Connecticut western news., 1881-01-26
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

H ditor has notified the directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Company that the per cent. dividend recently de- clared by 1t must be cancelled, as the net earnings of the road since June 30, 1880, barely cover the deficit of $1 ,623,- 723. IS established in tue official ac- counts as made up to that date.
 The United States House Commit tee on Manufactures gave hearing to George l.. Angell, of Boston, who lep- resented that from one-third to one- half of all the wall papers sold contain sufficient arsenic to make their use dan gerous, and the committee will favor ably report Mir. Beale's bill "to pre- vent the adulteration of articles of food and drink"
 The Boston Aldermen havo forbid den coasting with "double runners on the Common on account of recent acci- dents.
 By @ fire at Wilton, N. H., Thurs day, the Wilton Savings Bank, Public Library, Post Office. Masonic Hall, and eight shops and offices, were destroyed. The loss is $60,000.
 John G. Farr, on trial at Portland. Me-, for killing his wife, was found guilty of murder in the first degree.
 The house of Nathan c. Peters, at Chester, Conn. was burned early Thurs day morning and MT. Peters was suffo- cated.
 A project is on foot at Montreal for making railway tunnel under Niagara Falls.
 Serious damage has been done by floods in Oregon.
 Near Ashland, Penn., sled with five persons on it run into telegraph pole. Two of the party, young ladies, were killed and the other three badly injured.
 Jacob Floyd, farmer in Concord township, Iowa, set trap for wolves on Monday night. He visited It next day, and found a neighbor with both hands in the trap and nearly frozen to death. He had heen examining 1t, and acci- dently sprung it.
 A tract of land of 10000 acres sur- rounding Larchwood, Lyon county, Iowa, was purchased on Tuesday for about $5 an acre. The purchaser will colonize it in the spring with English immigrants. The land was bought in 1868 for $1.50 per acre.
 The total values of the exports of domestic provisions and tallow from the United States during December were $15, ,869, 211 and during December, 1879, $11 ,3OO,7
 The Atlantic Refining Company s works at Philadelphia, covering forty five acres, took fire Tuesday, and with 400, ,000 barrels of oil were des troyed. The loss is about $150,00O.
 MT. Bayard has been reelected Senator from Delaware, Mir. Dawes re- elected in Massachusetts, Mir. Hale elected in Maine and MT. Conger in Michigan.
 Tt is now known that sixteen per sons perished in the great snow slide in the Utah mountains.
 In Plain City, Ohio, widow woman, her daughter and son were beaten to death with club on Monday night. A negro named Garner is charged with the crime.
 The New Capitol Commissioners report, transmitted to the New York Legislature, Tuesday, gives the follow. ing financial exhibit Expenditure fol the year ending Dec. 31, 1880, on con- tracts and for material and labor, $1 ,. 299, 197 S4. Expenditure for the new Capitol from commencement to Dec. 31, 1880, for lands, $626, ,447. .62; for in. terest, $56, ,93504; construction ex, penses, SIC, ,914, 516.40; total $11, 1,597,' S99. O6.
 Seven persons were killed Monday by a railway accident at Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng. From thirty to forty were injured.
 Severe snow slides have taken place in the mountains of Utah and Colorado and a number of lives have been lost
 The following is the official vote for Governor in Texas Roberts (Dem. ) 166, 101 Davis Rep.), 64,382; Ham mond (Gbk. ), 33, 721.
 The population of West Virginia by the new census, is 618, ,193; of Con necticut, 622, ,683 of California, S64, 686; of Michigan, 1,636, ,335 of Idaho 32,611.
 Secretary Evarts now closes hi official letters to American representa- lives abroad with the notifi cation tha further correspondence. with regard ts diplomatic affairs will be conducted b, his successor, MT. Blaine.
 Snow has fallen almost continuous ly in the Wahsatch mountains, abou the heads of the Little and Big Cotton wood rivers, Utah, since Christmas. I'm mountains surrounding the mining towl of Alta are steep and high, and thu trees have been cut down. On Wed nesday night a snow-side took place and min lives were lost.
 On Friday Edward Reinhardt wa. hanged in the jail-yard at Richmond s. l., for the murder of his wife in July 1878. He made no confession.
 Jean P. Narbonnes, his father ant his step-mother, have been sentenced at Ste. Scholastique, P. O., to b' hanged for the murder of Alex. Mar bonnes, brother of the first named ant son of the second, five years ago. The father and step-mother are eighty years of age.
 Warren Longmore, aged nine years has been found guilty of manslaughte1 in causing the death of Freeman Wright eight years of age, at Pembroke, Me-, October 8, 1880, and sentenced to the State Reform School during his minori ty. Longmore first shot his victim anc was discovered in the act of digging his grave. While doing so Wright showed signs of life, when Longmore struck him on the head several times with the spade with which he was at work.
 A dispatch from Copenhagen re ports that theatre at Cronstadt has been destroyed by fire. The director O the theatre and seven others perished il