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his reappointment, signed by nearly the
whole community, had been sent to WASH
ington.
Two girls in tho Dover high school ro-
fused to attend examination and graduation
in the city hail. tho other day. on tho ground
that IL is too public, and the principal sus-
pended them. Their parents applied to
Judge Doe, Of Rollinsford, for an injunction
against the suspension, and the case will be
referred TO tho full bench at Concord.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The Boston police arrested 20 men in ono
batch, Sunday, for bathing 10 an exposed
place.
The Bristol County agricultural societys
stables at Taunton were burned on Saturday,
with IA horses, chiefly trotters; loss, $780,
900.
The second floor Of the store house of the
Lyman Mills, at Holyoke, broke down with
400 bales of cotton, Monday, and injured
two men who were at work in the blacksmith
shop below, one, it is feared, fatally.
The Prescott Ere and marine insurance
company Of Boston, which was rendered
bankrupt by the great tire, closed up bus
mess Monday, by paying dividend Of l5i
per cont, making go per cent. in ALL
CONNECTICUT.
A silver mine supposed to be Of great val
ne has been discovered at Walcotville.
A woman performed at Stamford, tho
other day, tho wonderful feat of Jumping
from an express train going 40 miles an
hour, without being killed, but she has been
q little sore ever since.
S. Brown was at work 10 a sash and blind
factory at Norwich, on Saturday, when Il
stick struck him in the abdomen, penetrat-
ing four inches He pulled it out, and walk
ing about ten feet, he said, ~ am dead
man." and Immediately expired.
Alice Murphy, 81 years old, an employee
at the Winchester arms company's factory,
New Haven, committed suicide Saturday
night, by taking arsenic. No cause is as
signed, except that she had been unjustly
charged with the theft Of gold ring.
The trustees Of the iusolvent savings bank
at Staffordvile have sold Sl9S5 worth of its
real estate. and dividend of 60 per cent.
has been declared. The $4,000 worth Of
railroad bonds which have swamped this
bank once promised 80 we'll that the bank
sold United States bonds at 92k to buy
them.
The compulsory attendance law in Con-
ncc.icut has been attended by an increase Of
tho number Of pupils in the schools by about
$500, Of whom one-fiith represent the nat
ural increase from population. The law has
therefore brought in about $500 from hadnts
Of ignorance 70 instruction, and still leaves
out about 1900 by reason Of parental neg
lect and $500 in employment.
| Thseregistrar of births, marriages and
deaths in New Haven received the following
letter, the other day-names left out
"Dcar Sir :---, aged nineteen,
having no parents, aud she having appointed
me her guardian, hereby give my full aud
free consent to her marriage with -
-, Of Stratford, Conn.,, and may God
have mercy on their souls !"
| Many of the people Of Sunapee believe
that there is large deposit Of silver coin in
one Of the mountains Of that town, and there
is tradition that, about 40 years ago, two
men found a great quantity of it in cave
and marked a path to the spot, but on re-
turning the next day they could not find it.
Bands of Indians who have visited the town
in past years, have said that there were
plenty Of riches in the mountain, but the
white men couldn't find them.
Nearly thirty women gathered around the
lookup at Waterbury. where Richard Boyle,
the would-be robbcr of the convent, was
4 confined, DC Tuesday, one Of them having q
rope, aud all showed by their threatening
demeanor that they would hang the man il
they could get hold of him. They stood in
the blazing sun for two hours, until Catho-
lilo priest coaxed them to dispense. Boyle
was afterward taken from the lookup to the
court house, when the angry populace con-
tented themselves with cries of "Hang him. u
/ NEW YORK.
i Ono Of the principal European steamer lines
from Now York has put down steerago pas
senger fare to SIS, or about 81 day, which
is cheaper than boarding at home.
A widow named Odell was burned to
death at Port Jervis, N. Y, Monday,
from entering burning building in which
she enormously supposed child had been
left.
A disastrous food is reported from Pratt
vile, Greene county, which has carried
away houses and destroyed other property.
Abby, daughter of Isaac Searles, was
drowned.
| One day last week Charles Anderson, a
Swedish captain, was drugged and robbed
of $4,000 worth Of rough diamonds which
he,was on his way to pawnbroker's in New
York City to. exchange for cash.