Connecticut western news., 1878-09-26
STATE NEWS.

-NorwIeh has contributed $75O, fer the yellow fever suffers.
 A Norwich bank alvertises to pay 95 cents each for trade dollars.
 The mother of Frank Brooks. the in cendiary ot Wolcott, has become insane.
 The question of kindergarten school is occupying the attention of New Brit aiu.
 -Henry E. Baker of Dauielsonv1lle, has been sent to States prison for three years for bigamy.
 Mir. and Mrs. Calvin c. Childs of Stam- ford, celebrated the crystal wedding Mon day evening.
 An East Haddam man, Henry Starr, has been heavily fined for killing game out of season.
 Deacon Seth Smith. prominent He bron man, fell off load of shingles recent ly. and broke his neck. A Durham youugster broke off the flower carved on a tombstone recently. to see what it was made of. John Broderick of Ansonia, had foot smashed at the Derby railroad depot in New Haven Thursday.
 -Mackerel are running plentifulIy at Noank, and the sport IS excellent. One party caught 125 last week.
 Another raid was made on the Stam- ford liquor sellers. Monday. The accused were tiued $50 and costs, and as usual ap- pealed.
 George Reinhardt, a New Haven butch CT, attempted to kill himself last week, but his pistol was loaded with'blank cart ridges, and the wounds are not fatal.
 A man with squeaking palr of boots was placed under arrest at the New Haven city court on Wednesday, for attempting to leave the gallery of the court room.
 Windsor has sensation in the recent marriage of c. R. J. Babcock, a mulatto twenty-five years old, and ARnes E. Beck with. thirty-six years old and white. oi S1nsbury.
 Owing to the scarcity of small bills one of the large manufacturing corpora
 
 York for $5,000 Tn the legal tender silver dollars.
 There is net deficiency of $200 in tht Yale boat club treasury. The annual ex penses for board for the crew during th' last five years has been 1874, $1 400 1873 $1, 200; 1876, s10CO 1877, $70O; 1878, $500. A boy named George Holbrook agec | fourteen, fell through an elevator we'll II | New Haven distance of four storles. or l Fkursdav. His Jaw and two bones in eacl arm were broken. He js expected to re cover.
 Philip G. Russell of New Haven, Yale 76. and a graduate of the law school. hal been appointed athlrd assistant examIue in the patent office. He stood second ou of forty five candidates in the competitive examlnatlon.
 The third big timber raft sent iron Hartford to New Haven this season is nov | being formed at the former place, ant will be s7arted on its way few days It is 15O feet wide and 800 feet long, ant contains about 2O00, ,0C0 feet of logs.
 At present there are but 1e9 prisoner in the Hartford county iail, 50 less thai usual. This reduction is due h a measur to the law passed by the last legleiG ture increasing to $1 per day. the credit to b allowed @ prisoner in working out a fine. | A Watertown man while saiIing out il the sound mile and a half from Wes Haven the other day, when the wind wa blowing from Long Island, met grea clouds of potato bugs coming across. The were as lively as when in potato field.
 The town of Sherman has for severs years past been enjoying the services of democratic town treasurer and now Gh citizens of that town would like to hay him fork ovor somethi, over seven thous and dollars to square up his accounts. Bridgeport Stdmdard.
 Thomas Alidis, of Wolcottville; wa struck in the eN with splinter of stee from a drill a few days slnce. Physician advised the taking out of Ihe eye as th sight was destroyed. The eve was take out. and piece of steel quarter of a inch long was fouud there1u. | James YouuQ,Jr., who has been a sailor worked his way Tuesday morning, to tn top of the spire of tue Catholic church Ney Britain, and made fast ropes, to wbic were suspended platforms, on which th painters are raised and lowered in paintin the splre.
 Thursday evening the well stocked bar of Stephen H. Bowers, with the adioiuln out -bulidinQs, was burned to the ground It's contents were from twenty-five to thir ty tons of hay, sowe grain and few farm Ing utensils. The whole was an entire Joss insurance having recently exp!red. Origi of the fire unknown.
 Mir. Platt of Newton, adopts nove plan in fruit culture. He buries corr under the earth around his fruit trees, ant let's his hens scratch for it. Of course il scratching for the corn they also find quan titles of worms and insects which they de vour, and thus prevent them from injurin the trees.
 -Uuder a recent circular issued by BIsh op Gallery of Hartford, the marriage ser vice will be performed by the priest of tn parish where the bride resides. Catholic are also to attend church in their respect I've parishes, and s1ttinRs in churches ar forbidden to be sold to nonresident par1sh oners, or the sacrament given them with out special leave.
 The colored Odd Fellows of New Eng land, held their annual reunIon at Nev Haven, Thuasdav. delegations being pres ent from Springfield, Boston, Cambridg ge Haverhill and Worcester, Mass, Prov dence. k. l., and New York. A procession with about 800 in line paraded in tn morning. games were held in the trottin park n the afternoon, and in the evening