Connecticut western news., 1879-01-08

ed to pass into the hands of the first mortgage bondholders soon, when they will organize 6 stock company with $1 ,OoO, 900 capital, and per sons holding bonds will receive an equivalent amount of stock. The original stock of q, ,OOO,- 0OO, mostly taken by towns along the route, will be wiped out, and also the second mortgage bonds of $1, ,25O, ,OOO, which originally plac- ed in the possession of the Charter Oak Insur- snce Company, and a loan obtained The first mortgage bonds have improved during the past three or four weeks 10 per cent. or more, and it is reported that large holders are buy ing up all the small lots of stock that they can obtain. With new officers and some change in the system of management, it is believed that the road can be made profitable. -Chauncey Deming of Pennington killed porker that weighed 6lsH pounds eighteen months old.
 Some enterprising advertiser in New Ha- ven hired the drum corps of the Second regi- ment to parade the streets as escort to an ad- vertising banner. The first drawback was an | order from General Smith to take of their | uniforms. Then the chief police nterdicted | the marching, as Enlightened horses and cre- | ated disturbances.
 | -rTanclB h. DThOuey OI Mystlc mas been ap- pointed roadmaster of the Providence and Stonington road, which includes the line from Groton to Providence. Ex-Superintendent
 Matthews of stonington is to go south for his health.
 l A large lynx is loose in Hebron, and sev-
 eral hunting parties have been out for it, but
 without success. Saturday morning, about 8
 o'clock, Chas. Gott, who lives on the road be-
 tween Colchester and Hebron, was awakened
 by wailing noise, and saw the lynx looking
 through the window at him. He seized gun | and fired, but did not wound the animal,
 which made its escape to the woods.
 Revolver practice is becoming dangerous
 amusement about the city of Norwich. On
 Christmas day 8 bullet passed through the
 dining room of MT. Geo. Bottom, on Laurel
 Hill, over the heads of the family seated at the dinner table, and lodged in the plastering. Fortunately no one was injured.
 R. P. Freeman of New London on Thurs
 day, was charged by Joseph A. Kennedy with
 assault with intent to kill. Kennedy has been stoker at the Metropolitan Hotel, and on ? Christmas day is said to have gone on a spree.
 Thursday morning he fixed his fires and went I Freeman, who went to his room and struck , him lightly with broom-handle to awaken him. This Kennedy resented, and jumped out F of bed and grsppled with Freeman. In the f tussle which ensued the end fthe broom-han- f dle came in cortact with Kennedy's throat,
 rupturing some of the arteries. Physicians
 were summoned to attend him, and althoug , they do not think there Is immediate danger l oe loo &l, Aloo Nnk knV~v D At any ratc it was deemed advisable to take f his ante-mortem statement. Freeman was ar- rested and brought before the police court. , where his case was adj burned to Monday, be
 giving bonds in the sum of $2,O to appear at
 that time.
 @ In New Haven, Thursday afternoon, ct q about 2:S0 o'clock, MT. Willis M Anthony @ dropped dead in the vestibule of the post-of- = flee.
 The s'tar barrel tree," to the top of which
 8 tar barrel was hoisted and fired as a beacon ' during the war of 1872, is sti1 standing on George Coate's farm at North stonington. Y Stone breaking has decreased the number
 of tramp lodgers at the Hartford station-house Is about two-thirds in week.
 Forty weavers in the Converseville mill al ' :, Stafford have struck because of g reduction of ' pay. New hands have been engaged. al --As MT, Hexekiah Kirtlan of Chester, 7s
 years old, was getting offa lounge last satur- a day he caught his foot in the rounds of
 chair, tripped and fell, breaking his leg in two m places below the knee.
 '+ Presiding Elder Hill received on Monday :, last one hundred and forty dollars for Mrs. H. V H. Hayden. The appeal in her behalf at-
 tracted attention in Boston and New York and
 brought money from thence. There is some le talk of sending the circulars outside of the IS New Haven district through the state. ,s Tuesday night about quarter past twelve A o'clock. as Jacob Mann was entering his rss- n idence at No. S9 Grown street, New Haven, he if confronted burglar coming down the stairs. v He seized the fellow and held him until as- etL sistance arrived. The fellow proved to be B, William Woods, sn old offender, who has sery. H. ed one term in atates prison and was wanted k by the police for 8 theft committed some time III since. Al The Cobb murder trial at Norwich is slow - ly progressing. Wesley Bishop the paramouF 'u of Mrs. Cobb, is now op the stand, and has
 substantially repeated the disgusting details U he gave in his several 30 called confessions. is The trial will probably last through the week
 About two weeks ago and old Germa D te named Shulte, living near Norwalk. and said lg to be very wealthy, was murdered while pass. as ing through swamp with his sel want named B. Bucholz. He had upon his person at the time
 large amount of money, and 1t is supposed
 some $500 was taken. The inquest is now in
 progress under direction of State Attorney
 olmstead of Fairfield County, and the develop a ments tend to fasten suspicion on the servant, 'n A New Haven man gave his two children 1t $1O, 900 apiece on New Years day, er Mrs. Polly Goodale of Poquonnoc will be s, 104 years old next June, the 21st,
 Some Birmingham people are scandaliEed bedause amateur theatricals, with a full
 fiedged orchestra, have been given in the Sec
 ond Congregationl church recently.
 The children and the friends of the First IS Baptist church's Mission school at New Haven in were thrown into panic during an entertain
 ment the other evening by the settling of the pc floor, and the confusion was increased by ap ,d alarm of fire, but the superintendent and his IT. assistants finally restored order, and no one v was hurt,
 ,r The light upon Race Rock was lighted
 Wednesday night for the first time. It is
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