Connecticut western news., 1880-02-25
c
 GENERAL STATE NEWS.

pig at Barkhamsted.
 John C.: Pfnney of New Haven has been arrested for bigamy.
 A western Connecticut trotting circuit has been organized in Bridgeport.
 John Wiley, aged 60, was killed by train | of cars at Hartford last Tuesday.
 Sam. Merritt the pedestrian. has gone into | the saloon business in Bridgeport.
 A West Avon little girl wanted to be ta- ken to the theatre so she might see the wild animals. ""- |
 Henry Shute, aged 40, who has a wife and children in New Haven, has eloped with l2 years old girl, from Port Jefferson, L. l. !
 A daughter of Mayor swartz of South Norwalk swallowed silver quarter of dol lar, recently, without serious effects.
 Some of the piles for the trestle of the New York and New England railroad, over Towan. tic swamp near Naugatuck, were sunk 50 feet deep. e-'.
 It may be interesting. to know that the words which 'stuck" a Litchfeld spelling school were civilian" "Pentateuch,p and ''macerate"
 A five years old New Haven boy had an attack of hydrophobia last week, the effects of dog bite received two years ago. The dog is still living.
 The preferred claims on the estate of Rev. w. H. H. Murray reach $I,oOO, and the gen. eral claims are variously estimated from $lo,ooo to $50, 1000.
 A ffteer. years old inmate of the reform school. Wheelock by name has died from hts brought on by eating too much candy, presfnted to him by visiting friends.
 An interesting bit of antiquity has been found in R. s. Johnson's West Sufield farm house in copy of the Connecticut Courant, issued October 29, l764.
 c. K. Averill, Jr., of Bridgeport, son of Treasurer c. K. Averill of the Housatonic railroad, had one, of hls eyes destroyed on Monday by the explosion of cap-cartridge. Ben Moves, the insurance man recently i'm. prisoned in New Jersey, is at the head of the new land and emigrant company of New Ha ven, with prospective" capitol of $l ,0O0,- 900.
 A dog recently set the burglar alarm in the Litchfeld bank ringing by rubbing against the switch. In cou sequence the county sea was in tumult until the cause was ascer tained.
 Rev. Fl. H Hayden is receiving daily let ters from all parts of the country in reference to the delivery of his lecture, and has mad' engagements for Winsted, Waterbury aI' l Meriden. .l
 The State Board of Health has saved Meri den nearly $4oO,Ooe by perfecting plan o drainage which is to cost $l54,772, the cit being about to undertake scheme to cos $55O,OOO.
 A Sunday school teacher at Bridgeport las Sunday asked her class whether any one coul tell who went into the ark with the animals and after brief silence bright youngstel f answered., "P. T. Barnum."
 The body of 8 stranger, evidently name Thomas Flanagan, was found Thursday nes Waterbury in culvert on the extension of tn NewYork and New England railroad, an there are suspicious of foul play. , Norwich's gross weight in the Legislatur is h52 pounds. Representative Carpenter ! chairman of the committee on cities an
 boroughs, weighing 274 pounds, and Repre- sentative Barstow, chairman of the comruitte
 on agriculture, 278.
 The Catholic population of Connecticut wa
 last year 175, There are 100 churche,
 1O5 priests, A parochial schools, three orphan asylums, and 22 convents During the yea
 new churches were dedicated and F priest . ordained for the diocese.
 A person claiming to be a reporter for Tn : New York Herald visited Ansonia last wee
 to report the walking match. Monday night while intoxicated. he was 'garroted" on tn
 Huntington bridge, and robbed of his gol watch, money and ulster.
 The spoon factory connected with th Holmes, Booth & Hayden works of Water
 bury, employing 100 hands and containing
 large stock of plated ware, was burned Thurs
 day at loss of $l5O,OoO, of which $l0O,O0 was on finished goods; insurance $82, ,00O-
 In the superior court at Litchfeld John M prisonment in jail for stealing pocket bool from Miss Caroline H. Sanford on Nauga
 tuck train George Miles. of Bethlehem, t. ? two years xin the state prison or the reform school, as he chose, for horse stealing. Fou
 divorces were granted. -.~ },- l An Albany letter states that the report o l the Commissioners on the Boundary Lines be
 tween Connecticut and New York, recon mending the abandonment of numerous isl ands in the Sound to the jurisdiction of Con
 necticut, will undoubtedly be promptly passed
 by the New York Legislature.
 Mrs. Martha P. Graves of South Kilingly who has been deaf for 30 years, dreamed oI
 the night of Jan. 2Oth that her hearing wal restored. On the night of the 3lst of Jan ! she retired with her usual deafness. but woke
 in the morning to find her af1iction gone, ant since then she hears distinctly, even whis per. s The Hartford walking match Of Tuesday proved to be a disgraceful affair. Eigh
 hours before the close it became evident tha the race for first place was between Halpint
 of Hartford and Cargill of Derby, and tht friends of the former so tempered with thu score that, when they gave him whole
 mile at once, Cargill's trainera colered mar who trained Merritt for the great walk at New
 York, drew pistol on the multiplicative scorer, threatening to shoot unless the mile
 was taken of. The police instantly took his