Connecticut western news., 1871-09-22
STATE NEWS.

Stonington proposes soon to build $l5, GOO town hall.
 Mir Jared R. Cook is about to build SlOO, 900, house on the old homestead lot in Meriden.
 Waterbury has no fair ground, and it has been twenty-five years since an agricultur al fair has been there.
 The Christopher Brown" house the oldest in the town of Stonington, having been built before 175O, is being torn down.
 Mr. Hazard Bently of Goshen was the heaviest man at the fat mems clambake at Gregory's Point. He weighed 847.
 The Yale students talk of getting up an H. lumination on the evening of the inaugura- tion of Prof. Porter, the president elect
 Mrs. Knapp of Norwalk was burned to death the other day by an explosion of kerosene oil which she was pouring on a lighted fire.
 The Saugatuck Valley Railroad Company have decided to build their road on the mar row gauge plan, provided the necessary fluids are raised.
 X memorial window iu houor of lnc late Rev. Gurdon s. Colt, D. D., is to be plced at an early date in Trinity (EpiscopaD Church, in Bridgeport.
 Herbert E. Kinney of Griswold and Charles R. Lanman of Norwich (Yale I'D have been invited to accept tutorships in Knox college at Galesburg, Illinois.
 Orwyn H. Percival, brother of the late poet John G. Percival, died at the New Haven hospital few days since, being in indigent circumstances.
 Tue new Congregational church in East Bridgeport has just been furnished with Stevens organ which is highly spoken of by those who have heard it.
 A small youngster in Danbury having in- quired what was meant by transparent, and having been told that anything you could look through was transparent, inno- gently asked. ''Is knot hole transparent ?"
 Rev. Mir. Wells, rector of Trinity church, Southport, will deliver the annual address before the Fairfield county agricultural so- ciety this year at Norwfalk, probably on Sep tember 23d-
 The tobacco crop, which is now one of the great staples of Barkhamsted has greatly suf- fered this year from grasshoppers. The lar gest growers arc J. F. Simmons, Tiffany Brothers. and W. W. Clark.
 Mir. Horace Beers of Hampton, aged twen- weight years recently cut his throat Ut the house of Mir. Henry Whitaker of East Hartford with his pocket knife, while labor ing under delirium tremens. The wound was not fatal.
 The fremen's parade in Waterbury Thursday was the best ever held. There was dinner at the City Hall, and R. B. Gwillum delivered an address, and the Hon. Greene Kendrick and the Rev. Mr. Beck with made some remarks.
 The recent terrible railroad disasters have 90 effected the nerves of a young man Tn Bethel, that he has broken his engagement to ayoung lady because she persists Tn wear ing a train and is indifferent about her switch.
 News has been received of the death of Charles H. Board, member of the grad uating class of 1871 at Yale. He was an enthusiastic Yale man, and left in his will bequest to the colleges of $2, 800, to form library of political econ omy and social ethics. a.-s-=-'.
 The people of Danbury are stongly urged by the NeUs to subscribe hundred thous- and dollars or more to the stock of the company to be formed by New York par ties for the manufacture of ''standerd article" at Danbery. What it is does not appear from the NeUs reports.
 The Wsterbery Anserieon says :-''At the recent Watcrtown fair Mir. Jacob N. Blakeslee exhibited thirty-fve head of thoroughbred Devons, leaving twenty more behind on his farm. We believe this is the greatest exhibition ever made of thorough breds by any one man in the United States at any single fair.
 Nr. Henry Terry of Plymouth received on the Fist of August two letters from his son mailed at Hong Kong, one on the 22d of June, the other on the 12th of July; the former coming through London, the latter by the way of San Francisco; both reach ing their destination by the same mail, on the 2lst of August.
 Some of the spoons which General Is. rael Putnam had made of the silver he re- cieved for his services in the Revolutionary war have recently come into possession oi ColonelJ. Ware Butterfeld, of Concord N. H. They are four table spoons about eight inches long, perfectly plain, and two troy ounces in weight. The making fig of rather primitive character, with an ova on thehadles q. P. B. D." the latter stan ding for her maiden name.
 The commissioners appointed by the last General Assembly to approve a site for the new capitol building in Hartford met there Friday. The city offered a site on the park through committee, which was opposed by the Rev. Dr. Bushnell and Q few others. The commissioners looked at other sites, and though their decision was not formally announced, it is under stood that the park site is accepted. Hart ford gives the State half million toward the building and also the site.
 The Wheeler 6 Wilson sewing machine company, in Bridgeport, are SO overwhelm ingly driven with orders that they require their workmen to not only work nights but also to commence their daily labor d six o'clock instead of seven, as heretofore and consequently the gong calls at 5:4i am, instead of 6:46. Five hundred ma