Connecticut western news., 1881-11-09

2 excess or rec6lpIS over expenditures is $lOO, ,069, 404, of which $90, ,S72, ,261 was paid out in redemption of the public
 Mine. Adelina Patti has arrived ir New York from Liverpool, to fulfill $ concert engagement.
 In Peru the city of Areouipa ba, declared in favor of the Government o :. President Calderon. It is thouoht ina Admiral Montero will accept the offic. of ice-President under Calderon. anf that other cities will follow the example of Arequipa. Chili has appointed twe plenipotentiaries to settle the question, pending with Peru. General Hurlbut | the United States Minister to Peru, has been instructed to continue to recognize the government of President Calderor as the legitimate government of Peru.
 Milwaukee Millers are complainipo of the bad quantity of wheat from the Northwest and propose shutting down until the present speculative prices have receded.
 -Hanlan and Plaisted are to appear on the stage in California.
 = damage done by the Mississippi floods between Keokuk, Ia, and Louis aa1a, aa Mo, amounts to nearly S, ,OOO,-
 The President has suspended Post master Wilson, of Lynchburg, under the Tenure of Office act, and commissioned Mahone's man, Statham, in his stead. Ia-An old man has been murdered. it IS alleged, in Lancaster County, Pa, by parties who were interested in grave yard insurance policies on his life.
 The Minnesota Bond Adjustmen bill has passed the House of Represen- taaves and will be sent to the Governor for approval after the Senate has con- cured Tn an amendment touching the rate of interest.
 President Arthur on Tuesday re- eelveda special envoy bearing the con. doience of the government and people of Guatemala on the death of President Garfield.
 The Cincinnati (Ohio) rolling mill strike is over, but trouble is threatened by the hundred men who are displaced by the non-union men,
 In Milwaukee, Wis, 300 cigar mak- CTS employed in 200 shops are on strike.
 Snow fell. throughout England Tuesday, in some places to the depth of two feet.
 The importation of cattle into Ill- lnois from Eastern States where pleuro- pneumonia is known to exist has Ieen prohibited by Governor Cullom. Put nam, New York, Westchester, Kings and Queens are named as being infected.
 
 1.-The United States steamer Alliance. which has been cruising for four months m the Arctic in search of the Jeannette has reached Halifax. homeward bound.
 The most startling bank defalca- tlon of the season is that of the cashier of the Mechanics National Bank. of Newark, N. J. His accounts are short over g, 400, 600 and large part of this amount has been loaned by the cashier to the leather house of Nugent & O., without the knowledge of the bank directors. The bank was supposed to be one of the most substantial in the county, but it's surplus of 400, 900, with $2, OOO, GOO additional, is swept away and the bank funds over and above the liabilities of the directors. The de- positors of the bank will lose nearly $1, ,000, 900.
 At Washington an insane man named Woling, from Pennsylvania, at tempted to force his way into the White House. He was overpowered and a seven-shoeter taken from him.
 The business community was start led by the failure of the Mechanics National Bank, of Newark, N. J.. the losses being between two and three millions. The failure is due to the long, continued dishonesty of the cashier, Oscar l.. Baldwin, who has confessed his guilt.
 Mayer & Bachmann's lager beer brewery at Clifton, the largest brewery on Staten Island, N. r., was burned Monday, the loss being about $35O, ,OOO.
 The official figures from all counties oi the State of Iowa are as follows sherman. 133, ,326; Kinne, 73,397; Clark, 5S,I23; Sherman's majority over Kinne, 59, 929.
 MT. Windom has made public a scheme of civil service reform which he says he had intended to apply to the Treasury Department.
 The football match at Montreal between the Harvard team and the Br1tannlas resulted in draw.
 In the United States Senate. Sena- tor Hill offered a resolution denouncing Federal appointments made to influence State elections as unpatriotic and dan gerous to our institutions.
 In San Francisco, Jimmie Hone the notorious burglar who is wanted in New York for his connection with rne Manhattan Bank robbery, has been sem fshitsasiary: fsaaf years In the
 While Mrs. Bethune, % years of age, was attending to the stove at Hali- lax, N. D., her dress caught fire, and she rolled herself on the floor to extinpuish the flames. A child crawled toward her and canght fire from the burning carpets Both were burned to death.
 -Edgefeld, s. O., has been almost totally destroyed by fire.
 In Chicago the marine underwriters have raised their rates about twenty ner cent, while the Board of Trade has ad- vanced commission rates. and voted to side the city.
 The wife of Antonio Costanzo. alias Vlncepzo Rebello, recently extradited from New York as being the Italian brlgand Esposito-R -Randazzo, and who was called as witness in the prisoners behalf before the United States Com missioner, has made declaration before | the Board of Health in New Orleans | that her child was born on April 2, 1881. | and that its fathers name is Guiseppe EsPosito-R -Randazzo, alias Costanza, alias Rebello. '--'''' Nine Americans have been arrested by the Mexican authorities for digging and shipping guano on Key Arenas, an