Connecticut western news., 1878-10-23
STATE NEWS.

A New Preston man named Manion is said to have drank forty-fve gallons of hard cider in ten days.
 Hartford is to have boys cornet band of thirty pieces, composed of boys from 12 to 1e years of age.
 pr. s. l.. Geer of Norwich, this year gath cred 7l7 bushels of cranberries from lis bog near his reservoir in that town.
 It is reported that Bishop Hendricken oi Providence, R. l., will be transferred to the Hartford diocese to succeed the late Bishop Galbeny.
 A true bill has been reported in the case of Mrs. Alexander, of Bridgeport. charged with the murder of Frank Weinbacker alias Suffering Jack.
 -Bridgeport's very latest sensation is the finding, in destitute condition, of ninety years old woman named Croghan on Booths | hill, Trumbell, nine miles from Bridgeport The Frost Brothers. temperance workers | obtained 5000 signatures to the pledge al New London. and are going back to Norwich where they stirred up such a muss in Decem Der. Clarence is now laboripg at Middletown T. G. Daval, of Lebanon, is unfortunate His whole family have been at death's dool with diphtheria, and had only become conva lesccnt when fire destroyed his bain, with al his harvested crops, his hogs, wagons ant | tools.
 1 Train wreckers pushed some freight car on the main track of the New London railroad at Montville Sunday morning and caused collision with the steamb, at train, whlcl smashed the engine and several cars badly but no one was seriously hurt
 At Madison, Justice Wilcox, who trict and discharged the minister accused of tn, Stannard murder, was strongly supr rorted b, the Rev. MT. Haydens friends, and as heavily scratched by those who think the ministe. 1 guilty. The justice was reelected.
 The Hartford city government has beer 1 considering the propriety of forbidding th, use of fire-crackers, torpedoes and othel noisy explosives in the streets on the Fourtl of July, but prohibitory ordinance which passed the alderman failed in the council.
 
 21 1000, GOO balls and shells valued at $979 GOO sailed from New Haven Saturday, for Turke, in the steamer John Bramhall. Gen. Tefvik the Turkish arms and ammunition inspector at the Winchester arms factory for the pas six years, leaves for home next week ! -FIartfords town expenses last year were $5O8, ,6OS, and its receipts $625, ,731. The grand l I,,4 year the schools have cost $22S, ,228, including $50, ,435 for the high school, S25,5OO being ex pended on the new building; the scEolarS numbered 7G9o and the teachers 153. There was quite wedding on Terry is land in the Connecticut, near Warehouse Point lately, when the sisters Nellie M. an( Sarah E. Terry were married to William NJ and Marcus J. Mead of Wilbraham, Mass some 300 people being present. The Terry, are Millerite spirltualists, and have lived il seclusion on the island for number of yea. S
 The name of Hayden is introduced to the public again in less tragic light. Monday his little son was riding with neighbor, wher the horse ran away, the neighbor leaped out and the boy, in the bottom of the wagon, was in danger of death. A tramp leaped out of the by-way, seized the horse and saved 1he boy The tramp trampcd on, not waiting fol l thanks.
 A very sad affair occurred in Bridgeport Wednesday afternoon. A young son of Judge Beers of the city court, accidentally shot a playmate, the son of Mrs. Henry House. A family party had been out chestnutting. Mrs. Beers had placed a revolver in the carriage, as protection against tramps. The children got at the weapon, and the sad catastrophe occurred.
 A cigar-maker in Ansonia, on returning from a shooting excursion, few days ago an swered query as to his luck by saving Well, pretty fair; I bagged two cartridges anG wounded a farmer.' It appeared later that the farmer was Daniel Holbrook, and that five small shot had lodged in the back of his head Holbrook was in his corn field at the time, and was probably seen by the amateur Nim- rod. The affair was settled out of court by the payment of $2o.