Connecticut western news., 1881-07-20
FACT AND RUMOR.

Mrs. Eliza Garfield, mother of Presid en
 Garfield, on Friday had severe attack o
 cholera morbus, and she is now prostrated b,
 fever. On account of her extreme age Si
 her condition IS regarded as very critical.
 MT. James Parton says that curious cir
 cumstance occurred many years ago, when testator in England left 92,O00 to a friend
 but with the condition that one-half the sum should be buried with him In his coffin. The legatee took advice on this matter. "Where is the money now ?" asked his friend "..In the bank," was the reply. "All right" said the sage adylser; ''you write check for | &l,000 and put it into the old gentleman's coffin, payable to this order"
 Pacific millionaires are down in the San Francisco tax-roll on personality as follows : Charles Crocker, $l9 lS7, 900; James G. Fair, $42, ,22O, ,OOO James c. Flood, $36, 300, 900 ; J c. Flood Co.,, $lO,000, 900; J. 0. Flood & Co.,, trustees for wv. Mackey, $2O,572,- 500; Iceland Stanford, $2O, GOO, ,O0O; Mrs Mary S. Hopkins, $l7 2tl, ,OOO. All the principal names on this list are down forfrom $l0o,OOO to $5OO,OO0 in money. besides per l sonality. Collections will, it is said, be made on about two-thirds of these amounts.
 The extent to which fraudulent life insur auce is carried on in some portions of Mary. land and Pennsylvaniy is shdwn by the re- cent death Of poor negro named Robert Bell at Westminster, Md It is revealed that this man had nearly $l,O0O,O0O insur- ance placed on his life by agents of so-called mutual benefit associations Qf rc,,rse n =, ,,,'= r.,4,IIy trienas receive no benefit, The money if paid, will go to spectators who, for small consideration, were allowed by Bell ka l.: c., +1o;r
 Maud. s. trotted a mile at Pittsburg, Wed. nesday, in 2.lO 2, beating her best time IA of second. One of the judges claimed the time as 2.l0 IA, but 2.l0 l-2 is given as of ficial time Her driver claimed she could have made it in two seconds less. The run ming race mile heats 3 in 5, was won by Belle of Nelson. Time 46 A. l.45 3-4, and 146. The race for the 9. 27 class was unfinished. There were four heats, Bonnie Scotland win. ming two, and Kate McCallone two. The pacing race for $2OOO was also unfinished, Mattie Hunter whining two heats in 2. IS and 2.19.
 The Edison Electric Light company at New York has already wired 500 houses of the first district and the mains are laid in most of the streets. MT. Edison expects that the first illumination by electricity upon a large scale will take place about the middle of October. The contract made between the company and householder is that the new light shall cost no more than gas As it is expected to be in every way superior to gas, there has been no hesitation in accepting the offer. For the last two months MT. Edison has been busily at work upon what he is going to show at the Paris exhibition of electricity. Every outgoing French steam ship carries number of boxes full of maohin. 1 cry from Edison's workshops. In Paris a ] license has been obtained from the municipal 1 authorities authorizing MT. Edison to put up | his lights wherever he may see fit. It is | thought that the exhibition of his light and | power which he intends to make will create | enough interest in the matter among Par isans to make it worth while organizing g | for the sale of the light. The Edison lamp is also to be thoroughly tested | in London, with the same end in view. {