Connecticut western news., 1881-08-31
General Leslie Combs died at Lex ington, Ky., on Monday.

General Leslie Combs died at Lex. ington, Ky, on Monday.
 The Anchor Line steamer Elysia, which arrived in New York Saturday, from London, reports that she sank the brig Emily during fog on the 18th instant.
 A water-spout has done great dam- age to railroads in Colorado, and there are fears of loss of life.
 An American and Canadian steamer belonging to rival lines raced down the St. Lawrence on Tuesday last and en- dangered the lives of all on board by shooting the rapids above Montreal locked together.
 The new comet has been seen with the naked eye in Cincinnati.
 Four little boys have been arrested in Wheeling, W. Va, for starting fire that caused $6O, 900 damage.
 Sunday morning two dead bodies were taken from the canals in Lowell, Mass. One, found in the Hamilton Canal, was that of Edward w. Hasey, aged sixty-seven years. He either fell accidentally or committed suicide. The other body is that of young woman, apparently about twenty years of age, and was taken from the Suffolk Canal.
 The August estimate of the Ohio Board of Agriculture, compared with 1880, is as follows: Wheat, 72 per cent. or 8,000,000 bushels, against 52, ,500,- 900 bushels; corn, 70 per cent. or "A . GOO 900 bushels, against 5000, 900 bushels; oats, 107 per cent. or 9, ,500,- 900 bushels, against 21, ,OOO, ,OO0 bushels. The wheat estimate is based on actual measurements of the yield per acre from LOGO threshing machines for tbree weeks, threshing in all parts of the State, and is an exceedingly accurate estimate.
 The will of the widow of the late ex- President Willard Fillmore, of Buffalo, N. T., leaves public bequests to the amount of $50, among which is one of $20,000 to the University of Roches- ter.
 On Tuesday, Frank Hudson, Ter rell county (Ga.) negro, killed settler named Lee, his wife and colored girl, and then surrendered himself to escape lynching.
 At Berlin the Evangelical Alliance has passed resolutions favoring the re- striction of the rights and privileges ex- tended to Jews in Germany.
 Great damage has been done on Colorado railroads by wash-outs. The Kansas Pacific is blocked by a wash-out three miles long near Deer Trail.
 Colonel Hatch is in active pursuit of the marauding Indians in New Mexico, and his force is ten times larger than that of the hostiles.
 A special to the Galveston NeaUs from Fort Worth says that Mrs. s. McVey has been arrested there on 8 requisition from Mississippi, charging her with the murder of James Naples.
 The notorious criminal and con- vict, "Bill Kent" who escaped from the Honesdale, Pa, prison on the 11th, has been captured at the polnt of the revolver at Deposit by Deputy Sheriff James Daley, of Delaware county, N. Y, and remanded to the Honesdale prison after thorough chase by num- Der of officials through the secluded portions of the forests of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
 Gen. Sherman is to visit the New England Fair in Worcester, Mass, on September 7, and at 8 special meeting of the City Council it was voted to extend the hospitalities of the city to him. He will be given military escort.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 In Ireland it is feared that the con- tinued wet weather will breed potato disease.
 A landslip has occurred at the will lage of Tatarani, in Moldavia, during which sixty-fve houses disappeared. No lives were lost.
 The English harvest is seriously threatened by the wet weather which has prevailed there for nearly 8 fort night. In the London district Wednes- day hail fell. In Norfolk, Suffolk and the East Riding of Yorkshire the cut grain is sprouting and turning black, and the standing grain is being beaten down and threshed out by the rain and hail.
 Two Russian officers have been ar- rested as spies in Austria. They were examining the Notifications of the va rious towns, and maps and descriptions were found upon them.
 -Asiatic cholera is raging at Bang. kok, Siam, two or three hundred na. tives dying every day. The foreigners have escaped so far.
 The harvest reports for Europe and America prepared by M. Estienne, o1 Paris, show that in France wheat is be- low the average; in England wheat is ten per cent. below the average in Aus tria and Hungary the crops are good in the Danubian provinces of Turkey there is an average crop; in Russis wheat is good and barley an excellen crop; in Germany the crops are below the average, and the same is true of the crops in Belgium, Spain, Italy and Swift zerland.
 A Russian staff-oficer has been ar rested at St. Petersburg for betrayins the secret measures of the Governmen to the Nihilists. The iails are filled with political prisoners, but very fey persons are brought to trial.
 On Monday the cable steamer Fara day spliced the shore end of the secont cable of the American Cable Compan, at Whitesand Bay and sailed westward paying out 1,500 miles of the deep-se section.
 The French Canadian societies ar in convention at Lawrence, Mass. Tn objects of the convention are to deter mine the French population of the Uni ted States, to adopt a system of speed, but legitimate naturalization, and brin, French organizations in closer bond 0 union.
 Tn Tunis the Bey's troops have gon to Kairwan, the holy city, with the vie, of quelling the instruction there. In fidels are not permitted to enter Kai1 wan, but the French intend to occup, it, and their entry will probably be OF posed. It is thought that in that cas the Bey's troops will side with the nativ tribes.