Connecticut western news., 1882-06-28

the parade was an immense affair. For four weeks past preparations have been in progress. Three States-Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania contributed delegations to swell the ranks, and when the great procession moved fully 10000 men were in line, representing all of the leading crafts. It was headed by the police and large delegation of military. The seventeen-years locusts have appeared in western New York by thou sands, literally covering fences and ele- vated objects, on which they undergo their peculiar change of throwing aside their old garments. They emerge in 8 eeble condition, but shortly unfold and enlarge. Their immense eyes brighten, and they take their peculiar reddish color. They soon acquire sufficient strength to find their way to the tops of the surrounding trees. Whether or not they will prove destructive to crops remains to be seen.
 | On Saturday a destructive storm visited St. Louis, Kansas City and other cities in that section doing serious dam- age.
 The cattle in Dakota are ln the finest condition imaginable. The loss from all causes the past season has not exceeded 2 per cent. The crop of calves is very large, over 90 per cent.
 Six boys from 13 to 16 years of age were drowned at Algiers, La., Sunday; five men and two children were drowned at Quebec Sunday.
 | Six persons, a woman and five children, were drowned on Wednesday night in branch of Sugar Greek, in Linn County, Kan, while attempting to ford the stream in a wagon.
 An engineer was killed and several passengers injured by train jumping the track near Bedford, Ind.
 Nelson Whitten, of Sunderland, Vt, has been sentenced to eighteen years Imprisonment for shooting his father.
 The schooner La Syrene, struck by drifting ice on St. Peters Bank, sank instantly, the entire crew of seventeen souls going down to death in her.
 Chang Tsung Liang, an attache of the Chinese Legation, says the Chinese Government will return fifty students to American colleges. It sees that their removal was mistake.
 A colored man was arrested at Hart ford, Conn.,, for marrying white girl, he having 0 wife living at the time,
 James Vaughan was hanged in H. linois, and Milton Yarberry in New Mex ico, for murder.
 The suggestion to pay city depart ment laborers of New York $2 day in- stead of $1. 76 has been adopted by the Department of Public Works.
 Suit will be brought on the bonds of J. c. Bridgman, formerly United States Indian Agent at Green Bay, Wis, in the sum of $250, ,O0O, for misapplyine funds and for other grave irregularities.
 The American fishing schooner Massasoit was struck by an iceberg and sunk.
 -Wilbour, Jackson & Co.,, of Provi- dence, R. l., has been by the court or dered to pay $7,5OO for contempt of court, in refusing to bid for the Sprague property after they had agreed to do so
 The gas ignited in the Diamond mines of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, of Wilksbarre, Pa, on Saturday badly burning eight men.
 The Chief of Police, of Milwaukee, by direction of the Mayor, has issued an order that gambling houses of every description be closed. The keepers and inmates of such places will be arrested and dealt with according to law. In a notice to the press and people, the Chiei assures them that there is no doubt about the meaning of the order-it means extermination for gamblers.
 Timothy Remick's cotton-waste storage building, at Boston Highlands took fire Saturday and fell. Nineteen men were buried beneath the ruins anc more or less injured.
 At Cleveland, Ohio, train convey ing workmen was stoned, but no dam age was done. One hundred and fifty women strikers at Cohoes, N. Y., have received notice to quit the house where they have been boarding.
 WASHINGTON NOTES A delegation of experts on insanity waited upon the President and urged { reprieve for Gu1teau that the question of his insanity may be determined.
 lieutenant Danenhower thinks the conclusion that Master Putnam of the Corwin is dead premature.
 The House bill to enable nationa banks to continue their corporate exist ence came up as regular business in the Senate on Thursday. A number O. amendments were offered, one to compe the national banks to receive as deposit silver certificates and to compel deposit ors to receive from the banks thes, certificates in payment of their checks This was rejected by vote of IT yeas tc 28 nays. MT. Vests substitute direct ing the issue of Treasury notes in ex change for national bank currency ant forbidding the creation of new nationa banks was voted down by IF to 31, ant the bill passed by vote of 34 yeas t, IS nays.
 Debate on the Internal Revenu Tax bill was continued in the Senate. - The Senate passed the Nationa Bank Charter bill.
 The statement that the Secretary o the Treasury would issue circular fix ing duty of fifty per cent. on knit shirt and drawers was premature. The Score , tary has reached no final determination on that question.
 t The United States Treasury Cattl } Commission, after careful investigation 7 state that pleuro-pneumonia still ore l vails in the State of Maryland. The new Internal Revenue bill l which proposes reduction of taxes ol 3 tobacco and high wines, was considere, in the House on Wednesday. : MT. Hawley, from the Military Com ] mittee, made a unanimous report to tn Senate in favor of the House join , resolution authorizing the Secretary c , War to erect at Washington's Head . quarters Tn the city of Newburg, N. Y. ! a memorial column and to aid in defray ing the expenses the centennial cele - bration to be heldfn that city in 1983