Connecticut western news., 1880-02-11
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

OS. A quantity of liquor was captured at Pat rick Gloster's by Winsted officers the other day.
 Fred Moore of Winsted, now at Florida, | recently sent five living alligators to winsted | friend.
 Mrs. E. A. Woodward of Stamford has just | inherited $5o,OoO by the will of deceased aunt.
 A little Riverton boy recently broke his | lower jaw, in collision with another sled while coasting. James Patterson of Tariffville, 60 years old, has disappeared, and his friends have adver- tised for him. &There is man at New Haven who can lift 1900 pounds, and another who can raise TOO with one hand.
 The grand list of Litchfeld for 1879 will foot up about ,$l, 800, 900, an increase of about $40, 900 on last year. ..s' ..
 Four Danbury doctors have been for three dAys fishing down boys gullet after Yale lock key he has swallowed. The republican state convention to elect delegates to the national convention at Chi cago will be held in New Haven April 2.
 The West Haven horse railroad company has voluntarily raised the pay of conductors and drivers 26 per cent, dating from J an uary l. .r
 The lead pencil which Hartford man drove into his body half an inch from his heart has come out mostly whole and the patient will recover. A Willimantic school master who does not believe in fogging, recently swabbed out 8 lying pupils mouth with salt and water. The boy has reformed
 Charles Pall, the New Haven bartender who found pocketbook containing $500 and returned it to it's owner, last week, re. ceived five dollars for his honesty.
 The New Haven ladies who attended the Hayden trial have presented Special Consta- ble Henry W. Ball with handsome gold watch, for his many acts of courtesy and at tention
 The testimony books so far used by Frank M. Tyler, the stenographer in the Hayden trial, form a respectable library, and contain, it is estimated, l;6o0OOo stenographically written words.
 The president of d Plymovth reading circle IS lady, and the members are keeping mum because they don't know whether to address her as "Mr. President" "Miss President" i" or "May it please the President"
 One thousand barrels of sea elephant oil have been sold at New London to a manufact. urer at New Bedford on private terms This includes the entire stock in the country, and no renewal is expected during the remainder of the year. Who murdered Mary Stannard ?-Bethel Ledger. We can't tell a lie; twas done by the fuller's earth corpuscles with big rock < The wood lot was au accomplice and the barn arsenc's found knife's testimony duplicates a Yale professor, who saw it all through ''the hole in the barn"
 The Winsted Press says of ex-Selectman Dutton of Winsted, who was recently, com mtted to jail as a defaulter, that he is bound to get on in the world. Taken into the fam fly of the jailor, fed at the jailor's table, and intrusted with the musical education of the jailor's wife, he has made himself so useful and shown nature so free from guile and all manner of deceit that the jailor has gone off and left him in charge of the jail and its inmates"
 Las Tuesday morning John Ryan, a lad of about fifteen years of age, employed in the polishing room of the Yale Manufactory at Stamford, whlle engaged in washing off emery wheels was accidentally caught by a belt which almost instantly carried him up to a pulley on main shaft where for few mo. ments he was held, receiving some frightful injuries before the engine could be stopped. Ryan's arm was held fast, and it was neces. sary to cut the belt before he could be extri- cated.
 Jacob Smith, colored, who has been on trial for several days, before the superior court at New Haven, for the murder of Charles Pierce, also colored, August l9, 1879, was Thursday convicted of manslaughter, the jury recon. mending the prisoner to the mercy of the court. He was sentenced to Is months in the county jail. At the time of the murder Pierce was living with a woman whom Smith claimed was his wife. Smith was indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first de- gree. At the trial just ended the woman with whom Pierce had lived, denied having been married to Smith, but admitted that she was the mother of his children, Smith admitted the killing of Pierce, but claimed that it was done in self defense; that Pierce had seduced his wife and got his children away from him. l. BERKSHIRE UNITY.