Connecticut western news., 1878-07-25
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George M. Tibbits. an old and prominent citizen of Troy, died Friday morning aged eighty-two years. He left an estate of $2, 900 900.
 The large brick workshops of the new State prison at Concord, Mass, were burn- ] ed Saturday. The loss is estimated at fully $15O, 900. No other portion of the prison was injured.
 Edison said to Chicago reporter who asked him If he had ever been in the Wes- tern metropolis before "Yes, was hero thirteen years ago. I had 6 linen duster, $2, 50 and railroad pass. was not in. terviewed then"
 Cherry Valley N. Y., will celebrate its centennial on the 18th of August. On that day monument to the memory of those who perished in the massacre there will be unveiled, Major Douglass Campbell, of | that place, will deliver the principal ad- dress.
 The Worcester (Mass.) Gazette says:- Mir. Joseph w. Fairbanks of Worcester, has been rendered the position of principal of the Williston Seminary at Easthampton, at salary of $2, 800. He was recently re- elected principal of the Worcester High School at salary of S2,4 ,430.
 The Orange troubles and the accompany l ing unmanly knuckling to religious prejudice es have cost Montreal more than Can, as yet, be estimated. Business men througout the Dominion are fighting shy of Montreal, and trade has for the nonce, taken wings
 for localities more congenisl to mercantile interests. | Beware now of sudden and unaccount- able deaths. This is the season for them
 Here is Michael Flaherty of Brooklyn. He spent the morning drinking Rrogshop
 whisky, and made his dinner of cucumbers on the grog- shop counter. He is now con- tributiDg by iL iLdirection to the happiness of an undertaker's family. >... Judge John A. Lott, of Brooklyn, died suddenly Saturday morning at his house in Flatbush. Judge Lott has been in public life for forty years. He was @ judge of the court of appeals, was at one time state senator, and at the time of his death had been judge of the superior court for 8 num- Der of years.
 The Secretary of the Navy, and num- Der of invited guests have been inspecting the torpedo station at Newport, R. I. Di- vers experiments were tried at exploding torpedoes, and a salute of nineteen of the noisy engines of destruction was fired in | the harbOr, in honor of the Secretary. The experiments were eminently satisfac- 1 tory.
 Mrs. Langtry, the hen of the walk among the "reigning beauties" of London | is described by an undsmayed colonial girl as "a quiet looking, somewhat pallid, dark haired, large eyed, high-shouldered, wasp waisted lady, in white dress," mice look ing, and trying little too eiaborately to display inconsistencies of the scene about her."
 On Friday. some boys, while bathing in Coon river, in Dallas county, Iowa. dis covered box floating down the river, which they lowed ashore. On being opened horrible sight was disclosed, 1t being the body of girl about fourteen years old, terribly cut and mangled. There is intense excitement, and officers are work ing up the case.
 The Sagamore Mills, Fall River, Mass, were started Monday, to run out the stock l of cotton on hand. The committee of the creditors, who have the matter in charge, recommend plan for recognizing the com- pany by capitalzng the debt, and while they are maturing such plans for presents ton to the creditors, they have left with | the trustees the price at which they would be willing to settle the property.
 E. J. Oakley, sbsconding cashier of the Merchants Exchange National bank of New York, who embedded &3b, 900 in 1870, has just been arrested in that city. He had been living seven years in Montreal and two mouths in New York, from which he fled in July, 1870, forfeiting a bail bond of $10, GOO. He says the money was lost in Wall street speculation by his brother The indictment against the prisoner was found February 26th, 1870. He will be tried in October.
 At Summit, Pa, at the top of the Switch. back, ttere is an ice cavern 300 feet below the surface of the ground. In this cave water forms ice Winter and Summer. and forms more ice in Summer than Winter. At the bottom of the cave is 6 beautiful spring of clear, ice-cold water, entirely sur rounded by ice. The ceiling and sides of the cave exhibit what look like large veins of coal, but npon examination these are found to be solid ice. In the centre of the cave, formed by the continual dropping of water, is an icy monument that reaches from floor to roof. Peter Bresnahan, now confined in Can ton, N. Y., jail for the murder of DauKh- fer, last sprlng, and who is to be hung on the 26th inst. confessed the crime July 9th. He has since made supplementary cOnfes- sion, stating that he committed three mur- ders previous to that of Daulthier. The first was an Indian who claimed undlsputed right to hunt where be was operating. In 1851 he killed Scotchman named Duncan McCameron, with whom he was buying furs in Canada. and in 1861 he killed Mi chael Crowley on Shad Lake near Bone 1 shire Point. Canada. Crowley was sup posed to have money. He killed McCam- erOn hpcausa thev had frouhle ahout tha