Connecticut western news., 1883-08-29
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Q0ToQ auu Judb all OH DOdLu WSI0 1OSG A sunken yacht was discovered near the entrance to Buzzard's Bay.
 Five Chinamen, who were recently sentenced to the New Jersey State Prison, threaten to bring suit for the loss of their queues, under that clause of the constitution which prohibits any interference with freedom of religion.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron, wife of "Noremac," the pedestrian, was shot and instantly killed in New York city, by George Beattie, bartender employed by her husband. The murderer committed suicide immediately afterward.
 At Rochester (N. Y.) observatory it is believed that new comet has been discovered in the constellation Andro- meda.
 A yellow fever scare at Pensacola was quieted to some extent by the re. port of physicians that the suspected cases were not yellow fever.
 A shower of fish is reported to have fallen at Monte Morelos, Mexico. An earthquake at Pachuca caused the death of twenty people.
 Tho cases of yellow fever have been discovered in Pensacola.
 A Chinaman legally hanged at Mis- soula, Montana, protested his innocence to the last.
 The New Jersey Democratic State Convention will be held in Trenton on September 18th.
 Portions of Southeastern Minnesota were visited by terrific cyclone, which proved appallingly destructive to human life. A passenger train was lifted by the storm and hurled almost into fragments, nearly every person on board being either killed or injured. The city of Roches- ter, in Olmstead county, was struck by the wind and partially destroyed. Fully forty lives were lost in the city.
 In Greenfield, Pa., four assassins attacked 8 young man with knives after shooting at him, and left him for dead. A wealthy citizen of Boston recently deceased bequeathed nearly million dollars to the Government, and 1t. has | found its way into the National Treasury.
 By collision on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie road several persons were seriously injured.
 Fire broke out in the Western Union Telegraph building, at Chicago, which caused considerable damage be. fore being extinguished. Cotton in Texas is severely injured by drought, but all grain crops are abundant.
 Very serious injury to the cotton crop by drought is reported from South | Carolina.
 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 11k 4- | ment, denies that there is any foot anG | mouth disease among cattle in the United States and defends the American quar- antine system.
 The northwestern portion of Ontario was visited by destructive rain storm | Indications point to strike of glas manufacturers about Pittsburg. Over sixty thousand people have at tended the camp meeting at Lancaster | Ohio.
 District Master Workman Mitchell has announced that the Photographers Brotherhood will disband, and that new organization will be formed. H. says that the Knights of Labor will bt avoided in the future, as that organiza tion was drawback in the strike. 1 A negro camp meeting near Nash vile, Tenn, was the scene of serious midnight fight in which many were hurt, the white visitors being driven iron the field.
 Lieutenant Colonel Guido Igles eighteenth infantry, has been convicted by court martial on charge of duplica ting his pay account.
 Suspicious are entertained in Gal weston that yellow fever has appeared il New Orleans.
 A cyclone struck Oglesby, Texas on Thursday last with terrible effect.
 A fire at Franklin, Pa., destroyed property valued at over $1OO,OOO.
 A legal decision sustains the clain of @ colored clergyman that restauran keeper is bound by the Civil Rights ac to accord colored customers equal ac commodations with whites.
 Commencing Wednesday Angus 22d, the three and half per cent. bond included in the one hundred and twenty first Treasury call will be redeemed t the extent of 5,O0O,O0O in each weel without rebate of interest.
 In the United States Court at Bos ton 1t was decided that An Shong, Chinaman by race, recently brought t' this country by the captain of British vessel, was not subject of the Chimes Government, and thzRefore entitled t, residence Ill the United States
 -Ex-Judge Jeremiah s. Black, At torney-General and late Secretary o State in the Buchanan Cabinet, died a 2 o'clock on Sunday morning in the 74tl year of his age at his home in York, Pa