Connecticut western news., 1881-04-20
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
 

TIE Maine Poultry Assoclauon has elected William G. Davis of Portland President and Charles G. Haines of Portland Secretary and Treasurer.
 THE Associated Press of Maine have elected John M. Adams, of Portland, president; Alden Sprague, of Augusta, treasurer, and II. w. Richardson, of Portland, Secretary.
 J. MONTGOMERY SEARS of Boston is to have the most expensive house on Mount Desert Island Tho lot is said to have cost $33, coo, and the cottage, which is being built in Boston, will cost over $l0O,00O.
 OUTSIDE parties have promised 220O,- GOO to hclp build the proposed railroad from Bridgeton to Portland, provided the towns along tho route raise $l75,- GOO. It is thought that the towns may furnish $75, ,000 of this, leaving $100,- 090 to be provided for by individual subscription.
 A YOUNG woman of Ellsworth, who was compelled by the roverses of for tune to go out as chambermaid, excited the admiration of rich uncle so much that he has left her $20, ,000. Of course there is young man who admired her in adversity, and will now help spend her fortune.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 THE New Hampshire Methodist Conference will be held at Claremont the 20th.
 TIE Episcopal church in Portsmouth will celebrate it's 250th anniversary the 2lst, and lmy the cornerstone of new building.
 TIE Kearsage mill corporation, of Portsmouth, are said to be "feeling" Salem, Mass, to see what inducements it will offer for new mill to be built there.
 THE old State prison at Concord was sold at auction Tuesday for $l6,050 to Henry Robinson, who is supposed to have bid for Nahum Robinson and Oscar V. Putnam of Concord.
 NATHAN B. K1Ns1EY, of Dorchester, has brought suit in equity against nine citizens of that place to recover some SIC, ,000 which the defendants had paid to substitutes during the war when drafted, and which the town after ward refunded to them. Kinsley acts for the town. The case has caused much bitterness.
 VERMONT.
 A NORTH TRoY woman seeks Q di- vorce from her husband after 50 years of married life.
 THE State normal school at Randolph has now 157 students, a greater num- Der than ever before, except once.
 TIfE St. Albans Messenger, which bit terly opposed the new tax law, reports that the listers are making rapid pro- gress in the farming districts, nearly every man having his list ready, and that so far the appraisal of real estate has been but little increased, but con- siderable personal property has been added to the list.
 MASSACHUSETTS,.
 THE trustees of tho Soldiers, home for Massachusetts, at Chelsea, are hav- ing it put in order, and will dedicate it about June l.
 ''MAUD S." is expected to appear at Mystic park, Boston, some time in June to trot against time, her manager hay ing been offered liberal inducements.
 WORK on the Eastern Junction, Broad Sound Pier and Point Shirley railroad began few days ago, and the road is expected to be ready for summer travel.
 THE Boston Society of Natural His tory announce that they will open Q sea- side laboratory at Annisquam, on Cape Ann this summer, for study and obser- vation.
 THE Supreme Court has decided that the action of the town of Edgartown in using $500 of the town funds ill 1879 to resist division of the land was illegal, and has ordered the money restored to the treasury.
 THE property of the Franklin beet sugar company, which cost $132, ,000, was sold recently for $60, ,000, to iqui date the debts of the company. A new company has been organized to carry on the business.
 THE Socialists of Boston, consisting of Is men and seven women, have pass. ed resolutions denouncing the arrest o1 Editor Most, of the ETeiheit, in Lon don, and warming governments to re- member that brute force would be met | ty like treatment.
 Or 1,O09 students at Harvard College, 288, or 28.S per cent are Episcopalian, 225, or 22.5 per cent, Unitarian, 17t Orthodox Congregationalists, 97 non sectarlans, 43 Baptists, 34 Catholics, 3( Presbyterian, 27 Agnostics, IF Universa | lists, 16 Methodists, etc, Trr To1 oanol fir brought into notice by the postpone ment of the adjustment between the New York company and Dresbach S Skillman, the late contractors. Some interesting lawsuits are expected on ac count of the damage done by the labor CTS to private property, unless the Bos ton company assumes the liabilities. CONNECTICUT.
 HoRsEMEN from Danbury, Meriden New Milford and Watertown hay, formed Western Connecticut trottine circuit.
 | A CANOE club has been formed il Hartford, and is expected to make the river lively with the picturesque little crafts this summer.
 FoRTY-rwo failures are reported il Connecticut for the first three months of the year, with liabilities of $229, 4O( and assets of $S0,640.
 THE Second Congregational Churcl of New London has received the legacy of $5, 900, left it by Dr. Seth Smith who died three years ago.
 NEW HAVEN has $19O,947 due it ir taxes, and the auditors intend publish ing the names of delinquent tax payer who do not pay by May |.
 THE school board of Meriden has voted to allow no children to attend the public schools who cannot furnish doctors certificate of vaccination.
 THE Senate passed the bill changing the county seat of Windham count, from Brooklyn to Putnam, and author