Connecticut western news., 1871-11-17
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SALISBURY, CONN. Friday Morning, Nov. 7th, 1871.
STATE NEWS.

The Derby Steamboat Co., has gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities, $40, o,OOO,OOO.
 The Hon. John Kendrick, wife, and son Greene, of Waterbury, have returned from Europe.
 A barn and storehouse on Mill Pond lane, Norwich, owned by H. O. Hill, were burned Friday night. Loss $l ,6OO in- sured $500.
 A nearly nude crazy woman from the town house made quite sensation Thurs day by running through the streets of Meri- den.
 Several large whales have been seen dur ing the past week off Watch Hill. A sure sign of severe winter, the fishermen say.
 Robert Allen, 70 years of age, cut his throat in a cemetery at Greenville, on Sat urday while temporarily insane. He may recover.
 The Norwich Advertiser says that a DOT ton of rocket thrown into Stoniugton during the bombardment by British fleet in 1915, is now in the possession of Messrs. Boswell $ Huntington of that city.
 Typhoid fever has been raging as an epi- demic in Mianus during the past two weeks Whole families have been afflicted and many deaths have taken place.
 By the use of the Derby railroad, the people of the Naugatuck valley have greatly improved mail facilities with New Haven.
 The Guilford girls take much pride in driving three minute horses, and are per fectly acquainted with the manner of grooming and feeding them. ra
 A suite of rooms in Crown street, New Haven, has been secured for 6 public dis persary, which will be opened when sub scriptions to the amount of $500 are re- ceiYed.
 William H. Merriman, for many years prominent merchant of Waterbury, died on Wednesday, aged S3. He was we'll known through Litchield and New Haven coun- ties, and was highly respected.
 Mrs. O. N. Brooks, wife of the keeper of Franklin Island light house, her daugh- ter, and niece from New Haven, went fishing few days ago, and in an hour or two caught eighty five pounds of blackfish.
 Whitaker, who was recently assaulted near Meriden and nearly killed, has re- covered sufficiently to make a statement confirming the previous supposltions con- corning the assault, and will probably soon be out of danger.
 The Chicago fire has had serious effect upon some of the manufacturing interests of New Haven. Trade which opened brisk early in the fall has slackened up very much, and some of the factories have been obliged 10 shorten the number of working hours. In others, some hands have been discharged.
 A washerwoman for family named Harmon. yesterday found two front teeth in the pocket of vest she was washing It was a garment Mir. Harmon wore on hunting expedition two weeks ago, when he unconsciously put three loads in his gun, and attempted to fire them all at once.- Dan. Neacs
 Two or three academic students recently took some ladies into the Sheffield Scienti- fic school observatory to gaze at the pale moon. One of the latter observing through the telescope the jagged edge of the orb, exclaimed in raptures, 70 how divine! It looks exactly like Hamburg edging'"
 The satisfaction with which Yale senior regarded the spots on the sun as seen through the college telescope, was lessened by the discovery that the spots were equally visible at whatever part of the heavens the telescope was directed. Subsequent dis covery showed several fly spots on the object glass of the telescope rather than on the object almed at
 Thursday morning, head-board with the inscription Patrick, aged 10 years" was found on the steps of New Haven store. Other slabs were found about town, and an investigation showed that the head boards had been stolen from the Catholic cemetery, and then deposited in different places about town. There could have been no other purpose in this stealing but mali cious mischief
 About one hundred and fifty pupils are now attending the New Haven evening school. Their ages rup from fourteen years to thirty-five or forty. and they are all very industrious in their work All of the common English branches are taught, and as there are number of Germans in the school who speak English with difficulty, German teacher gives them special in- struction in the Saxon tongue.
 Yale-Thanksgiving will be celebrated at Yale as usual by jubilee in Alumni Hall. . Three plays will be presented but no female characters will be allowed this year. The Register says: Although it was said to be dark day for the ministry when Fl grad uated, the sky will brighten up amazingly in that respect when '72 leaves the college world. The present senior class has pledged itself to leave on graduation fund for the college library. The class is the largest ever known in college and the amount sub- scribed will be considerable.
 steam elevator is building in New Haven which is expected to unload ,oOO tons of coal from a vessel in hours The elevator will be placed upon track, and can be moved from one hatchway to another in very few moments. The experiment is being tried by the American barge com pany of Bristol, and they will probably expend nearly $l5, ,OoO in testing it's merits. The New Haven and Hartford railroad company are erecting pocket building on their wharf in which to receive the coal from the barge company. If everything works satisfactorily, the company propose to build ten barges, with capacity of about two thousand tons each, after organ