Connecticut western news., 1881-02-16
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE

NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
 MAINE.
 CONGRESSMAN REED has replied to the notice of intention to contest his elec- tion by Gen. Anderson, denying every charge and making large number of counter charges.
 THE Presumpscot Pulp Ware Com pany, with capital of $500, 900, and $. c. Andrews as president and treasurer, has built factory at North Gorham for the manufacture of pails, barrels and kegs out of wood pulp.
 A LEGISLATIVE committee, which has been inspecting the insane asylums, find the most ample water supply, af- fording abundant protection against such disasters as have recently hap pened in Minnesota and New Hamp- shire.
 THE woods of Maine, unlike those of the West, perpetually renew themselves, and lumber camps are often located n the same place that they were ten years before, new growth having sprung up. So the alarm about the ext1nction of the lumber interest of the State is quite premature.
 THR Somerset Reporter says: "The capital stock of the national banks in Maine amounts to $10, ,507, ,115. During the year 1879, these banks were taxed by the cities and towns where the stock was owned $22S, ,O30, or 2.2 per cent. upon its face value. In addition to this the Federal Government collected $114, 855 of taxes the same year. Is there | another ten and half millions of prop erty owned in Maine which pays a total tax of $342, 1885, or over three per cent.?"
 NEW HAMPSHIRE. STAMFORD county has voted to re- build at once the poor-house buildings, to be of the most approved kind and provided with every means to prevent a repetition of the late disaster. THE fish commissioners of New Hamp shire have now 875, ,0O0 eggs of different kinds of fish to be matched out this sea- son. Their success ill the past has been so great that unusual efforts are being made this year.
 THE Manchester American says that man who was engaged in that city several years ago in a legitimate and lucrative business, and who was highly respected is now so poor that he goes begging from door to door. WILLIAM E. CHANDLER has presented to the State Historical Society pocket knife carried by President Lincoln on the night of his assassination. It is..a six -bladed, pearl handled knife with Lincoln's name engraved on the handle.
 A MARROW GAUGE railroad is to be built from Bethlehem station on the Boston. Concord and Montreal railroad to the Maplewood house. Several deeE cuts will have to be made, and the grade will be some 225 feet to the mile
 THE population of tho State, accord ing to the schedule returned to the census office by the enumerators, is as follows: Males, TO, ,575 ; females, 176, 409; native, 300.961 foreign, 46,O23 white, 346, ,264 colored, 72O; total 346, 984. f.-
 - VERMONT.
 THE Burlington Free Press reports that the jail there is to be whitewashed at once, in order to make it perfectly secure. -
 A, M. AnnBE, of Springfield, ha' been appointed commissioner of the l OttG0S 1OI GAO trict of Vermont.
 THE appropriation by Congress O $40, 1000 for the Bennington monumen makes nearly $80,O0O obtained by thu association thus far, and they will wal until the amount is increased to $1O0, 900 before attempting to build.
 IT IS now found that the last Legisla ture abolished the law providing fo the salary and expenses for the superin tendent of. education, and Superintend ent Dartt, now that he has finall, accepted the office, finds himself il rather an embarrassing position.
 MASSACHUSETTS.
 THE proposed change in the nomen clature of the streets in Boston meet with much opposition, land owner especially claiming that it would caus much trouble in registering titles.
 The American board and the woman board of missions received $45, ,606 iron churches and individuals ill Boston dur ing 1880, the largest amount, $8, OPP coming from the Old South Church.
 THE Boston board of aldermen ha appropriated $2OO to each of the Bostol posts of the Grand Army of the Repub hc to defray the expenses Of Decoration day, or to assist families of disable' soldiers or sailors.
 AN appeal signed by Gov. Long, Rev Phillips Brooks, Rev. Edward B. Hale ' and others, has been issued in beha] of the African Methodist church of Bos ton, which asks its friends to help pa. !. off mortgage of $1O,00O, which pressing them badly.
 ONLY 42a miles of new railroad wer built in Massachusetts last year, 1 miles for the Massachusetts Central for the Nantasket Beach railroad, 19 for the New Haven and Northampton from N Northampton to Bardwell's Ferry and 6 miles from South Deerfeld t Turner's Falls.
 Joys building in Boston, which i being demolished, is one of the fev surviving land marks of old Boston