Connecticut western news., 1881-12-21
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL rTEMs.

until the temperance movement is ended and the place is now without public ac- commodations.
 In Indiana a party of masked men took young woman from the house of her stepfather and hanged her to tree until she was almost dead for the pur- pose of having herreveal certain secrets. The Excise Board of New York Clty has reported to Mayor Grace that 0,56l places are licensed to sell liquors; that 25 whose application for license was rejected on account of their bad reputation are still selling, and that 71 are seinng whose application for license was rejected for other causes. "A Methodist minister of Brooklyn has sued saloon keeper for the loss of his sons services, through loafng in the saloon. = ,.a--- -, The joint committee of the United States Senate and House has invited the Hon. James G. Blaine to deliver the eulogy on the late President Garfield. on the occasion of the memorial services at the Capitol. a As result of the investigation of the charges against members of the Ninth Massachusetts regiment while at Rich mond, Va, and Yorktown, twenty of the offenders have been summarily dismissed by order of the Commander-in- Chief
 A Government scout has reported to Gen. Pope that he fears there will be an Indian uprising in New Mexico in the spring. He says the Mormons are at the bottom of it and are furnishing the Otes with firearms. "A party of highwaymen robbed 8 railroad train of $15,00O near El Paso, New. Mexico, Tuesday night, and escaped across the border with their booty. A The directors of the Mechanics National Bank of Newark, N. J., have submitted a plan to the shareholders and depositors on which they propose to resume business.
 Incoming steamers report terrific gales on the Atlantic, and it is feared that many disasters have occurred. Many lives have been lost.
 -S. V. Halloway, the paying teller of the Poughkeepsie National Bank, has been arrested charged with embezzllng S40,oO0. Halloway was also County Treasurer, but his accounts as Treasur- CT are believed to be all right. -st President Arthur's message is highly thought of in England.
 Isabel Almes, noted political mag nate at Chamamero, Mexico. has com mitted wholesale butchery. Going to ranche, he commenced to beat the women there savagely, and one Guada- 1ophe Zopati, who interfered, was killed by the infuriated desperado. At the next ranche which he visited Almes shot and wounded no less than seventeen people before his murderous career was checked. es-.
 On Saturday morning ten railroad laborers were burned to death, three more were fatally. burned and four others maimed for life by fire which destroyed the shanty in which they and twenty-three companions were sleeping, at Gibson Station, on the Pittsburgh and Erie Railroad. They belonged in Pittsburgh, Pa.
 WASHINGTON NOTES. J
 The President has nominated J. O. Bancroft Davis, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of State. ..4 ,. y... In he Senate Thursday MT. Gar. land, of Arkansas, engaged in the Pres Idential. succession debate, supporting his own bill as against the bill intro duced by Mir. Beck, of Kentucky.
 MT. Sherman's three per cent. bill. as amended by the Finance Committee, has been introduced in the Senate and placed on the calendar. A bill to incor- porate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua was introduced by Senator Miller, of California.
 In the Senate Friday MT. Voorhees, discussed the silver and greenback ques- ton at length, and charged that the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury for the early retirement of the silver certificates was an assault on the financial stability of the country.
 MT. Scoville lectured on the Guiteau trial at Washington Wednesday night. He complained of the hostility of the press and pulpit, said he was satisfied the prisoner would not live to see the end of the trial, and expressed the feal that Guiteau would yet be killed by some desperate man.
 The Garfield monument fund of ficials announce that $125, 900 of the $250, 900 necessary to build the monu. ment is still lacking.
 Congressman Willits has introduced 2 bill to reorganize the government O Utah Territory, vesting the legislative power in a Governor and Council com posed of nine members appointed by the President and confirmed by tn. Senate of the United States.
 In the Senate MT. Pendleton deliy cred a'speech on his measure of civil service reform.
 Among the bills introduced in tn, House is one by MT. Phelps, of Connec ticut, to have the trade dollar made legal tender, all ship material admitted free of duty, and the bank check act re pealed. MT. Hewett, of Alabama, in troduced bill to repeal the Arrears o Pensions act.
 On the first bill day of the Hous of Representatives the introduction 0 blils began at halfpast 12 and continue, until the House adjourned; at o'clock During the four hours and half thu occupied 754 bills and joint resolution were introduced. Only seventeen State were called, beginning with Alabam and ending with Massachusetts. Ha the remaining twenty-one been calle the number of bills would have doubt less gone beyond 1,500. The highes number ever introduced in the Hous in one day was on the first bill day ( the last Congress. The number the reached 1885. But on that occasio all the States were called.
 MT. Blaine's successor in the b. partment of State was born at Milltowr N. J., August 4, 1877. He is th nephew and adopted son of Theodol Frelinghuysen, who ran for Vice. Pres