Connecticut western news., 1883-02-28

city farms are flooded, barns washed away, crops destroyed, and implements damaged.
 By the dera;ling of an express train near Gallon, Ohio, four persons were killed and several injured. -Promissory notes redeemable in cur rency given to laborers in payment of wages are claimed to be liable to 8 tax of ten per cent. The government has be- gun suits against New Jersey glass man ufactufers to recover such tax.
 Whipping for wife and child beating is the penalty proposed by bill intro duced in the New York State Assembly. All the principal business exchanges | of New York City have appointed com mittees to receive subscriptions for the sufferers by the floods.
 Mrs. Vaile, the wife of one of the defendants in the Star-route conspiracy casa, committed suicide at her residence in Independence, Mo-, on Wednesday night.
 -Enraged by jealousy, Frenchman shot his rival near North Conway, N. H. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Senate passed the Army Appro- priation bill, with amendments striking out the general legislation 1t contained -1he House adopted the amendment to the Sundry Civil bill providing for the sale of the Wallabout Bay property.
 vThe House Commerce Committee have presented an elaborate report on | the River and Harbor bills of this and | last session.
 MT. Beltzhoover formulated his attack on General Hagen and the Signal | Service in the House on Monday. General Hagen was warmly defended by num- | Der of members.
 There has been 8 disagreement be- tween the Secretary of the Navy and Commander Gorringe which has led to the latter offering his resignation. The commander says he was grossly insulted by the Secretary.
 The House agreed to tAe conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill and it was agreed to. The bill as passed appropriates $5, ,362. .655. being SIS, 500 l less than it appropriated as it passed the Senate, and S153, 700 more than as it | originally passed tho House. The House also agreed to the conference report on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropria- tion bill. This bill as it passed appro. priates S1 ,296 755, being $38, ,5O0 greater than as it originally passed the House.
 Tho Tariff bill, with the accompany. ! ing provisions for reduction of interna. revenue taxes, was passed by the Senate by vote of A to 19, after the tariff part of the bill had been adopted by vote of 37 to 23 with one exception-Mr. Mitchell, o1 Pennsylvania-the opponents of the bill were Democrats. Nine Democrats voted for the bill. The bill now goes to the House.
 In the Senate on Monday MT. Mor. gan, of Alabama, offered as substitute for the Tariff Bill measure decreasing the whole line of custom duties ffteer per cent for the next fiscal year begin. ming June IS, 1883, and ten per cent more during the following year. MT Anderson, of Kansas, introduced sim liar bill in the House.
 In the House on Monday 8 motio1 by MT. Kelley to suspend the rules anG pass the Internal Revenue bill was de feated. The vote stood 162 to 97. Forty five Democrats voted with MT. Kelley The defeated bill would cut of abou $2O, ,000, 900 of internal revenue.
 The House passed the Leg1slativ
 Appropriation bill. The amendmen
 fixing the hours of labor in the depart ments from nine to four and reduces tn
 number of internal revenue collection
 districts to eighty-two.
 FOREIGN ITEMS
 In the debate on Irish affairs il the English House of Commons, Mir
 O'Brien declared that crime in Ireland
 was distinctly traceable to evictions an'
 to bad administration of the law. A number of Irish Americans ar
 said to be secretly leaving Ireland fo America.
 A subscription has been opened il Berlin in aid of the sufferers by tn
 floods in America.
 The French Admiral on the Mada
 gascar station has been ordered to de , fend the rights of France on the island
 In the English House of Common , Mr. Forster defended his administratio as Irish Chief Secretary, and severel , attacked MT. Parnell, declaring that b
 had connived at the commission of out rages.
 { General Macadaras denies that he !, the mysterious 'Number One," and ha 2 invited an inquiry at the hands of tn f British Embassy in Paris.
 The American Minister in Rom , gave grand fete on Washington's Birtl ! day.
 The Allen line steamer Buenc Ayrean colided with steamer of Lam 7 lash. Scotland. Eleven of the crew ( , the latter steamer were drowned. l Captain Delaplaine and 8 quarte master of the steamer St. Laurent, W. f washed overheard and drowned on th ' voyage to Havre.
 3 -Kalakaua has beer crowned King ( 8 the Hawaiian Islands.
 -Twenty-one prisoners have bee
 committed for trial in Dublin to apswe . the charge of murdering Lord Frederic Cavendish and Mr. Burke. Still furthe arrests are to be made.
 s The secretary of the British En q 2 bassy at Teheran and native escort wei attacked on the Trcoman steppes al
 nine of the escort were killed. - James Carey, the Dublin Tow 8 Councillor, has turned informer E
 tells the story of the Phoenix Park mu e der, inculpating Brady and Kelly as u !. chief culprits. He also narrates the a l. tempts on the life of MT. Forster. H
 said that on the morning of the murd, a Curley, Joseph Hanlon and Pagan wel a the first, Brady and Kelly were nex
 and McCaffrey and Patrick Delane if came after. Lord Frederick Cavendis r. and MT. Burke were allowed to pa t through by the first three and the la
 four men faced right about. Whe s Carey again looked the two rear me l. had closed in on the two gentlemen al
 the murder followed.
 !, The knives which the informer Ka