Connecticut western news., 1883-01-17
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 House of Assembly incorporating the Florida Ship Canal Company, which proposes to construct ship canal from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico across the peninsula.
 The ice harvest on the Hudson is an abundant one, the yield being thirteen inches thick and clear.
 A young lady disappeared mysteri- ously at St. Louis, Mo, while on her way to 8 convent where she had been studying. Great excitement prevailed In that city, and on Change $2O, 900 was soon subscribed as 8 reward for the missing girl, dead or alive
 The projected Worlds Fair at Bos ton next year is now full y under way. A whole block was burned in Des Moines, Iowa. No lives were lost, but property was damaged to the extent of $160,OO0.
 -Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, died in Charles County, Md.
 The immigration to Canada from all parts of the world during 1882 was 99,- 691. In addition to these 76, 728 passed through Canada en route to the United States
 The largest amount ever given in 8 breach of promise case is that in favor of Miss Livingstone against Henry Fleming ln New York City, the sum being $75, ,O00. Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, denies the report that a meeting has been held at his office with the object of putting him in the field as candidate for the United States Senate. - The Indian troubles at Metlakatla, B. O., are causing considerable alarm there, as the outlying settlements are at the mercy of the savages.
 A civil service reform club was or ganized at Newport, R. I.
 Two men were killed by boiler ex- plosion at Summit, Miss.
 The Board of Health, of Baltimore report over 1000 cases of smallpox in that city.
 The Democrats in the North Caro- lima Legislature have, in caucus, nomi- mated United States Senator Ransom te succeed himself in the Senate.
 Four men were badly yscalded by the bursting of boiler at Lebanon, Pa. The Hon. Lot M. Merrill, of Maine, is dead. He was born in Belgrade, Maine, in 1915, and upon leaving college commenced the study of law. He has filled the positions of member of the State Senate and Legislature, Governor of the State, and United States Senator Judge Moran, of Chicago, has granted Mrs. Scoville decree of divorce from her husband.
 The schooner Pilots Bride, which sailed from New London, Conn. in April, 1881, on sealing voyage to the South Atlantic, is believed to have been lost. The sale of Plymouth Church (Beech- er's), Brooklyn, N. Y., pews brought $37, 1000, or less than last year by over $1,0OO.
 Two boilers in the Bethlehem, Pa. :, Iron Works burst and killed five persons besides injuring several others and wrecking large portion of the works. A remarkable story comes from confession of one of the assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Secre- tary Burke, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in May last.
 Polk, the absconding State Treas urer of Tennessee, was rearrested near Laredo, and is now in San Antonio, 4CAdSs
 The mills in the neighborhood of Camden, Me-, are almost entirely stopped by drought-a most unusual thing at this season of the year.
 A prohibition amendment to the con- stitution of Maine has been proposed in its Legislature. A man named Braunagle lost his life at Harrisburg, Pa, in saving those of woman and her child.
 An accident is reported on the Penn sylvania Railroad, in which, after col Esion, freight train ran into house and held the inmates captive.
 By an explosion in colhery in Hi nois eight men lost their lives. Their bodies were recovered.
 A violent earthquake shock was felt in different parts of Northern Ohio, Saturday morning.
 A man was killed, and two others were seriously injured through being struck by locomotive on the New Jer- sey Central Railroad, near Glendon, Pa. At Milwaukee, Wis, stormy scene took place in the city council on account of the Comptroller refusing to audit bills contracted in 1882 from the funds appropriated for 1883.
 One hundred and forty-seven medi cal students in McGin University, Mon treal, have demanded the resignation O one of the professors.
 .-Small-po is raging at Salem, Roan oke County, Va.
 At Reading, Pa, two butchers were arrested, charged with selling the meat of hogs which had been bitten by mao dogs and died of rabies.
 It is now specifically charged tha the shelling of the Alaskan village by our naval forces was an act of unneces sary cruelty to serve the purposes of { monopoly.
 It is intimated that Princess Louis, will spend the winter at Charleston, s O., instead of proceeding to Bermuda as at first intended.
 A volunteer of the late war, living at Trenton, N. J., recently secured pension, with which he purchased little home. A creditor having clain of $50 against him caused a mortgage ol the property to be forclosed, and the ex soldiers house was sacrificed.
 The special committee appointed by the Produce Exchange of New Yorl City to inquire into the matter, repor that they have discovered no good reason for the action of the German govern ment in forbidding the importation o American hog products at their ports.
 A carefully prepared statemen shows that of all the grain exported from New York port last year, amount ing to 46, 162, 738 bushels, every bushe of it was taken out by foreign steamers
 A band of minstrels going into Can ada found they had to make cash de posit at the Custom House equal to tn duty on their instruments. When the,