Connecticut western news., 1873-09-19
SALISBURY. CONN. Friday Morning, Sept. 19, 1878.
STATE NEWS.

Hamden sheep owners complain of ra- venous dogs. One man lost twelve sheep one recent night.
 Mrs. Hannah Hills died recently in East Hampton from the effects of having tooth extracted-protracted bleeding.
 Hezekiah Scovill, 8 prominent manufac- turer of .Higganum, intends building one of the finest mansions in Middlesex county.
 New Haven gentlemen interested in turf matters are talking of fall meeting at Ham, ilton Park, for purses aggregating 0,0Oo.
 Patrick Hogan, who participated in the robbery of the tax-gatherer's office in Plain vile recently, has been arrested for stealing goods from Eckler's store in Chatham.
 Norwich has free reading room for both sexes, but the women want one by them selves and have formed an organization to accomplish the object.
 It appears that Wells s. Palmer of North . ford, who was heralded as horse thiet and arrested as such, is perfectly innocent, and an estimable young man wrongfully charged with crime.
 New Haven druggists say soda water sales the present season have been very small compared with former years. and at tribute the decrease to the increased con sumption of lager.
 Among the officers of the New England Farmers Club for the ensuing year are B. Fl. Hyde of Stafford, and Benjamin Sumner of Woodstock, trustees; and T. $. Gold of Cornwall, member of the executive board. The president the club is the Hon. Dan iel Needham of Groton, Massachusetts.
 The family of MT. John Penniman of Woodstock were poisoned some weeks since by drinking a poisonous acid diluted with water which had been delivered by a drug clerk by mistake for tartaric acid. They all recovered, but the druggists wife, Mrs. May, overexerted herself in relieving them and died from the effect.
 St. James lodge, free and accepted ma sons, was instituted in Norwich Thursday evening, by R. w., Edward B. Rowe, un- der authority. of the grand master. It bears the name and number of lodge formerly located in the adjoining town of Preston, whose charter bears date May 18th, l793, and which was surrendered in 184S.
 The New Haven Press urges the building of line of railway to the Hudson river. one link of whlch-from New Haven Io Derby-is now in operation. It says:- "By the completion of such line, and the building of the Highland suspension brEge, New Haven becomes the coal distributing center for all New England, to say nothing of a direct communication between tide water and the west; and this will ultimately be of incalculable value to our commerce" !"
 The Bridgeport police went on raid among the woods back of the Aims house about daybreak Saturday morning, and somewhere in the vicinity of Success Hill they found a cave which had been dug out by human hands, the entrance being large enough to admit of but one person. Far k0eT on LQ0y lOuuu a HUI Oulli "'6 ""A- fashion, in which were cooking utensils and eatables. The occupants could not be found. They are supposed to be escaped convicts from Sing Sing.
 A wealthy New London family, who evidently believe in making an imposing outside show, at the expense of domestic economy, have used colored servant in the most inhuman manner, having beaten her and nearly starved her. Recently they locked her in the attic, leaving her some bread and water, and started on weeks visit. The glrl consumed the substance in two days and finally succeeded in attract ing the neighbors attention by her cries, who supplied her with food by means of string and pail. She was released blythe authorities and sent to the poor-house.