Connecticut western news., 1882-12-20
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TEMa

Der of cars and engines were also burned, causing total loss of $130, ,0OO.
 A well dressed stranger entered a lewelry store in Cleveland, Ohio, and coolly walking behind the counter carried of, unobserved, diamonds and other gems valued in all at BIO, 900.
 William Pendergrast pleaded guilty when charged with passing counterfeit money at Buffalo, and was sent to the Penitentiary for one year. The coin was good and now the poor fellow is to be pardoned for the outrage committed on him.
 Thomas Crittenden murdered & negro at Anchorage, Ky, because the latter testified against him in court
 A number of children were drowned in the Schuylkill River, by the breaking of the ice, on which they were skating.
 The steamer Canima, supposed to have been lost with all on board from the washing ashore of portion of her deck load, arrived at St. Johns, N. F., after very stormy voyage.
 At meeting of the Corn Exchange of Toronto, Ont, the proposition to abolish Canadian canal tolls was in- dorsed, but with the proviso that the canals shall not be free to American ves- sells, except when destined for Canadian ports.
 The observations made by Professor Langley, of the Allegheny Pa.) Observa- tory during the transit of Venus, em- braced the remarkable appearance of cer- tain portions of that planet during her in gress and just previous to her second con- tact.
 The New York and New England Railroad Company was indicted in the Court of Common Pleas at Providence, R. l., for not using the power brake, ac- cerding to statute, on trains running to stations within the State.
 Tobacco and cigar manufacturers at Rochester, N. T., in common with those of other cities, deprecate the discussion the tax on tobacco. They say it injures their trade.
 At Shawneetown, ILL, eleven men employed about 8 saw mill were scat tered around the engine room eating their luncheon, when the boiler exploded with terrific violence, completely wreck ing the mill, throwing the iron plates of the boiler to distances varying from a few feet to six hundred yards, and in stantly killing eight of the eleven men and wounding the other three.
 The Governor of Georgia has par doned Cox, who murdered Colonel As ton, at Atlanta in 1879.
 Through an explosion in distillery at Belle Vernon, Pa, upwards of three thousand barrels of whisky were de- stroyed. The loss is estimated at $50O,- 900.
 At Cumberland, Ohio, a school G--l, with his pupils, stabbed one of them to death and cut another severely,
 The steamer Enterprise, on her way from Aurora to Washington, N O., had cotton on board which caught fire from sparks from the engine, and the result was the loss of three lives and injury to several persons. :. An application has been made to the Attorney General of New York by one of the oldest stockholders of the Western Union Telegraph Company to begin suit for the revocation of its charter upon the ground of watered stock. A hearing is to be had on the 18th.
 The report of Brooklyn's Superin- tendent of Instruction shows an average attendance of pupils at the public schools of $54, 100.
 
 ritory gives John B. Raymond, repubi- can. for Congress, majority of 30, ,286 votes. The total vote of Dakota is 47,373, of which South Dakota boiled 31,054 votes and North Dakota 16, ,319 votes. Only persons who came to the Territory prior to August were entitled to vote.
 The State debt of Pennsylvania to November 30, is $20, ,225, ,083.2 re- duction during the year of $915, ,10477. The total vote for Secretary of State at the last election in Iowa, was as fol- lows:-Hall, rep, 149, ,O59; Walker, dem., 1I2, ,1SO; Gaston, greenbacker, 30,817, with number scattering. Halls plur- ality, 1871; majority over all, 5,704.
 The total earnings of the New York State prisons for November is $33, 648. 16; total expenses, $34, ,6S0.43; deficiency, 8, ,O32. 27; deficiency. November, 1881, &,3S4. 94
 The Sunday clauses of the Penal Code were less vigorously enforced in New York City on Sunday than on the previous Sabbath, and as result there was less inconvenience to the public. There were but few arrests and the magistrates administered the law in a very liberal spirit.
 At Bangor, Me-, fears are enter tained that 8 party of six men were accidentally drowned in Moosehead Lake last Thursday.
 Hong An Duck, the Chinaman who was executed at San Francisco on Friday, was buried with good deal of display by his countrymen.
 The National Butter, Cheese and Egg Association closed Saturday at Milwaukee, Wis, amid great dis satisfaction at the award of premiums.
 WARRINGTON NoTRs.
 The Joint Shipping Committee of Congress will make its report at an early day.
 The Civil Service Reform Committee of the Senate have agreed upon bill making political assessments crime.
 The House Appropriations Commit tee have agreed to provision reducin 2 letter postage to two cents.
 The House Committee on Education and Labor has authorized Chairman Sherwin to report favorably his bill ap- propriating $10, ,000, 900 annually for the next five years to advance the public edu- cation. It is proposed that this sum shall be distributed among the Several States and Territories by the Secretary of the Treasury upon the ratio of illit- eracy.
 As the Senate has adopted MT. Hoar's substitute for the equity system of bankruptcy bill reported by the Judi eiary Committee, the friends of the Lowell draft, believe this will be passed by Congress during the present session Numbers of telegrams from different