Connecticut western news., 1880-02-18
GENERAL STATE NEWS,

Measles are prevalent in New Haven.
 P. T. Barnum has contributed $I, 900 ts Irish relief fund.
 The Naugatuck Railroad Company are cut ting 40 carloads of ice day at Litchaeld.
 Bucholz's new trial for the murder O schulte, at Norwalk, began in Bridgeport yes terday.
 Carl Shultz was instantly killed at Collins vile by falling tlmbers, while tearing down 6 house recently.
 A Woodbury man is writing a series of ar ticles to prove that the earth is a plane and not globe.
 The Waterbury Index has passed into the hands of L. H. Porter, a graduate of the New York Tribune.
 There is in an East Hampton mans door yard, Connecticut white oak measuring % feet in circumference.
 Henry Donnelly of New Haven has died with lockjaw, caused by stepping on rusty nail few days before
 Just 100 years ago Long Island sound was frozen over for several weeks so that teams crossed between the two shores. A Bridgewater girl has taken advantage of her leap year prerogative bv calling at the Town Clerks office and getting a marriage Il. cense for herself and "feller"
 The caving of a bank of earth in the Mid dlesex quarry, Portland, Monday morning, killed young Swede named Martin Erickson and severely injured several others
 The Bridgeport Steamboat Company is ne- gotiating for the purchase of fast steamboat to put on the day line between New York and Bridgeport during the summer season.
 The crowds attending the Hayden trial at New Haven wore out the carpet in the court room. and the county representatives will be asked to provide new one to cost $500. Jimmy" Gillick, an old man employed by the Housatonic R. R. Co. for the past 40 years, was run over and had his left arm cut of in the Bridgeport yard last week. He is recovering.
 A Norwich painter, engaged in painting the interior ofa store, and finding it neces- sary, in view of the short days, to have the gas lit, put five coats on a dark spot, before he discovered that it was the shadow of stove-pipe.
 There are rumors that Rev. H. H. Hayden will soon be re-arrested and given another trial hut tbav no I, ta trocod t m, tr,st source. State Attorney Doolittle and MT. Zacher of counsel for the state say there is nothing in the rumor.
 James M Moore, blacksmith of Canton Village, has obtained patent for his self acting Railroad Switch. It appears to be 1 very valuable invention. Railroad managers are negotiating with him in relation to pur- chasing his entire right.
 The clerk of one of the steamboats running between New York and this city, recently | billed through three barrels of oranges as so | many barrels of organs. Competitors and | newspaper writers are not the only persons | who make typographical" errors-Farmer.
 Mrs. Philip Northrop died in Ridgefeld re- gently, aged 93 years. It is a singular fact that her prayers that she might live to the age of 93 were literally answered. She was precisely that age when she died, even to the hour. The pail bearers were her seven grandsons.
 The trial of William Allen, charged with the murder of Night watchman Shipman at kho ototo haa Sol ;n | of the jury, and new trial is set for March 3. One of the aine ballots cast oy the jury was II for acquittal and one for but the last ballot was six to six It is told of Naugatuck young man that as visited a prepossessing school mistress in l er school room, and because she refused to .ccept his hand and heart then and there of cred, he drew a razor and threatened to { make two hearts beat as none. The schol. e rs came to the rescue, and the disappointed ragedian went on @ spree.
 The woodchoppers on the Barnum Rich- rdson wood lots in Oollinsville use novel ools for splitting wood. They split with 4 cry heavy axe with broad head, which is sed instead of beetle for driving the wedg. s, and these are made in socket form, with cad, formed from the hardest kind of wood, nd surrounded with two stout iron rings. , A lad named Michael Carmody attempted , jump upon Conductor Emmons' train at the Tewtown depot last week, but struck against barrel in doing so, and missing his hold, fell A etween the platform and the cars. Several ars passed him as he laid there, and every A ne supposed he must certainly have been