Connecticut western news., 1882-03-22
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pagDe, brandy, whisky ana luncn, and $500 for cocktails, there is another, it is reported, of $1, POO for white gloves. Certain icemen who had been charging the general public s for ice sent in bills for ice furnished to cool the White House at the rate of $5, with extra claims for carts and help. Persons who rushed in upasked to give advice as to ihe best way to cool the White House, and whose advice WAS not taken, have sent in bills for their trouble.
 A Washington special dispatch says that Senator Edmunds declined the offer of seat on the Supreme Bench because he did not wish to be second choice.
 The Sub Committee on Ways and Means has agreed upon bill reducing the internal revenue S6S, ,000,000.
 The Chief of the Bureau of Statis- tics reports that the total values of ex- ports of provisions and tallow for the four months ended February 2S, 1882, were $40,624, 326, and fer the four months ended February 2s, 1881, s52,- 167, ,S23. The total values Of the ex- months ended February 2S, 1882, were $l6, 942, FPS. and for the same period the preceding year, s22, ,219, ,O62.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has issued three calls for continued sizes to the amount of $1 ,0CO,000.
 A committee of the House has de- cided to recommend expanding between six and seven million dollars this year on improving the Mississippi River alone.
 The President has sent message to the Senate recommending com pulsory vaccination law.
 The total values of the exports of domestic breadstuffs from the United 173, ,239, and during February, 1881, 3,919,O ,O46; for two months ended February 2S, 1882, S23, 15O, 76O, and for two months ended February 2s, 1881 , S2s, ,S4S, 452; for eight months ended for the same period the preceding year, S1S2, 42S, ,626. @ -- Judge Freeman, Attorney General for the Post. Office Department, has de. cided that toll-gate and ferry keepers cannot lawfully detain the United States mails, even if the mail carrier refuses to pay the charges. &
 It is expected that the counsel oi Sergeant Mason will raise the point that there was fatal error in the court-mar tial proceedings which will vitiate the whole trial. The error claimed is that the Court and Judge-Advocate were sworn before the prisoner was brought into the court. st.
 The. Army Appropriation bill, re- ported to the House and ordered tc be printed and recommitted, provides for m aggregate appropriation of $27, 431 ,69S, based upon estimates aggre gating $29, 237, ,3s6, and is an increase of $743, ,S9S over the appropriation oi last year.
 The Senate Committee on Appro. priations has reported the House bill making appropriations for Qualifications and the armament thereof for the fisca year ending June 30, 1882 Il appropriates $175,00O for the pro tection, preservation and repair oi Notifications and other works of defense and $100,000 for the armament of sea coast Notifications, including guns an6 howitzers for flank defense, carriages, proiectiles, fuses, powder and imple ments, their trial and proof, etc. Fol torpedoes for harbor defenses, theil preservation and experiments, $1O0, ,OOC are appropriated.
 The Secretary of War has ap. proved the sentence of Sergeant Mason, who shot at Guiteau. He is to be con fined eight years in the Albany Peni tentiary.
 | FOREIGN ITEMS. | It is reported that Austria and Ger many have made arrangements for joint resistance to 8 Russian attack made upon either of them.
 The decisions of the St. Peters burg Jewish Commission will render { million Jews homeless.
 Reports from Russia say that tho Nihilists have abandoned their assassi nation programme and that the Czar vii show clemency to Nihilist prisoners.
 The execution of Dr. Lamson ha! been fixed for April 4. The Treasur, authorities have reason to suspect tha he has been guilty of other seriou crimes.
 The French embargo on Americal pork will be removed and the inspection of the imported article established.
 In London Dr. Lamson, the Ameri
 can, was found guilty of killing hi brother-in- law and sentenced to deatl He protested his innocence.
 Tine Queen left England for Mer tone on Monday. She will retur about April 15.
 It Is said the Austrians lost 20
 men in the recent engagement with th l insurgents at Jankow. There are COT l hicting reports about the mobilizatio t of the Montenegrin army. 3 It is reported at Berlin ths Skobeleff- has been confined in l fortress.
 | Prince Buaki, father of the King , Ashantee, denies the story reoentl published that 200 young girls had bee ] , massacred for the purpose of usin their blood to mix mortar with whic
 to repair one of the State buildings. s Three thousand coal miners in u o St. Georges Creek and Cumberlan d districts have struck, in consequence
 a reduction of wages.
 @ Queen Victoria has written a lett e to Sir William Harcourt, which is pu'
 lished in the London Gasettc, returnir n thanks for the sympathy expressed f. i- her in England and elsewhere on u d occasion of the recent attempt upt It her life.
 n Sir Henry Halford writes that inte l. national rife matches will take place J. Creedmoor in 1882 and at Wimbled, e in 1883.
 5. General Skobeleff is said to ha e told the Czar that he had no intentit d of posing as a political agitator. 1f The Austrians have occupied t l. headquarters of the Bocchesi hig If ] lsnders The insurgents mined a1