Connecticut western news., 1880-05-12
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

Two boys who disobeyed the rules, and gained entrance to a Windsor paper mill last Wednesday night, having no light, stepped into vat of strong acid and were fatally burned, dying in few hours.
 Two Connecticut railroad magnates, Aeoth- CTS, recently presented Theresa, N. Y. Pres byuerian society with church worth $l5OO0, in memory of their parents who were charter members.
 John Shelton a Hartford man recently shot himself in despair at finding no work.
 The rubber company at Sandy Hook recent ly shipped belt for grain elevator, weigh ing 9OO0 pounds, the heaviest ever made.
 Mark Twaip's new book. "A Tramp Abroad has reached an edition of 45,OOO copies. Two Connecticut River salmon sold in New York for $45. recently.
 A recent storm d,d SIC, ,OoO worth of dam age to the oyster beds in New Haven. P T. Barnum is reported to be worth two million dollars
 Gen. Joseph R. Hawley has been elected president of Gilling's Exchange in London. q branch of which is to be established in New | York. The Exchange has been organized as stock company with $l.uO0, ,OnO capital. and will be devoted to the promotion ct travel be tween Europe and America and to the protec | ton of American inventions and American industries in Europe. -CourSer.
 A Puritanic land owner in Milford refuse, to sell foot ot his land to the new Paralle R R Co unless they will promise that nc Sunday trains will be run on the road.
 In a Bridgeport cutlery shop are three Swedish women who work in the blacksmith shop. They wear short dresses, stout b,ots and do regular blacksmith work, having beer trained to that occupation in their native country.
 Norwalk has just had new newspaper The Leader, which lived just 8 week. The supreme court at Hartford Friday dc. cided that the petition for a new trial fol Hamlin, ore of the murderers of Shipman must be denied, and the death sentence vii be earned out on the 18th Hamln receiv ed the news philosophically, calmly contin uing his work on an incon plete poem."- The jury in tlIe Buchholz trial at Bridgeport returned verdict Friday of guilty of mur. der in the second degree. Sentence was re l served, and his counsel made motion for g new trial. which will be heard the l7th.
 Gen. B. A. Morton, president of the ma ! tlOual up0FdI ieaSuc, WlO IS uIluer arT0St al St. Louis, Mo-. charged with successfully forg ing the name of ex-Gov. John M. Palmer oi illinois to check for $2OOn, was well k, owr at New Haven during the presidential excite ment of 1876, where he figured as a man o wealth, though every one wondered whence came his checks, diamond studs and his wite's blazing jewelry. He was man of fine ed,t cation, which he claimed he had received al Heidelberg, Germany. and became promr uent member of the New Haven free fec ture association. He was under Grant dur ng the war in the engineering corps and was an expert in bridge constructor. While d, New Haven he was fond of announcing him self as president of the ''Coal Mountain, Stat. Line and New England raiiroad,' corpora tion whose mystery may find a parallel ir Sairey Gamps's friend, Mrs. Harrig He was counted Grant man, but called a hbera league convention to nominate free -thinkel presidential ticket. he claims that his arrest is case of mistaken identity.
 Woodbury's Stoddard parsonage, built ir 100 and the oldest in the state except the Whitefed stone house in Guilford W icl dates back to l64O, is to be torn dt wn by Wal ter S. Curtiss, who will build modern house on it's site.