Connecticut western news., 1871-11-24
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
 Winsted is to have new telegraph office opened by the Franklin line.
 The alleged poisoner, Mrs. Sherman, of Birmingham, will not be tried this week, her case being laid over until the December term.
 The Potter printing press company of Norwich has orders to the amount of $40, 900 for their celebrated presses. Chicago wants thirty new ones.
 Fisk P. Brewer, of Connecticut. has been appointed United States consul at Athens, Greece, in place of Robert P. Keep.
 Rathbone Lodge Knights of Pythias, New Haven, the first lodge of the kind in New England, celebrated their third an- niversary on Wednesday evening.
 John F. Walker, conductor oR the Hartford and Providence road, was very seriously injured Friday at East Hartford by being caught between the cars.
 Gleason Bradley, an employe of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, smashed his hand, on Friday last, while coupling cars at Windsor Locks.
 Ftir Haven exports 5000 gallons of oys- ters daily, the forty wholesale dealers there average over l30 gallons apiece, and employ an average of thirty diggers, openers, etc. The New London I. M. c. A. are dis tressed for an answer to the question "Will the great fire at Chicago prove, on the whole, blessing to mankind?"
 The sta tues of Roger Sherman and Gov ernor Trumbull, the contribution of Con- necticut to the national gallery, have ar rived safely at Washington and have been unboxed.
 A daughter of Abraham Ullman, of New Haven, was severely injured by having a crochet needle pushed into her head while playing with some other children last Sun day, It took two hours to cut the needle out.
 Ward $ Brothers, of Bridgeport, have sent to New York handsome and expen- sive carriage to be used by the Grand Duke Alexis on his arrival in New York. It is heavy coach, and something in the style of English carriages.
 Next week Prof. Hadlcy will commence course of lectures before the senior class in the Yale Law School, on the Civil Law. During the present term of the school President Woolsey will deliver course of lectures on the Law of Nations.
 James s. Custer, second mate of the bark Elizabeth Swift, belonging to the New Bedford whaling fleet, tue most of which was destroyed in the Arctic regions, is on visit to his sister in Bridgeport. having arrived overland from San Francisco He has been absent five years.
 \ serious stabbing affray occurred at Hartford, Friday morning A hack-,lriyer named Timothy McGrath stabbed John Hussey, in Camerons saloon on Temple St. Hussey was brakeman on the Hart ford. Providence and Fishkill road. He will probably die.
 young lady by the name of Hunt went from East Hartford, Tuesday, to do some shopping, and after concluding her pur- chases she returned home, apparently as we'll as usnal, and fell to the floor dead soon after entering the house. Cause, heart disease.
 Richard H. Chittenden, Esq, member of the New York bar, who graduated at the Yale Law School in 1866, has offered prize of thirty dollars for the best essay by any student in the department, on the Influence of the Civil Law upon the Com mon Law. The prize will be awarded at the close of the next term.
 William Clear, about twenty-five years old. who had been for three years cook on board Middletown steam tug; committed suicide by shooting himself through the head on Tuesday. He was of incorporate habits, and attempted to kill himself last summer, by cutting his throat
 The Home woolen company of Beacon Falls annually produce $7O, ,0OO or $8O, 900 worth of shawls, ladies' cloaking, and Wa terproofs. They employ 300 hands and turn out 500 shawls day. The company has expended some three or four hundred thousand dollars in this locality since it's organization seven or eight years ago. The president of the corporation is Homer Blanchard, of Hartford, and Parker Handy, of New York, is it's treasurer.
 The Naugatuck Valley Seaati,aes says "A Birmingham gas filter intends to adopt a novel method of supplying persons resid- ing at distance from the pipes with gas. He will pipe their houses in the usual man. ner, placing a small receiver in the cellar, or other convenient place, which he will fill about once month, bringing the gas from the works of the company, in rubber bags made for the purpose. The price of them will be about the same as when con. nected with the pipes. Canaan Junction.
 The laying of the foundation for A Union