Connecticut western news., 1882-07-19


 merce Committee $763, 500, making to- tai of $2n, PAT, 57O, or about $9,000, 900 more than the largest. River and Harbor bill ever before passed.
 The bill authorizing national banks to extend the period of their corporate existence passed the House.
 The Senate has passed the House bill appropriating $800,O00 for post office and court building in Brooklyn. The Census Bureau has issued special bulletin showing the extent and value of the fishing industries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connec- ticut, as follows In the fisheries of New Hampshire, 414 persons and capital of $2O9, ,465 are employed and the value of the products is $176,684, The Rhode Island fisheries employ 2,310 persons and $596, ,678 capital, and the value of the products is $880, ,915. The fisheries of Connecticut employ 3,131 persons and $1, 421, ,020 capital, and the value of the products amounts to $1, ,456, ,866.
 The Census Bureau has issued special bulletin showing the number and size of the farms ill the United States in 1880, and the kind of tenure by which they were held. The num- Der of farms was 4, ,OO9,9O7. Of these 2,994, ,3O6 were occupied by the owners, 1922, 357 were rented at a fixed money rental, and 702,244 were rented for shares of the products. Of the total number of farms, 4,352 were less than acres in extent, 134 ,999 were above acres and less than 10, 254, ,749 were between 10 and 20 acres, 7S1, ,474 were between 20 and 50 acres, l, 1,O32, 910 were between 50 and 100 acres, 1895, ,983 were between 1CO and 500 acres, 75, 972 were between 500 and l, ,0OO acres, and 28,578 were ], 1000 acres in extent and upward.
 It is now thought probable that the adjournment of both houses will not take place before the 1st of August.
 General Brown gives notice that he shall object to any more personal de- bates in the House, especially in con- tested election cases.
 MT. Logan introduced bill in the Senate providing that all enlisted men of the army who have served either in the regular or volunteer service for thirty years, aud have been honorably O1SCAdIROAks 64dl1 O0 I0uA0u HULL dSU1V6 service at their own request on three fourths pay.
 The President has approved the ac in regard to @ monumental column tC commemorate the battle of Monmouth
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 Two brothers named Flaherty, wht recently returned from America, hav' been arrested in the north part O county Kerry on suspicion of com plicity in the Pheuix Park murders They were remanded for a week.
 Thirteen counties of Ireland are t, be proclaimed under the Repression act.
 A steamer from China with carg, of tea went ashore in the Suez Canal ant was plundered by Arabs.
 The British Government is prepar ing for @ campaign in Egypt. A train with 2l7 persons on board ran off the rails between Tcherny and Bastijeur, Russia. One hundred and seventy eight persons were killed and those who were saved were more or less injured.
 During the bombardment at Alex andria telephone was attached at Malt to the Mediterranean cable, and thougl it was impossible to communicate verb i ally, the bombardment was plainly au dible at distance of LOGO miles iron Alexandria.
 An explosion of gas on Wednesda, in Rue Louis Philippe, Paris, de stroyed twelve houses. Twenty person were killed and forty injured. One hun dred were rendered homeless. The ex plosion was the result of fire, nobod, having thought at the outbreak of tn fire to cut off the gas.
 The British Consul at Port Said ha stopped ships from entering the Sue. Canal.
 The British Secretary of War state that he does not expect the militar, preparations will cause the ordinary ex penditures to be exceeded.
 The Porte, on learning that Admira Seymour had opened fire, implored Lord Granville to order him to cease the bombardment.
 The Paris Gaulois professes tc know that General Skobelef committed suicide in order to escape an exposure of his connection with the Nihilists.
 The bombardment of Alexandria b, the English fleet began Tuesday morn ing at o'clock. All the neutral vessel steamed out of the harbor before tn, firing commenced. The American ship Lancaster and Quinnebaug lay outside watching the fight.
 Two hundred and eighty-three out rages were committed in Ireland durin; l fhn ronnfh If o& 5nh murders.
 The Prince of Wales and the Duk of Cambridge will subscribe toward tn fund for sending rife team to Ameri ca. There will be final exhaustive tes for the selection of the team shortl after the shooting at Wimbledon take place.
 The London Times corresponden at Alexandria telegraphs that the EgyI tians under General Yussuf, who wer defeated by the False Prophet, nun bered 5000. The fight occurred nes Kordofan. The Egyptians lost six car non.
 Tt is feared at Amsterdam that tn Dutch iron-clad Adder has been lost, 8 the body of her pilot has been washe ashore at Ymuiden.' The Adder is second-class vessel, with 400 hors power engines and displacement ( l, $50 tons. She carries two twelve.to guns.
 Nine thousand copies of Russia revolutionary proclamation were dis covered at the Ministry of the Marin in St. Petersburg. After the discover the director of the department con mitted suicide.
 Courtesy to Young Ladies.
 Marion Harland, writing in the Co, gregatdondlist, says Familiarity speech leads as naturally to freedom touch as brooks to rivers, or neglect small sweet courtesies' to overt boorisl