Connecticut western news., 1882-08-09

employed in. a shoe factory at Essex, l Mass, struck for higher wages.
 Isaac Turner, colored, was executed at Lexington, Ky, for the murder of one of his race.
 WASHINGTON NOTES, Mir. Hutchins introduced in the House 8 resolution proposing a consti- tutional amendment requiring vote of two-thirds of all members elected to each house to pass bill over the Presi- dents veto.
 MT. Hewitt's bill, allowing tonnage reduction on American vessels to cover space used for machinery, passed the Senate.
 President Arthur in his message vetoing the River and Harbor bill:- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. They sustain greater injury in the demoralizing effect produced upon those who are in- trusted with official duty through all | the ramifcations of government. The appropriations for river and harbor | improvements have, under the influences to which have alluded, increased year by year out of proportion to the progress of the country, great as that has been. In 1870 the aggregate appropriation was $3, ,975, 300; in 1875, $6, 648, ,517. 50; in 1880, $8, 976, 500; and in 1881, $11,- 451, 300; while by the present act there is appropriated SIS, TAB, ,875. The River l and Harbor bill was passed over the Presidents veto on Wednesday without an attempt being made at debate, and no attention was paid to the Presidents objections to the bill, In the House the vote stood yeas 122. nays 59. In the Senate the vote stood yeas Al, nays 16. In the House there voted for the bill after it's veto sixty four Republicans, ffty-three Demo crats and in the Senate eighteen Re- publicans, twenty three Democrats. For river and harbor improvements the bill passed by both Houses appro- priates SIS, TAB, ,875.
 The reduction of the United States debt for July was nearly $14.0O0,0 900.
 The South Carolina State Demo- cratic Convention nominated Captain Hugh s. Thompson, of Greenville, for Governor.
 A partial settlement has been eff. footed in the Lewis will case under a special act of Congress. One-fourth of the estate is to be divided among the heirs and $900, 900 is, under the decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for New Jersey, to be applied to the reduction of the national debt.
 In the House joint resolution ask ing the President to appoint new Venezuela Claims Commission and 8 number of bills of 8 general nature were introduced. A resolution pro- viding for an investigation of the Sol diers' Home at Hampton, Va, was also introduced.
 The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill reported to the Senate adds to the House bill $1, 788, ,000, making the total $25, 764, GOO.
 The National Federation of Labor Unions have issued an address to the trades unions of the United States, touching the existing relations between capital and labor.
 In the Senate debate on the Naval Appropriation bill the amount for com pleting the monitors was cut down from $1, ,OOO, GOO to $4O0, 900, and the clause abolishing the rank of commodore was stricken out.
 In the House joint resolution ask ing the President to appoint a new Ven- ezuela Claims Commission and num- Der of bills of general nature were in- troduced. A resolution providing for an ) investigation of the Soldiers Home al Hampton, Va., was also introduced.
 The Senate passed the Naval Ap- propriation bill with amendments.
 Tn the House the Navy bill, with Senate amendments, was ordered printed.
 A bill to place ex-President Grant on the retired list of the army was re ferred to the House Committee on Milf tary Affairs.
 The Senate passed the "Deuster bill to regulate carriage of passenger by sea and the House bill to regulate immigration.
 The President has approved the ac appropriating $50. .000 for Mrs. Lucretii Garfield, less any amount paid James A Garfield, on account of his salary al President of the United States.
 The House passed the bill, a amended by the Senate, increasing thu | from $30 to $50 per month. , FOREIGN ITEMS. M. de Lesseps assures the Sultan that Arabi will not damage the Sue t Canal.
 : A secret organization is said to exis 2 in Ireland whose object is to depose tn t Queen.
 The Egyptians in Cairo were greatl, . excited on the arrival of the captured
 British midshipman, thinking that h 3 was Admiral Seymour. : -KyriIoff, the imprisoned Russian
 Nihilist, has disclosed long list o : newly planned crimes. l An extended reconnaissance wa 8 made outside of Ramleh, and the enemy
 position was found to be almost aba1 @ doned.
 f A dispatch from London says th
 Peterhead fishing fleet has been caugh !, in gale. Two hundred boats are sti J missing.
 -Italy's proposal for joint occupi r tion of the Suez Canal has been assente . to by Russia, Germany, Austria an l. Turkey.
 = The town of Suez has been occupie j. by British marines. u Tt is said that Engineer Melvill
 believes that Lieutenant Chipp and h l. companions perished in snowstorm. l Many awards were made to Amer o can exhibitors at the Electrical Exhib
 tion at the Crystal Palace, London. 1T The Thames club have refused t 't accept the challenge of the Hillsdal
 crew.
 'r England desires Turkey to inte