Connecticut western news., 1883-01-24

in the Pittsburg Post Office, was arrested lately for robbing the mails. It is alleged that he has stolen thousands of dollars.
 The drinking water of Philadelphia is so foul that the Legislature is to be asked to take steps to prevent any fur Schuylkin River.
 One of two officers shot a drunken man they were trying to arrest at Pike vile, Ky.
 Efforts are under way to restrict the production of coal during this and next month.
 A Pennsylvania judge denounces stock transactions on margin as gam bling, immoral in character and per nicious in tendency.
 The American brig Goldfnder, from Port-au- Prince, had tragical voyage. Five men died of fever and cold, and the captain and three surviving sailors were almost dead from exposure.
 A new trial has been granted the Reading Railroad Company in the case of an engineer killed by the negligence of telegraph operator. His wife ob- tained verdict of $6,000 damages, and the new trial is granted on the ground that the telegraph ope, ator was a fellow workman and the company is not liable.
 WASHINGTON NoTK&
 The amendment approprlatlng $lS5, GOO for the fast railway mail service was agreed to in the Senate after strong opposition.
 During debate in the Senate on the tariff bill several motions to lower the rates of duty provided were defeated by very small maiorities, and on 8 ques- tion of reducing tax five per cent Five Senators announced themselves as paired, twenty Senators voted for the higher tax, twenty two for the lower rate, and twenty proved to be ab- sent or not voting.
 A great land-slip has occurred in the Valley of Faverges. The village of Ma rais has been completely destroyed by an enormous mass of earth, rocks and trees dislodged by recent snow storms. The movement upon Marais was grad ual and the inhabitants were able to ef- feet nasty escape.
 The Russian Government has au- thorized the removal of the remains of De Long and comrades. Anequin, the Alaskan of the Jeannette crew, is dead.
 -Ex-Senator Dorsey has written 8 letter resigning his position as Secretary of the Republican National Committee.
 A joint resolution was reported to the House modifying the Hawaiian treaty.
 in the House the joint resolution providing for new mixed commission in accordance with the treaty of April 25, 1866, between the United States and Venezuela, was passed.
 During the Senate consideration of the Tariff bill, amendments providing for the protection of artificial mineral waters and the reduction of the duty on porcelain and china-ware were rejected.
 The Tariff bill was reported to the House by the Ways and Means Com mittee.
 The Republican National Committee will consider the various plans providing for 8 change in the manner of choosing delegates to the National Convention.
 The Navy Appropriation bill as re. ported to the House recommends total appropriation of $15, ,209, 100. The ap- propriation for 1888 was $14, ,S30, ,623.
 MT. Moore, Republican member
 
 into the House constitutional amend ment giving creditors of a State the right to sue in the courts and obtain them in cases where State may neglect to pay just debts.
 Mi. Hill, of New Jersey, introduced bill in the House which asks Congress to aid the citizens of his State in celebra- %ba al oE 2QA with uioxxy of the purchase and maintenance intact of the house at Morristown which General Washington occupied as his headquarters.
 The Senate Commerce. Committee has reported favorably the bill antagoniz- ing the construction of bridge across Lake Champlain from Albury, Vt, to Rouse's Point, N. Y.
 Prominent Republicans express the opinion that there will be no tariff bill this session.
 MT. Frye Rep., Me- introduced in the House joint resolution directing the President to give notice in July next of our intention to terminate the articles of the treaty of Washington relating to fisheries.
 The Supreme Court decided that Admiral Porter and those under his command are not entitled to prize money for Confederate vessels destroyed by ! them in the James River in conjunction with the army.
 A pension bill which passed the House grants to any person in the maya or military service who shall lose the sight of one eye @ pension of $12 per month, with an equitable increase fol greater injury up to $50 per month fol the total loss of the second eye, and ir case of loss of hearing in both ears $2e per month, with equitable allowance fol lesser injury to the hearing. The Pension bill passed the House appropriating:-For army pensions $S5, ,00O, GOO; for navy pensions, $1, 900, | GOO; for fees and expenses of examining surgeons, $275, 900; pay of agents, $290 GOO; contingent expenses, $10, 1000. FOREIGN ITEMS. l The total subscriptions to the Irisl National League to date amount tc s1, TOO.
 | At Galway on Wednesday Thoma' l Higgins and Michael Flynn were hanged for complicity in the Muddy murders.
 The Bonapartist members of thu French Chamber of. Deputies have helt every means in their power against tho action of the Government in arrestins Prince Napoleon.
 A manifesto by Prince Napoleon was issued in Paris Tuesday mornin, criticising the French Republic ant claiming the Napoleonic inheritance. 1 declared the republic failure. Tn Figaro, which published the manifesto was seized, and the placards about tn city torn down. In the afternoon Prime Napoleon was arrested and imprisoned A bill was passed in the Chamber c Deputies prohibiting the presence i