Connecticut western news., 1885-08-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

! but are not ready to diyulge their plans yet Victoria Morosini Schelling and Ernest, | her husband have returned from four weeks | soiourn in Paris, where they went for vaca- hon, and Victoria is soon to appear on tho stage again.
 --Fite American steamship companies the | Pacific Mail (San Francisco to Auslralia): the | He'd .D." (New York to Yenezuela); tho Clyde tNew York to Turks Islands the New York Havana and Mexico, aud the New York and Cuba ines-havc declined to carry the United | States mails. Postmaster General Villas says | that ho has made arrangements to carry these mails, and thus avoid delay. The naval court-martial in the case of ex- | Surgeon-General Wales, sentences him 10 gus | pension from rank and duty for five years on | fuflough pay, and to retain his present num- Der in bis grade during that period A | "A young man in Washington, who was | bitten in the wrist by a dog eight years ago has within few days developed unmistakAble symptoms of hydrophobia and is expected to die.
 It is understood that the President, with | in a few days, will All the ten vacant Second Lieutenantcics in the army from civil life. The Bankers and Merchants Telegraph | Company's properly was sold at auction to Ed- ward s. Stokes for s5O0,00o.
 Valentine Wagner was hanged at Coluul- bus, Ohio, for the murder of his brother-in- law
 George Wilson, Charles Davis and Matilda Jones, oolored, were hanged at Plaqucminos. La, for numbering aud robbing an aged white lady.
 Several persons were arrested in Canada | for the wholesale destruction of fish by meaus ! of dynamite cartridges Thcy explode cart ridges in the cddics and bays in which tho fish rest during the heat of the day, and hundreds of fish come to the surface after each explosion. The fish are packed in ice and sent on to | Amaricnn markctg
 -Reil, the Canadian rebel, took two hours | to address the jury in his defense. He pre- faced his speech with prayer. Ho declared he was not insane, but had mission to perform.
 "A letter from West Carroll Parish, La, | states that tho army worm has appeared in | great numbers upon cotton plantations in | that vicinity and is doing considerable damage | Adjacent parishes also report the presence of this pest. Planters are greatly alarmed. George Ely and William Jones were in- stantly killed and five other men seriously in- | tured by the falling of portion of the old Ferry Rolling Mill, at South Wilmington, Del
 A conference preliminary to the Annual | Convention of the American Bankors AssooA | ton was held at SarAtoga It was general | agreed that Congress should be urged, whenf -s meets, to suspend tho further coinage o i, silver dollars.
 Tho Virginia Democratic Convention nominated General Fizhugh Lee for Governor.
 "A fire broke out in the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, which destroyed s4oo,000 worth of property.
 While the caskst for General Grant uAs on exhibition in New York city, a thief stole a screw from the coffin plate.
 -S. w. TAlmadge, of Milwaukee, has re- ceived word fnom Minnesota that the injury I to wheat from recent storms and hot weather Rill be about ten per cent on the value of the trop, and the indications arc that thero will be stin moro damage. The wheat crop of Ne braska is coming out in good shape Dakota wheat is turning out excellenty.
 -Tzo men, while working ia . sewer In Newark, N. J., were Emothered by the cayng fin of the earth after blast had been made.
 The print cloth mills of Eau River arc to stop work four weeks.
 Twenty soldiers were prostrated by heat in Boston during military parade.
 Forest fires in southenstern New Jersey are devastating cranberry marshes and timber and threaten neighboring villages. | A Syracuse young lady of sixteen wants e50,00 from her aged recreAntloyer for blight sd affections and sues for it.
 Gov. Hill, of New York, by official prociA. nAtion makes Saturday, Aug. s, tho day Of l Grants funeral, 6 legal holiday.
 The Bennett Mackay cable broke poo miles from land.
 The Postmaster Rt Mariana, Fla, has ab- seconded. He is short in bis accounts Sli iOOO.
 President Cleveland has sent a subscrip- tion of S2b0 to the fund for rebuilding Music Hall, Buffalo, which was burned in March last.
 The cotton crop of Georgia is In the bed condition known for years and tho yiold wih be much above the best average of the past
 -Thirteen young ladies, most of whom arc from the United States, took the black Nel ~ St Ann's Convent. at Laehine, Can.
 --JohRn Faugman, his wife and three-year- | old son have died in Baltimore from triohi- nosis, and daughter is lying in dangerous condition. The pork was eaten on the 10th of May.
 David scruggr. oolored, who was re- leased on a writ of habeAa corpus recently from the fail where be was confined on q charge of brutally assaulting his little dAugh- ter, was vi.ited by large crowd of negroes At bis house near Hedheld, ArkAnHaa. After some parleying shey fell upon soruggs and out him so horribly with knives and rAzors that ho has since died.
 A most disastrous cloudburrt struck . point few miles north of Colorado Springs Colorado. IL did serious damage, and t s believed that many pertona lost their INos being swept away by the rushing waters.
 The body of Miss Caroline steyena, who was drowned few days ago at Fort Erie, was found on tho Canada side of thc siyer, it having been carried over the Horseshoe FallA
 Maud &. trotted mile st the Glenville track of Cleveland, Ohio, in 2.il. The inten- k aent to the frst quarter pole in 0;S41f. She was going SO smcothly that Flair gave hor the roin, and she went the second quartorin 0321x and the last half in I:0i.
 L A collision between an engine and . freight train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway at Milwaukee, injured hVo hainmen, ono of them fatally.
 Eight incendsaries set A . to a number oi houses in Kiln, Russia, town forty mnei i from Moscow, and property valued At oVorVV' ronbles was destroyed.
 The Batignolles quarter of Paris, wa visited by revere fire. The eonfagration %
 cured in a district occupied by carpet ware
 houses, carpenter shops and other workshop
 ot various kinds and was not eItinguishe'
 until buildings covering five blocks had boei destroyed.
 While an excursion steamer vAs loading
 with passengers At a pier at Ci athan, Eng.
 tho pier collapsed, throwing into the water ' persons tho majority of whom we're womol
 and children. Msny persons ere rescue half drowned and unconscious. and Ner taken to 8 neighboring hospitsl and man lost their lives.
 EThe Chief of the Bureau of Statistics TO
 ports that the total values of the imports Q merchandise during the twelve months ende' June 30, 1885, were S577 4l6, ,550, and durini
 the previous twelve months, t66L oa., osS, } decrease of 800 220, ,S43. The values of the ex
 ports of merchandise for the twelve month ended June 90, 1885, were e74l, sos, ,6s3, an, for the twelve months ended June sO, leoa
 were s7AO, ,5I5, cos. an increase of el,SsO,0aA The great labor parade at Newark, N. y on Monday was a successful affair The po'
 session included the Trades Assembly and oye 100 minor organizations interested in th' I body Over 8, 0e0 mon were in line, inoludin . delegations from New York, Brooklyn, Jerne l City. Yonkers, Elizabeth, Paterson, Passai, . New Brunswick aud Trenton. There wero ]
 bands in the procession, and police guard z 3 50 men headed the parade. The prooessio r was divided into IS divisions
 The New York Chamber of Commerce ho l A memorial meeting in honor of dener f Grant, and appropriate resolutions Wel adopted. Mir. ohauncy M. Depew pronounce . an eloquent enlogy on the dead noidisr. Il ' Produee Fxchange likewise held .a meetin nlopted r, solutions and were addressed by q l ..fIs. stFsd Ft