Connecticut western news., 1872-05-31
STATE NEWS.

The gypsies are heading for New Lon don.
 The total indebtedness of Norwich IS $37O,O0O.
 Bridgeport contributes thirty singers to the Boston Jubilee.
 The Bridgeport Orphan Asylum contains fifteen children.
 The Norwalk water-works are rapidly approaching completion.
 A new railroad from Danielsonville to Brooklyn has just been surveyed.
 The number of licensed drays in New Haven is greater this year than at any pre- vious year.
 Pev. w. H. H. Murray is turning his at- tention to agriculture and improvements in blooded stock in Madison.
 The new freight depot at Wallingford is to be two hundred feet in length, instead of one hundred and fifty as it was first plan ned.
 A Stamford commuter on the N. Y. & N. H. railroad recently had his ticket for feited for loaning it to his father to travel | on.
 c. M Barras of Greenwich, recently dis covered woodchuck on the top of 0 high tree. A charge of shot brought it to the ground.
 There is considerable probability that the Yale single scull race for the Southworth cup (value $3oo), will occur at the usual time, early in July.
 The burglars that broke into Smith & Rockwelps store, in Middletown, and who were bound over in $2,oOO bonds, have found bondsmen for the required amount. The Holland County Journal job office has contracted to print 9O0, ,ooo envelopes , for Adams Express Company.
 Companies have recently been formed in Meriden and Mlddletown for the purpose of manufacturing patent friction cloth fol machinery, recently invented and capable of stopping 4o-horse power. Thomas McDermott, the unfortunate
 man who was stabbed in Oak street, New : from the effects of his wounds Tuesday morning, between six and seven o'clock. Connecticut will receive about seventeen
 thousand dollars under the bill agreed to in Congress on Saturday, for the reimburse ment of States for amounts paid to sur
 geons for services in connection with en listing volunteers during the rebellion. John Hyland. resident of Wallace St.. New Haven. about 22. years old, while in 2
 state of intoxication on Sunday, was drown
 ed by falling through the tin bridge over
 Mill river. His body was recovered ir about half an hour after the accident. A
 coroners inquest was held over the remains
 and the jury returned verdict of accident al drowning. f Saturday afternoon, while the steamer
 Novelty was returning to New Haven from , Bridgeport, the pilot saw what he though a was the carcass of a horse floating in the
 water. He changed the course of the
 steamer little SO that the paddle wheels would be clear of the body. A passenger :, however, saw that it was the body of { man, and tho captain was informed. H. ordered the pilot to put about and the body was picked up. It proved to be that of { man, apparently sailor, dressed in darl
 brown clothes much worn. The body wal SO decomposed that the members were witt difficulty kept together, the face being un
 recognizable, and the odor penetrating thu , whole boat. It was evident that the mar } had been dead long time. When tht Novelty arrived at her wharf the authori ries were notified, and Wilson H. Clark ant officer Mccoy viewed the body. They found it was so decomposed that there would be no use to call jury, as it would be impossible to learn the cause of death J and the body was buried by order of tho
 town agent.