Connecticut western news., 1885-02-11

In Pittsburg two boys while sliding rolled down an icy incline. One was fatally injured and another seriously hurt by fall of one hundred feet.
 Ash Wednesday will usher in the season of Lent on the 18th inst Easter Sunday falls on April 5.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The Senate passed the bill to regulate the fees of pension agents and attorneys.
 The House Committee on Public Lands de- termined to report 0 bill providing for the for
 feiture of the entire land grant, consisting of 6SS, GOO acres of the Mobile and Girard Rail-
 road.
 The United States troops which will par.
 ticipate in the Washington Monument celebra
 ton are five batteries of artillery at Fortres:
 Monroe, three batteries from Fort McHenry
 and the batteries in Washington. The troops
 will be in command of Colonel k. B. Ayres, ol
 the Second artillery, and will probably remain
 in Washington until after the inauguration ceremonies.
 Charles II. Reed, counsel for Guiteau, was
 before the House Committee on Appropriations and asked tn at the committee provide for com pensating him for defending the assassin, tht
 amount to be left with the committee. Mir | Reed said he spent six mon hs defending him
 and never obtained a cent. The Navy Department has ordered John hOAcl 10 remove hll lD6 Bl6bl hlbo HUH tAAc | new cruisers and replace them with iron ones It will cost several hundreds of thousands oi | dollars to make the changes. The President asked Congress to authorize | him to accept the Japanese Governments otfel | to give the United States a plot of land il | Tokio for the use of it's legation. | At meeting of the United States Commis
 sioners' Association, consisting of the Repre- sentatives of the United States and railroad | exhibiting at the Exposition in New Orleans, I
 was decided to make an appeal to Congress fo
 loan of $500 900 to help the Exposition ou | of the present financial difficulties. A repor | was presented showing that the Exposition
 was now about $500, 900 in debt. President Arthur sent to the House C
 Representatives communication laying be | fore Congress the generous offer made by Mrs | Grant, to give to the Government in perpetua | trust the swords and military and civil testi monials lately belonging to General Grant l with a copy of the deed of trust. He asked | that the Senate bill placing General Grant or l the retired list might pass. The public debt statement shows the re- duction of the debt during January to have | been $9,420, ,046. The reduction sincs Junt | 30, 1884, $40, 92l, ,910. The total cash in tht
 Treasury is $46O,S 1903. Congress appropriated $10, ,000 for the ex | pense of the Post-office exhibit at New Orleans | The Department was advised that the $1O,OO | had been expended, and $4, 900 more. Th' | agent in charge has been directed to discharg | his assistants and return at once. The inclination of the Irish- American Con | gressmen is to maintain that the attack upoi l O'Donovan Ro:s was inspired by the English The President sent a message to Congress | in reference to the Grant testimonials and ure | ing the passage of the retirement bill. The Secretary of War has reported to Con gress that there are 6,580, 506 men in the Uni | ted States who are available for military duty and that in the organized militia of tn country there are 7311 commissioned officer | and 83,979 non-commissioned officers an | privates In Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas | Tennessee and Oregon there is no organize | militia.
 The National Board of Health wants Cor | gress to spend $500, ,000 to aid State and loct | Health Boards in preventing the introductio | and spread of pestilential diseases. | Mir. Tow nshend offered 8 resolution pro | viding for night sessions of the House of Re[ resentatives.
 | Representative Matson introduced 8 bi \ providing for an increase of the pensions (
 soldiers widows from S8 to $12 month | Secretary Chandler has directed the rt
 sumption of work at the navy yards and sts
 tions which was suspended January 1 on aC
 count of the failure of Congress to provide fC | it's continuance.