Connecticut western news., 1881-03-02
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
NATNE

 gin county last year and $50 marriages, or one divorce to less than 12 marriages.
 THE House has ordered an investiga- ton of the military and naval orphan asylum at Bath, with view to closing 1t.
 THE Greenbackers of Portland have passed resolutions that it is for the best interests of the party that Greenback nominations should be made.
 THE Hallowell Granite Works are at work on costly monument for the tomb of the late Zach Chandler and a statue of Stonewall Jackson. THE Bangor Theological Seminary, which has existed since 1916 and has sent out 600 graduates, shows deficit of over 8, 900 for the past year. GARDINER is to have public library, $4, GOO having been already subscribed, and much more will be given in the shape of materials for building. PASSPORT fears crash in it's "sar- dine" business. The value of last years product was about $7O0, ,0OO, and if all who now intend to go into the business next season do so, the value of the pro- duction, at present rates, will be over $2, 50O,0O
 THE Senate has reconsldered It's vote on the resolution expressing sympathy for Ireland, and has passed the minority report, which extends sympathy. The Swan Investigating committee have re- ported that he be expelled, one fushlon- ist dissenting, and the H House has unanl- mously expelled him.
 THE census of manufactures in Port l I 0O Ill Il, 4r. in 93 branches of industry, producing a value of $500 or more 8 year. The largest amount of capital, $70O, ,0O0, is invested in canned goods, the value of whose yearly product is $1 ,O5O, 900 :; and the next greatest amount is in foun- dries and metal works, with @ yearly production of $713,6 ,616, while sugar refining, with but $45O, 1000 capital, has an annual production valued at $1, ,591 1862.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 NAHUM ROBINSON of Concord has been appointed deputy warden of the State Prison, in place of MT. Bean, resigned.
 THERE is an astonishing increase of enthusiasm in military matters through out the State, as is shown by the fact that though the State only allows thirty companies, and these are already filled, there are twenty applications for new companies.
 Ex-Gov. PRESCOTT, who is now in the South, ha,f secured for Dartmouth college in New. Orleans a portrait o1 Gen. Ripley, who was @ grandson oi Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, the founder o1 the college, and graduated in 1900 Gen. Ripley distinguished himself in the war of 1872, and his portrait repre-. sents him in his military costume.
 VERMONT.
 THE lumber business in northern Yer mont is better than it has been for years and many new mills are going up.
 MASSACHUSETTS,.
 THE horse-railroad tracks in Bosto1 cover distance equal to that from Bos ton to New York, and 24,514 persons are employed by the companies.
 THE late Nathaniel Weston of Salem who left an estate valued at $200, ,000 bequeathed $5, ,O0O each to the Salen marine society and the oldmen's home. THE Lowell city council, by the cast ing vote of the Mayor, has passed 8 res , olution that no liquor licenses be grant ed for the coming year, except to drug gists.
 THE Boston board of aldermen has re fused by vote of to to appropriat , the additional $8O,OOO which the schoo l committee asked for to carry on th' school.
 THE late Ivory H. Bartlett, Jr., of Ne, F Bedford, has left $1,00O to the Yorn l Mems Christian Association and $500 t the Women's Christian Association C . that city.
 . THERE are now fourteen branches C : the Irish land league in Boston with : membership of over 2,OO0, and in tn ] state about 19O branches, with abou
 22,O00 members.
 THE secretary of the State Tots
 Abstinence Society made a repol
 stating that in the last ten years 12O, ,OO n children had signed the pledge, tn :, majority of whom were of foreig D. D percentage.
 REAL ESTATE in Boston is still tendin
 upward, and one case is reported wher !; man was offered $35, ,OOO for 8 house l the vicinity of Trinity church, whic
 was held at $19, 900 when he bought a v equity in it for $500. 7 IT IS expected that several new mill v will be put up in Fall River the comin 9 season, one of which will have capat
 ity of 40, 900 spindles. A new corpora
 tion, the Crystal Spring Bleaching an - Dyeing Company, is organizing at As
 sonet, eight miles from Fall River, wit e a capital of $l25, ,0OO. It will emplo
 100 hands.
 A MEETING of shippers engaged in tn , foreign trade in apples was held in Bos ton, Monday, at which It was state d that half million of barrels were ez
 ported last year. The unsuitable ac a commodations of the steamship con
 panies were complained of, many apple r being lost through carelessness and lac
 of proper handling.
 CONNECTICUT.
 THE Methodist church of Danielsor r vile, by the aid of Bishop Peck, raise $3,577 of it's $3, ,95O debt, Sunday. ,, THE amount of mail matter take
 from Hartford for the thirty days du1 ing which it has been weighed was 19 , tons.
 e PORTLAND has mystery in the shap of skeleton recently dug up there D which was over six feet and six 1nche k long.
 r THE whole Fire Department of No1 @ wich has not been called out in year f quite 8 remarkable record for city C
 its size.
 FOXES have become such pest in tn X vicinity of Middletown that it is DIG
 posed to organize grand hunt soon t
 get rid of them.
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