Connecticut western news., 1871-10-27
SALISBURY, CONN. Friday Morning, Oct. 27th, 1871.
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STATE NEWS.
 Dr. J. G. Hamlin of Meriden died Sun day afternoon.
 An English bittern was recently caught in Wallingford.
 Bridgeport goes $l5,OOO for the Chicago sufferers.
 The Waterbury churches will take up collections for Chicagoans.
 Yale students are considerably affected by the Chicago tire, and natives of the city have gone home.
 Norwich cannot get over the Sabbath without 1 300 gallons of shelled oysters, to say nothing of roasts.
 North Stonington supports five couples who live as husband and wife different from what the law provides.
 The Woman's Christian Association of Hartford will soon have in operation a comfortable home for females.
 The original shingles of the old Farm ington church, built in l77l, are said to be still on the roof.
 The New Haven car company sent off last week several beautiful passenger cars, designed for Southern roads.
 It is stated that young heiress ai the Pennington Seminary who was the posses sor of half million two years ago, was rednoed tn absolute poverty hy the Chicago fire.
 Improvements and changes at the Nor nal school under direction of Prof. Carl ton are rapidly going on and the pupils will soon be nicely accommodated.
 A peace meeting will be held in the Cen ter church, New Haven, next Sunday. Dr. Woolsey will preside and Elihu Burritt will be one of the speakers.
 At the Rev. MT. GoodselPs church in Norwalk, last Sunday, collection was taken up for the sufferers by the fires in the woods near Michigan. The sum of $6O was raised.
 Several officers of the New York Seventh regiment visited New Haven last week tc test the breach-loaders known as the Rem ington, the Whitney, and the Brown gun The first two were highly praised, but tht latter was decided failure.
 A Guilford correspondent says no lady is safe in that village going out after darl without escort. Several gentlemen's teams hitched before the churches on Sundays have been mutilated, and there seems to b. f 4 rC
 A peace meeting was held in New Hs ven Sunday night at the Center church President Woolsey, Elihu Burritt and Dr Bacon, and MT. J. D. Mills of Boston were the speakers. A similar meeting vii be held in Breed Hall, Norwich, Wedne; day evening.
 The Derby Transcript laughs at the fear of some town merchants that the Derb, railroad would take all the trade out 0 town, and remarks correctly that in the en' the borough will be the gainer by this nev opening to large markets, and the Tran script is right.
 John Leech, administrator of the estat of the late Sabin Smith, of Middletown has sued that town for $l0,O0O damage for Instructions in the highway, which h. claims caused MT, Smith to be thrown iron carriage and fatally injured, about yea ago.
 The East Haddam Aduertiser says al unknown man ass aulted Mrs. Boylston an invalid, in Haddam, in the absense O her attendant. She screamed for help when the rascal dealt her blow on he temple which rendered her insensible, and as is supposed, hearing footsteps approach fled by way of the back door, that bein! found unfastened and wide open.
 The superior court is still in session a Haddam. Among the criminal cases dis posed of are Leonard Reed, for horse steal ing, three years in state prison; Georg Hood, for burglary, jury disagreed ant prisoner released on bail; Peter Coutwell Phillip Ward and John Donahue, assaul and highway robbery, six months each il jail; James Cantell, highway robbery guilty-counsel moved for arrest of judg ment and sentence was withheld.
 On Saturday forenoon, Joseph H. Frank lin, for twenty years connected with th New York and New Haven railroad il various capacities, was presented with al engrossed set of memorial resolutions, an gold-headed cane, by the officers, con ductors and station agents of his road, i the office of the superintendent at Twent seventh street. MT. Franklin is about t become station master of the central depc at Forty second street.
 Frederick c. Bowman, aged 49 year: native of Plymouth, England, and. Bool keeper in the inspectors room, Howe Man, featuring company, Bridgeport, committe suicide by the use of laudanum on Satu day. During the last three months he ha made three unsuccessful attempts of su eide and one year ago took strychnine, bl the physicians saved his life. MT. Boy man had served in the Crimean war, an was in Connecticut regiment during o' late war.
 MIR. BEECHER BLESSING THE THEATRES. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher recent said: 70 for a diamond pointed pen catch up all the sweet truths, the hob snlf sanrifcee which this fire hae hrouo