Connecticut western news., 1871-07-14

The Rev. MT. Buckley of Stamford has returned from trip to California and the Yosemite valley.
 There is movement on foot in Danbury to call town meeting to appropriate mon- ey for soldiers monument.
 The potato bug has appeared in Brooklyn, Windham county, where he is regarded with curiosity and apprehension.
 The contract for excavatiug the Thames river has been awarded to Emory R. Sew ard of Albany, N. r., at twenty cents yard.
 A house in Andover, built in l7S7, at- tracts much attention from remarkably we'll kept paper on its walls, that has been there since the house was built, and cost one dollar per roll.
 The sewing machine manufactories in East Bridgeport are as usual driving busi- ness. The Howe company are turning out about two hundred and fifty machines per day.
 The New York Tribune says that two laborers, named Wheelan and Ready, have been arrested at the brick yards at Cold Springs, Long Island, by officers from Con. necticut, on the charge of murdering man in Bridgeport.
 The Sunday law in regard to the sale of liquors was universally observed in Bridge port Sunday. If the law was broken, it was done on the sly, as no cases of viola ton were reported at police headquarters. Saloon keepers and liquor dealers generally seem disposed to respect it.
 The foundation for the new light house on Penfield Reef, off Black Rock, is so far completed as to be nearly on level with low water mark. The light house when completed will be one of the most impor. tant ones on the coast; it is to be built of stone, and similar to the one on Two Broth CTS Island.
 At South Norwalk the wooden railroad bridge built twenty-one years ago, when trains ran on the New Haven road, and which was the scene of that terrible casual ty where train ran into the open draw, and where over fifty people lost their lives, is about to give place to a more modern and substantial structure of iron. The Danbury News says Reddlug man took his first glass of soda from the new fountain, Friday He drank it down with unimpaired solemnity, and then eyeing the clerk intently, anxiously remarked, "It is all right, 1 suppose ?" ''Why. yes;" said the clerk hesitatingly, ''but what do you mean?" "Why, the darn thing won't go off in feller, will it?"
 Monday morning, MT. Edward Mitchell, a grocer of New Haven, was found dead at the foot of the stairs leading to his cham Der. The rods and carpet on the stairs, had been loose for a day or two, and it is sup posed he got up in the night, to go down. when he slipped on the carpet, fell, and broke his neck. He was respectable man, aged about forty-five.
 Mrs. Lydia Sherman was arrested at New Brunswick, N. J., IJune 8Oth, by officers from Connecticut, who charge her with having poisoned three husbands and two step children, the offspring of her last hus- band by a former marriage. The police ol New Brunswick have had the woman under surveillance for two or three weeks, await. ing the collection of sufficient evidence to warrant her arrest, and enable the officer. to secure a requisition from Gov. Jewell Her last husband was N. H. Sherman, oi Derby, Conn. He was widower, witt two children, one 15 and the other year. of age. Within nine months these three died, all under the same unaccountable circumstances, and poison was found ir the stomachs of all three. The officers say they are able to fix upon the alleged mur derer the purchase of poison similar to tha of which traces were found. The state ment of the officers leaves no doubt tha
 he woman is guilty of one of the mos startling and sensational series of crimes ever committed iD this part of the country On being charged with the crime, she man ifested surprise either real or very vel assumed. She gave no appearance oi guilt, and beyond simple surprise anc assertion of her innocence, did not seem ts be at all affected. She was taken to New Haven. Conn.-Neao Hauen Register.