Connecticut western news., 1884-07-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.

| AlLnOuSn over eleven tnOuSanQ D1llS were In
 troduced at the last session of Congress onl about three hundred of them became laws.
 At three o'clock on Monday both House having been informed by the President that h. had no furthe= business for their consideration adjourned without delay, closing the session
 The Senate receded from it's amendments tC the bill making temporary provision for tn
 naval service and passed the bill.
 The gross receipts of the Post Office Depart ment for the quarter ended March 3I, 1884 were $10, ,768, 293, a decrease of $1, ,043, 900 ai compared with the corresponding quarter il 1883. The expenditures for the same quarter were S4, 163 5S7 or $z88, 897 more than the ex penditures in the corresponding period 1T 1883, thus leaving net difference of $1, ,331, {, 897 in favor of the March quarter in the year 1883.
 The President issued proclamation warn ing all persons against occupying the Oklaho ma lands in Indian Territory.
 Il The Senate passed the additional Anti Chin csc bill by vote of 43 to 12 General Logan, who voted against the original bill, and who in July, 1889, tried to have one of it's provisions modified in favor of the Chinese, voted for this bill, which makes the law more stringent.
 The Senate passed the Notifications bill with but few changes. The most important change is in the section relating to the armament of seacoast Notifications, in which the appro- priation of $320,000 made by the House is in creased to $520,000 and in which provision l is inserted that part of this sum shall be 1 applied to the expenses of experiments in the use of dynamite and other high explosive pro | iecties.
 The River and Harbor bill as agreed upon by | the conference committee and finally passed OY both houses appropriates 3,909, 200. Salaries of the Ministers to Italy and Aus I tr1a are left at $12, ,000 as agreed on in the | Senate, and the Salary of the Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, at $2,OOO, as proposed by the | House. The Senate passed the bill to forfeit the un- earned lands granted to the Atlantic and Pa c1dc Railroad Company, with the Morgan amendment, providing for reference to the United States Circuit Court of the question of | title to the land after the forfeiture. An l amendment of Senator Sherman was also agreed to, providing for resumption of title by | the United States, aud declaring the lands part | of the public domain, but not subject to dis posal under the general laws until after the termination of the legal proceedings pre- scribed by this act.
 The House Foreign Affairs Committee has agreed upon a report suggesting that instead of renewing the reciproscity treaty of 1854 with Canada, the United States should enter into commercial union with that country.
 FOREIGN ITEMS. The Prince of Monaco's yacht has been wrecked of the coast of Sweden. The crew were drowned, but the hereditary Prince All bert, who was on board, was rescued. An explosion occurred in a powder factory at Como by which six persons were killed and number of others injured. The Royal Armory of Madrid was par italy destroyed by fire. -Stanleys men, under Pollock have had 8 conflict with the French on the west coast Of Africa.
 At election at Kecskemet, Hungary, fos members of the Hungarian Diet serious riots occurred but the rioters were suppressed by the military. Herr Ray, member of the Lower House, was arrested. A conflict took place June 23 between Jews and Armenians at Tiflis, in Southern Russia The Cossacks succeeded in restoring order.
 It is reported at Simla. in India, that the Ameer is massing his troops at Herat. The trial of the Fortescue-G Garmoyle breach of promise case has been postponed until November.
 The London Times advises China to bow to France and thus obviate possible inter national difficulty.
 John Carpenter, who murdered his wife Mary in New York city, was sentenced to be hanged August 26th.
 A terrible cyclone passed near Belmont N. Y., tearing down houses and barns and up roofing trees. Several lives were lost anc serious damage done.
 A cyclone in southern Illinois did $250, | 900 damage to property. Three children were killed by being crushed in falling houses. The roof of the grand stand at Butte Cit! | CM. T.) race course fell on the Fourth, seri ously injuring great many people. | Eleven cases of trichina, from eating raw | pork, one fatal have been discovered at Ari- etta, N. Y., by Dr. Beach of the State Board Health.
 | The appointment of Mir. Kasson as United | States Minister to Germany has created an ex | cellent impression in Berlin. | France demands of China 250, ,000 000f. ai an indemnity fer the Lang-Son affair. Ad miral Courbet is instructed to seize Fontcheon Arsenal as guarantee for the payment of the indemnity,
 pr. Koch, of the Berlin Cholera Commis sion, says that the disease at Toulon is AsiatiC from the extreme East, that it must spread and will reach Germany.
 The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill was in troduced into the English House of Lords anC passed the first reading.
 | The French Chamber of Deputies, afte rejecting by a vote of 281 to 206 an amendmen proposing to abolish the right of the Presi dent to dissolve Parliament, adopted the bil for the revision of the constitution by 8 vot | of 414 to 113.
 | Consul Mason reports that the cholera sit | nation is worse at Toulon, but that the epi demic is stationary in France It is moo | question whether the disease has actually ap peared in Paris.
 Another war is imminent between Franc and China The recent treaty is disavowe' and repudiated by an influential party il
 China and responsibility is assumed by tn | government for the Lang-Son assault.
 "A minaret of mosque at Cairo collapsed killing dozen persons.
 Violent thunderstorms occurred through out England and Scotland. The damage t | crops. houses, cattle and other property estimated at $2,000, ,000. The reports froT different places where the storms have bee
 heaviest show that twelve persons have bee
 killed by lightning.
 The strike of farm laborers at Rovigo hs been ended, but the services of four regiment
 of soldiers were needed before the rioting wa 2 queled. The prisons are now full of capture ' strikers, including many women who wei
 foremost in leading the attacks upon barn f houses and other farm property. DIRE POVERTY OF PRINCESS ALICE