Connecticut western news., 1881-06-29
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

IuB hoIoSouo OH FAG, l1BAtluB Ab huI chasing the rat down the street. GEORGE STURaE, of London, Eng. has given the Quakers assembled at Port land $25, ,000 for the Freedman's Norma Institute at Maysville, Tenn.
 THERE are now 13,571 pupils in the Maine schools, fewer than ten years ago, while the population has increased 22,030. The superintendent advises the people to pay as much attention to the children as they do to the live stock, and all will be we'll.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 THE Bank commissioners report the deposits in 54 banks at $32, ,000, ,00O, and 8 surplus of 2,225, 900.
 THE Seaman's Aid Society of Ports. mouth have furnished 16, 263 meals and 846 lodgings to unfortunate "Jacks ' during the year.
 LILLIAN MUTT, widow of the little Commodore, has applied for letters of administration on his estate, but being only 19, guardian must be appointed. The Commodore left small property only little jewelry and clothing worth about $50.
 THE agent of an English steamship line says that if the flake Shore road is established, connecting Portsmouth with the West, steamship line will at once be made between Portsmouth and England. The people are excited and circulating monster petition in favor of the road.
 THE New Hampshire Methodists fur nish these statistics Probationers in the State, 1,080; members, Il, ,794, being 40 less than last year; licensed preach CTS, 62; churches, 119, valued with other church property at $753, $50; Sun day schools, 132, with 1857 officers, 13, ,329 pupils and 35, ,522 books.
 VERMONT.
 Two MEN from the Cape of Good Hope are buying lumber in Burlington.
 THESE officers of the Central cheese factory of New Haven have been elect ed: President, Edward s. Dana; secre- tary, George W. Barton; salesme1., l.. W. Stowe and Josiah Cowles; auditors, G. W. Barton and Edward s. Dana.
 THE Rutland County Historical Soci- ety celebrate the Fourth on Lake Bom- oseen at Castleton, and are going to manufacture name for the island in the lake. The Presidents of the Vermont Historical and the New Hampshire An tiquarian Societies are invited.
 A WARDsBoRo farmer recently found bear trying to drag a yearling steer over the fence. He drove the bear away, but it came back, and sitting down comfortably, watched with evil dent interest the farmers efforts to get the steer off of the fence, and, when it was done, leisurely withdrew.
 MASSACHUSETTS.
 THE personal estate of the late James T. Fields, of Boston, IS appraised at SPA, 472.
 THE Standard Fertilizer Company, of Duxbury, has been chartered, with @ capitol of $150,0OO.
 Two human skulls, believed to be h. dian, were dug up at the rear of the Pa vilion at Revere beach Tuesday.
 -THE Boston day bakers have formed protective union, claiming that their working hours are too long and pay too small.
 THE Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, of which Gov. Long is presi- dent, will celebrte at Silver Lake Grove on July 4th.
 A1vAH O. SIMPSON, the Lowell man who drank oil of vitroil two years ago, died of starvation Sunday, having been unable to eat for weeks.
 NEARLY $1, ,OOO, 900 has been spent on improvements at Nantasket beach and Hull within a year, building the rail- road, wharves and Hotel Pemberton.
 THE Conference of Charities meets at Boston July 26. Gov. Long and F. B. Sanborn will make addresses and proba- bly, over twenty States will send dele gates.
 THE New England Furniture Ex- change at Boston have pledged them selves to aid the worlds fair with mon- ey and work and appointed 8 commit tee to get subscriptions to the general fund.
 BOSTON real estate is booming, and sales are heavier than for some time past. The estate on the corner of Sum- mer and Lincoln strets, assessed in 1880 at $72, ,O00, has been bought as 8 trust fuud for $93, 800.
 A DREDGING machine at work below the bridge at Taunton, recently dug up an ancient cutlass eighteen inches long. It has a Spanish blade and strong handle, on which an American eagle is engraved, and was covered with rust and scales.
 THE Massachusetts School Suffrage Association issues document explain ing to women the intricacies of the tax laws with which they must comply in order to vote, and also one answering the question, "What good will it do the schools if we do vote ?"
 THE borers and projectors on the Cape God canal, are now on the last halt o1 their work. The borings have been fifty feet deep, running twenty five feet below low tide in Barnstable bay, through solid bed of bolder clay. The canal will, it is claimed, be finished in two years.
 THE Spinners' Union met at Fall River and elected officers. The wages question was discussed, but action was deferred for two weeks. Complaints were made of bad stuff given them to spin, and the announcement of 10 pe1 cent reduction of wages in one mil] caused much hard talking. There will probably soon be strike. CONNECTICUT.
 THE Douglas Chapman House al Meriden, built 100 years ago, has been torn down.
 CONNECTICUT now has 2,O0O miles o1 telephone wires, and Waterbury will be added to the circuit. A YOUNG woman who graduated from a well known Connecticut seminary this year was foun deserted in the Water bury depot twenty years ago. Severa young men clubbed together for he1 support, but soon got sick of it, anG other friends took her up. RHODE ISLAND. | LITTLE Rhodv's nnnnlation is 276