Connecticut western news., 1884-05-21

reduce the revenues 957 000, 900.
 Mir. Hewitt introduced bill in the House amending the tariff. The bill provides for simplifying the administration of the custom laws. Cotton and cotton goods are not to pay a higher rate of duty than 40 per cent. ad valorem; hemp, jute, and flax, than 30 per cent; wool and woolens, than 70 per cent; carpets and carpetlng, than 35 per cent i; earthenware, glassware, and metals, than 50 per cent On chemica,s, wood, provisions, books sundries (other than precious stoues), and sugar, there shall be levied 90 per cent. of the duties now imposed, and tobacco shall pay so per cent. of the duties now imposed. The bill makes reductions in the iron schedule, and a number of additions to the free list During a discussion on the bill to prohibit the sale of lottery tickets i'll the District uf Colombia Mr. Browne of Indiana said the clerks in one of the Government departments expended $10,000 monthly in lottery tickets. The Senate debated the Indian Appropria- ton bill. Mir. Hawley said the saying that the only good Indian is the dead Indian had been attributed to Gen. Sheridan, but he had the Generals authority for saying that he had never used any such language.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The Stadt Theatre in Vienna was totally de- stroyed by fire, but fortunately no lives were lost
 -Bismarck's resignation of the Presidency of the Prussian Cabinet has been accepted.
 Prince Bismarck says that his government cannot allow the stipulations of the Congo treaty to apply to German subjects
 The left-handed marriage of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt has been legally dis -olved
 Fourteen hundred Egyptian troops have been ordered to proceed few days march be- yond Assouan 50 as to be ready to assist korosllo.
 It was rumored in Dublin that there was plot to blow up the Nelson column ill Sackville street.
 It is rumoredJ in Paris that Prince Bis marck urged China to conclude peace with France, and that therein he was influenced by benevolent and human motive.
 The court martial assembled at Pamplona Spain, to try the banditti recently captured in fight at Navarro, has sentenced them to inn prisonment with hard labor for life.
 A family of six persons were murdered at Buezaas, Q town of Galicea, in Austria. One child hid and so escaped. The motive prompt ing the murder was robbery. The miscreants escaped.
 The Paris Temps has dispatch from Alden reporting that revolt has occurred near Sena, and that 300 Turks have been massacred.
 An earthquake has occurred in Turkey, in the region south of the Sea of Marmora. Some damage was done at Panderma and Err dek, in the province of Brous,a. Two slight shocks were felt at Balikesz, but no damage was caused.
 The German Anti-Socialist law has bee n adopted by the Reichstag.
 The Swiss elections resulted in Conserva- tive victory; all the government measures were rejected.
 -Zobehr Paeha declares that he will not rest until he has killed General Gordon.
 A treaty of peace has been signed between France and China. The latter agrees to with draw her troops from Tonquin. At a nationalist meeting at Waterford, Mir. Davitt ar ued that five years rent would be an equivalent for the purchase of holdings | from landlords.
 France has refused to recognize the Igle- | 5ias government ill Peru. Spanish four merchants complain of the treaty with the United States in regard to Cuba. -Aguero and the insurgents continue to hold | their own in Cuba.
 | The Mexican Congress grants President | Gonzalez authority to cont act a loan of | $20 GOO, 900.
 President Grevy, of France, has pardoned | a ma ajoriy of the miners who were imprisoned for having participated in the labor riots at | Domain
 | The English government has finally deter mined 10 send relief expedition to the Sou | dan in July. 'Chinese" Gordon has made a success ssful sortie from Khartoum. | The struggle between the German Tm- | perial government and tie German Liberals becomes daily more bitter | Correspondents at Haiphong cable the re | newal of hostilities against the Annamite and | Chinese pirates. In the mountains the French l captured gun.
 | Outbreaks between the soldiers and na- tives at Cairo are of daily occurrence. It is reported that Lord Wol.el y will command the October expedition to Khartoum.
 The Empress of China approves of peace | between China and France. l A band of Persian nomads have plundered several villages on the right bank of the Kurd.
 POLITICAL. General Butler has written a letter in which he says: If there is any portion of the people of | this country desir us to vole for me for Pfesi- | dent, 1 shall not oppose their doing so, and | they may do it in any way they may see fit, for | 1t k their business to vote they believe and not mine 10 direct them. Therefore, while 1 | do not deem it proper for me 10 take any part | in putting my name before any body of men as | candidate for any office shali greatly ap- | preciate any action of the people, or any por- | ton of the people of the country, who think | am fit to serve them i'll any office. | The Dakota Democratic Territorial Con- vention cleo ed delegates to the National Con vention. They are uninstructed. but are be- I leved to be for Tilden and Hendricks. Resolu- ] tions were adopted favoring revenue reform according to the Morrison bill, a correction of | the evils of the present tariff system, civil ser vice reform, and land bounty for soldiers, | opposing sumptuary laws, and favoring a cur rency of gold, silver and convertible paper. The Vermont State Greenback Convention | adopted resolutions which demand the pay ment of the public debt as rapidly as tine money shall accumulate in the Treasury; that | the government shall issu3 greenback money; ] favor interstate commercial regulations, and | extend thanks to the Supreme Court for its de- cision that the grecnback is legal tender. The delegates favor Gen. Butler In the New Jersey Democratic State Convention Tilden and Hend icks were declared to be, in the opinion of the Convcn- tion the most igible candidates for President and Vice-President. The platform arraigns the record of tle Republican party and declares in favor of revenue and national civil servlce reform.
 Ex-Senator Henderson says the Republican delegation from Missouri will be divided be tween Logan. Blaine, Arthur and Edmunds, with Arthur as the second choice of the frlensls of the latter. Blaine's nomina ion will, he thinks, imperl the party.
 The Virginia Democrats in State Convention declined to instruct the delegates to Ch1cago, while manifesting decided preference for the ''old ticket"
 The National Convention of the Anti AonopOiists party met in Chicago. The plat form calis for the enactment and vigorous execution of all just laws and equality in rights 'Ho, Pi " h, b' D anu poHeISj doS-Ilo thab ID IS the duty of the Government to at once regulate commerce among States: holds that bureaus of statistics must be estabiished; the national eight hour law must be enforced; de- mands the payment of the bonded debt as it falls due holds that the election of United Stat s Senators should be by a direct vo:e of the people; calls for graduated income tax; demands that the tariff, which is a tax upon the people, shall be so levied as to bear as lightly as possible upon the ssaries of life; de- nounces the present tariff as being largely in the interest of monopoly, and demands tha, it