Connecticut western news., 1886-01-13
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Pereia, third mate, was taken down by . whale near the Cape Verd Islands on November 29. No trace of the boat or men could be found.
 The schooner Lizzie Griffin, from the Grand Banks, reports thst three of her crew were lost by the capsizing of their dory. They were all unmarried, and natives of Nova Scotia.
 The records of the Health Department of New York city, show that during the last year there were 35, 696 deaths, 80 0S0 births and II, ,716 marriages, as against, in the preceding year, &, ,a54 deaths, 30,527 births, and Il, ,805 marriages.
 WASHINGTON NOTES
 Bills introduced providing for filling vacan- cies in the office of President and Vice Presi- dent also limiting the time within which clsims against the United States may be filed and prosecuted also proposing const1tutlonai amendment giving the President power to veto specific items in appropriation bills. con- stitutional amendment striking out the con- stitutional prohibition against direct taxation and providing that direct taxes, when levied by the United States, shall be apportoned be- tween the States on the basis of the value of property, and the States shall have the right to collect the same by their own officers and from subjects of taxation provided by their own laws.
 MT. Reagan introduced the Eads Ship Rail- way bill providing for the guarantee by the d that two thirds of the revenue of the company shall amount annually to $2, 5OO,OOo.
 Delegate Joseph, of New Mexico, introduced a bill to provide for the organization of regl- ment of volunteers in New Mexico and Arizona for the purpose of suppressing outrages on settlers committed by hostile Indians.
 The Utah bill being under discussion, the pending question being on the motion of MT. Hoar Rep.), of Mass, to strike out the sec. ton that would disfranchise the women or Utah. A vote having been reached on the amendment it was rejected-yeas, Il; nays, S7. The section dsfranchising the women remains therefore part of the bill
 An amendment proposed by Mir. Edmunds was agreed to, providing that marriages within but not including the fourth degree of consan- puinitv shall be deemed incestuous and pun ishable by imprisonment.
 Bills were introduced to reform the civil ser vice and to pres erve the constitutional dis t,nction between legislative and executive duties by the organization of bureau of civil appointments. Authorizing the construction of V bridge across the Arthur Kuil. To secure uniform standard of value.
 Mir. Bliss introduced in the House 8 bill providing for the sale of the Navy Yard and United States Naval Hospital land on and near Wal about Bay in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y.; also providing for the sale of portion of said land to the city of Brooklyn for market pur- poses.
 Mir. Bliss introducei bill for the relief of David L. Brainerd and others, non-commis- stoned officers and privates of the Greedy Arctic expedition.
 FOREIGN ITEMS
 General de Courcy, commander of the French forces in Tonquin, telegraphs as foi- lows:-"During the latter part of December rebels destroyed the Catholic mission houses at ughean, Annam, and killed French mis- sionary and five hundred native Christians. A ,lumn of French troops was sent ln pursuit of the rebels. It overlook and routed them and captured their arms and ammunition.
 The French government is to make an official inve stigatio , of the Panama Cana. If t @ f1icial en ,inet rs pronounce the canal to be pract caule the government will aid in its completion.
 The enlargement of the Suez Canal is de- layed by the fractious opposition of the Egyp- iian government.
 A cable dispatch announces that the Princess of Wales is seriously Ill at Sand- ringham Hall, the PEince's scat in Norfolk.
 It is hinted that Servia will decline to ac- Ct pt any terms of peace with Bulgaria which include auy penalty to her for her wantOn at- tack on the latter power.
 "A pretender to the Burmese throne has entered the field nesr Mandalay, and has assumed the title and attiibutions of King Of Burmah.
 Many arrests of persons in good social standing have been made at Warsaw in con- nection with an alleged nihilist plot. Lord Gray has written to the London Tunes deprecating home rule for Ireland ana saving that an improvement in the condition of the Irish must emanate from themselves, and can only he accomplished by more provl- dent habits and greater industry.
 It is reported that an agreement has. been feached upon the union of Bulgaria and East. brn Roumelia between Prince Alexander and the representatives of the Sultan.
 -Advices from Cairo say that the Arabs lost 600 men in the battle with the British forces which was fought near Kosheh re gently.
 It is reported that Arab fanatics have broken the British lines at Suakim and slaugh' tered many of the soldiers.
 The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Elm, peror Williams accession to the throne o' Prussia was celebrated quietly in Germany.
 M. Pasteur has undertaken at his owr cost to cure eleven persons that have beer bitten by mad wolf in 8 village in Western Russia.
 pr. Pasteur concluded his operations O. the dog-bitten children of Newark. He ha, great faith in their absolute safety from al danger of hydrophobia, and they have learned to feel deep regard for the doctor. They left Paris for homo Saturday.
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