Connecticut western news., 1882-02-15
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' -JQRn yd. Wolfe, who ShOg MISS J a. icesusso oat Peru, N. J., was convicted of atrpGious assault and battery. In 1873 the total quantity of ice cut aud housed on the Hudson was l, 408,- 506stsnsa Tn 1Sl9, a2s06f, ,60e;s In 1880, sf550.s6eeS>a.id fasS ieeasonH about 2, ,sO0,- GOO tons.- This years crop promises to be equal to that Of 1879. The quantity .dAeusetf dp to the present Atime amounts to 1,5UB,6U0 tons, including 500, ,000 tons left over fram last year. A"-William Miller, the oldest Mason in the United States, died at Caldwell, O., on Wednesday night, aged niuety-eight years. He had been Mason for eigh- ty-one years.
 The receipts at the Boston Post Office for the past year were $1 1,326,- 218 30, an increase of $167, ,S19 93.
 The Methodist Book Committee has decided to abandon the book concern at Atlanta.
 The contest of the will of Minot Tirrell, of Weymouth, Mass, resulted in the admission of the will to probate. The will bequeaths 9100,000 to the in real estate and $15, ,OO0 in cash to the son and $500, 1000 in trust for the son and daughter.
 The Kansas Supreme Court decided as unconstitutional so much of the pro- hibitory law as prescribes punishment for drunkenness, on the ground that such provision was not expressed in the title of the bill
 In the Ryan Sullivan prize fight, near New Orleans, La., Sullivan won in eleven minutes. There were nine rounds fought.
 Three deaths caused by drinking impure ice-water are reported upon in a paper read before the Connecticut Medical Society by Dr. Orlando Brown, Five of Lieutenant Danenhower's men, at Irkutsk, have volunteered to resume the search for De Long, but Secretary Hunt has ordered them home. Three burglars were shot and killed while breaking into saloon at Tunnel ton, Ind.
 The bodies of Cunningham, Harris and Treadway, three of the men burned in the Potter Building, New York City, were found in the ruins of the building.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 Colonel Seaton, Superintendent of the Census, thinks it will require nearly year to complete the work of his bureau.
 -Chief-J Justice Carter, of the Dis trict of Columbia Supreme Court, who will be seventy in April, will not retire from the bench until after the Guiteau case is heard in banc, thus avoiding any delay.
 The new 5-cent Garfield postage stamp will be ready for issue on March l. Dark brown has been selected as the color best calculated to bring out the fine engraving of the work. The g. cent stamp is almost entirely used for foreign correspondence.
 The sixth installment of the Mexi- can indemnity under the awards of the late American and Mexican mixed com mission is being distributed to persons entitled to payment.
 The President has sent a special message to Congress urging the amend ment or modification of the Posse Oomitatus act, so as to permit the use of the military to aid the civil authorities in maintaining law and order in the border States and Territories.
 The bill establishing postal savings banks will be reported favorably by the House Committee on Post offices.
 Tho House Committee on Appropria- tions has agreed upon the Indian Ap- propriation bill. The aggregate amount appropriated by the bill is $4, 963. POS, an increase of $394, 500 over the amount appropriated last year.
 FOREIGN.
 Three hundred Jewish refugees from Russia have sailed from Liverpool for the United States. The Chief Rabbi ln London says enormous sums will be required for relief purposes.
 Louis Achard, East India merchant of Mincing Lane, has failed. His liabl- ities are 920O,OOO.
 Twenty ty-seven lives were lost on the steamer Cosmo, which foundered off KiIia on February G. The Cosmo was bound for London. She sailed on November 30 from Galveston, Tex, for Sebastopol.
 Tunnel, Rhetian Alps, have been killed by an explosion of dynamite.
 London Irish organizations have formally condemned the recent attempt to kill Mir. Forster by sending letter COuttslQluS eXpiOSIV0S to n1m 8G DuOul Castle. Mir. Forster says had he opened it his hands would probably have been blown off,
 Sixteen Whiteboys have been com. mitted for trial at Cork on the evidence of Cornell, the informer.
 The Russian Government declares that the Jew-baiters are being severely dealt with and that foreign interference in the matter will only tend to iIfamt the peassntry.
 The instruction in Yemen, Arabia is gaining ground. Numbers of Arab: have deserted the Turkish standard The insurgents are in possession of tn, : principal interior towns and occupy DO sitions from which they can only be dis lodged by large force.
 General Ignatieff, in receiving Jewish delegation, said he hopet that before many months the westerl frontier would be opened to the Jews Hhe murder of the Jewish family of ii: persons near Novidvor was committet by body of peasants without tn smallest provocation.
 UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
 SENATE.
 The Senate, having passed the Thre, Per Cent. Funding bill, has now ad dressed itself to Mir. Ingalls's resolution