Connecticut western news., 1884-04-09
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UNITED STATES CONGRESS-
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 The Senate passed the bill introduced by Mr. Edmunds for the relief ot the Jeannette sur vivors.
 An interesting debate sprung up in the Senate over a proposition to create commls- si Il to inquire into tho tenement house system ill New York and report the facts to the next l. gislature.
 The Senate passed the bill to increase the eff hciency of the General Land Office, giving the Commissioners salary of S5, OO) each, and-h assistant $3,000 and increasing the clerical force.
 Mir. MorrilPs bill providing for the improve nent of the coinage was passed.
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 The House, by vote of 198 to 46, passed the bill for the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar. The amendment proposed by Mr. Bland of Missouri, to strike out the fourth section was carried by 8 majority of 12, 131 voting in the affirmative and 1l9 in the mega tive The section provided that the trade dol lars recoined into standard dollars shall be de- ducted from the amount of bullion required to be coined by the Remonetization act.
 A message was received from the President recommending an appropriation of $lOO,OOO for the protection of the levees of the lower Mississippi.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 It is said that Stanley is definitely aban- doning the Congo mission.
 --Twenty-one bombshells and ten rifles were discovered under the flooring of house in the suburbs of Madrid.
 A new anarchist journal has begun pubi- cation in Geneva. It is named Explosion.
 A plot has been discovered to destroy Mountjoy prison, in Dublin, by dynamite. Sev- eral warders were dismissed and the prisoners implicated were removed to English jails.
 The British Cabinet have decided against formally establishing protectorate in Egypt
 The Irish members of Parliament de- nounced the judiciary system in Ireland and spoke in favor of electing judges. The Irish Secretary replied that the system of popular election could never be adopted. A Hong Kong correspondent says that the | French will probably invade Chiua from the | northern coast of Tonquin, and will hold Can. l ton in support of their claim for indemnity. | M. Patenotre, the French Minister at Pekin, if | goirg on a special mission to the Annamitt | capital.
 ] Holland is conferring with the other l Powers opposed to the Anglo-Portuguese treaty | about the Congo.
 An earthquake occurred at Santiago de Cuba | on MarcE 25, doing slight damage. The following details concerning Gen. | Gordon's engagement with the reb Is near Hal | fiyeh on March 18th, are given. The rebels pursued the Egyptians for two miles after the battle. The scene of confusion presented by the retreating troops was fearful tt behold. The Egyptian regulars and the Bashi-BazoukS kept shouting out that their Generals had betrayed them. The wound. | ed received no attention for the long space of 1 seven hours. The troops had been clamoring | for three weeks before to meet the enemy. IT l the early part of the encounter the Egyptians | were successful, and the enemy were actually in full retreat, when their cavalry made dash | ing charge.
 Gen. Bichot considers that the French con. l quest of Ionquin is ended and that it only re- mains to organize the government. England is about to inquire into the i'm portation of American adulterated butter and | cheese.
 The great Northamptonshire Stakes were won by Loch Ranza. Edmund Yates has been condemned to | four months imprisonment for hoelnng the Earl of Lonsdale.
 A large fire in London destroyed dozen houses in Paternoster Row.
 Prof. Virchow has only discovered one case of trichinosis in Germany, and that ot doubtful origin.
 -osman Digna has resumed the offensive around Suahm.
 The Emperor Williams health, according to the reports, undergoes rapid fluctuations
 -100 new Oerulau uD6Thl party 1b to be recognized as an important force in Ger man politics.
 General Gordon has decided to abandon his policy of conciliating the Arabs; Khartoum correspondent says that the very existence oi the garrison depends upon the speedy arrival of British troops.
 Gen. Graham, with his troops, has sailed from Suakim to Suez, thus abandoning the Soudan. The inhabitants of Suakim are dis contented and angry at being left by the Brit ish to take care of themselves. The merchants at Suakim have asked Admiral Hewett to es- tablish a permanent English garrison there. 1 The Admiral stated that an English governor with a small English force would remain. | Austrian police report that recent murders in Vienna were committed by persons acting | under orders issued by the Central Committee of the anarchists at New York, of which Herr Most is the head.
 1 Turkish agents are endeavoring to close the American Protestant mission schools il | Asia Minor.
 asked the Powers to assent to an English pro tectorate for five years. Austra German. | and Russia are said to have consented. l It is reported in Cairo that General Cor | don surrendered Khartoum to the Mahdi som | days ago and was afterward imprisoned, to | gether with Colonel Stewart. On the 18th O | March Gen. Gordon made sortie from khar toum with 5000 men and was defeated | POLITICAL. Interviews with members of the New YorI Legislature, both Senators and Assemblymen show that the republicans are in favor of Ed munds for President, with Blaine as second 1 Among the democrats the Tilden sentiment l predominates, Cleveland holding second place Very little free trade sentiment was manifested on either side, and much outspoken opposition to civil service reform was shown.
 The New Hampshire Republican Conven tion will be held on April 30.
 The New York Greenback State Conven tion will meet on April 29, at Albany.
 -Virginia's straightout Republicans will holt a State Convention on April 80 to elect dele ] gates to the National Convention.