Connecticut western news., 1882-12-06
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

NEWS OF THE DAY
 GENERAL ITEMS.
 Stephen w. Dorsey addresses card to the public explaining his connection with the star route service, and denying the charges made against him.
 The long litigation growing out of the collision ill 1863 between the steam ship North Star and the Ella Marley is ended, and William H. Vanderbilt and others are ordered to pay the plaintiffs $23, ,504.22,
 At Cincinnati the Coroner's jury in the case of the young woman who was fatally shot by Frank I. Frayne rendered verdict of accidental death.
 MT. Norton, Chief of the Financial Division of the Third Assistant Post master General, has been dismissed on the recommendation of Government counsel in the Star route case.
 The late Thurlow Weed, in his will, makes his daughter Harriet his principal legatee. The estate Is estimated at from $1, ,000, ,00O to $1, ,250, ,OO0.
 The Dominion Court of Appeal at Toronto, Ont, decided that William A. Hall, charged with forgery in his duties as chief clerk in the Comptroller's office, Newark. N. J.. should be extradited.
 John Deyoy, on trial Ill New York City for libel, refused to make known the name of the head officer of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, and was in- formed that if he did not change his mind by Monday it would most likely be the duty of the Court to commit him for contempt
 Eleven additional members of the >R 4Lo l,. Galor were rescued. While they were about being transferred from schooner, which picked them up, to steamer, the latter colided with the schooner, which filled, and had to be abandoned. The captain of the Cedar Grove and six others are still missing.
 On the passage of the training ship Jamestown to Boston from New York many of the boys were frostbitten.
 Three robbers broke into the house of Mrs. Converse, near Waterbury, Conn.,, on Tuesday night, assaulted and tied the lady and her brother and stole what valuables they found.
 The Comptroller of the Currency, in his annual report, shows the bad effect of large surplus revenue on the clrcu- lating medium.
 An attempt to launch the United States monitor Puritan, at Chester. Pa., failed.
 The British steamer Cedar Grove was lost near Nova Scotia. The captain, his wife, lady passenger and portion of the crew are missing.
 Joseph Thomas was convicted at Mayersville, Miss, of the murder of Charles Murphy and sentenced to i'm prisonment for life.
 During the performance of "Si Slo- cum" in Q Cincinnati theatre, Frank Frayne, in attempting to shoot the apple from the head of Miss Annie Won Behren, shot her in the forehead She expired in few minutes.
 -R. Porter Lee, late president of national bank in Buffalo, convicted at Syracuse of embezzlement, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
 Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, has refused to issue a certificate of elec- ton to Senator Kellogg (who was a can- didate for Congress in the Third District) on the ground of non-residence in the district or State.
 The coroner's jury in the case of the four members of Captain Taylor's family who were drowned in New York harbor, in the sinking of the barge Saginaw, have declared the captain and pilot of the City of Worcester to ha ge been guilty of neglect and carelessness.
 The fifteen members of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen who, in defiance of the order of the Supreme Court, passed the elevated railroad bill, are to go to prison. The Court of Appeals has con- firmed the decision of the lower courts.
 A war between oystermen and clan gatherers IS being waged along the banks of the Shrewsbury River, N. J.
 The Alabama Legislature voted in favor of Senator John T. Morgan for United States Senator to succeed him. self.
 The official figures of Nebraska show that Dawes's (Rep majority for Gov ernor over Morton is IA, 936. The average Republican vote for State officers is ALSO; Democratic, 26,847; Anti-Mon opoly, 17,197.
 An infant was found dead and par tially eaten by rats near Spottsville, Ky. The disputed election in the First Congressional district of Virginia was decided by the Board of Canvassers throwing out the vote of Gloucester County and awarding certificate to Mayo (coalitionist).
 At Norristown, Pa., two men while sleeping in Gn armory were sutfocated by coal gas.
 Frank James was brought into court at Kansas City, Mo-, and through his counsel pleaded not guilty to indictments or murder and bank robbery.
 The remains of Dr. Ehrhart, late practitioner of medicine at Allegheny City, Pa., were cremated at Washing ton, Pa.
 The report that Chile had made ar exhorbitant demand on the United States of Colombia is authoritatively denied.
 The official vote of the State of Con- necticut for Governor is as follows: Wal Ter, Dem.. 59,O14; Bulkley, Rep. 54, ,S53 Rogers, Pro-. 1,034; Tanner, G., 697 scattering, 36 Walters majority is 2,394 Sumner, Dem., for Lieutenant Governor, has 2, ,455 majority. Northrop Dem., for Secretary of State, has 72f majority. Sloat, Rep, for Comptroller, has 782 majority, and Goodrich, Dem. for Treasurer, has 1,074 majority. Int plaralities in the vote for Congrcssmer are as follows Eaton, Dem., 693 Nit chell, Dem, 1,795; Wait, Rep, 1,655 and Seymour, Dem.. ], 1,440.
 The steamer Wisconsin, which ar- rived at Milwaukee, Wis, picked uI three men on piece of wreckage in about the middle of the lake. The men belonged to the crew of the schooner Collingwood, bound from St. Helena, Mich, for Chicago, which was lost with the rest of the crew.
 President Arthur has removed Chas. E. Henry, Marshal of the District ol Columbia D. B. Ainger Postmaster at