine, made his maiden speech. He declared that there had beenln no such thing as 8 free and fair election in the South, and that since the withdrawal of the army there q had been no peace there He declared that the Republican party would never stop its efforts until the solid South was broken up. Senator Butler announced that at some future day he would take occasion to answer MT. Frye. He char acterized his speech as most bitter, fierce, unjust assault upon the South and the Southern Senators, and said that such speech would, if endorsed at fthe North, put off the era of good feel ing, and rivet the South more firmly to- gether than ever, and that Senator Frye's remarks would not withdraw attention from the real question at issue in the Senate now. and that was whether foul, corrupt bargain had been entered into to secure patronage of the Senate and the Administration. Senator Burn side replied stating that the charge that there had been corrupt bargain was lie. e5 S@ Ess lz E E S S'a& ss sts@
 The insurgent natives of the Zulu Isles attempted to surprise the Spanish fortresses, but.were repulsed with loss of 100 killed. ,s, -s z<.,.. Governor Long, of Massachusetts has .reprieyed Stearns Kendall Abbott the murderer of Mrs. Crue, to June "A, He waste have been hanged Friday.
 In the municipal election at New port, R. l., Stephen P. Slocum Oem.) was elected Mayor by forty three major zity. The Board of Aldermen stands three Democrats to two Republicans, and the Common Council six Republi- cans to two Democrats.
 1T on their way to Wales on a proselyting expedition. They will work in the mining and iron district of Wales.
 .-Tuesday night masked men broke open the house of MT. Barslof, an aged citizen of Erie, Pa, and after fatally beating him plundered the house of $20O. Among the nominations sent to the Senate by the President was that of Gen. James Longstreet, now Minister to Turkey, to be United States Marshal for Georgia. .<3
 Earthquake shocks have been felt in Indiana ta s9-
 A mortgage given by the PennsyI- vania B. R. Go. for $20, GOO, 900 was lost in New York city, and picked up by an Italian ragpicker.
 A fire in Bound Brook, N. J., on Tuesday destroyed $75,0O worth of pEOp6kHy, ana T60QOr6U 6Q1fGy-OQ0 1aIQ1- lies homeless
 w. F. G. Shanks, of the New York Tribune, sued the American News Co.,, for distributing a paper called Truth which had hbelled Shanks. The jury gave plaintiff a verdict of $2,5OO. The News Go. has appealed.
 Mrs Mutt, of Camden, Ark, while in aft of insanity, Saturday, murdered her five children by throwing them into The north wing of the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane, at Anna, H., was burned Monday night. One patient perished.
 The second trial of Thomas Dejar- nette, at Danville, Va, for the murder of his. sister Tn g house of prostitution, was. concluded Tuesday. The jury brought in 8 verdict of "not guilty, because of insanity at the time he com mitted the act" The verdict was re- ceiyed with much applause.
 The flood Tn Rock River at Rock ford, ILL, is something unprecedented It has already thrown 1,5OO men out o employment and is still rising Manu lecturers using water power will lose thousands of dollars, as they were run ming to their full capacity and this is their busiest season.