Connecticut western news., 1878-12-25
STATE NEWS.

The Burlington Ha~keye man will lecture in the Baptist church New Biitain on the eve ming of the 26th inst.
 A Haraford woman, who has fed from five to duzen tiamps weekly for months past recently had ton of coal dumped in her front yard, and since then not a single sagrant has appeared for a neal.
 Mrs Mary s. Gates of Poquetanock, has been granted pension as the widow of soldier of the war 1872 This is the first pen sion of the kind thus far that has bl en grant ed.
 The horse on which Wilkes Booth fled from Washington, after assassinating Presi- dent Lincoln, is owned at Pomtiet. He is IS years old.
 Timothy c. Murphy of Norwich has saved eight persons from drowning, his last rescue being on Sunday, when he pulled a man named Smith out of the Thames.
 Katie Gordon, aged 13, who was terribly injured in the Wallingford tornado and has been in the New Haven hospital since August 17, has recovered.
 Jennie Mitchell, formerly a beautiful young govorness in one of New Haven's fir.t families, when sEe called herself Jennie Ma gee, but new soil, dove at New York, started out on a starring tour the ether day at | the head Of a variety troupe, and after givil ''snide' shows at.several places the company dissolved at New Haven, Miss Mitchell being compelled to shove up" $500 worth of da- monds to pay her bills and get back to New York.
 James Carrier, prol retor of the Sheffield house at Union City, Waterbury, had his skull iractured with an iron bar in row at the | tate house near Wattrvile on Tuesday, and | will probably die.
 Two hundred thousand salmon eggs are being matched at the Westford fish pi reserve and the number will be largely increased dur ing the winter.
 -Chas. s. A. Davis of New Haven, aged 70, tell hoadlong into 4o-feet deep well on Tues
 iay, but was taken out unhurt. -HaI tford's boald of organized charity | prop' ses to follow the example of New Haven, | Providence and other places, in establishing woodward, where tramps and others may do certain amount of work to pay for their lodg- ing and food.
 The Watkinson library at Hartford has | 31,922 volumes its Investments amount to s12O,352. $T2,500 have been expended for | books, and it's income for the past year was | S70OS,
 On Sunday morning, John Ryan, son of Dennis Ryan, residing at oilsome Hlll in the l northern part of Bridgeport, was shot in the | head by pistol in the hands of a lad named | Walter Stapleton. The parties were in a car | riase hitched in front of MT. Ryan's house.
 The Suspicion boy was showing younger brother of Ryan 8, who sat on the back seat, how the pistol worked, when it unexpectedly exploded. The ball struck John Ryan near the base of the brain, penetrating the skull Phy- l sicians were summoned but did not succeed in ] finding the ball. He may live, but will prob~ | ably die.
 James Nancy, an Irishman, living on 1t. John atreet, Middetown, committed suicide Monday morning by jumping ihto we'll and 1 drowning himself He is supposed to have been insane. A jury of inquest re turned q | verdict to that effect. He was a man over e0 years old. He was seen to jump in, and efforts were made to save him, but he refused to be | saved.
 | -=zThe grave of Mary Stannard, in Madison, was opened for the third time last Saturday, 1 this time that the counsel for the state might be assured that the body of tue murdered girl nad not been disturbed by the defence. A sus- picion of thls was occasionod by the mysterious actions of the police, who came here last week looking professedly for the body of Stewart. but whose search was said to be for Mary 5tannard's body. The person arrested, and one other mentioned, were private detectives hired in Hayden's interest, and this gave color to the story. Nothing amiss was found, but the episode created some interest and excited much gossip. Parts of the body still remain in the possession of the states experts for ex- animation.