Connecticut western news., 1883-01-10

Excitement prevails at Yankton, D. T., over the secret marriage of a Russian physician and a nun out of Catholic convent.
 The New York City Budget for 1883 was passed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. It calls for $29,- 592, ,535-over $1 100000 more than this years budget.
 According to 8 summary prepared by mercantile agency the failures in the United States and Canada this year exceeded those of 1881 by 1,645. WASHINGTON NOTES. In response to @ House resOlutlon calling for information as to the probable amount of appropriations available for the improvement of rivers and harbors which will be on hand at the close ot the current fiscal year, the President to-day transmitted report from the Chlet ot Engineers estimating the amount at $5,0O0,00
 The House Committee on the Judi ciarv discussed the Knott resolution de- claring all Northern Pacific Railroad land grants forfeited, and on motion of MT. Knott laid it on the table for consid- eration at the next meeting of the con- mittee.
 The Presidential Succession bill came up as the unfinished business in the Senate, and was supported by Messrs. Hoar (Rep.), Mass, and Gar land (Dem.), of Arkansas. Several amendments were offered to the bill. A Washington correspondent says the House Naval Committee will recon mend the construction of number of new naval vessels, as follows: One steam cruising vessel, to cost $2, 700, ,0OO; one steam vessel of war, of not less than 4,OOO tons displacement. to cost $1,- 576, ,854; three steam cruising vessels of war, not less than 2,500 tons displace- ment each, to cost for all s, ,093, ,675; dispatch boat or clipper, to cost $780, 900; one cruising torpedo boat, to cost $38.000.
 The Attorney General has given an opinion that the Chinese law applies only 1 to laborers and others intending to re- main in the United States. The Senate passed the Whisky in Bond bill.
 The Army Appropriation bill was passed by the House. A large number | of amendments were offered in Commit
 
 | out on points of order. The bill a: passed contains the provision for the gradual abolition of the pay corps of the army. The provision as to the trans portation of army and army supplies remains unchanged.
 MT. Robinson introduced @ resolu- tion in the House directing the Secre- taries of War and Navy to inform the House whether any officer of the army or navy has been detailed to wait on representatives or relatives of monarchs travelling through the country.
 The Committee on Ways and Means have almost completed their revision of the tariff. \ The report of the Mississippi Con- mission estimates the salaries and ex- penses of the commission for the next fiscal year at $200, 900, the estimate for works being $4, 573, ,O00. The Naval Advisory Board appointed to report upon the unfinished iron-clad steamers Monadnock, Puritan, Amphi- trite and Terror, recommends that the vessels be completed at once. Secretary | Chandler indorses the report and recom- mends that an appropriation be made for the work.
 The manufacturers of pig iron are making energetic efforts tc induce the Committee of Ways and Means not to MT. Elisha H. Allen, sthe Hawaiian Minister, was attacked with spasms at the White House on New Years day, while reception was being held. He had just been presented to the President Physicians were called in but he died 1n | few minutes in an anteroom. Ills death was announced and the reception came immediately to close. FOREIGN ITEMS A priest in Donegal, Ireland, says that he accompanied MT. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, on tour ot inspection in the parish of Glen | columbkill. They visited twenty families and found that there was not 9 morsel ot food in any house.
 The Municipal Bank of Sapajok, Russia, has failed for some millions o1 l rubles. The assets, exclusive of the furniture, are only twenty-nlne rubles. | A Milan newspaper has been warned against publishing subscription list fol a monument to Overdank.
 On Sunday the Czar found in hii
 bedroom letter from the revolutionary
 committee demanding the commence
 ment of the promised reforms.
 A tenant farmer has been beaten tt
 death near Claremorris, Ireland.
 An unconfrmed rumor was curren
 in Lon1on that Germans resident ther'
 had received notice to return to German,
 to fulfill their terms of military service
 -Gambetta's body was viewed b,
 crowds of Parisians as it lay in state a
 the Palais Bourbon. His brain weighet
 HOO grams.
 The inundations are taking tn
 form of great public catastrophe il
 Germany. The floods are reappearin,
 in France and the Danube has inundate'
 Presburg.
 Delaney has been found guilty O
 attempt to murder Judge Lawson ant
 has been sentenced to ten years pena
 servitude.
 Applications under the Arrears ac
 affect 130, ,OO0 holdings.
 Many houses in towns along tn, : Rhine have fallen, being undermined b, the floods, and several villages are al
 most entirely under water to the roof of the houses. , MT. Trevelyan has gone to inspec
 the distressed districts in Ireland. Prince Bismarck hints that he vii retire from politics.
 Floods in the Danube and Rhin continue.
 The death is announced in Englan of the Earl of Stamford All the troops in Paris and Mar . seilles attended the funeral of Gambetta
 The fortune of the deceased is estimated at less than 75, 900 francs. In County Tipperary three bailif