Connecticut western news., 1884-12-10

A bill introduced by MT. Wilson, of Iowa, provides that appointments as railway postal | clerks shall hereafter be. for probationary | term of not less than three nor more than nine months.
 Senator Mitchell introduced bill granting & pension of 45, GOO year to General Grant for | life. beginning with the date of his retirement | from the Presidency. The resolution of Mir Vest calling for an in- vestigation into leases made by Indian tribes | of lands in the Indian Territory was passed. Mir. McPherson, of New Jersey introduced a-bill to suspend the coinage of the silver dol lar. The bill stops the coinage of the silver dollar, forbids the reissue and the printing of United States notes of denomination less than S5.
 A bill for the improvement and preservation
 ot New York harbor was introduced by Mir.
 Miller, of New York. Mr. Vest introduced resolution directing an investigation of the leasing of lands in In
 dian Territory for grazing and other purposes. A bill was introduced by MT. Hawley for the
 relief of the sufferers by the wrecking of the Tallapoosa.
 HOUSE. MT. Cookery, of Missouri, presented bill 1 for the repeal of all laws authorizing the ap- | pointment of Federal Supervisors and special l United States deputy marshals for service at | the polls
 MT. hODlnSOn, or NCW 1Olk, OUere0 a resO- lution calling on the President for further in- formation relative to the imprisonment of | American citizens in Great Britain. A resolution to investigate the conduct of the United States Marshal for the Southern district of Ohio during the recent election was | introduced by Mr. Follett, of Ohio, and adopted.
 The House passed the bill making tempo l rary provision for the naval service Mir. Ran dall of Pennsylvania said that the total ap- propriation for the navy for the current fiscal year was $15 636 l66, reduction of $25S, 268
 from the appropriation for the previous year.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The rebels made an attack upon Suakim at midnight on Wednesday lasting three hours. They were repulsed with a loss of fifteen killed
 and large number wounded. There was no
 loss of the British troops.
 In the six-day pedestrian tournament in London, Littlewood won the race with a score
 of 405 miles, M son made 3s4 miles and Cartwright 357. Ruwelrs early retirement
 spoiled the closeness of the match, and pre- vented Littlewood from striving to exceed the
 record of 415 miles.
 It is officially denied that the natives at | Stanley Falls, Africa, are at war with each other.
 Much discomfort prevails in Ireland, and it 1 is said that secret societies are again very ac | tive.
 Mime. Hughes. who shot NJ. Morin in Paris,
 has received an ovation in her prison. The French Cabinet has obtained certain
 knowledge that China intends to continue the
 war It is probal io that 15, 000 French rein | forcements will be sent to China. The bark Luke Bruce has been in collision | with the steamer Durango i'll the English | Channel. The Durango was sunk and twenty 1 persons were drowned. | It is repC ted from India that the proba- blities of mutIny of the natives are very | great, and that English officers are solictous l for government precautions. -Jud.: .:e Mans,y, who set aside the verdict
 ill tie Adams Coieridgo case, is about to retire | from the Bench. A partially successful attempt was made to I blow up the house of an unpopular land agent | at T lee, Ireland. Tine boiler If the French man-of war Rig
 nault GenouiIly, of thecOast of Formosa, burst killing fourteen persons. Twenty anarchists in Vienna who were | convicted of secretly printing and circulating l treasonab'e pamphlets have been sentenced to | terms ct servitrde and imprisonment varying | rem tn zee 10 twelve years.