Connecticut western news., 1871-12-08
STATE NEWS.


 MT. Ira Sherman, formerly of Danbury, dropped dead at Newtown Thursday.
 The Dictator and other large government iron-clads are expected to be laid up at New London.
 A Guilford woman, 93 years old, has prepared sixty-three Thanksgiving dinners under the same roof.
 Isaac Holmes, aged 90, soldier of 1872 and pensioner of the government, was found dead in his bed at New London Monday morning.
 I. w. Miner, formerly of Mystic Bridge, has been appointed deputy marshal of Omaha, Nebraska, which office he holds in connection with his position as city editor on the Omaha Tribune and Republican.
 The female suffragista prevented popu- lar actress, 'Little Nell," from visiting Danbury, they having engaged the Opera House on the night she wished to play there.
 Charles Deming, while crossing on the ice, at New Britain, Thursday, broke through, went under the ice, aud was drowned. His body was recovered ;he next morning.
 Dr. Burritt, of Bridgeport, recently ex- tracted from the back of Leonard Clark, of Massachusetts regiment, minnie ball which he received eight years ago at the battle of the Wilderness.
 The sulphuric acid works at East Haven belonging to the New Haven Chemical Company were destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is estimated at $5O,OOO. The insurance was small.
 General Clark Worcester, of Seymour, died few days ago, aged "A. He had been for half century engaged in the mercantile business in the Naugatuck valley. He was widely esteemed for his kindness of heart and generous Inequalities.
 ,rhe Connecticut river is frozen over peacemeal from Hartford to Saybrook.- The steamers have stopped running and adventurous skaters are gliding over the surface. The little pond at the Park is crowded with skaters and winter is fairly set in.
 A workman with 8 long beard at Colts armory got 1t caught in lathe the other day. By a mighty effort he pulled it away, tearing out bunch of whiskers as large round as his wrist and foot long, not, hnu haA l,ok mutilated
 Daniel Brennan, at work on the founda- tions of the new sewing machine factory at Danbury, attempted Saturday to arise a stone imbedded in the ground, and sprained his back so seriously as to temporarily 'paralyze his lower limbs.
 At the late female suffrage meeting at Trumbull, seventy-ive persons were pres ent. Mir. Gallagher of New Haven, Miss Brown of Bridgeport, and Miss Burr of Hart ford, were the speakers. All ladies in the audience in favor of the movement were requested to rise, and only one responded.
 The new National Insurance Company at Hartford was organized on Monday, with Mark Howard President, and James Nichols secretary. The stock for new insurance company, to be called the ''Ori- ent, and to be managed by the machinery of the "City, Insurance Company is nearly all taken.
 Rev. William Taylor, of Liverpool has received call from Rev. Dr. Thompson's church in New York to become it's pastor A salary of $9,0o0 year and the expense of the voyage over are offered MT. Taylor. MT. Taylor preached last spring at New Haven and is an able and earnest divine.
 The jury in the case of MT. A, M. Ives, killed on Friday, at Wnitneyville, rendered verdict that he came to his death in con- sequence of collision between his wagon and horse and buggy driven by Charles J. Pickett, of New Haven, said horse and buggy being driven in careless and reck- less manner by said Pickett, he being in a state of intoxication at the time.
 The Washington Republican says: 'sA young woman was sent to New Jersey jail day or two ago, for drunkenness. Once she was the belle of New Haven, where she married rich man, and had one child. Unfortunately, she learned to drink, and her child dying, became incorporate, her husband at last killing himself in des- pair.
 United States Commissioner Morris H. Seymour is presiding at the trial of the Bridgeport post office thieves. Samuel B. Sumner and Judge Bullock are defendants and L. N. Middlebrook, Esq, for the government. The prisoners are both quite genteel looking, and appear to take their arrest very coolly.
 The body of MT. William T. Norton, of Norwich, a passenger on the ill-fated steamer City of New London, has not been recov. cred, and reward of $l,OO0 has been offered to the finder. A fireman claims to have seen some one standing on the deck just before the side of the boat fell over, and it is supposed to have been MT. Nor ton, and that he perished in the flames
 The New London Northern railroad has been leased by the Vermont Central fol twenty years, the latter paying ten per cent. per annum on the capital stock in cluding the bonds of the former. Thi, puts seven hundred miles of road under the control of the Vermont Central anG makes direct connection between Duluth and New London.
 The report of the free public bath house in New Haven shows that it was opened June 17th and closed September 30th. The whole number of baths taken during the summer was. Males, 15,610; females 2.873 total, I8,61O. The highest number