Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
STATE NEWS.
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Sentence will not probably be pronounced upon Anderson, the Wallingford murderer, until the end of the term of court
 The Louisiana question was introduced in the Meriden Lyceum Friday night. and gave rise to warmer debate than is usual in that body. The meeting adjourned without putting the question.
 A small sensation was created in New Haven Saturday night by crusaders con- mittec, consisting of three ladies and two gentlemen, who visited three liquor shops and labored Intellectually to secure their closure.
 Susan Mccarthy, aged 35, hung herself in cell at the New Haven alms house early Monday morning She was suhj.ct to fits of temporary insanity, aLd was con- fined in a cell Sunday evening. She tore her bed clothing into strips and hung her self from the iron grating over the cell door.
 Robert Crowd. burly negro at Wood stock, has been put under bonds for trial before the superior court for iutally beat ing little colored boy named Ra.hbone, eleven years old, who lived with him. H. was discovered in the act of whipping the ! boy, whose back was streaming with blood and scanned with oyer one hundred welts, from two to five inches long.
 The ship Eliza, laden with naptha, bound from New York to the Mediterranean, at tempted to put into New London Friday l night, owing to the severe illness of the captain, which required the services of a physician. The mate, in attempting to make harbor. got the ship on Goshen reef She remained there through the night and was much damaged. A tug relieved her in the morning and lowed her to New London harbor for repairs.
 The horse thief Mccarthy, alias Bird. who was arrested last week in Esst Green wich, R. l., and who is now in Windham county jail, appears to hay" been practis- ing his theving in most systematic man. ner for long time, hiring teams from sta- hles in all sections of New England and driving them rapid y by circuitOus routes to East Greenwich, where he sold them to two brothers, named Nichols, who are horse traders, and usually disposed of them immediately. Mccarthy was arrested on the suspicion and complaint of one Smith, of Putnam of whom he hired a team, and Smith, feeling suspicious, followed him direct to East Greenwich. Eight stolen teams have already been recovered, one of them helonging to Oliver Harper. livery man of Millbury, Mass, and one to G-orve Kpndrick of Worcester. Both these teams were stolen last fall, and the horses were found. one in Newport and the other near Eas, Greenwich. It is likely that large number of other stolen teams will be re- covered. now that the nest is discovered, ], as Nichols Brothers acknowledge they have traded with Mccarthy for long time, he representing himself as trader also.
 How THEY ARE NloKNAMEp IN NEW YORK CITY There are a great many churches in this city that are known better hy their slang names than hy any other. First and foremost is "The Little Church Around the Corner" that Is never called by any other name. Before it received that name. however, it was called the ] Church of the Holy Cucumber" from the way ID which it covers the ground. The present name has become SO popular that few know 1t by any other, and could not now tell you what is real n lme is. When the excitement about this church was at its height. used to see drayman's cart about town with 'The Little Church Around the Corner" printed in big letters on the dash board. The Rev. Dr. Bellows church. which is built of alternate layers of marble and brick, is known as the Holy Zehrs, <" or the ''Beefsteak." The-e IS a church further up town of the Dolly Warden Ayle of architecture, that goes by the name of the Holy O.lcl0th." St. Albans is called the ''Holy C~ndlestick," from it's very high-church tendencies, and there is another known ss the Great Tea Ware house of Prayer" An Episcopal church on Fifth avenue, in the ncighborhood of Murray Hill, whose rector and curate have each tue reputation ot being cruel diris, is known as the Church of the Holy Jilts. " Tnere are other churches with slang names but these are among the best known. r. Letter.
 A gentleman was looking into the win dow of toy store the other day. whrn two boys halt. d, and one remarked: Say, Jim, don't you wish we had .n c, nts to buy present for our poor lame sistvr2' Jim replied that he did. and the gentleman pulled out shnplas,tr ana said he wus glad to be able to assist them in such a praiseworthy enterprise. He met the same boys half an hour atterw ards, and each had