Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13
WASHINGTON NOTES.


 A bill has been agreed upon by the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads of the House of Representatives providing for the reduction of the post age on ordinary letters from three to two cents. The Post Office Department fa- vors the proposition.
 The House Appropriation Committee completed the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill, which was at once re- ported to the House. The bill appro- priates $1, ,25S, ,255, which is a decrease from the amount appropriated for the current year of $7S, ,25O.
 The Ways and Means Committee unanimously adopted resolution to pro- ceed at once to 8 consideration of the Tariff Commission report and to frame a tariff bill. The clerk of the committee was directed to prepare schedules of the rates now existing and of those proposed by the committee.
 MT. McPherson, Clerk of the House of the members of the Forty y-eighth Con gress, showing that the Democrats will have at least fifty-two majority.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 A German bark is ashore on the island of Terschelling. The captain and ten of the crew are said to have been drowned.
 An unknown steamer has foundered near Pensance, with all on board.
 At Montreal the employers have re- fused any compromise with the striking lasters, and will have no conference with them.
 Losses by the fire in London, which destroyed the Alhambra Theatre and other buildings, are estimated at $l5,- 100000. One fireman Is missing.
 It is said that MT. Davitt will sub- poena MT. Gladstone and MT. Trevelyan to testify at his trial.
 A Dublin lawyer accused the Land League of being the author of three fourths of the crimes committed in Ire land.
 Floods in France continue and the grant of $2O0,0OO for the relief of the sufferers.
 Severe snowstorms have fallen throughout Great Britain.
 Four of Arabi's companions were arrnigned in Cairo and pleaded guilty to charge of rebellion. They were sentenced to death, the Khedive after ward committing their sentences to exile for life.
 The Alhambra Theatre, London, was totally destroyed; damage to surrounding property was great; the total loss is $750,OOO.
 l It is stated that England will not consent to French protectorate i'll | Madagascar.
 | pr. Leopold Stain, an advocate oi | Jewish reform in Germany, is dead. | Louis Blanc died at Cannes Wednes. day.
 Anthony Trollope is dead. | The Caffres, who have been at wal with the Boers, are being driven into caves. where they are blown up with dynamite.
 The loss by the floods in the Rhenish districts will amount to millions of marks.
 The British steamer Cedar Grove was lost near Nova Scotia. The captain his wife, @ lady passenger and a portion of the crew are missing.
 Joseph Thomas was convicted al Mayersville, Miss, of the murder oi Charles Murphy and sentenced to i'm. prisonment for life.
 Irish police are still sanguine of ar resting the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke
 Five nationalists have been returned in the Dublin municipal elections, re placing five liberals.
 -Negotiations between the Malagassy envoys and the French government art | to be resumed.
 An American named Emerson wat killed in Madagascar and another named Hulett was seriously wounded. A native attendent and European interprete were also killed. An expedition whicl had been ordered to punish the tribe! who committed the murder was prevented from sailing by the French Consul.
 Floods are increasing in Germany the forts and the geological gardens a Cologne are inundated and lives hav been lost at Dusseldorf. On Wednesday steamer was foun dered off Portreath, Cornwall; clever men were drowned.
 Three robbers broke into the hous of Mrs. Converse, near Waterbury, Conn. on Tuesday night, assaulted and tied tn lady and her brother and stole wha valuables they found. The Comptroller of the Currency, i his annual report, shows the bad etfec of a large surplus revenue on the eircu lating medium. An attempt to launch the Unite States monitor Puritan, at Chester, Pa failed.