Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09

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 Forest fires are raging in Massachusetts and Maine.
 A child was drowned at Delrs Island, Md, by being hown overheard in a carriage.
 Before delegates to convention of teach CTS of the deaf and dumb a deaf girl gave wonderful illustration of the perfection to which hp-reading can be brought. By the movement of speakers lips outlined ln shadow on & wall she was enabled to decipher the words uttered,
 MT William A. Beach, a noted New York lawyer, is dead. He was born at Saratoga Springs on the 18th of December 1899.
 The Protestant mission at Celaya, Mexico, on the Central Rail- oad, was attacked by mob which destroyed the furniture and effects. The missionaries escaped. The authorities encour- aged the mob.
 Three culiosities in the way of well-exe- cuted counterfeit Bank of England notes for E50 each were sent into Wall street brokers for exchange.
 -Ihe introduction of steam engine to lessen labor, by pipe-laying contractor In Pittsburg, led to riot by his workmen and the destruction of the engine.
 Two men fell from a train seventy feet through trestle in Ohio, and one survives the fall.
 The schooner l.. and A. Babcock was wrecked at Barnegat and five lives were lost.
 The cattle drovers of Texas object to pay ng the Indians any toll on cattle herds driven ihI ough their reservations.
 A young colored girl in Newburg, N. r., poisoned her mistress because s5e scolded her.
 HI. g. Strathy has resigned as manager o1 the Federal Bank, Toronto, Ont, aud w. J. Ingram has t.ken his place. The stock of the bank has failed thirty points, and there is great excitement
 Nine Italian railroad laborers attempted to cross Corsons Inlet, N. J., during the storm on Thursday. Their boat was upset and six out of the nine men were drowned. Their bodies have not been recovered Another man. whose name Is unknown, was drowned n Egg Harbor Inlet
 WASHINGTON NoTEa
 After discussion at length the House re- fused to recede from its disagreement to the steel cruisers amendment of the Naval Appro pr ation bill by the Senate by vote of 90 to 147
 clause was also lost, S5 to 139. The House further insisted on it's disagreement, and Messrs. Randall, Holman and Calkins were ap- pointed aS confert es.
 MT. Kellogg appeared before the Springer Committee and made general denial of the charges against him.
 The United States Senate passed the House Iill relieving from the charge of desertion soldiers who served until the expiration of their term and at the end of the war went home without bsing formally mustered out.
 MT. Buffers resolution for an investigation of the New York national banks was referred to the Committee on Finance, S9 to 16.
 The River and Harbor bill WAS taken up and, after several amendments had been mate, was passed 1t now approprlates $l3,- 5S4, TOO, the Senate having auded $1 ,498, 300 it.
 In the Iowa contested election case of Fred ricks vs Wilson, the House Committee on Elections by vote of 6 to 5, decided to report in favor of Mir. Fredricks Democrat Mir. Wilson, Republican, now O, cupies the seat.
 The decrease of the public debt for the month of June is about So 100000 This will make the reduction for ihe fiscal year about S101, 900, 900. The reduction for the last fiscal year was S1S7 Ss3, ,2i3.
 A formal order has been issued directing the trial of Judge Advoo ,te General Swain and Lieutenant Colonel Albert F. Murrow and the detail of the court made.
 Tho President will appoint w. c. Squire, of Ilion, N. Y., Governor of Washington Terri tory.
 Two citizens of Washington have been in dicted for comphcity In the Navy Department frauds
 Mir. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, introduced in the Senate joint resolution, which went over. authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase United States trade dollars to an amount not to exceed S10 900, too at their face value, paying there fore standard silver dollars, provided the pur- chase be made prior to September 1, 1884 FOREIGN ITEMS The Spanish Senate at Madrid unani- | mous,y passed a resolution condemning as false the report of New York newspaper that the government contemplated the sale of the 1 island of Cuba.
 The match game of cricket between the | Philadelphia team and the Gentlemen of ,IF | jeans, who beat their opponents by 1l6 runs. An explosion at the Wellington collery at Narraimo, B. c killed twenty-four miners and injured number of others. Special reports ln regard to the cholera in France give greater number of deaths than the official returns report, and the truthfulness 1 of the latter is distrusted. M. Richard, | Chief of the Naval Health Department, | reports that the number of victims at Toulon are eight to ten daily, that the l aggregate deaths are If in the navy and 31 in the town, and tGat there are 62 patients in the naval hospitals. A mosquito plague at Mar seilles increases the gloomy aspect. A thou sand fires have been kindled In various parts of the city to disperse tho pest. Gibraltar now refuses entrance to French ships. | A fire at Matanzas destroyed three ware houses. Seventeen hundred hogsheads of | sugar which were stored in the buildings were buraed Tho total loss is reported to be $450, ,000 partially insured. l The Theatre Royal, Edinburg, was totally | destroyed by fire. No lives lost. At Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, there was a severe storm Monday. Three pers ms were killed by lightning and five others are reporte missing.
 l The Orangemen and Nationalsts came | into colh~ at WarrenpOint County Down, Ireland. Two Orangemen were arrested. One | Nationalist was stabbed almo t to death. | The two officers guilty of assertion were shot Saturday at Gercns, Spain. The shops of Gerona and Barcelona arr draped in mourning
 thousands of people assembled in front of the honse of the Governor and compelled him to t leSraph to the government asking for con- mutation of the senten.e The Philadelphia cricket team was be aten by five wickets by the Gentlemen of Hamp- l shire.
 Grave suspicious are entertained in Egypt | as to the loyalty of the Mudir of Donguje The road betwe, Massowah and Kassala is re- 1 ported to be oren.
 | The appearance of cholera in Marseilles has created quite panic in that city. Profes- | sor Virehow critlcises the French authorities | for what he terms their defective precautions Reports from Hanoi state that the French | fleet has received orders to lombard Chinese ports.
 The dynamite fright has taken full posses | sion of the officials of Frankfort-on-the Main. The police of that city say that the place is nest of conspirators and is, in fact, the centre of the socialistic propa ;anda of all Germany. - St. Peter's Day in Rome passed of quietly, notwithstanding previous threats of a rot.
 There is large emigr tion movement tC America of Jews from Poland.
 More deaths from cholera have occurred al Toulon and Alarsaiiles Arrivals from Algeria are subjected to five days quarantine.
 A dispatch from Haiphong says that hos. tilltles against Lang-son, Tn 1onquin have been resumed. The French government has de- cided on vigorous action.
 The European Association of Astronomers announce the discovery of an astt roid (Nu. 23O by Dr. Palisa, at Vienna. Two observa- tons are given as fol!ows:-June 27, 4l01 Greenwich mean time, right ascension, 16 hours, 19 minutes. 467 seconds; declinaton south l9 degrees, SS minutes, 20 seconds June 2E 9729; right ascension, 16 hours, 19minutes, 10 sec nd-; dec!iGation. south I9 deg ees. Al