Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

be seriously injured.
 BETHEL will celebrate, August 4, the centennial of its Indian war.
 THE poet Longfellow has sent hand somely-framed portrait of himself to the Maine historical society.
 TEE Maine General Conference of Congregational Churches will hold its annual session in Portland, June IA IS.
 THE statement that there are to be no student walters this summer is contra dicted by the fact that at least forty Pates students will serve in the White Mountain hotels.
 THE Maine Beet Sugar Company is to distribute $2, 600 worth of sugar beet seed among the farmers of New England and other sections. This seed was bought by the Government for the pur- pose of promoting its culture.
 THE Kennebec county commissioners entered complaint against the Augusta municipal court Saturday, charging that the income of the judge and the city marshal are made up largely of illegal fees.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 II ter at Milan, was yesterday sentenced to eighteen months hard labor in the Lancaster jail for stealing letter from that office.
 A DROVE of cattle being driven from Milford to Nashua suffered so severely from the heat that several dropped dead by the road, and others rushed for the open doors of houses and barns.
 THE Nashua iron and steel company has turned out the largest steel ingot ever cast in the country, its dimensions being 19 feet by 27 inches, and its weight 2, 700 pounds. It will be ham, mered into shaft. .,
 PRESIDENT Garfield, some members of his cabinet and Judge A. W: Tourgee are expected to be present at the American teachers institute at St. Albans in July. ---
 A FRENCH woman, bound for Canada, gave birth to a child on the cars near Essex. It lived but short time.
 THE Franklin County Medical Society in session at St. Albans has elected J. H. Hamilton of Richford, President.
 VERMONT farmers begin to fear that the dry weather will seriously injure the hay crop.
 JAMES ANDERSON, of Craftsbury, made 5000 pounds of sugar from 2, 300 trees during the past season.
 PROF. JUDAH DANA, late of the Cas- tleton normal school and one Vermont s ablest educators, contemplates estab- fishing school at West Rutland.
 ALBERT MERGER, charged with the murder of Frank Mccullough at Bur- Gngton, has been committed for trial at county court.
 MASSACHUSETTS.
 THn Boston art club has reached it's maximum number of members, 800.
 THE Franklin felt mill is to start again, having been idle since November.
 A NOVEL attraction in the Boston Decoration-day parade will be more than 500 bicyclers.
 A NEW building will be erected at the Potomaska Mills, New Bedford, capable of holding 700 looms.
 MRS. JOHN W. JAMES has given $5, ,OOC to the woman's educational and indus. trial union of Boston.
 THE human remains found in dis. used vault at Lowell pro-e to have been put there by medical students after dis. section.
 A DRY goods merchant of Fall River recently received through the mails { package of goods stolen from him ter or fifteen years ago.
 THE Boston homing society have made arrangements for the June pigeon flight The entries now number 250, and 6( more will be received.
 THE annual meeting of the Massachu setts Temperance Society at Boston re ported balance of $246 in the treasur, and reelected the old officers.
 LAST year two of Boston's largest ho tels paid $6 per ton for ice to a compa ny that has supplied them for twent. years; but this year they only pa! only $2.25.
 THE Charlestown, Mass, Antique As sociation is making arrangements flo an unusually elaborate celebration o1 June 17th, the anniversary of the battl of Bunker Hill.
 WAKEFIELD decided by vote of 28 to 252 to guarantee the payment of in terest at per cent. on $50, GOO of bond issued to construct it's water-workf The bonds are to run 20 years.
 THOUGH all movements regarding tn proposed Cape Cod ship canal are kel secret, interest is piqued by the pu1 chase by parties connected with tn enterprise of land on the site of th projected line.
 A MEETING held in the interest of il sane persons, at the Winthrop Hous, Boston, Thursday, recommended ne methods of treatment, and charged tI medical profession with gross ignorant on the subject of insanity.
 CONNECTICUT.
 THE Connecticut Eclectic Medical A, sociation in New Haven elected B. N Ripley of Unionville, President, and W. Pease of Thomaston, Vice e-Presiden
 THE Hartford Medical Society has a1 pointed & committee for investigatin the practice among druggists of pr scribing over the counter. It is allege that the custom is rapidly growing, an that in special cases patients are perm nently injured by it. THE Hartford liquor dealers, bein prohibited from selling drinks on Su1 day, announce that they will make crusade against all drug stores an hotels that violate the law, and furthe will attempt to stop the selling of mill running of horse-cars, and other kint of business that. long obsolete las forbid.
 RHODE ISLAND. THE 400 employees in the Lippit woe