Connecticut western news., 1871-11-03
STATE NEWS.

Governor Jewell has decided to appoint Thursday, November 30, Thanksgiving day.
 Anna Dickinson lectured in Norwich Friday evening to a large audience.
 Fairfield county people are much inter- ested in the project of railroad from Southport to Litchfield.
 William Cummings, aged l5, of Bridge port, accidentally and probably fatally shot himself, Thursday, while shooting ducks.
 The College Courant began publishing President, Porters inauguration address the week it was delivered and hopes to be able to finish 1t before Christmas.
 A man seized the cash box on Bridge port street car, the other night, and attemp- ted to escape with it. The driver pursued the thief with his car-hook and recovered the box.
 A memorial pamphlet of seventy four pages, in memory of the late Increase Sumner of Great Burlington, Mass, has just been issued from the office of the Bridgeport Farmer.
 Messrs. Crane 6 Hurd have just compile ted grain elevator at Bridgeport with capacity of ,OOo bushels. It will handle 100 bushels per minute. The building is one hundred feet high.
 Thomas Mcclure, a laborer, aged 35, was run over and killed by the cars a mile below Derby on the Naugatuck railroad, Friday. He had no friends in Derby and was buried by the town.
 The Hon. D. G. Platt, of Washington, in Litchfeld county, and father of the Hon. O. H. Platt, Of Meriden, died on Thursday at his residence in Ltchtield. He was one of the trustees of the Reform School.
 Challes Lockwood. young man living in Danbury, while hunting Thursday in the Great Plain district, had his cheek cut open and furrow plowed across his fore head by the explosion of his gun, a breech- loader.
 On Friday afternoon about four o'clock, while German named Krump was cross ing the Shore Line railroad bridge in Fair Haven, in an intoxicated condition, he staggered and fell off into the river and was drowned. The body was soon after recov- cred.
 MT. Comstock, of Wilton, an elderly man, quite deaf, while indulging in the amusement which seems to be so fascinat- ing to such persons-walking on the rail road track-was run over and severely but not fatally injured on Thursday.
 The house of Miss Sally Nash, at West port. was robbed of $4O0 worth of goods recently, while that lady was away visiting. The goods were recovered in George Fol let's house soon after, together with an immense accumulation of other articles, the result of successful robbery for years.
 There are at the present time only few spots on the New York and New Haven railway which are not covered with the , steel rail and they are mostly at the ap. , breaches to the depois where the trains are travelling at reduced rate of speed. It will not be long before the whole road will , be laid with the improved rail. | t Mary Goddard. deserted wife of one 5 Goddard of Danbury. and daughter of Mir. Willard Warehouse, of Brookfeld, was , discovered last Friday afternoon about 2 o'clock suspended by the neck to a beam r in her fathers barn. The body was inn mediately cut down by brother of the ! unfortunate and a neighbor, but life was found extinct. Her absence had been noted but short time prior to the above discovery. A strict surveillance has been , kept on her movements, as she had previ- , ously attempted suicide in throwing her self into well the past winter, freezing sensation however enabled her to hawl loudly for assistance which was prompt and effectual for the nonce. She has threatened several times since to destroy herself, and today che finally succeeded. Domestic troubles had unsettled her mind.