Connecticut western news., 1878-10-30

James Judge and James Gearnes were caught the other morning while breaking in- to New Haven store, and they have been held in $2000 apiece.
 J. A. Parker, Meriden fruit dealer, drop ped $375 in bills on the street the other day. and the wind scattered them so thoroughly that he only found $310.
 Visitors to the scene of the Madison mur- der have began contributing for the benefit of Mary Stannard's little boy, and about $3O has been put in the bank for him.
 The Field brothers, David Dudley, Ste phen J., Cyrus W. and Henry M, have pre- sented Haddam with the park which they re- cently fitted up in the Center village.
 The mother of Michael Conlin of Pequon- ock pays S15 because her "darllnt" struck the door-keeper at the recent agricultural fair ball for not admitting him without a ticket.
 The Rev. Father Martin of Branford would not let militia company enter his chapel the other day in attendance on the funeral of a comrade, because they wore crape on their arms and their military badges.
  burgh menagerie to Waterbury, Monday, was between Forestville and Bristol the two rear sleeping cars became accidentally detached, and ran back nearly to Plainville on the down grade.
 In New Haven, Tuesday, Miss Emily At water, daughter of the greenback candidate for gubernatolial honols was married to MT. Gay c. Gardner, Australian agent for J. B. Sargant X Co.,, of that city. The couple will make Australia their future home.
 As the six o'clock express was passing through New Haven, Tuesday, stone crash ed through a window near which o. H. Platt of Meriden was sitting, striking him square upon the eyebal. No bad effects are appre- hended, but he suffered great pain for several hours.
 The Harwinton mob, which recently at tempted to lynch Dutehman named Mid dEngs for alleged crimes, got on his track agaln the other night, and, after chasing him Ito the house of one of his friends at Thom- aston, who refused to give him up, they threw his wagon into the river, and sheared and tarred and feathered his horse.
 A struggle between temperance people and liquor dealers is expected to begin at New Ha- ven on Friday. Last December everybody was surprised by the passage of a prohibitory law in town meeting, but, nearly all the licenses were issued to run till Oct. 31, 1878, no advantage has been taken of the fact. During the month of November, however, the law is to be prosecuted to it's fullest extent by the temperance men of the city, and the liquor dealers. male and female, are organizing for the fight.
 Several members of the Chinese embassy visited MT. Starr's Echo farm, in Litchfeld, last Friday. The farming implements were new to them and attracted much attention. A moving machine was put in motion in an | adjacent field, that the working of it might be better understood, and a thresher nd cleaner, | also Faust's hay loader were minutely in spected and explained By a singular coin | cidence during the day of the visit MT. Starr received an order through his New York agents for twenty pounds of butter to send to China.
 Norwich is in the full enjoyment of anoth- CT sensatlon being the kidnapping by a di- vorced wife, of her little daughter Her hus- | band is J. De Tratford Blackstone, son of the Hon. Lorenzo Blackstone, who is a very wealthy cotton manufacturer mayor of Nor wich, director in the Chicago and Alton rail- road, brother of the president of that road, and republican candidate for state senator, He is one of the most public-spirited citizens | of the place. On account of some domestic in- | felicity they were divorced few months since, the child remaining with her father. A few days ago Mir. Blackstone went to Chicago and ! Kansas City on business, and has not vet re- turned. Learning of his absence, the di- vorced wife came to Norwich Wednesday morn- ing accompanied by her step-father, Mt. Kid der, and, 1t Is reported, two New York pro- | fessional shoulder-hitters. The party went l to the Blackstone residence at 8 o'clock in the { afternoon, at 8 time when there was no one there excepting the domestcs. As on former occasions, the nurse granted her request to see the child, and passing quickly from the house with it, she drove off.
 l Charles Gilbert, who has been in the sta te- prison for fourteen years of a life sentence for murdering Henry Caldwell, New Britain l Oouhuy III AOof, pSlls Q stO- ", charging his father and another man with the deed. There has always been mystery about the murder, and at the time of Giberts sentence much doubt of his guilt was express ed. Caldwell, who had several hundred dollars in his pocket, had been playing cards in sa- loon in the evening, and left with Charles Gill bert, and was soon after murdered and robbed in by-road not far from the depot Gilbert was arrested, examined and discharged, hav- ing proved an alibi, but a year later he was re- arrested, tried found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sent to state-prison for | life. 1t was shown on the trial that he was at | home at the time the murder must have been committed, but the jury believed that he was | a party to the murder, or was at least cogni- zant of it, and knew who killed Caldwell He | now says that his father Jona than Gilbert, and one Charles Parsons, followed Caldwell and kill ed him, after desperate struggle, in order to get his money, but Charles would not tell the truth so long as his father was alive. The de- tails of the story fully agree With all that the police knew of the affair, and throw light upon many points that then bothered the detectives. There were tracks in the snow after the mur- der showing that two must have been engap- ed in the deed, and none of the authorities seem to donbt now that the young man is tell ing the truth,