Connecticut western news., 1882-10-18
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TrEMs.

A large number of well-executed counterft 1t silver dollars are being cir culated in the western portion of New York State.
 .The late cyclone did considerable damage to the tobacco crop in Cuba.
 At Lebanon, Penn., the cashier of savings bank was knocked down on the street and robbed of satchel con- taining $30, ,00O.
 -Ar awning which had been loosened by contact with wagon fell upon a young woman, and for the injuries which she suffered she got Q verdict for $13,OOO against New York City.
 -Diphtheria prevails to an alarming extent in Pittsylvania County, Va.
 The Lighthouse Board will erect at Hallett's Point, N. r., an iron tower, from which will bs displayed from sun down to sunrise an electrlc light of 2O,- 900 candle power.
 The question of assessing duty upon sugar imported from the Hawaiian Islands is again before the Treasury . Department
 At Montreal the coroner's jury in the case of the steamer Richelieu disas- ter rendered verdict severely censur- ing the owner and the engineer of the vessel and also the local government in. spector of steamboats.
 President Arthur visited Boston. and then went to Marshfield to partici- pate in the celebration of the centenary of Webster.
 The Democratic majority in Ohi o is from 25,000 to 30,000. The Demo- crats make large gains in Congressmen in the State.
 A planter at Pine Bluffs, Ark, and three of his children died from the effects of eating 8 watermelon, in which he had placed poison for the benefit of garden thieves.
 Charles l.. Chase, 8 lawyer of Cook County, H., has proved defaulter to the amou nt of over $50. .00O.
 A man who was confined in the jail at Evansville, Ind, on 8 charge of wife murder, was taken out and killed by a mob. In fight with the Sheriff and his posse one of the lynchers was shot to death.
 The residents of Lee County, Ala. are excited over reports of a contem- -plated uprising of the negroes in that county.
 MT. Thomas Carroll was chosen by the New York Republican State Com mittee for Congressman-at-Larg in place of MT. Hepburn.
 Fire destroyed property valued at over $10O, 900 at Bloomington, Ill.,, on Tuesday.
 A crazy Frenchman, who is a fla. miliar figure on West 14th street, New York City, in fit, ran amuck through that crowded thoroughfare, on Tuesday afternoon, when the street was crowded with women and children, stabbing right and left with a steel pointed com pass. Over six ladies were wounded. and one of them, it is thought, fatally. Two children and man were also in- jured.
 The registry in New York City on the first day of registration was 55, 222. In Brooklyn for the first two days the registry was n, 781.
 The old State House in Boston, having been restored to its original condition, was handed over by the city authorities to the Bostonian Society. and received with timely speech mak- ing.
 The people of Lincoln County, Mo-, are organizing to resist the collection of g tax levied on their property to pay a judgment on railroad bonds. 7. A collision on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad resulted in the killing of two men.
 New gold certificates of the denominations of $20, $50 and $10O have been issued from the Treasury at Wash ington.
 The government has received $950,- 009 under the will of the late Joseph l.. Lewis, of Hoboken.
 A report reached Galveston, Texas, that six persons had been killed by an accident on the Texas and Pacific Rail- road. ....
 A protest from the Irish National Land League of America contradicts the report that it is dead. . ..-..
 At London, Ont, thirty persons cheese prepared by local butchers.
 Two men were burned to death in Ontario, through quantity of unslaked nme having produced spontaneous con- hustion.
 The total values of the exports of petroleum and petroleum products dur mg the month of August, 1882, were So,599, 40, and during the month of Au- gust, 1881, $5, 962, ,949; for the eight months ended August 31, 1882, $3O,- 946, ,s56 ]; and for the corresponding period of last year, $30, ,190, 25O. -George F. Huntington, his wife and four children, were drowned in Plum Island River, Mass, on Saturday.
 General B. F. Butler accepts the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts. -Advices from Arizona stste that the Indians at the San Carlos Agency are greatly dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs, and that their depreda- lions are of frequent occurrence.
 Five men were killed and six others seriously injured by the premature ex. plosion of blast in Missouri.
 Professor Morton says that there is absolutely no danger to the public from the use of the electric light, the em- pioyes, who are supposed to be protect cd by their superior knowledge, being the only persons who run any risk.
 A semi-idiotic boy went to Police Headquarters, in New York City, to ask for Q permit to carry a pistol with which to shoot President Arthur.
 A conspiracy to steal bonds and plates from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has been unearthed at Washington.
 The Secretary of the Navy has ap. pointed the advisory boards on the sale of navy yards and the construction oi vessels required by g recent act of Con- gress.
 The iron workers at Newport, Ky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, have inaugurated . new strike.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.