Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

THE stallion, Mambrino, owned by John Hay, of Augusta and valued a $15, ,000, is dead.
 AN epidemic prevails among sheep il Kennebec county. They are taken sicl and die in day or two. A PORTLAND woman has been arrested for cruelty beating three-years-olG child because he wouldn't say his pray CTS.
 DOVER and Foxcroft propose to joir hands in building 0 common town hall and $S,000 of the necessary $12, ,000 has been subscribed.
 THE Hallowell granite company hal received $20,000 contract to furnish granite for the extension of the New York Tribune building.
 JOHN B. PLUMMER, in the Superior Court at Portland, has recovered $5, 100 from the Eastern Railroad for persona injuries, and his wife $1, 200, being hurt at the same time.
 Or the 30O,00O sea salmon now being matched at the Bangor hatching- house all but 50, 900 or 60. 900 will be placed ir the Penobscot River aJ Medway, the others going to Saco.
 THE 23d annual session of the grand lodge of the Good Templars of Maine met in Portland, and the reports show 291 lodges and 19, 597 members, fall. ing off during the year.
 THE Eastern railroad has made con. tract for carrying 600, 900 tons of paving stones from near Rockland to Boston, whence they will be taken to Chicago to replace it's wooden pavements.
 REV. W. G. HASKELL, comma ander oi the Maine Grand Army of the Republic, has been invited to deliver the Memorial Brooklyn posts at Greenwood cemetery.
 THE 57th annual session of the Maine Conference has been held at Portland, Bishop Peck presiding. The conference composes 84 effective preachers, IA supernumeraries and 23 superannuated preachers.
 The Masonic grand lodge of the State reports 19, ,321 members, an increase of IS during the year. The initiates are 594, against GA last year. In 25 years the lodges have increased from 70 to 182, and membership from 3,211 to 19, ,321.
 THE Maine prohibitory law, even if it has not stopped drinking, has at least brought considerable money into the pnblic treasury, thirty-one residents of Portland having paid in nearly $69, ,O0O in fines since it went into force. Of the sum two brothers paid $11, 479.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 ALL the Protestant churches at Laco- mia are without pastors.
 THE Unitarian Society, of Franklin, will build church at once.
 THE Concord artillery has voted to at- tend the Yorktown (Va.) centennial.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE has GA savings banks with 96,681 depositors owing $32, ,O97,- 734.
 THE petition of depositors in the Ashnelot savings bank of Winchester, asking that the bank be allowed to con- tinue business after proper scaling down of it's deposits, has been refused.
 THE ''iron-clad inventory law" which has been initiated by Vermont's new tax law, is said to be driving investors out of the State. The plan of buying up United States bonds i'll order to escape taxation is also resorted to in New Hampshire, though the law requires an oath from the taxpayer that no money has been invested in any way to escape taxation.
 VERMONT.
 SEVENTY thousand naples were tapped in Glover t his season, and yielded 14O,- poo pounds of sugar valued at $11 200.
 DUxBURY's grand list of personal shows the astonishing increase of 800 per cent, from $3,000 to over s45, ,OOO.
 THE railroad tax has been decided upon by the appraisers. The Vermont and Canada pays 4,OO0 mile on its road bed, the Missisquoi $1,5OO, Rut- and $S,O00, Burlington and Lamoille B2, 800.
 THE United States Deputy Collector at Newport has seized car containing four horses shipped from Canada, and valued at $1 ,000, on account of twenty bags of seed wheat being concealed under some wheat in the car.
 THE tax list for Rutland shows that the Vermont marble company is valued at $1, 05O, 900, and that in the town there are l2 to 15 lists over $100,O 900 and 40 over $50,000. It is thought that the new list will foot up $15, ,OOO, 900, as against less than $4, 900, 900 last year.
 A CENSUS bulletin shows that Yer mont produced 6,620 tons of steel ard iron, ranking 26th among the States, against 1, ,525 tons and the 24th rank in 1870. The amount of capital invested is $41O, ,O0O, and the value of products $372, 300.
 MASSACHUSETTS,.
 A WEALTHY Bostonian, we'll known in business circles, has just married girl in his factory some 50 years younger than he.
 IT is estima ted that $2,OOO,OOO to s3, 100000 taxes are lost to Boston every spring by reason of rich men moving out of town.
 THE laborers at the Cape Ann quar- ries have won in their struggle for re- duction of 8 days work to ten hours, and work has been resumed.
 THE Charlestown, Mass, Antique As sociation is making arrangements for an unusually elaborate celebration on June 17th, the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill.
 THE annual meeting of the Woman's Industrial Union, Boston, was held Tuesday, Mrs. A. M. Diaz presiding. The membership has increased 25 dur ing the year. There is balance in the treasury of $969, and over $1, ,OOO has been collected from employers who had tried to cheat working women.
 THE movement in Bost on in favor of a Worlds Fair in that city in 1885 is growing and strengthening. It is pro- posed to use as Q nucleus the grounds and buildings now being prepared for minor expositions this fall, thus saving an important item of expense. A rough estimate has been made, showing that the total cost of the enterprise would not exceed $3,000,00O, and business men are confident that such an invest