Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29

! -In6 zOAu anniversary Ol Ine lduQluS of the Pilgrims was celebrated at Provincetown, Mass.
 The Norfolk Jubilee Singers were arrested in New Haven for the violation of an old Sunday law.
 Governor elect Pattison of Penn., has declined the offer of an escort ten dered him for the occasion of his in- auguration.
 WASHINGTON NOTES. | A Washington dispatch says: "Ihe | Democrats, it is understood, will make 8 bitter fight in the Senate against the con- frmation of General Pope to be major general. The friends of Fitz John Porter accuse Pope of instigating the overthrow of Porter, and this, together with Pope's well known anti-Democratic principles, will, it is thought, combine all the Democrats against him. It is said that three Republican Senators will vote against him.'
 | Secretary Folger will recommend to Congress in his annual report that meas ures be taken for the redemption of the four and four and half per cent. bonds, which will not mature until 1907 and 1891 respectively It is said he does not favor the proposition to buy these bonds in open market and is inclined to submit all questions relative to theirredempt1on to Coneress. It is also said that the Secretary is not disposed to take any action Ill re- gard to the currency sixes, but will sub init proposition concerning them to Congress. Another report widely clrcu- lated to-day is that call for $17, ,000, 900 continued fives will De made about the end of the month. Secretary Folger de- clines to answer any questions ill regard to the various statements, and 1t IS there fore impossible to verify them at present. Chaplain George G. Mullins, Twen- ty-fifth infantry, in charge of education in the army, ill his annual report to the Secretary of War says that considerable progress has been made ill the work ot organizing and establishing post schools and reading-rooms, and there IS grow ing interest in these institutions among both officers and enlisted men. The average number of pupils who attended the day and night school during the yeal at all military posts and camps was En. listed men, 1,5S6; children of enlisted men, 997 children of officers, 37O, ano children of civilians. 412.
 Tt is intimated through private sour- ces that the Chinese Legation at Wash. ington will be withdrawn on account o1 the passage of the Chinese Immigration bill
 None of the star route bribery cases will go before the present grand jury ol the District, the Attorney General not having confidence in that body. ) The Attorney General of the United States has decided that the law exempt | al
 apply to parsonages owned by churcl } trustees or corporations. The total number of arrests made
 during the last fiscal year by Secret Ser
 vice agents of the United States, wal
 335, the majority being for counterfeitine
 money. The total fines assessed amount
 ed to $10, 664, and the total amount 0
 counterfeit coin captured $8, ,83O. .224. 51
 FOREIGN ITEMS. Seven men were killed by the fall o ) railway bridge at Bromley, near Lon ) don. They sat under the bridge eating their dinner when the bridge fell. Widespread distress is feared in Ire land this winter, particularly in tn
 Western counties.
 The steamship Coptic sailed iron
 San Francisco for Hong Kong Thursda..
 with nearly five hundred Chinese passen
 gers, three hundred and seyenty-five o whom had secured return certificates.
 The State Department is well satis fled with the result of Commodore Shu
 feldt's negotiations with Corea.
 Raids on the Crow Indians by Pie
 gans and Flatheads are complained of
 The Porte will send troops to Sout]
 Arabia to prevent intrigue by the Fals Prophet.
 Russian police have occupied tn University of St. Petersburg.
 Russia and Germany seem anxiou to display friendly feeling for eac l other.
 A sea captain passed off the coast ( Norfolk 8 large raft to which three or fou
 corpses were lashed.
 . MT. Gladstone denies that the A, , rears of Rent act has proved failure He says that the English Governme1
 will not extend the period for the pa, ,- ment of the rent of 1881. ,, MT. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary ft Il Ireland, said that the system of reli s would be conducted with great etficienc ; until the distress in Ireland was all !, viated by the gathering of the ne7 e harvest.
 The inhabitants of Skye are makin e preparations to resist the forcible-colle }, tion of rents on the island !, The Khedive is prepared to refer e Great Britain the question of proceedin IS with >Arabi Pasha's trial. > Tt is said that the British Cover } ment has appointed Baker Pasha's schen
 for an Egyptian gendarmerie. 5, A French traveller has obtained frol It local sovereign the possession of u
 Bay of Tajoorah, on the African side 1t the Gulf of Alden.
 @ A telegram from Liverpool stat, n that the steamer Winton, with grail
 from the Black Sea, has foundered c W the Island of Ushant, coast of Franc, of Thirty persons were drowned. William Brockshaw, who wa o1 charged with sending threatening lei 5e ter to the Prince of Wales, was foun n guilty and sentenced to ten years pens H. servitude
 ; Michael Casey and the four remai1 a ing prisoners in the Joyce trials in Ir, , land pleaded guilty. They were SCI 10 fenced to be hanged, but were recon i- mended to mercy.
 Three hundred and seventy soldier ny sailors and marines have been decorate in at Windsor by the Queen. J. The Pope has charged the Iri 6. bishops to endeayor to prevent the pc n, pie from offending against the laws. to A crank has been arrested in Engla1
 for threatening to murder MT. Gladston as The unions in the western part le Ireland have been ordered to relieve u