Connecticut western news., 1878-11-13

-Schenck is a magic word among New Ha- ven liquor dealers. If customer wants whisky cocktail, he calls for a W. Schenck cocktail if he prefers gin sling, he orders g. schenck sling, etc.
 The Stannard murder entered into Madi. son politics on Tuesday, an attempt belng made to defeat the reelection of Justice Will COX by those dissatisfied with his decisions in Rev. H. H. Hayden's examination, but he re. celved a majority of 25.
 Frederick Lovejoy of Newtown has been bound over and lodged in jail for cutting out his horses tongue. The horse baked and Lovejoy, after beating the animal until he was tired, took knife and committed the mutila- ton.
 Commissions of Connecticut postmaster will expire follows Bristol (salary $1, ,SOO) Feb. 3; Litehfield (saiarY $l,OOO) Feb. 24 :; Milford (salary $1, ,400) Jan. 12; New Britain (salary $2 400) Jan, 12; Portland (salary $l,- 300) Jan. 12; Seymour (salary $1, 10O0) Jan. 12.
 Edward Kimball, the church debt raiser. helped the Dwight-place church at New Ha- ven raise about SIP, ,000 on Sunday toward pay ing off it's s2s,oOO debt, and proposes to keep at work till the whole amount is cancelled and about 5000 subscribed toward repairing the church.
 No vessel has yet been sent to look for the Stonington schooner Charles Shearer, which is supposed to have been lost with it's crew in the South seas, though the navy department prom ised that a cruiser of the southern squadron sqould go on the mission.
 The friends of Charles W. Scott of Sprague, who killed himself on Hartford and New York steamer recently, leaving letter containing the sentence, "What have strove against for 10 long years has come at last" think the death of his greatly loved wife 10 years ago was the cause of the deed.
 Edgar Freeman, the Ansonia negro charg- ed with rape and now in jail, complains great ly of pain in his back and side, due, it is thought, to the fact that his ribs, which were broken at the tine the mob attempted to lynch him, and have not yet knitted together. Be will probably be tried in January.
 In the Vicar-General Lynch will-case at New Haven the priests, Muchahey of East Hartford and Synott of Bridgeport, have been decided against, and Mrs. Thomas Clerkin, who thinks some of her dead brothers prop- erty rightfully belongs to her, is allowed to appeal from the probate of the will
 Saturday night Frank Beatty, a nephew of J. B. Beatty, the owner of the extensive stone quarries at Stony Creek. shot and seri- ously wounded James Walker. young man employed as tool careier at the quarry, SUD- posing he was 8 burglar. The ball lodged in Walkers skull, Hopes are entertained of his recovery.
 Pieces of white birch and pine-wood cut with a dull instrument have been found 15 feet betsw the surface in & Waterbury peat bed. and, as the depth shows that they have probably lain there for centuries, scientists are puzzled to know by what race and with what tools they were cut.
 The tramway at the Stonington break water, $50 feet long, was destroyed in the re- cent gales, causing loss of $2O0O to the break water contractors, Page, Adams & Go. of New York, who have thrown up the contract and left the place owing $2000 to laborers and oth. CTS, and there is a petition to put them into bankruptcy.
 Mrs. Kate Cobb, one of the Norwich pois- oners has been having bad dreams, and the other night she aroused the officers and pris- oners of the jail with shrieks and protestations that man was in her cell, when no one was there but herself, Some people, however, will probably be uncharitable enough to suggest that she may be preparing to feign insanity.
 -Hoyt, the condemned murderer, keeps up excellent spirits, eats well and is growing fat He knows that he has chance of getting new trial or of having his sentence commuted from hanging to Imprisonment for life, and he takes very hopeful view of the future. He says it will be time enough to prepare for the worst when there is no hope remaining.
 Two more cattle have died at Watertown from new disease, one belonging to Frost & Brown, the other to Curtis Judson. It is mo- ticeable that when COW is taken and lies down she is not able to rise again. They also become blind, showing that the disease is in the head. Dr. Bland pronounces the disease to be parturient apoplexy, caused by extrava- sation of blood in the cranium.
 MRS. ALEXANDER SENTENCED FOR LIFE.
 Mrs. Lorena E. Alexander was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced at Bridgeport Friday to state-prison for life, for murdering John Weinbecker last July. The for the defense concluded at o. clock, and recess for an hour allowed. On re assembling, the judge charged the jury, and, after deliberation of 50 minutes they returned verdict
 -"Dr." Lucius l.. Button, the venerable quack and abortionist at Norwich, has had his bonds increased from $5OOO to $6OOO for com mitting an abortion on Mrs. Margaret J. Tav- Tor and causing her death. Much interest is created by his arrest, as Button is known to have carried on his pernicious but immensely lucrative practice for many years. He claims that the whole case is cooked mp by the regu- lar physicians on account of jealousy
 The Greenwich divorce suit of Mary E. | Trumpy against her husband, Benjamin Trum- | py, for abuse and general cussedness because | he could not secure her property, ended re- gently, and the judge gave the former the cus- tody of her two children. As soon as Trumpv l heard of the decision, however, he took his | elder child in carriage and drove into Vest | chester county, N. Y., where the trial was lost. The broken-hoarted mother and number of |