Connecticut western news., 1872-02-02
SALISBURY, CONN. Friday Morning, Feb. ?, 1872.
STATE NEWSs

given call to Rev Arthur Crosby, with salary of $l, 800.
 A post office has lately been established in the south part of Haddam, called Tyler Yile, with Horace J. Cook postmaster. The New London Northern railroad, since its lease to the Vermont Central is carrying an immense amount of freight, more than at any time since it's construction.
 Ira Hall, Kent boy fell between the cars, one day last week, while fooling thereon, and was dragged out by the depot agent, who rewarded himself for the heroic act by kicking the youth out of the neigh 5orhood.
 A disappointed Danbury lady. it is said, attempted to shoot herself one day last week, and was saved by providential oc currence. The pistol was not loaded,
 The Weed will case now on trial in the Superior Court at Bridgeport promises to take up pretty much all of this winter
 A Bridgeport merchant explains lis whereabouts hv lacking on his door d notice that he las ''Gone tn dinner W,It be back in fue minits.''
 The California mining and trade associa- tiun, which Was organized twenty-three years ago. met at the Tontne Hotel, New Haven Tuesday.
 Mir. Hobart Hinman, formerly employed as railroad watchman in New Haven, was found dead in his bed Monday, He pos- oned himself by prussie acid. He leaves daughter l2 years old.
 R. ". Wright, Esq, executive secretary 10 Governor English, and for some time ihe editor of the New Haven LeUer, has gone to Richmond to take a position on the editorial staff of the .State Journal.
 The Heath & Smith Manufacturing com pany of Portland has gone into bankruptcy, ,Che United States marshal took possession on Friday, and has placed the establish ment in charge of Eli Ives, Esq, of Meri- den. The trustee appointed Monday, Jan. go.
 Albert Peet, the County pauper, is dead. He recently appeared in Kent, with bruises on his neck, snd paper on which was thing to eat. or some money, and do not put powder in his tobacco" The last appeal expresses good deal of meanness and misery in brief and ludcrous com. pass.
 A Danbury boy is fitting himself for a city judgeship. Being asked yesterday why he did not attend school he answered ''because the mud was deep" ''Why, you ''there is no mud to be seen." Il know it, assented the impudent youth ''it is toe deep for detection.
 Tramps are in motion and you want tc guard against them. The best way to treat tramps is 10 knock them off of the stoop kick them along the walk, and broomstick Fhem out of the gate. Make this world SC uncomfortable for them they will want tc get into better, which will force them tc live in an exemplary manner.
 A correspondent complains of high han dcd out rages practiced by the people ot Hartford on strangers. He says that upor recently arriving in that city he was asked as he stepped from the cars if he favored dome or e tower, ard upon answering that he had no opinion whatever on tn, subject, was brualIy dragged into build ing and searched.
 During the past year the number of for eign entries in the port of New Havel amounted 10 12O, and the total tonnag amounted to 23, 595 tons The value o the merchandise imported was$937, ,3O3, an the duties collected amounted to $32O, ,OOO hospital tax, $l ,S3l, SC amount disburse for sick seamen, 5 ,39O. The vessels wer chiefly British and American, 5S of th former and 56 of the latter. There is proJect on foot to widen and deepen tn channel, if a government appropriation ca be obtained.
 It is reporte2 that the Cromwell Quar- company will import about one hundre and fifty quarrymen from Nova Scotia thi spring, and to accommodate them the con pany propose to put up two large boardin houses, one hundred and fifty feet long, is said that some of the old workmen wh have lain still now for two months and half find it hard work to support their fan lilies, and that many of them are owing fC their rent from the first of November. IS said that the quarry company have serve notice on all occupying houses belongin to the company to quit. A like notice hs been served in Portland
 The PdNadsune says of an institution which very few people have ever heard b, fore The New Haven Insurance con pany was organized very many years az, 1t being one of the first ever started in tn state. The company did good bushes at least for that time, insuring largely ve sels. At the time OF the French war tt depredations committed upon our commere were very great, and the losses of the con pany SD large that they were obliged to sto business. But the company has held tc gether ever since, as the spoliation clain for damages occurring at that time are sti pending in congress, and it is possible th at some time the company, the few ;h are left who hold the stock, may reali1 something. A meeting is held every ye, and officers elected to keep up the. con pany.
 A boy named Seth Kinner, son of kinner, living on the Patterson road Balls Pond district, Oanbury) met, with g accident on Saturday afternoon which stroyed his life. He had returned from fox hunt, and was drawing his gun, mug first, from the wagon, when the piece W, discharged, the contents, powder, shot an wad, entering the left arm just below tt