Connecticut western news., 1878-07-18
State Mews.

Two thousand conversions were made il New Haven by Revivalist Pentecost, at an ex pense of $10,000. ...f =. -
 The East Hartford Congregational society Rev. R. Meredith, pastor, will have an excur sion to Lakeville the last of the month. I Secretary Northrop of the Connection board Of education will lecture before the Laurel Hill Association at Stockbridge, Mass l next month. IltIlT ' ,---"- | The students at Wesleyan University, Mid dletown, Conn. have been commanded by the faculty not to attend projected commence | ment ball.
 l Pequonnock is enjoying revival of busi ness. The Tunxis worsted mill is running ove, | time, the woolen mill has started up, and the paper mill will soon follow suit. ,-
 Cos Cob [Stamford) has house which. tho serantcd, has been surrounded by scaffoldine Tor years, because the state laws exempt un 1 finished houses from taxation.
 Joseph M. Morehouse, while loading hay ir the field on his farm in Greenfield, Thursday was thrown to the ground by the sudde1 starting up of his team, breaking his neck in stantly, l Charles Drowne, of Kensington lost valu barn box of Paris Green mixed with flour fol use on the potato bugs, and the COW got loose during the night and ate of it.
 I Governor Hubbard has appointed MT. Josepl Hall, the principal of the Hartford Public High School, state chemist and he has made 1 James J. Webb, of Hamden, member of the state board of agriculture for three years. Samuel L. Clemens, (ssMark Twain'') who has been rusticating quietly in Germany fol the past three months, has invited his pastor the Rev. Joseph H. Twichau of Hartford ts Joln nm Tn summer ramble in Switzerland I and Germany. The invitation will be accept. ed.
 The annual meeting of the trustees of the State Reform School, at Meriden, was held al the institution Wednesday, and Hon. J. L. II. Houston ,s or Enfeld was chosen president oi and Messrs. Colver, Fitzgerald and Upharn executive committee.
 From the Hartford library during June 2,234 books were taken out, the percentage being as follows: Fiction, 70L; biography, AZ; history, 4; travels, 5s4; arts and sciences, e; poetry and nd drama, 1A; theology, 1A; mis- six months was 67111 per cent.
 The Willimantic Thread Company, employ. ing 1000 operatives at Willimantic, paid off in gold Saturday. Hundreds of employees never saw gold coin before and many were unable to count 1t. A number requested bills instead, and the appearance of the strange money ere. ated marked sensation.
 In Ellington Tuesdays storm did much
 
 wheat and rye were lodged, and by the rail. road in many places, the ditches were so full that had 1t continued much longer much dam. age must have been done: On the Central railroad culvert was washed out near Broad Brook, and one near Sadd's mill.
 The firing of cannon in front of the honse of the injured White lad in East Bridgeport, July 4, gave him such violent nervous fright that he burst blood vessel It will be re- membered that both his feet were amputated few days ago on account having been crush ed under the cars. The additional injury rem ders his recovery doubtful.
 A peculiar case before the Superior Court in Horwlch wednesday, was the suit of Daniel Cronin against Elias Fl. Chapman for dam ages. Chapman had given Cronin's two year old son ride in his wagon, and the boy fell out, receiving fatal injuries. Cronin main talned that Chapman, having assumed tenn Porary guardianship, was responsible. Decis- ion was reserved.
 Mrs. Katie W. Cobb, widow of Charles H. Cobb, city collector, Norwich, who died June arrested on a charge of poisoning her husband with arsenic. Professor Demorus found arse nic in the body, and in that of the wife of Wesley W. Bishop, and it is believed that bishop and Mrs. Cobb were accomplices in these two murders.
 The verdict of the Coroners jury result ted in the holding of Bishop and Mrs. Cobb for trlal for murder and the trial before tbe City Court in Norwich commenced on Monday of this week. S. s. Thresher and John T. Wait appearing for the accused.
 A young man in the employ of Job l.. Hus- ted of Greenwich, was accidently shot by Eli Carpenter on Sunday. The ball took effect in will probably prove fatal. The young men had been in bathing, and after they had dressed, one said to the other in fun, q will shoot you," at the same time pointing revol- yer at him, not knowing that it was cooked. It went of, the ball taking effect as above stated.
 A Brooklyn lady who was about to take pas- sage on the steamboat train from Stonington Tuesday morning, was pushed from the depot platform by the crowd behind her and caught between the train which was backing up, and the edge of the platform. She was whirled stopped, and so firmly wedged between the car and the platform that portion of the lat ter had to be cut away before she could be re- leased. She received severe and painful inju- ries in the chest.
 The house of MT. Allen, the watchman at the Bristol rolling mill, was broken into Sunday drawn from the bank about 1,5oe to buy place with, which sum was in the house. Sev- en hundred dollars of the money was in his coat, which hung near the stove. The burg lars in their search knocked the coat from it's hanging place. but did not disturb the money. The burglars succeeded in finding but $5 and 8 watch, which they carried off.
 The Hartford Post recalls the fact that 62 years ago occurred the year without sum- mer. Frost was had every month of the year in the Northern States. Ice half an inch thick formed in May. Snow fell to the depth I of ten inches in Vermont, seven in Maine, l three in the interior of New York, and also in | In June, ice was formed of the enormous thickness of common, window 1 York and some parts of Pennsylvania on the 9th of July, corn was so frozen that the great er part was cut down and dried for fodder in August.