Connecticut western news., 1882-04-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 Trade reports show 2,S71 failure
 Tor the first quarter of 1882, agains
 2,16O for the first quarter of 1880. Tn
 proportion of assets to liabilities ha
 increased.
 The New Jersey Legislature ad journed sine die amid great confusion on Friday. The Water Front bill anl the Incidental Appropriation bill failed Go pass. The Bribery Committee re ported, sustaining several charges made The members will not be able to draw their pay until next session.
 Some malicious persons exploded 6 charge of nitro -glycerine under the Andre monument at Tappan on Thurs. day, and partially destroyed the stones forming the base. The shaft was not thrown down.
 The steamer Golden Oity was burned at its dock in Memphis on Thursday morning with serious loss of life. The steamer fioated down the river and many of the passengers were thus prevented rom reaching the shore. The fire was caused by watchman setting fire to a lot of Jute which was stored amidships. stoves Circus and Menagerie were aboard the boat en route to Cairo, and everything was lost. There were forty passengers on the boat. Of them sey- enteen were lost, and also number of the crew. w, Fl. Stowe, the circus manager, Mrs. Stowe and two children were lost; Mrs. l.. E. Kounz, wife of Uaptain kounz, well known steamboat owner, and three children were among the lost; Kelly, the engineer, could easily havo saved himself, but he stood to his engine until the boat had been landed, and then it was too late to escape. One of the crew saw him for an instant as he stood at his post of duty with the fierce flames burning all around him. His form "seemed a mass of hre, said the man, "as he sank down never to rise again" His death was a truly heroic one, as he sacrificed him. self at his post of duty to give others chance of life.
 The control of the Mutual Union Telegraph Company has been acouired by Jay Gould.
 The loss by the fire at Amherst Col iege, Mass, is about $2oO,0OO.
 Patrick Dolan, the "Molly Ma. gulre, who was convicted of the mur- der of Maurice Healy, was sentenced at Omontown, Pa., to eleven years in the penitentiary. --s'- '
 The Connecticut Senate has passed Q bill providing for State Board of Pardons. The pardoning power has heretofore rested with the Legislature. The Prohibitory Liquor bill was defeated in the Massachusetts House on Wednesday by vote to pass it to a third reading. The vote was tie, and Speaker Charles J. Moves declined to vote. The auditors of the County of Rock. ingham, N. H., find a deficit of Sl7.. 6S4. 64 in the accounts of County Treas urer Lane. The assets of the Union Dime Savings Bank include $7. 800 in the possession of Lanes bankers.
 A report comes from Natchez that !20 refugees have been drowned by the destruction of gin in Tensas Parish, La. They had taken refuge in the gin, when 1t was swept away by the flood. T
 The Pennsylvania Greenbackers propose to hold a convention and nomi- nate State ticket. I
 -Forty.six of the illicit oyster dredgers recently arrested by the State | authorities of Virginia have been sen- fenced to one years imprisonment each i in the Penitentiary.
 -J. H. Shlnn, & member of the New Jersey Legislature, made an affidavit that he had been bribed to vote for the Jersey Water Front bill on the Govern or's veto.
 <Mrs. Ballard, of Lincoln County. la-s killed hel two children Monday last and drowned herself and baby. She had had trouble with her husband.
 The Hudson River steamer Thomas Cornell ran on the rocks at nieht dnr;no a thick fog. The officers and crew were cooi ana courageous in the emergency, ana the passengers were all rescued.
 Obstructive and fatal tornadoes nave visited portions of Georgia, Ala bama and Louisiana. The Senate of Illinois adopted a resolution urging President Arthur to | pardon Sergeant Mason. | At least fifteen persons lost their | hyes by the cyclone that passed over sections of Georgis, Alabama and Louis jana. At meeting of the iourneymen plumbers, representing nearly two- thirds of that branch of industry in Chi cago. demand for higher wages was | made.
 The Chicago Lumbermen's Ex- change advanced the rates for April fifty | cents, to $2 per thousand, on several grades of lumber.
 An explosion by which eleven men were killed and four others seriously 1nl9red occurred on Monday in the vulcan Powder Company's works across the pay from San Francisco, where the manufacture of block blasting powder vas in progress.
 James Bassett, aged nineteen. and Einott Bassett, aged twenty one, broth. ers, were burned to death at a fire Mon q 9ay in West Ansonia, Conn. which also burned three houses.
 The mysterious fish which SO many vessels have recently reported as seen noatlng dead in the North Atlantic. over an area of many hundreds of square miles, is pronounced by Prof. Baird to be the tile fish, a new species found by the United States Fish Com mission to occur in incredible uuanti- 1es along the western edge of the Gulf Stream, in from 75 to 15O fathoms. The EFofessor thinks they have been killed by the terrific storm which has lately ragged along the south coast of New England.
 Several associations of New Orleans have decided to abandon the proposed La Salle celebration on account of the ( desolation caused by the floods. .-Eforts are making in America and '