Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26

The amendments to the Post Ofhce Appfo-
 priation bill agrt ed to in Committee of the
 Whole were adopted. with the excepd n of hat
 increasing by S4n0, ,000 the appropriation for letter carrier service which was reIected-123
 to 137. The bill was passed-160 to n.
 The House adopted resolutions cordially re- ,iprucating the wishes of the Liberal Union of the German Parliament for the closer union of .he two nations; recognizing its graceful ap- oreciation of it's sympathy with those who mourn the death of Edward Lasker, and ac- ,epting the resolutions adopted by the Liberal Union, and directing them to be spread on the journal.
 The House adopted a resolution declaring
 that the charges made in Star Route documents recently published, rehecting on Representa- tive Ellis, of Louisiana, in connection with the | Star Route frauds, are untrue. MT. E. H. Fun l ston was sworn ill as the successor of the late
 Mr. D. c. Haskell of the Second District of l Kansas Most of the time of the House was de-
 voted to the consideration of the private calen- | dar, and there was long contest over the Lill | to retire William II. Averill with the rank and pay of colonel, which was finally passed. FOREIGN ITEMS. -The Italian Ministry have resigned because | of the smallness of the majority for their can didate for President of the Chamber of deputies. The Pope is reported to contemplate the | possibility of leaving Rome, believing that his
 independence is threatened. Lii Hung Chang has asked the American | and British Ministers at Pehn to intervehe in l the interest of peace between China and France. Tho German government has asked the | Austrian authorities to postpone the execution | of Hugo Sohenck, the wholesale murderer of | servant girls, pending an inquiry in regard to | girls whom Schenck is believed to have mur- l dered in Germany. A bomb exploded at Trieste in front of the | Governor-Generars residence. Spain seems to have recovered from her | fear of revolt.
 The English government has detained Chinese ram which was being loaded with Arm strong guns ill the river Tyne.
 --Irishmen in Paris are actively engaged in he dynamite propaganda. France has announced her intention of oc-
 ,upying the whole Upper Tonquin.
 Ireland is declared free from the foot and mouth disease.
 --Advioes from Smyrna report that the
 British coasting trade has been reopened under
 the Porte's orders.
 General Graham asks for endorsements in case he should be ordered to advance into the interior of the Soudan.
 The English cabinet are perplexed over the
 situation in Egypt. China now wants to reopen negotiations
 with France, and is said to have asked for Eng lands mediation.
 London police have prevented meeting Of
 communists at Karl Marks grave.
 It is rumored that Mir. Gladstone will dis
 solve Parl ament in order to get the sense of the
 country on the Egyptian question. Several army officers have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of being interested in new plot against the government.
 Queen Victoria's health is again said to be
 pfecarious.
 Hugo Schenk, who confessed to having murdered four women. whom he had married
 for the purpose of plundering them, and Karl Schenk and Karl Schlossarek, his accompliccs,
 have been sentenced to death by the Austrian authorities
 Cabinet changes in England are still ru.
 mored and prophesied. The Marquis of Hart. ington, Secretary of State for War, warns Ad- miral Hewett not to offer reward for Osman
 Digna's head without first consulting the Eng fish Minister at Carlo. The troops in Egypt do not like the idea of
 advancing to Berber; they consider the tr9p as
 useless as it would be hard. Gordon has gained to his side an important tribe and has prepared strong works from which to repsl the rebel advance 10 the Nile. Plans for general assassination by the use of explosives have been discovered at Birlning-
 ham and Newcastle-on-Tyne. POLITICAL. The Rhode Island republicans, in oonven-
 ton, nominated the present State officials for
 reelection.
 The Indenendent Republfcans of Rhod-