Connecticut western news., 1871-12-22
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SALISBURY, CONN. Friday Morning, Dec. 22nd, 1871.
STATE NEWS.

gray e0gie measuring seven iecI lIoui tip to tip, was shotIon Monday in Fairfield.
 The Theater Comque at New Haven has been hired for Sunday evening prayer meetings by the College church.
 E. s. Scranton & Co.,, New Haven ban kers, are having gold and stock telegraph indicator put up in their office which will give quotations every five minutes.
 A sophomore in the recent term exami- nations at Yale. on being asked who Edwin Gibbon was, remarked. "He commanded one of Cromwells royal regiments"
 The recent spread at the City Hall, New Haven, to the Holyoke Mass. excursionists cost the tax payers $500, including twelve baskets of champagne and broken glasses.
 A chicken pie containing nearly 100 chickens, is on exhibition at a fair in Bridgeport. It will furnish good meal for 300 people.
 The Methodist church in Bedding was recently presented with a house and lot in New Haven worth $4,Oo0, by the Rev. S. Hill.
 Tbe Burlock manufacturing company of Bridgeport, are hnildng an addition to their works, a story building l50 by 50, at cost of $3o, ,ooo.
 The New London Star denies the report of the New York Herold that several moni- tors and n-of-war were prevented enter ing the Thames recently on account of ice.
 The phiz of Norwich man has recently been improved by a patent wax nose. He was previously the fortunate possessor of a glass eye, a wig and set of false teeth.
 The funeral of Colonel William H. Ting ley, formerly of Governor Englishs staff. took place in Norwich Wednesday. His death was caused by fall which he re- ceived few weeks ago, and which ren- dered him conscious up to the time of his demise. He was in his thirty-ninth year.
 The Taftville cotton mill, which was begun five or six years ago is completed. The main building is 75o by 75 feet. sto- ries high, and French roof, built of brick, with large towers in front and rear. There is an ell about one third the size of the main building. Abundant water power is furnished from the Shetucket river.
 The Bulletin remarks in an editorial upon 1.-The Business Future of Norwich :"- Norwich would be better off to-day if the bulk of the capital which it has sent east and west for investment, under the temptation of twelve per cent had been employed in running mammoth manure factory for the gratuitous supply of all the land within ten miles of the city,"
 It is singular fact that on two new rail- roads, running through Litchfield county in part,-the Connecticut Western and the She- paug-the last rails were laid on the same day. Both these roads were completed on Thursday, December 7th. The last. rail was laid on the Shepaug at II a. m., and on the Connecticut Western at D. m. But for a mistake in calculating the quan- tiiy of iron needed, involving the necessity of sending locomotive from Canton to Winsted for supply, both roads would have been completed at about the same hour. .F
 In the case of B. W. Naples vs. the New York and New Haven railroad com panys. which wastried before Judge Minor of the superior court at Bridgeport, in March, 1871, the court granted non suit. The Plaintiff, who was commuter in March, 1869, and was unable to show his ticket or pay his fare, was ejected from the train. The sult was brought to recover damages for that ejectment. It had been the custom for communication tickets to be shown once or twice the first of each month, but in February, 1869, a rule was adopted, with the appreciation of com muters generally, requiring the ticket to be shown every trip, or the fare paid. The case was taken by the plaintiff, by motion in error, to the supreme court of errors, and there heard in October, 1871. Thomp- son was counsel for plaintiff, and the de- cision of the supreme court, just received, is: Manifest error" in the decision of the superior court in March last.