Connecticut western news., 1884-04-16
The President has called general attention to

The President has called general attention to the report of the Gun Foundry Board, and will approve specifically tue army ordnance es- timate of $l, ,500,000 annually for the manu- facture of heavy guns, and recommend an ap propriation for series of years.
 The Senate, in executive session, passed the resolution authorizing the President to recog- nlze the African International Association as the ruling power in the Congo region, and the resolution will be certified to the President
 Old members say that the House will be obliged to remain ill session until August, at least, in order to accomplish the necessary work already agreed upon by committees.
 Secretary Frelinghuysen has written let ter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee stating some practical objections to the pro posed Congress with South American republics, and suggesting other and, he considers, better means for our proving our relations with them.
 There is a movement on foot to place John C. Fremont on the retired list of the Army. II has been thirty-seven years since Fremont left the Army.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The Spanish government is sending troops to Cuba.
 A man named Daily, with explosives in his possession, was captured at Birkenhead, and supposed accomphce at Birmingham.
 Jean Baptiste Dumas, the French chemist, dead.
 The number of persons killed during the late revolution in Hayi is officially declar' d to have been 7,000
 A portion of the Acheen coast has been bockaded by the Dutch authorities.
 The situation in Cuba is growing worse daily. Agueros band is being reinforced rapidly and is said to number 5,OOO
 Five nations - the Italian, American, French, German and English-are demanding indemnity from Hayti for damages sustained ln the recent rebellion.
 An attempt was made to destroy with dy- namite the magazine of Fort George, few miles from Inverness. The marauders when disturbed made their escape in boats, but not before the sentry hayoneted one of them.
 -Le Monde says that five French mission aries and thirty catechists have been mas sacred at Thanhoa, & Tonquin town of some importance not far from the coast.
 A railway collision occurred at Black Rock, on the Kingstown line, a few miles south of Dublin, between locomotive and passenger train. Thirty-fve persons were injured.
 --Advices from the far East state that one half of Mandalay, the capital of Burmah, city of 90,000 people, has been destroyed by fire.
 -Advices from Gen. Gordon are dated April l. He reports that in the engagement on March 30 the rebels lost 40 men killed and eight wounded, together with 16 horses. During the night of April the rebels kept up desultory db tuo palaOS.
 Madrid authorities accuse the American authorities of want of proper and ordinary vigilance in not preventing the Cuban flibus- tering expedition.
 A truce between Chile and Bolivia has been promulgated.
 A prominent finsncier is said to be the author of the cheating at cards in the Rue Royale.
 by Spaniards for allowing Gen. Aguero to leave Key West. The American Minister to Spain has started for Washington to confer about the commercial treaty.
 British imports increased e1 400, 900, while the exports increased only E3,300 during March. British granaries are heavily over stocked with grain.
 -Advces from Armenia state that the Flu pirates Valley has been visited with serious tloods Great damage has been caused about Diarbekir and Kharput.
 The London Times correspondent, writing from Haiphong, says that the French attempt to cut of the Chinese retreat from Bacninh completely failed. He places the blame of the failure on the commander of the French totilla.
 A riot has taken place at KiddermiAster, England, directed against the employment of female labor.
 A fire at Gruegan, small place in Mora via, on Monday night destroyed fifty houses. One woman and two children were burned. The Supreme Court, of Spain, has sen- fenced to death the fifteen members of the Black Hand Society who were found guilty of murder in 1882. The annual boat race between the Oxford and the Cambridge University crews took place on the Thames on Monday and was won by Cambridge.
 British naval commanders have been ordered to oppo-e any attempt of the Portu- guese to extend their occupation of the Congo beyond AmbriZ.
 The funeral services of the Duke of AL bany took place in St. Georges Chapel. The Prince of Wales followed the coffin as chief mourner. The Dean began the service as the coffin was brought in. The choir sang "Oh, God our Help in Ages Past" and Spohr's an- them, "Blessed are the Departed" The coffin was then lowered into the vault. As the Queen | retired the choir sang 'Lead, Kindly Light. | Chopin's "Funeral March" was played as the other royal personages withdrew. The Queen | sat during the service weeping bitterly. | The riot of the striking French coal min | CTS has assumed serious proportions. The cav l airy charged upon the crowd and wounded sev- | eral The rioters fired back and cried "Long live the social republic !'
 The bombshells discovered under the floor. l ing of house i'll the suburbs of Madrid had been there two years.
 Cholera has appeared in Cochin China | Precautions against it's spreading are being | taken.
 Stanley will leave the Congo on a pro- longed furlough in July.
 --Jem Ward, the celebrated champion pugi list is dead.
 POLITICAL.
 The Georgia Republican State Convention