Connecticut western news., 1881-07-06
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

ASueU III the IOfDlQQ6n waters or N0W- port pond and were fined $75.
 A LARGE cotton mill is being built in New Brunswick, just across the bridge from Calais. Six hundred men are work ing on it.
 PORTLAND appropriates $2, 300 toward the expenses of the proposed soldiers and sailors reunion there. The Presi- dent and several generals are invited to attend.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 The New Hampshire Bible Society has elected Dr. Spalding, of Manches- ter, President, and Rev. Silas Custer, of Concord, and others Vice Presidents.
 THE New Hampshire law taxes church property where it is worth over SIC, 900. A Manchester church kicked against it on the ground of its being unconstitu- tional, but a court sustains the law.
 THE cornerstone of Christ Episcopal Church was laid at Portsmouth, with Masonic ceremonies. William A. Waugh, aged eighty-two, assisted, wearing the apron worn by his grandfather Ill 1907, when as Grand Tyler he laid the corner stone of the old church.
 JOHN H. GILMAN, an aged citizen of Orono, Me-, lived at Gilmanton in 1916, and made this memorandum "June 7 and 8, 1916, ice made quarter of an inch thick. Our neighbor Swain was framing barn on the 7th ; the workmen had on overcoats and mittens, and quit because it snowed."
 VERMONT.
 JAMES KENNEDY, of Burlington, has recovered rum that was seized from him the other day, because one of three men who signed the search warrant was not legal voter, as the law requires.
 A MAN drawing woman in wagon trudged into St. Johnsbury lately, hav- ing played horse from Waterbury, fifty seven miles away, on bet that he could not do it in three days. He beat 'em by half day. MASSACHUSETTS,.
 Gov. LONG has given Bingham hand soms drinking fountain.
 HUGH JONES, of Lynn, stepped on a needle some time ago, and has died of lockjaw.
 DRHTHER1A is spreading near the dumping place of the Board of Health at Lynn.
 THE House of the Good Shepherd, at Boston, has been given $4, 900 by Bos- ton woman.
 FUEL for the Boston Public Schools costs $50, 900 year and gas and water $4, ,00O each.
 THERE were 670 fires in Boston dur ing the past year and the aggregate loss was $1, 183, ,8l8.
 THE observers at Cambridge think it is the comet of 1872, though they are not certain. It travels in northerly direction.
 THE demand for space at the charit- | able Mechanics Association's fair at Boston is large, and the building is rapidly filling up. Two persons have given $5, ,OOO and | SIC, ,0O0 respectively to carry out the plan for Homeopathic Hospital for Women and Children at Boston. ACCORDING to the census of 1880 Bos- tons population is !: Whites, 356, 1926 negroes, 5,868 Chinese, 119 Japanese, 4; Indians, %. There are IA, 796 for eigners.
 REVERE beach has been greatly inn proved by the additions and repairs in
 
 promises to be brilliant.
 A NORTH ATT1EBoRo boy named King told his little brother to put his hand on block so he could ''try an expert ment," last week, and deliberately chop ped three fingers off with an ax. A LONDON (Eng. man has given the Massachusetts Historical Society pow der horn with this inscription "Lynn, March 9th, A. D. 1776. Mai. Samuel l Selden's F. Horn, made for the defence of liberty" It has plan of the British defences and American works on Boston Neck.
 BENJAMIN F. TowN, a Natick farmer aged seventy, was tried for keeping a liquor nuisaEce, and appealed from a verdict making him pay costs. He makes cider, and the evidence agalnst him was that two neighbors drank some cider at his house and gave his wife three cents for her trouble in drawing it. MT. Town is a respectable citizen. CONNECTICUT.
 THE 1O7th annual session of the Gen. eral Association of Congregational Ministers will be held at New Milford, beginning on the 27th.
 AMERICAN students at Frankfort-on- the Main, formerly of Yale, have ar ranged for 8 Yale college celebration, July 3 and 5.
 THE Chinese telegraph students al Hartford are said to make marvellous progress. One of them learned the sym Hubbell says is the quickest time on record.
 SEVENTY FOUR head of famous blooded cattle from the Echo farm in Litchfield are on exhibition at Charter Oak Parl, in Hartford, and will be sold at auction.
 THERE were 1000 persons at the An. sonia temperance meeting Sunday, and fifty signed the pledge. The young women are signing pledge not to as sociate with any fellow who won't give up his drink.
 A NEW HAVEN youngster is a com plete rat-trap. He catches the rodents in his hands as they run into holes, grabbing them just behind the ears, and the other day captured 12 out of IA as they were driven out of an ash-pile.
 BUoHo1z, who murdered Schulte, the Fairfield county miser, is one of the best behaved men in the State Prison. Mrs. Alexander, the murderer who sold her victim to the young Yale doctors, still calls herself pious and nl-treated woman.
 IT Js said that the Yale freshmen s recent supper at Black Rock was so riotous that women guests were afraid to leave their rooms. They dragged the proprietor around the room and called him Roscoe Conkling and an other prominent man T. Platt, defaced walls and books and injured much prop. erty. The proprietor says he'll sue fol damages.