Connecticut western news., 1882-01-04

lacks strength to convict are false. 1 Attorney General Brewster has written a letter to Colonel Bliss notifying him that he intends to appear in person as one of the prosecutors for the Govern ment. MT. Scoville writes to local paper denying Marshal Henry's statement that Mrs. Scoville. the sister of Gui- teau, received $200 for expenses from the government. The amount was S102, and she had g. left after paying her board bill.
 In the Guiteau trial on We'd nesday after the usual recess the assas- sin, who had been comparatively quiet, became insulting to Judge Porter, who made a demand that the criminal should be remanded to the dock. The District Attorney stated that he wanted no more special guards about the assassin, and that he wanted the Marshal to take him to the dock, and the Court so ordered.
 The authorities at Washington are taxing steps to prevent the spread of small pox at various Western points.
 It is understood that Dr. Agnew's bill for medical atteedence and services is $32, 900, one item being $5,0OO for the first operation he made last summer. Dr. Hamilton's bill is understood to be $25, ,000, while Dr. Bliss charges S8, GOO, or at about the rate of $100 a day. No bills. have been received from the nurses. An attempt will be made to have Drs. Boynton and Edson paid as physicians, and not nurses.
 It is thought that the Guiteau trial will not last much more than three weeks longer. The costs of prosecution, not including witness fees, will amount to nearly S10O, GOO, and the fees of wit nesses on both sides, which the Govern as much more. Some of the experts figures are not known.
 The issue of the Patent Office for the week aggregate $40 patents, nine- teen designs and twenty four trade marks. Of the patents twenty five were to Thomas A. Edison alone. This is said by Patent Office officials to be the largest number of patents ever issued at one time by any government to one per son.
 Mi. Springer, of Illinois, will shortly introduce bill into inc House establishing postal telegraphy.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 A Frenchman named Hollander has been arrested at Berlin on suspicion of being the person who threw the bomb that killed Alexander IT.
 A pigeon-shooting match for s100 a side at 100 pigeons each came of at Tendon between Dr. Carver and MT. Graham, resulting in the defeat of the latter. Dr. Carver shot at thirty yards rise and MT. Graham at twenty eight The scores were: Dr. Carver, 76 birds 1; MT. Graham, 64 birds.
 Three thousand persons have been arrested at Warsaw in connection with the anti-Jewish riots there.
 The police have arrested leading Whiteboys in the County Cork, and seized large quantity of arms in the County Clare, Ireland.
 -Dr. Lamson, the American doctor accused os poisoning his brother-in-law at Wimbledon, has again been remanded. Aconite has been found in the stomach of the deceased. It is shown that the prisoner had purchased aconite.
 The Russian Geographical Society will do all that is possible to assist the crew of the Jeannette.
 The French troops are on the Mo rocco frontier. The Tunisian Arabs are fleeing to Tripoh. .
 Germany, in her negotiations with the Vatican, will not encroach upon the rights of Italy. @
 A lightship off the Wicklow coast has been run down and sunk by 8 ves- sel, supposed to be an American.
 "A Russian expedition to take scien- tific observations at the mouth of the Lena during the years 1882 3 has started on it's journey. rE HI.
 -The Chinese poll tax in Australia has been fixed at el0. #tss Japan is anxious to remodel her commercial relations with Europe and America.
 The Berlin correspondent of the St. Janaes's. Gazette says the German press comment suspiciously upon the recent measures for the reorganization | of the Russian army. .s-.EE
 The disturbed districts in Ireland have been placed under the supervision of special magistrates with the view to securing prompt action in case of dis | turbance. > s-. a.5. <S g. -4 Through the influence of MT. Fawcett, the British Consul General al Constantinople, and some influential friends, pardon has been granted te Mir. O'Donovan, the correspondent oi the London Daily Nei0s, who was sentenced to six months imprisonment for speaking in abusive terms of the Sultan. MT. O'Donovan will soon leave the city. ..-E- -..s..s-s
 The flood at Gran having subsidei POI bodies have been recovered in tho plain of Habra. < Of these 163 were o natives, B of Spaniards and 5 of French men. .-.
 A dispatch from Warsaw reports that during the celebration of high mass in the Church of the Holy Gross man was seized while picking pockets In order to effect his escape tn, culprit cried '.Fire l" Immediatel, great panic seized the congrega ton, who rushed for the doors During the confusion thirty women ant children were crushed to death, ant forty other persons were seriously in iured. The pickpocket was soundl, beaten by the crowd. He is Jew. Th' lower class of people are much excite, against his co-religionists, several c
 whom have been maltreated and ha. the windows of their dwellings broken
 The military had to be called out. Reports from Warsaw show tha ] the damage done to property durin
 the recent riot there IS enormous.