Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

bill has caused the discharge of 8 large num- Der of employees at the Naval Academy. Between six hundred and seven hundred workingmen were discharged at the Gosport and other Navy Yards.
 By the stranding of the Norwegian bark Lena, on Hog Island bar, Va, eight persons were drowned and vessel and cargo were total loss.
 Great damage has been caused by floods and heavy rains in Arkansas and Texas
 The manufacturing potters of Trenton, N. J, say they will reduce wages, and the opera tives threaten to strike if they do.
 -Brooklyn's three per cent. bonds, new is- sue, sold at a fraction above par.
 Astronomical observations are about to be made with 8 view of ultimately determining whether the earths centre of gravity is being changed by geographical changes supposed to be taking place in the centre of the globe.
 In the ten years from 1878 the total loss of vessels in the New England fisheries has been f47, of which number 82 have foundered at sea, seven of the latter having been abandoned in sinking condition. The total value of these vessels was $735, ,126. The total loss of fife has been 1,233 men, 895 of whom went down in their vessels, which foundered at sea. It is believed that the Grand Army of Massachusetts will disapprove of the eight dollar pension bill.
 Most of the New York savings banks make their interest for the past six months four per cent.
 The German bark Lili was wrecked on the coast of California and five of the crew were drowned.
 The contest for the position of Pubic Printer to succeed Mir. Rounds is assuming very pronounced form, there being 8 large number of applicants for the place.
 The appropriations made for the govern ment of the city of New York for 1884 were e34, ,046, 165; those for 1885 have just been wnIa nk uhn uaxysv1n SNF S164, 4,260
 Not wishing to use arms against the Okla homa invaders, the soldiers in trying to arrest some of the people, resorted to fist fight, in which they were badly beaten, some of them receiving serious injury. The troops have orders now to eject the invaders and will do so. -Paymaster General Rochester has notified General Hancock of the disappearance of Pay master w. H. Smyth from Savannah, Ga. Professor George Griffith, of Lockport, N. Y., has been appointed State Superintendent of Normal Schools.
 The failures in Nova Scotia during the year just closed were 13S, with liabilities of $2, 100000, an increase of forty-nine, with liabilities of $1,000,000, ss compared with 1883. Notwithstanding the injunction of Judge Iruax, the New York Board of Aldermen met at 5 p. rn on the 31st inst. Mayor Edson sent in the name of Rollin M Squire for Commis- sioner of Public Works, and it was confirmed by nearly unanimous vote.
 -St John, the Prohibition candidate for President, again denies very emphatically that he sold out to either Republicans or Demo- crats
 Major General Hancock received tele- gram announcing the death of his only son, Russell Hancock, on his plantation near Clarksville, Miss
 -Advices from extreme Southwestern Texas state that the recent cold weather was quite destructive to live stock in that section, many poor cattle and sheep having perished.
 Dun, Wiman 6 Go. report .that during the past year there was 10, 968 failures in the Uni ted States. The liabilities were $226, ,943, 427 In the Dominion of Canada there were 1927 failures, with liabilities amounting $19, 191,- SO6 In the United States there were 1,784 more failures than in 1888, and in Canada 57 fewer. r...
 Passenger train No. 6, west bound, over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was thrown from the track about mile east of Grafton. The engineer and fireman were killed, the mail agent and 8 number of passengers were seriously injured, and the engine and tender wrecked. Train wreckers caused the disaster "A disastrous fire occurred at Pierre, Oak. All the pumps were frozen and it was impos- sible to procure water. Although the weather was intensely cold, men, women and children worked hard endeayoring to save property.
 The December cotton report of the De- psrtment of Agriculture indicates the aggre- gate of yield for 1884 to be 6,5S 900 bales.
 A Chicago surgeon became insane, en- tered bank and demanded money. He was mistaken for & burglar and fired at, but bis watch stopped the bullet and saved his life.
 A man living near Elmore, H., is afflicted with glanders. a..
 The passenger steamer John Romer was sunk near Newport News by running into dredging scow; passengers and mail saved.
 A young man living near Klingertown Pa, being reproved by his father for loose conduct, shot and killed the old gentleman.
 "A spirituslist of Wyoming Territory killed his child and, with his wife, committed sui eide, both cutting their throats.
 Statistics of Lake Erie commerce show that the canal held it's own during the year against six competing railroad companies.
 Charles Tong Sing, the Chinese steward who accompanied the Jeannette expedition to the North Pole and was one of the few survi- vors, has been arrested on suspicion of rob bery with violence.
 The women in the hat factories at South Norwalk, Conn.,, have united with the striking male matters and have formed @ union.
 The sum of $10O, ,O00 is to be raised by his wealthy friends to pay ex-President Grants debts and save his personal property from be- ing sold under the hammer.
 Two teamsters perished in snow storm in Colorado. The story of their suffering is terri ble. For three days they lived on snow and raW venison.
 The schooner A. Grant, Captain Living ston from Halifax, bound to Baddeck Cape Breton, arrived of Canso in distress after & and crew were so fIostbitten that they will lose their limbs.
 Judge Brown, of the Supreme Court of New York State, has rendered decision that wife may be the legal business partner of a person other than her husband
 The proposed extra session of the Iowa Legislature is opposed by the prohibitionists, prohibitory law.
 In Hamilton county, ILL, 8 woman killed her two children and also took her own life.
 The Canadian exports for November amounted in value to SIG, ,931, ,522, of which S9, ,213, 700 were goods the produce of Canada, 37f7, o22 were the produce of other countries and s1,000,000 were the export of coin and bull lion. The total imports of the month amount ed in value to $7,322, ,729, of which dutiable goods amounted to $5,016,905, free goods, $2,201, ,795, and coin and bullion,s $l04, ,029. The duty received amounted to $1 1855, 1899.
 Gloucester (Mass.) fishermen have formed union to oppose a renewal of the treaties with England about to expire.
 -Paquet, the infidel who was recently para lyzed while denying the doctrine of eterna punishment, died in the hospital at Montreal
 Among the arrivals at the New Orl an, Exposition on SaburQay were l,OUU scnOO teachers from Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin ant Nebraska.
 The three cofins containing the charret remains of the twenty-one orphan boys who lost their lives in the St. John's Home calamity in Brooklyn were buried in one grave on Sat urday. The services were most impressive.
 WASHINGTON NOTES
 The Presidents New Years reception wa
 brilliant affair, the ladies' toilets elegant ant tasteful, and the attendance large.
 The prospect for an early reconciliation O the differenc s between the House and tn, Senate is not good. Incid ntal expression by members of the House Committee indicat a purpose not to confer with tha Hrnaid TO, either of the three amended bills.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 A body of Turks attacked mill nea Perlepe, town in Macedonia, about twent. LII lInl