Connecticut western news., 1881-02-09
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

Lno heSlS1dIuT0 pfOV1O1uS I16t ally per son who goes on or off moving rail- road train may be imprisoned thirty days and be fined $50.
 THE capital of the national banks in the State is $1O, ,507, 115, on which they were taxed by State and Government last year $342, ,S83, or over three per cent. The railroads resist the tax of one per cent. on the ground that it is larger than the State assesses on other property, and therefore unequal and prohibited by the constitution.
 THE State temperance convention at Augusta elected the following officers: President, R. W. Dunn Secretary, A. s. Burke Treasurer, Thomas Boyd Resolutions were adopted asking for the submission of the prohibitory consti- tutional amendment, protesting against legalizing the sale of cider for tippling purposes.
 THERE Is in progress Q movement to make the divorce laws of Maine more stringent, prompted by the fact that a proportionately greater number of divorces are annually granted in that State than anywhere else in New Eng land. In 1878 the divorce rate in Name was one for every 1851 inhabitants, while in Massachusetts only one was granted for every 2,896 of the popula- tion.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 THE wealth of the late Nathaniel White of Concord is estimated to have been $1, 100000.
 THE Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives appropriates $20, ,000 for the harbor at Portsmouth.
 s. q. BRIDGES, of Manchester, gov ernment contractor for soldiers tomb stones, has completed the number for New England and New York, and is now at work upon those for Pennsylvania.
 THE matching house at Plymouth has just received 56,O0O eggs of the red trout, presented by the German govern ment to Prof. Baird, and by him to the State of New Hampshire. They will be placed in Lake Winnipiseogee when matched. The fish are fine eating
 VERMONT
 THE city liquor agency of Burlington has sold $3,672 worth the past year at a profit of $457.
 APPROPRIATIONS of $1O,O00 for the harbor at Burlington and $2, 500 for that at Swanton have been agreed upon by the House Commerce Committee.
 AN ADDISON man, who has been an habitual smoker for fifty two years with out missing day, has laid aside his pipe for good, and says he has not the slightest inclination to use it.
 IN THE town of Lincoln there are six teen saw-mills and two grist-mills, almost the entire production of which is drawn by teams to their markets at New Haven and Vergennes. The peo- pie in that vicinity are agitating for a railroad.
 A WEST RUTLAND man presents most having requested the Commissioner of Pensions to withhold his pension, that it may go to others who are in greater want of it, and declaring that as long as he can work he does not want it.
 ADDISON GOULD of Woodstock, gen. orally known as "Blind Gould," died the other day in his seventy first year. Though blind for forty years, he partly supported himself by playing on the violin, and had travelled all over New England, especially in Vermont and Maine. He also exhibited pictures through magnifying lenses, and was a wonderful example of what one can do without sight.
 MASSACHUSETTS,.
 THE school census of New Haven shows an increase of 651 children in a year.
 NEW HAVEN has nearly $1O,OOO, ,O0O invested in manufactures, which employ 16,0 ,065 persons.
 THERE were 66O fires in Boston last year, causing loss of $1, 125, 594, or which there was an insurance of $5,. 929,941.
 T HE New England Divorce Reform League is new Boston society, witt such men as Gov. Long, Theodore Woolsey, President Chadbourne an6 President Chamberlain as members. THE commerce committee of the House of Representatives has agreed upon $75, 900 for the Boston harbor S25, ,OOO for Nantucket, $10,0OO fo, Plymouth, Sc, GOO for Provincetown anG $500 for Hyannis.
 | celebration of the anniversary of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Societ, at Boston, February 20, in Tremon temple. Governor Long will preside and addresses will be made by distin guished Boston clergymen.
 THE committee of the New Englant milk producers association, appointed to consider some plan for supplying Boston with pure milk, recommend tha Q company be formed, with capital o $2OO, GOO, to supply milk to the peopl directly, without the intervention o contractors and milkmen, the milk t, be bought from the producer and dis tributed just as ice is.
 THE number of cOmmunicants in tn evangelical churches of Boston is give as follows: Congregationalist,- g, 782 Baptist, 1O.528; Methodist, 6,326 Protestant Episcopal, 5,845 Presby terian, 1,491 Free-will Baptists, 297 African Methodist, 534; Lutheran an
 German Reform, 1, 1855. CONNECTICUT.
 NEW London sportsmen feed the qua there regularly, in order to keep thel from starvation and for future sport. CERTAIN New London voters hay organized an "electoral league," which the members can vote for no ma who is not pledged for the cause temperance.
 2 THE Connecticut tobacco crop is sti 3 mostly on the poles, awaiting suitab Q weather for dampening. There is I : disposition to sell, except at very r muneratiye rates.
 /, THE two Connecticut farms of Re Il Adirondack Murray have been for a closed by John Johnson of Boston, ( t 8 claim of BIO, GOO, and all the blood a stock has been scattered. f THE comm1ss1on on permanent loc 1 tion of a. camn oroTnd for tho nation