Connecticut western news., 1882-03-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TTNMH.

Tt is said that in the Flipper case the Judge Advocate General will recom- mend the mitigation of the sentence of dismissal ordered by the court martial.
 -Mr. Wall, who was shot by his wife at New Utrecht, N. Y, died Thursday night in the hospital, and his wife is under arrest.
 During an insurrection in Martin ique the American Vice-Consul was i'm prisoned and fined for furnishing tor pedoes to the whites for protection.
 The debt statement issued March 1st shows the decrease of the public debt during the month of February to have been $9. 783, 511. 63; cash in the treasury, $252, ,617, ,64S.17.
 = The wool-hat manufacturers, who have been in session at Reading, Penn. claim that unless the ruling of fifty per cent. per pound and thirty five per cent. ad .valorem prevails, the an-wool hat msnufscturers in the country will have to shut down.
 At Cincinnati the number of hogs packed during the winter season just closed was 384, ,87S, being 137, ,547 less than during the winter season a year ago.
 At Albany the Governor sent to the Senate the nomination of Isaac V. Baker. ir., Rep as Superintendent of State Prisons in the room of Mir Pills hury.
 The total amount of earnings at Sing Sing Prison, N. Y.. for the month of February were SIS 273. .16; the total expenditures, S15. .265. 29.
 Father Blair, probably the oldest minister in Pennsylvania, died at In- diana, Pa, on Tuesday. aged 95. He was United Presbyterian.
 The result of the hoods in the southwest is frightful. The loss of property will go far into the millions. Fifteen thousand negroes are left en- tirely destitute, their cabins, stock, provisions and tools being swept away, and it is now known that over forty lives have been lost. It will be years before the south Mississippi valley re. covers from the results of the late floods. The levee is total wreck and the country is flooded for miles into the interior.
 = At Albany the Tammany Senators supported the Republicans in changing the rules of the Senate so as to enable the bare majority of a quorum to con- firm nominations. In the distribution of offices in the Senate Tammany was awarded half the patronage. r
 A. B. Baucus, Democrat and Anti MoDopolist, was elected to succeed the late Senator Wagner in the Eighteenth Senatorial District of New York. He received many Republican votes.
 The Law Committee of the Alder. men of New York City have reported adversely on the proposed drawn poul. try ordinance.
 The Vermont Republicans will hold State Convention at Montpelier on the 21st of June.
 The store of Edward Malley, father of one of the Malley boys now held on a charge of murder at New Haven, Conn. was burned Tuesday.
 The New Jersey Senate passed over the Governors veto the bill authorizing the New Jersey Central Railroad to issue additional stock.
 In 10 days claims to 43 gold mines discovered in New York State were filed with the Secretary of State at Albany.
 In the walking match in New York City Powell covered 150 miles in the first twenty-fo hours which beats the record. At midnight Tuesday, forty eight hours after the start, Rowell had covered 2583 miles, with Hughes & miles behind him, and the rest in the following order: Hazael, 2402; Hart, 2177; Sullivan, 215: Fitzgerald, 211, and Noremac 200. On Thursday a change took place and Rowell began falling behind. It was claimed that he was sick. At one o'clock Friday morn. ing the score stood as follows: Hazael, 40; Fitzgerald, 419; Powell, 40; Hart. 40; Sullivan, 40; Noremac, 392 Hughes, 3S2. At 9:30 o'clock Friday morning Rowell broke down and re. tired from the race, having made 41s miles. At one o'clock on Friday the score stood as follows:-Hazael, 492 Fitzgerald, 47O; Hart, 453; Noremac 46; Sullivan, 435; Hughes, 425.
 Two little girls named Collins were drowned at Plantville, Conn.,, on Snn day, while coasting on pond.
 Caroline Le Roy Webster. tn. widow of Daniel Webster, died in Nev Rochelle, N. Y., on Sunday.
 -LongfeIlow's seventy fifth birthda, was celebrated at Gam bridge, Mass. Portland, Me-; Atlanta, Ga, and othe places.
 A Milwaukee dispatch says it i reported that Lord Arthur Clinton (wh, died twelve years ago) is working in tn rolliDg-mills there.
 An explosion was caused at Sar gents factory, at New Haven. by quantity of molten metal dropping int, 3 puddle of water. Four men were in jured.
 Arrangements are making in Sal Francisco for 8 monster anti Chimes meeting.
 An earthquake shock lasting thre or four seconds was felt at Murray Bay Que. Sunday.
 The bodies of the family sven away in the Big Cotton wood snow slid have been recovered from under fort tons of snow. They were not frozen but lying naturally in bed, the husband wife and infant in one bed and two boy and two girls, the eldest eleven wear old, Tn another. It is evident they wer smothered in their sleep.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 MT. Conkling's nomination to tn Supreme Court bench was confirmed il the Senate, twelve Senators, includin four Republicans, voting against it, an 39 in favor of if.
 MT. Sargent's nomination was con nrmed in the Senate without division
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