Connecticut western news., 1881-04-13
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE,


 SEVERAL of the Maine mining com panies will be able to pay dividends b June or July, it is claimed.
 W1soAssETr is trying hard to buy u it's railroad bonds, and some of tn citizens have pledged $2G, GOO for tn purchase of bonds at 40 cents on tn dollar.
 IT IS proposed to hold woman suffrage convention in Portland Ma 30 and 31, with Elizabeth Cady Stanto and Susan B. Anthony among tn speakers.
 THE Centennial spring of minera water in New Gloucester has been sol with adjoining property for $4O,OOO t. the Centennial mineral spring compan. of New Jersey.
 MAINE boasts of having furnished tn present governors of Massachusetts Wisconsin, Michigan, California ant Iowa, the congressman from Oregon and two of the Minnesota congressman
 The amount of ice cut this year i estimated to be about two-thirds a. much as lest year, and the enormou amount cut in other states makes tn, dealers chances for large prices lool slim.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 FISH Commissioner Powers has re ceived 25, 900 salmon eggs from Grand Lake stream, Maine.
 MICE got into the box of the town treasurer of Holderness the other day, and tore up several hundred dollars.
 REV. EDWARD SMA11EY of the Univer- salist church of Claremont has accept. ed call to Putney, Vt. Rev. O. A. Stone of the Congregational church in Hopklnton has resigned.
 FRANKLIN has a haunted house, in which door knobs turn without the aid of human hands, mysterious noises are heard by day and by night, and the oc- cupants are so scared that they are go- ing to move out.
 PORTSMOUTH complains that the offer to raise $7OO, 900 in Boston to rebuild the Kearsage mills, provided Ports mouth would have raised $1OO,O will not be kept good. Portsmouth parties have raised their share, but those in Boston have not.
 VERMONT.
 A WOODSTOCK druggist has been fined $18O and costs for violating the iouor law in eighteen cases. ;. BURLINGTON has debt of $439. 900. a reduction during the year of $6,562, and sinking fund of $58, 900. It's schools have cost it $19, 1928, and it's streets and sewers $22, ,125.
 PRESIDENT GARFIELD has been formal ly invited to be present at the National Teachers Institute, to be held at St, Albans in July, and it is thought he will come, though no definite answer was given.
 COMPLAINT is made that oleomaraarine is brought into the State, sold to the farmers, by them sold to the butter buyers as real butter and shipped by them to Boston as such. St. Albans especially suffers in this way.
 MAssAoHUsErTs.
 MIR. BARRETT, of Somerville, has se- cured the contract to carry the mails in New York city for $7O,920.
 THE notices for delinquent tax-payers on real estate in Boston this year num- Der $500, against $500 last year.
 THE members of the House of Repre- sentat1ves of 1880 will have reunion at the St. James Hotel, Boston, the 10th.
 THE Boston Common Council has finally fixed on $8, 433, ,282 as the amount 'o be raised by taxation the coming year.
 HE two heaviest taxpayers in Brook inc are women, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Bow fitch paying $1O,314, and Miss Adele J. Thayer $9,4 ,480.
 THE milkmen of Boston have agreed o charge six cents per quart after April l, while the contractors will pay three 'ents per can less than last year.
 A BOSTON woman named Robinson has applied to be admitted to the bar, md is the first woman to claim the right 'o practice law in Massachusetts.
 RoRERT THoM has just returned to lis family in Haverhill after an absence 'f 32 years in California, during most of which time his family thought him lead.
 CALEB c. GILBERT of Bridgewater las offered to give to the town 8 site for public library building, which it is proposed to put up at cost of about BIO, ,000.
 TIE old 9th regiment will celebrate he 20th anniversary of its march through Baltimore at Lowell the 18th, with parade, banquet and other ap- exercises.
 THE quantity of milk forwarded to Boston has been reduced one-third, 'wing to the disagreement between producers and contractors, and adul- eration is said to be on the increase. MEMoRA1-D DAY will be celebrated in 3oston this year by quite an imposing parade of veterans and militia, while 1ov. Long will deliver an oration, and n ode by Col. T. W. Higginson will be cad.
 REV. ROBERT CoLLYER will deliver he sermon before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Bos- on in June. The company is consider. ng the question of going to the York own centennial. A FALL RIVER woman, who was 'adly burned some time ago, is having kin gratis made on her arm, some 500 | aving already been placed there, and he prospect is good of restoring her rm to usefulness. THE vote by the House on the woman uffrage question, 76 to 122, is just the verage for the past thirteen years, he nearest the measure has come to 1 uccess being in 1871, when the vote tood 6S to 68, and its most crushing efeat being in 1879, when the vote was g to 129.
 CONNECTICUT. THE spring meeting of the Yale ath- etic club will be held at Hamilton lark, April 30, and the records made 7ill decide who shall go to Mott Haven