Connecticut western news., 1878-09-05

| Henry O. Williams of New Britain has re.
 gently invented steam heater to hatch eggs
 which operates quite satisfactorily. The eggs
 by his method are kept at 101 deg. Farenheit,
 and the amount of heat is regulated by cleo. tricity.
 In the Superior Court at Hartford last
 week Judge Beardsley decided to hear the ar.
 guments on demurrer of defendants counsel
 in the Charter Oak Life Insurance conspiracy
 cases on Thursday, September 5. It is expect
 ed that the arguments will occupy about three
 days.
 The terms of imprisonment of William AL len and Henry Hamlin for burglary at New
 London in 1871. will expire respectively on September 29 and October 15. But on tho ex-
 piration of their sentences they will be romov-
 ed to the Hartford jail tu await trial for the
 murder of Watchman Shipman.
 A man is travelling about the state and featuring on temperance, who is unable to re-
 sist strong drink himself. He is said to have
 led the class of '60 at the Yale law school, and
 he is accompanied in his wanderings by his
 aged mother, who urges him to speak against
 the evil which is dragging him down, hoping that he may yet be reformed.
 The people of Willimantic, New London and the intervening towns have been victimi- zed during last week by sharper, who passed himself off as the advance agent of the Guy family of opera singers. He obtained money by taking advertisements to be published in programmes, etc., and by selling tickets.
 The drummers and fifers excursion to Providence and Rocky Point Friday, was re- markable success. The special train out of Hartford consisted of twenty cars, and every car was filled to overfowlng when the train reached Providence. Upon the locomotive, as a sort of headlight" was bass-drum with colored boy astride, armed with two sticks, with which he hammered the sheep-skin at lively rate.
 The list of the Wallingford tornado victims is increased to 32 by the deaths of Maggie Lynch at Wallingford, and of the Mooney baby at the New Haven hospital, where it was taken after it's friends had been killed by the disas- ter. The rest of the injured are doing well, except Richard Taylor, whose back was broken. He lives on liquids, and the constant use of morphine is necessary to alleviate his pain.
 It has been discovered that the human foot found in a. shoe Sunday, on the Beach near Cedar creek, wasn't a foot after all, but some corned beef used for crab bait by man named Edwards and his two sons, on the pre- vious Saturday. Wishing to use it another day, they placed it in an old shoe after they had finished fishing, tied stone to it and threw it out, the stone being used to prevent it's being carried away by the crabs or tide.
 -Niantic fishermen had an exciting tussel recently with a monster striped bass which broke cut of the net after it had been drawn up on the beach and darted for the sea. It was grasped around the body by one of the men lust as it reached the water, and he was quickly carried beyond his depth, but the other fisherman took hand in the fight then and both were borne out of the water. The fish weighed forty-six pounds, and was nearly four feet long.
 On Sunday, the 9th of September, the cor ner-stone of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be laid, in the town of Bloomfield, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Galbery. The Rev. Dr. Carmody, of New Britain will preach the ser mon on the occasion. An excursion train will be run on the Connecticut Western railroad tor the accommodation of persons from Hart ford who wish to attend.
 The Patrons of Husbandry will hold & pic- nic at Southwick Ponds, on Wednesday, the Il tn of September Probably more than 500 farmers and their friends will be present. | The tables will be spread for the accommoda- tion of 1000 persons if so many attend, with | sea food, baked clans, etc. The Chinese com. have been invited to attend, and | some encouragement has been given that they | will be represented on the occasion. This is | to be the annual gathering of the order in l 
 The Bridgeport Farmer says: The judges | of the supreme court are unable to agree on | the question as to the constitutionality of the | law allowing accused persons the privilege of | waiving their right to be tried by jury, and | have ordered that the issue be reargued at | the October session of the court. The point l was originally raised by Lockwood X Beers on | B motion for 8 new trial in the case of Charles | Wordin, of Danbury, who was charged with | rape, and under recent sta ute elected to be | tried by the court instead of by jury. He | point that the statute authorizing the mode of trial without jury was unconstitutional The same point has been raised in the cases of two of the state prison murders, and the set 5lement of the issue is Ouite jmDorfant