Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
NEWs OF THE DAY
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GENERAL 9I&A8s
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, died at Cambridge, Mass, on Fri day, of peritonitis.
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Me-, Feb. 27, 1907. His father was Stephen Longfellow, an eminent lawyer of that city, and 8 member of the national Congress. In 1886 Longfellow assumed the Harvard professorship, which he held for seven teen years. During this period his literary work was incessant and fruit full. He passed the summer of 1842 on the Rhine. In 1854 he resigned his professorship at Harvard, but continued to reside at Cambridge. His home was the old Cragin mansion, which, at one time, had been occu- pied by Washington. The poet spent much time in the care and adorn- ment of this house. Many have been fascinated by it, and have called it the most charming home in America. In 1868 and 1869 Longfellow was again in Europe, and was received every. where with marked honors. While this time abroad he received the degree of D. 0. l.. from Oxford University, and the same degree from Cambridge. The degree of ILL. D. was conferred upon him by Harvard in 1859, and hereceived similar honors from all the principal colleges of America. Longfellow was twice married. His second wife met her death by a shocking accident in 1861. While dressing to attend party her clothing came in contact with the light in her room, and she received fatal injuries.
 The new comet, only 160,OOO,OOO the rate of 2,OO0, 900 miles day, but is expected to switch of when still 80,000, 1000 miles away.
 --The free canal resolution passed the New York Assembly by vote of "A to A.
 The Senate of Minnesota, sitting as Court of Impeachment, met in open session and formally certified it's judg- ment against Judge Cox, on trial for drunkenness. This sentence is removal from office and disqualifca for judi cial office for three years.
 Seven hundred moulders are on a strike in Troy, N. Y. All the moulding shops but one or two are closed, and 2,000 men are thrown out of employ ment.
 The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention will be held at Philadelphia June 2s.
 The number of hogs packed at St. Louis from November 1, 1881, to March l, 1882, is placed at 316, ,379.
 The Lower House of the Massachu- setts Legislature passed the bill per- hitting women to practice as attorneys at law.
 A terrible disaster took place about forty miles west of Bismarck, Dakota, on the Northern Pacific Railroad. Eight persons were reported killed and large number injured.
 At Boston Mary B. Parker obtained a verdict of $15,000 damages for in- juries received while passenger on the Boston and Albany Railroad.
 A whirlpool is formed at the iunc- tion of the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers which destroys everything in it's course The locality of the whirlpool is chang ing continually, and every day it effects new destruction. A large yawl filled with negroes was caught in it the other Ohy huu upS0b, huu d11 Gu0 UCGupdQGS of the boat were drowned.
 The boiler of the steamer Henry 0. Pratt, employed in conveying the pas sengers of the Philadelphia and Allan tic City Railway from the Walnut street wharf of Philadelphia to the depot at Camden, exploded Thursday morning with terrific force while the boat lay at her dock in Philadelphia. Five lives were lost by the disaster.
 A joint resolution was passed by the New York Legislature asking Executive clemency for Sergeant Ma son.
 Reports from Memphis and other places in the South state that the Mississippi is slowly falling at all points. The government commissioners were busily engaged relieving destitute sufferers.
 The captain and fourteen men of the ship Screamer, of New York, which foundered at sea, were landed at Prov incetown, Mass, having been rescued by Nova Scotlan brig. Three men are known to have perished, and it is feared that fourth was also drowned.
 The Garfield Monument Committee has received contributions to the amount of S106, 900, and make an ap- peal for the remainder of the S25O, 900 necessary.
 Frederick A. Palmer, ex-Auditor of Accounts of Newark, was sentenced in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at Newark, to twenty years in the State Prison, on eight indictments of forgery mt nd S.1o -E rants on the City Treasury, by which he obtained over $220, 900 of the city's money.
 A large number of weavers have joined the strike of the other mill opera dyes in Lawrence, Mass.
 Albion W. Tourgee will deliver the address at the meeting of the New York State Press Association, at Jamestown. N. r., in June.
 -.Gov. Plaisted, of Maine, has ap- pointed Thursday, April B, as day of fasting and prayer in that State.
 The report of snow slide at Genoa. kev., is confirmed. Three white per- sons and several Indians were killed.
 WARRINGTON NOTES.
 The anti-C Chinese bill passed the House, unamended, by 167 to 65. Six ty-one Republicans and four Democrats voted against, fifty-eight Republicans and one hundred and nine Democrats voted for it. In the Senate twenty Democrats and nine Republicans voted for it.
 The President has approved the Anti-Polygamy bill.