Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
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| Mir. Salmi Morse attempted again to | give full dress rehearsal of the Passion | Play before several hundred people. At his new theatre in New York City. Before the play had proceeded far he was arrested by Captain Williams, and gave $500 bail. The authorities appear deter mined that the play shall not be brought out.
 The Warren line freight steamer 1 Glamorgan, from Liverpool for Boston, was lost in mid-ocean, and her captain and six of her crew were drowned. The steamer Republic rescued the remainder, | forty-four in all, but lost one of her own men. The disaster took place about 450 miles from Jamestown.
 | Dismal accounts of the desolation caused by the Ohio floods continue to come in. The low farming lands as the waters recede reveal sad pictures of ruined homesteads, farms and crops, and much suffering will follow. The New York Herald fund for the aid of these sufferers already exceeds $40, 900
 The Augustinian Society, an mst1tu- tion formed to receive deposits of Ro- man Catholics in Lawrence. Mass, has l failed under similar conditions as marked that of Archbishop Purcell, in Cincin- nati. The depositors numbered about 700, most of whom we're working people, and the amount of their deposits was 1 S54O, ,OOO. Mortgages to the amount of 1 $11O,OOO were held so that the losses will not be total. One of the causes of the disaster is found in the fact that in 1872, the society then having debt of $l5O,- l GOO. began 8 new church, adding to the | l the depositors to meet the obligations. The priests of the Society, in their dis | courses Sunday, promised that the money intrusted to their savings institu- tion should be paid.
 l The ship carpenters and calkers on the Delaware River have given notice that if their wages are not raised by April 23d they will strike work for $s3 to $3. 25. l An oil deposit is said to have been discovered in Saratoga County, N. Y.
 A woman in Ottawa, Ont, while de- mented, poured oil on her clothes, and with match burned herself to death. l -Superintendent Jasper of New York, says there should be 8 drill in 'rapid dismissals" in all public schools every few days.
 Five patients of the Western Luna tic Asylum at Staunton, Va, were killed by taking medicine supposed to be poisoned The patients dropped dead in their tracks immediately upon taking the doses. Several others are expected to die. The medicine had been poisoned.
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 A resolution to expel Mir. Voorhis, of New York, for abusive language toward MT. Page, of California, was offered in the House and withdrawn, after an ample apology from the offending gentleman.
 The House passed the River and Harbor bill by vote of 112 yeas to 90 nays.
 The President has appointed Gen. eral Charles K. Graham to be naval off cer, James l.. Benedict to be surveyor, and Andrew F. Perry to be appraiser in the New York Custom House; Silas W. Burt to be civil service examiner, and Elihu Root to be District Attorney, vice | General Woodford.
 The Democratic Senators refused to serve on the Tariff Conference Commit tee, which is, therefore, entirely made up of Republicans and Protectionists.
 The Sundry Civil bill was reported to the Senate on Monday, with amend ments.
 The Senate passed, with amend ments, the House bill providing for the increase of pensions to one arm and one leg soldiers.
 -Messrs. Randall, Morrison and Tucker successively declined to serve on the House Conference Committee on the Tariff bill, and MT. Speer, of Georgia, was finally appointed and accepted. Senators Bayard and Beck and MT. Carlisle withdrew from the conference. The Republican members proceeded to consider the bill.
 | Among the bills left unreported by the House Military Committee are the Grant Retirement bill and the bill to re- store Gen. Fitz John Porter.
 The Republicans passed the Reed resolution authorizing the House to take up the Tax bill for the sole purpose of non-concurring in the Senate amend ments and sending the bill to confer ence committee. The vote was 129 to p, and most of the Democrats did not vote.
 In the House MT. Kelley Rep. Pa. ) moved to suspend the rules, take from the Speakers table the Internal Revenue bill with Senate amendments, non-concur in the amendments, and appoint a con- ference committee of five members on the part of the House. Agreed to- yeas, 149; nays, no. The Speaker ap- pointed Messrs. Kelley, Mckinley, Haskell, Randall and Carlisle as the House conferees.
 Senator David Davis has resigned the Presidency of the Senate in order that a successor may be elected before Congress adjourns. As the present Con- gress expires on March 4, there would be no constitutional successor to the Presi- dency after that day unless the Senate chooses President pro tenapore in place of Mir. Davis, whose Senatorial term has ended.
 The Mississippi River Committee presented their report to Congress. It disapproves of the work of the Commis- sion and commends the Eads jetty sys- tenn.
 The Senate passed the Legislative Appropriation bill.
 The President has approved the de- cision of Secretary Chandler in accepting the resignation of Lieutenant Com mander Gorringe, and he is consequently no longer in the naval service. The affair between the Secretary and the Commander has created quite 8 sensa- hon.
 The bill to appropriate $1O,OOO, 900 a year, for five years from the National Treasury to assist the several States in maintaining their common schools, was discussed in the House. Southern Rep resentatives who spoke, entered the plea of poverty as one of the considerations in favor of the bill. They also demanded it as an act of justice for the older States,