Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
STATE NEWS.


 Prattville has voted 10 build $l5,OO schoolhouse.
 Small pox has broken out in Bridge. port.
 The Canal railroad company has decided to make an issue of ten years 6 per cent non-taxable bonds.
 During the month of December the Meri den Britannia company sold over $2lO, ,OOC worth of goods.
 The Danielsonville Herald appeared last week as large nine column paper, anG made very fine appearance.
 The weekly issue of the Me15den Recor der comes out in quarto form, and with much better heading, and other improve ments.
 The Congregational Church in New Fair. field has extended call to the Rev. D. B. Claggett, of Nashua, N H., to become its pastor
 It is reported that Wilimantic man, who was living with his second wife, has eloped with hls present wifes sister. Par. ties are in pursuit
 The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is to deliver a course of twelve lectures on 'Preaching," before the theologina stu. dents at Yale, during the present season.
 William H. H. Blackman. formerly city editor of the New Haven Register now has charge of the Masonic department ol Loomais's Musical and Nasonic Journal.
 The Finkle & Lyon manufacturing com pany, at Middletown, now manufacture one hundred sewing machines daily, six times the number made one year ago.
 4 party in Wallingford. wishing to make his two daughters, aged about twelve anC fourteen, presents of silver ware, ordered the Christian name of each to be engraved thereon, and left blank space for the rest until they got married.
 A man, his wife and nine children passed through Meriden, Thursday, on foot, bound for Quebec, they said. There were three pairs of twins. No one could have taker the oldest child to be more than twelve years of age.
 The drawings for the new capitol build ing, at Hartford, were publicly exhibited in he senate chamber, at Hartford, Wed nesday, and there were numerous atten dance of spectators. The exhibition Wal continued on Thursday.
 C. w. Randall, aged IS, cigar maker living alone in the north partof Woodbury committed suicide few days ago by cut ling his throat with razor. He has wealth y friends in Baltimore. Sickness ant temporary alteration caused the fatal act.
 A movement, likely to succeed, is to bt made for the removal of the New Haver lighthouse to the ledge at the entrance ot the harbor, known as Southwest Ledge The present situation of the lighthouse k such that it can hardly be seen by vessels coming from the east until they are nearly on line with it.
 The process of testing the new railroad bridge over the Housatonic river was com pieted on Monday. Each running foot of the bridge was subjected to weight of two and a half tons. The result was very satisfactory. The Naugatuck trains were to cross the new bridge on Tuesday and the New Haven traius on Wednesday.
 F. W. Warner, engineer at the Wilcox Silver Plate company, Meriden, had occa- sion to go inside of the boiler, Monday, to work, when the foul air so overpowered him that he became insensible. He was called to, but no response being given, the workmen felt for him and pulled him out of the man-hole. He was improving at last accounts.
 Isaac N. Lees barn at New Britain was destroyed by an incendiary fire Thursday at midnight. The fire had made consider able progress before it was discovered, ard it was with difficulty that horse and COW were rescued from the burning building The barn was a large one, and the value ot the property destroyed is not less than $2,OOO.
 The board of trustees of the Antietam National Cemetery held their annual meet ing in Washington, D. C.. Thursday even ing, the States of New York, Maryland. Ohio, Pennsylvana and Minnesota being represented. The contract for the soldiers monument at Anlietam with James c. Patterson of Hartford. Conn.,, was rati fled, the price to be paid being $3O OOO and the work to be completed within two years. The design of the monument in. cludes white granite pedestal twenty five feet high, surmounted by colossal statue of a soldier of the same material. The statue will be twenty feet high, weighing 65 tons, and the largest of modern ages.- HorJord Post.