Connecticut western news., 1884-12-24

The Senate passed the bill for the admission of Dakota by strict party vote, the Repub- hcans voting in the affirmative sand the Dem ocrats in the negative It now goes to the House, where it will doubtless be shelved. The bill provides for division of the Territory on the 46th parallel of north latitude, the part north of the line to remain Territory under the name of Lincoln.
 Senator Sherman introduced bill to pay $70S.75 to each of the non-commissioned off cers and privates of the Greedy Expedition or their representatives, this sum to be in lieu of communications of fuel and quarters and extra duty pay.
 Mir. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, offered joint resolution which requests the President to direct that the Government exhibit now on display at the New Orleans Exposition be sent to the proposed exhibition of American arts and manufactures in lS86 and appropriates $500, 0,00O for that purpose.
 Mir. Vest, of Missouri, submitted to the Senate joint resolution declaring that with out the consent or authority of Congress the proposed Nicaragua surveying expedition ordered by the Secretary of the Navy was illegal and directing the Secretary not 10 en- force the orders for the expedition until Con- gress had taken final action on this resolution.
 MT. Van Wyck introduced bill to increase the pens1ons of widows and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors, and to grant
 
 who served three months in the war of the re. bellion.
 Mir. George of Mississippi, made an srgu- ment for the Interstate Commerce bill and then Mir. Hale, of Maine, reported that the con- ference committees on the Naval Appropriation bill had been unable to agree. He said that the Ho use committee insisted that the Senate must take the House bill which made lump appropriation for the coming half year, and that the Senate committee insisted that the basis of conference should be the regular Ap- propriation bill passed by the House at the last session, and which the Senate had amend ed. The Senate insisted on it's amendment by 8 unanimous vote.
 HOUSE.
 J. J. Adams, of New York, by unanimous consent introduced bill to simplify the exist ing tariff and collection laws on imports
 The House passed resolution to adjourn over from December 20 to the 9th of January, 1885.
 Mir. Cox, of New York, presented petition from the Society of the Sons of the Revolution of New York for an appropriation to complete the pedestal of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty. He also offered resolution asking the Secre- tary of the Navy to send to the House infor- nation in relation to the cause of death of Naval Cadet F. & Strang, who was reported to have died from cruelties practiced on him by senior cadets.
 motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to establish Department of Agriculture was passed by 166 to 69.
 \ Representative McAdoo, of New Jersey, in- troduced joint resolution providing for the appropriation of $250,000 to be distributed by the Secretary of the Treasury and expended under his direction by the proper local author ities of New York city, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken, to prevent by proper quaran- tine and sanitary measures the entrance of cholera into this country, and to prevent it's spread if it should take foothold.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 -Advices from the Russian frontier state that on the 7th of December Nihilists attempted to wreck a railway train which was conveying the Czar to St. Petersburg.
 Lucas Jauner, the defaultipg and abscond- ing director of the securities department of the Lower Austrian Discount Bank, shot him. self. The suicidal act was done at the village of Kierhng, short distance west of Vienna. Only twenty forins of the $1 ,000, 900 taken were found on his body.
 The Scottish Chamber of Agriculture has issued an address to landlords and the people, demanding an immediate reduction of rents on the ground that the depression in the agricul- tural industry appears to be permanent.
 Late advices from Ooroomtse, 8 city of Soongaria, Chinese Empire, state that the Chi nese garrison there revolted on account of ar rears in their pay and murdered the command ant. They endeavored to spread the revolt, but the disturbance was quelled.
 -Portugal,is is ceding to Germany possessions in Southeast Africa
 The proposed Nicaraguan Treaty has aroused the opposition of the English press which declares it 8 violation of the Clayton Bulwer Treaty, and that it is 8 fit subject for the interference of the Powers st Berlin.
 It is reported that Louis Kossuth is dead. The Chinese have sustained a reverse near Gnu, in which the French loss was about 20.
 -ReinSdorf, 1.-the anarchist, confessed that his object was to kill the Emperor William at Niederwald.
 The London Times declares the London Bridge outrage is traceable to America.
 "A report from Khartoum says that Gen. Gordon was well and that the General recent y severely defeated the rebels, killing large number of them and blowing up the forts at Oderman.
 The steamship Carrapza. from Rotte rdam tor Lisbon, has ft undered off the Isle of Wight. Eleven persons were drowned and eighteen saved.
 The municipal authorities in Turin re- fused to receive deputation of unemployed workingmen. This refusal exasperated the men, and something like a riot ensued. The windows of the Mayors apartments were mashed, and twenty-five arrests were made before the disorder was queled.
 "A Rome correspondent cables that the Pope has written letter to Cardinal Parrochi strongly denouncing the divorce bill now in the Italian Chambers.
 The London Times says the New Orleans Exhibition symbolizes the complete recon ciliation between North and South.
 Reports have reached Berlin that there is revolution in Corea. It appears, however, that the German merchants in that country had escaped uninj jured.
 An International Agricultural Congress will meet in Pesth, in 1885, to discuss measures looking toward the alleviation of the general agraian crisis in European countries.
 The Russian Government has abolished the quarantine against France, Italy and Spain, es- tablished because of the cholera in those coun- tries. The embargo on the importation of rags from those countries is, however, still main tained.
 English experts, Sir Samuel Baker in- cluded, now predict that it will be impossible for Lord Wolseley to reach Khartoum by the river before the end of March.
 The sentence of Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens, the English yacht Mignonette canni- bals, who killed and ate boy, has been com muted from hanging to six months imprison- ment without labor.
 Mime. Colombier is undergoing a fort nights confinement in Paris. This is the ex- tent of the punishment which she incurred for her authorship of the hbellous book about Sarah Bernhardt entitled Sarah Barnum."
 An official report says the yield of cereals in France has steadily increased in the last thirty years.