Connecticut western news., 1880-02-04
: GENERAL STATG NEWS.

a8 The faithful at Stamford have contributed 5000 to the starving Irish. Oliver Hoyt gave sloo. |. >.-s ::.a~ t.>>
 Is Mary stannasd dead f4-f fElnira Adver- User i. Yes, and she rests In piecea.-,[Nsw.l Haven Register. ss sx,,..,, .sli aq:a. E '>,' -fa Az pound salmon 'tsosf was recently caught in Long Lake, Awinstsd, and is pre- served alive as curiosity. :, i:" !. % ..., .s.
 Martin Brodetick, 20 years old boy of Rockville recently married :: a, woman l5 years his senior, with eight childrea.
 The temperance lectures of Benjamin F. 'Baiiey of Danbury, in Shelton, and Birming- nam, have secured 600 signers to the pledge. ' The Connecticut farmers have united to fight the collection of fraudulent notes secur. cd under various pretenseS by confidence. mon. d., ;. - 'e -!-'';... ':.' tS , a. K. Y. Morehease, former proprietor of Che Clarke House, winsted, has leased the Thomaston hotel, and vii. manage it hereaf. ter. = -
 
 Wesley Ansn, brother of ..'Ther Allen, the 'twickedest man in New York. has been ar. rested at New Haven on suspicion of picking pockets.
 ,Winsted Catholics held a fair last week, and gold ring was given the most popular girl. Miss Maggie Keenan received the prize, having ,l02 votes. .> .,a While Watertown man was dieping well recently, crowbar felrinto it, striking him on the head and cutting g severe gash, but fortunately not breaking the skull. | An @reolite found in Norwalk few days ago has been broken, and inside was found . fossil animal resembling a. lizard. It has been taken to New York for further examination.'
 A prominent Bridgeport physician says that he has not had 30 little to do in five years, Mild, open. weather in winter is considered unhealthy by many, but he says this is mis take. " *'ta Y" '-.::" .' =.
 Maggie Barrett New Fairfield girl is. ir frightful condition from the bite of a dog, and Howard Nickerson of the same place ie having terrible time with carpet tack ur his nose. -.e.. ...:
 f. Harwinton is excited over the arrest of . man: for bringing hay to his hungry cattle on Sunday. They are afraid to. cook a dinner thers on Sunday when. there are ''otacers' around. :. " ''~'. ,-.''
 E," Rev., A. W. Paige: Giastenburys silve, haired adnlterer, is held in $500 to answer i1 the United States Courts, for sending obscene matter through the mails. Paige looks woe begone and dejected.E '' t.. ''- -,. l. Amelia Grumall, a young girl who had he, scalp torn of by machinery in Connecticut mill September s, lS73, has died at Oshkosh
 Wis, of inflammation of the brain, but hel general health had been good.
 The Hartford Carpet company have refused a S70,OOo offer for their old screw factory properity at Tariffville from Manchestel silk manufacturing company, and Tariffsillt people are very mad, as the village is dead a. 1 far as business is concerned. l. An indignant Bridgeport man writes to the
 Farmer, complaining of nude bathing. Yes
 terday forenoon" he says. Ia party of boys were in bathing off Perry's new dock, per, fectly nude. It was certainly little unsea souable (being January 2sth,) if not unlaw. ffal". ....,s..,. .> .t. ,.. l GA woman has been committed to the Mid dletown asyiumr who is afflicted with a mania for killing her l5-month. old child, but is sane on all other, points: A few days ago she begged the superintendent to allow her to 20 home and kill her baby promising to return and stay eontentediy. -~E: .. .. David B. Platt of Milford had 8 narrow es. lcape from being seriously injured by an OK in Meriden last week. :: He went to purchase a yoke ofexen, when one oI them caught him on. his horns and threw him in the air When Enc came down he struck on his face, and cut ! two ugly gashes. The OK was driven of.
 Among the earliest emigrants from Rock land, where Mary, stannard was murdered, were the ancestors of Alexander Fl Stephens and Jefferson Davis, who lived, curiously sneugh, within: few miles of each other one in RocklAnd and the other just over the town line in Kilingworth. Many persoss bearing these names, and remotely oonneeti cd, still remaii. .f~ -. it5. % |,
 :, W.insted has corporation known as ''The Winsted Real Estate Company j" it was organ ized in the East Village, with acapital of $2O,- 300, '.for the purchase and sale ofreal estate i; the building and rentalVot buildings and to own and deal in real or personal property necessary or convenient for the prosecution of said business, and generally to do All things incidental to said business and the proper management thereof" ~-:~,- :.
 It has been found necessary to have regu- lar hours established for the admission of wis itors to the state capitol dome, and it is ar ranged to have each party of visitors accom-. punied by an attachs of the capitol. The dome will be opened to inspection at ten and eleven o'clock a. m., aud at two and four, o'clock p. m. Visitors can go to the foot of the lantern and obtain sweeping view of Hartford and vicinity. s5; <" F The New York. Connecticut and Eastern railroad company was organized at New York Friday by the election of directors and officers. The object of the company is to build road from New York to New Haven, through the towns of Greenwich; Stamford, Darien, Nor walk, westport, Fairfield, Bridgeport strat- ford, Huntington, Milford. Orange and others. A union will be made with the Derby railroad at Arlington, two miles from New Haven The length of the road will be over 4S miles, and the estimated cost exclusive of rolling ,ei- '.. 1' ..-,.3 Ie5.