Connecticut western news., 1880-01-28
CENTRAL STATE NEWS

I3pTe iAsf. S ' <. "a tsns old neigh. depot .l M.riasn 1.. .ela at auction Last week.
 A psculiar disaase is proving fatal ;sneAs Bridgeport car horses. -4''' -~
 Danbury s having It's buildings numbered on the principsi streets.
 Parnell, the Irish agitator, is to address New Haven and perhaps Bridgeport.
 | The Iriah societies of Neriden will invite Parnel and Dilon the 1rish sG;tasors to their city. The Connecticut Amateur Press association are to hold . aconvsntion at Hartford on Feb. 10th.
 The \. Y. AN. K. R. K. Go. have ordered 9oQ tons of raila to be laid west from Water bury. :.'.:. ....,. .. =.
 A man sl; years old went forward for prayers the other nishtin . Bridgeport re- l vival.
 Oliver HoSt of Stamford has added $ls. .ooo to previous gift of $25,ooo to wesleyan University. -. .,. x :7 Hayden wrote his autobiography, whils in the New Haven prison, and it is now in press at Hartford, .r '-- Burglars have been ''doins" LAtshcsh again., also watsrsown, and Morris, getting silvsr,-. ware, etc. at each place. ,:.s-.- Benjaniu Wheeler of North Wilton died. in it last week and was Found lyius dead across tho threshold of his hOuss. '' ',+' ANorwaehtaxidermist has a, leaf of . saa k. plant whiSh was found skeletonizsd By sste acids ofthe stomach of . hslitnt in SShich 1t was fouh& z '""%'', -..,.t '-~j's '> i
 Mrs. Upton of Birmingham died last week from injuries received from sighted ksresens lamp thrown as her by her husbAad while drunk recently. .,..<.,' ;" ' -'-'' .. '[ x
 W. B. Bartram, editor of the Danbury Re- publican; recently took dose Of aeouiss, which hs mistook for paregoriG and for . time was in great danger. . >, ...a
 The Heusatouic, Naugatuck and Derby railroads are the only railroads in the State which had an increase Of passenger earnings during the past year. ., ,...t =.
 The criminal term of the superior court of New London County opened at New London yesterday, The case of Riddle, the Norwich poisoner is to be considered. 'r~ ",';
 J. Warren Palmer of stoningtoa died at the Ehbitt house, Washington, last week, from, "a cut upon one of his fingers inflicted by g broken glass bottle come days before. Capt. M. E. Turner of Hartford, in . recent fal' drove a lead pencil into his left breast, the wound, closing and covering . the pencil from sight, The pencil is coming od. in pieoeGs. ,'' x
 A Birmingham man always comes from the post office wish hand full of letters which he Isads on the street with avidity: He writes them himself however. and takes them from his pocket at the post office.
 IA, young medical stOdeEt in Bridgeport gets his ideAs.of. the effects of certain doings from practical experience, and the other day. be was reelipg about and smashing furniture un der the influence of belladonna "a. ' ,4 Mary Haffey, . lady paper box maker oi Kensington; applied camphor to- an ashsns tooth, while her hands were stained whh the Epossonons celorine matter or the box material. and shortly her face and throat became: 60 Ibsdly swollen as to alagm her friends. s.. !, John T. Psarce of Newton, who drew S5,. 00o in the Louisiana lottery and immediately Fsdld his two papers, the. Newtown Bee, and } tBethel Ledger, and opened clothing stere in Bethel Is said to have recently sold his stock and will again take control of the NsxtoRn 'EBee.
 <. While wQrkmen were deepening 8 well in sohd rock, in Norwalk recently, they came to ,-l Aseam :. from which flowed Q substance as black as ink--so black that 1t could be written T with. Samples of 1t were sent away for tanalysis. A little deeper Q vein was struck, from which flowed beautifully clear and pure water. -. "
 Tho fourteenth annual meeting of the State N Temperance Union was held in Hartford last week. Hon. Robbins Batten vas elected President for the ensuing year. Ths member of the Executive Committee from .Litohneld County was tho Late Dr. H. N. Knight A resolution was passed to petition the lss,sla. ture for . prohibition law. - .. :.
 Depot master Jacobs of Thompson was ss. tackled, by highwaymen the other night who fslled him to the ground with club, and rined his pockets of watch and money, when they laft him lying on the track, intending to. let the next passing train finish the loh. He managed 10 crawl home with di6aculey ;; his ekullil probably broken.
 When Presldsnt Porter recently sst, down to a.dinner with the other msmhsrs of the Yale faculty end their guests, he was aston. ishsd, to learn that the dinner was attaehsd by the sheriff \, ,shrswd Boston merchant had, taken the opportunity to force a New Haven hotel keeper to pay debt of $500, and the money was paid before the dinner vas eaten.
 A lad named Thompson jumped. from the Housatonic freight train leaving Bridgepors at s m. as 1t vas approaching the .Bsookhetdi station Monday morning, and falling under the wheels had one orhls arms run over and. badly crushed. Ahef one wheel had paced over rthesatn, he drew the limb, away fsem the rail and procsedsa se. walk hpae. < sass.| tance of Hbousan eighth, ,ei uia. ,.:*t .:.,S,;, F. r,s f' ~ |" -; "- ss,>";: "s ", a. shFsl r. John :Mcouilan, a young man is years old has been arrested ia Bridgeport forihs, murs der of Patrick Reddsn in that place. McsI Quihan went to bali. but was ejected with 2; companion for drunkenness: and. disorderly