Connecticut western news., 1884-01-02
-An escaped convict in endeal

| to evade recapture at Malone, IN. 4., stabbed a sheriff and the latter's son and daughter. in-law.
 An outbreak of smallpox has created a panic in the jail at Newcastle, Del. The crew of the bark Mohawk, after enduring terrible suffering and losing ono of their number, have reached a hospital ill New Haven, Conn.
 An anti-Ornnge riot ill Harbol Grace, N. F., began with the killing of three Orangemen and the woundlng ot many more by an ambushed mob. | Two Germans became acquainted in q New York saloon, and, accidentally discovering that they were married to | the same woman, caused her arrest for bigamy.
 Al Chicago the Grand Jury has subpoenaed nearly all of the proprie- tors, editors and reporters of the daily press in regard to q published rumor of an alleged attempt to influence improp- erly the members of the Common | Council.
 The comet of 1872 is now visible to the naked eye as small, round nebu- lous mass in the constellation Cygnus. | The comet presents fine appearance. The comet will grow brighter till the latter part of January, its perihelion passage being on January 25, when it will be in the tail of Cetus, or the Whale, and distant from the sun 70, ,000 900 miles. It will be nearest the earth about the middle of January-about 60,000,000 miles. After January it will recede from the sun and, pursuing its long journey Ifrh r-nkTT fn yTGIh Ifrr in, | seventy-one years thereafter.
 It is feared that thirty-eight men left on board the burned St. Augustine have perished.
 The leader of gang of counter. feiters was arrested at Vincennes, Ind, with quantity of spurious coin in his possession.
 An Indian who had violated the laws of the reservation was shot by a Choctaw guard while resisting arrest.
 A dispatch from San Antonio, Texas, says General Mckenzie has left there for the government insane asylum at Washington city. His mental con- dition has been steadily growing worse for some time, and 1t is now said his case is hopeless.
 The Committee on Adirondack Preservation will oppose the purchase of more lands there by the State on the ground that the movement Is only a land speculative job of the worst char acter.
 An entire family of nine persons have been drowned by freshet in In. diana.
 The New York Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children offers reward for information that will lead to the conviction of persons unlawfully training children as acrobats.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 For the first five months of the present fiscal year the total internal revenue collections have amounted to S5l, ,279 43S, being S11, ,343, ,97I less than during the corresponding period of last year.
 In spirits there has been a total increase of collections amounting to S2, ,074, ,77l, and in fer mented liquors an increase of S497, ,3SS The total decrease in the collection of taxes on to- baccos amounted to $9 19l ,607; on taxes from banks and bankers. LOGS, ,292, and on miscel- laneous taxes, S3, ,656, ,331.
 John N. Irwin, Governor of Idaho Territory, has returned to the Treasurer of the United States the draft for SG50 sent him as salary for the quarter ended October 30, 1SSS, and has de- clined also to receive the salary due him for the quarter ending December 3l. He states that he has been unable to attend to the duties of the office since July and cannot eonscien tiously accept the pay.
 It is stated that Mir. Cox, of New York, and Mir. Springer, of Illinois, will decline the places assigned them on committees.
 The special agent of the Treasury, in his re- port to the Secretary, exonerates Assistant Iu- spector Cauldwell, who inspected the boilers of the Riverdale
 Lieut.. P. H. Ray, who so successfully carried out the duty assigned him ill tho Polar regions, has rendered his services to lead +le party in search for Greedy lieut.. Ray has much ex- perience, and would no doubt find Greedy if he is to be found.
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