Connecticut western news., 1881-04-06
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

to COuLdlu OU, UOO D t1uu4OS, c1upAOy dUOug 500 hands, and cost about $50O,000.
 WORK on the jetty at Nantucket will begin about April 10, and be pushed forward vigorously.
 THE Boston police report that 11 ,1S9 gallons of soup were furnished to 15, 254 families the past winter, all for $2, ,231, an average cost of three cents per meal.
 LEWISTON has debt of $877, ,455, a reduction of SIS, AS during the year, debt of $25O, 800, reduction of $6, 900.
 As A result of the trip of Lewiston capitalists to the Southwest, an excur- sion and colonization party is to start for Texas early next month.
 MRS. PooR of Brownfeld, age 94, widow of soldier of the war of 1872, was fatally burned the other day by her clothes catching fire from 8 stove.
 THE Journeyman Painters Associa- tion, of Boston, have decided to de- mand $2, 50 per day after April Il, and that nine hours shall constitute 8 days work on Saturdays.
 THE Lockwood company has begun the erection of 8 new cotton mill at Waterford, which has capital of $900,- GOO all subscribed, and will run 55, ,OOO spindles.
 GARDNER seems likely to have new library, about $7,000 and an excellent building site having been already given, and the mayor recommends that $15, ,OOO be raised to defray the expenses of building.
 PRIVILEGED citizens of Bangor en- ioyed the sight the other night of husband and wife, scanti]y attired, en- gagged in a go-as-you-pleaser race ln one of the principal streets. The man came out ahead and led back his erring spouse.
 THE new railroad tax law is expected to return to the State $72, ,297, the largest amount, $2O,772, coming from the Maine Central, and the smallest from the St. Croix, $2. 50. The Boston and Maine pays $17, PAP, the Eastern $15, ,334 and the Grand Trunk $1O,017. NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 CONCORD has reduced its debt $32, ,564 the past year, leaving it now $188, 129. A FRENCH Protestant church under Congregational auspices was organized at Manchester, with Rev. Gideon Aubin as pastor.
 
 building this season. Among other buildings will be a $60,00 Episcopal church and new mill.
 ONE woman went all the way from Boston to Concord to exercise her right of suffrage, and was the only woman in the school district who voted.
 ORDERS have been received at the Portsmouth navy-yard to have the United States steamship Lancaster ready for sea August 1. She is now on the marine railway, and will be launched about May 15.
 THE spiritualists of the State will celebrate their thirty third anniversary at Essex April and 8.
 THE Theodore Allen farm in Panton, consisting of 100 acres, has been sold to l.. Kent for $4, 900. l VERMONT enjoys the distinction o1 being the only Statein the Union which has no Asiatic resident
 A FARM has recently been sold ir Gas tleton for $2, 300 which the owner refused $1O, 1000 for twenty-five years ago.
 THE shirt factory at St. Albans is expected to be ready in three weeks From 500 to 800 hands will be em ployed.
 THE marble dealers of Rutland, Fair haven, Hydeville and other pla ces have met and agreed upon uniform scale of prices.
 MASSACHUSETTS.
 JOHN HARLOW, a veteran of the wal of 1872, died at Gloucester Sunday agec eighty eight.
 THE Senate of Massachusetts will in vestigate somewhat the suspected com promise with the Northampton banl burglars.
 IT IS reported that R. s. Storrs vii l be called to take Dr. Peabody's place 8 l Harvard college, upon the resignation . of the latter
 ] WoBURN complains that there ar' 8 more than 200 places in town wher l liquor is sold, less than 30 of which ar ) licensed.
 0 A MAJORITY of the committee on sal d aries of the Boston school board recon t mend a reduction in the salaries C
 teachers to the amount of $62, ,000, o f. about 5 per cent. of the amount est
 mated for salaries.
 NEW BEDFORD has a sensation in .. Portugese girl who claims to be bt 'i witched and goes off into frances e which she is endowed with the medium ~ o istic power of telling of things perso1 10 ally unknown to her. ,e WIFE beating has become so freque1 ,e in Fall River, and convictions so fey ,o on account of the wives refusing to te ,e tify, that the judges have decided
 treat such cases as any other ofen' against the law, the injured parties b a- ing held as government witnesses. ' CONNECTICUT. ,z HARTFORD journeymen tailors will d ~ mand an increase of 10 per cent. ~ their wages.
 a MYSTIC farmers are offering $25 p Il. n month for farm hands, and find the a n hard to get at that. II II JAMES A. BILL, of Lyme, will e d hibit twenty-five Angora goats at t -. -. next New England fair. 9yto THE Senate passed the bill forbiddn n dealers to sell Intoxicating liquors VI minors, drunken persons, etc. 1ir MEN arc so scarce in Enfield that 1l o dozen expert girls have been broug ;o from New York to sort tobacco. A CENSUS of the church-goers of N ed Haven on recent Sunday showed | ne GOO attendants at the Protesta ly churches and 12. 431 at the Catholic. ad IT has been decided to form civ
 service reform club in Hartford, and he committee has been appointed to ace port officers at another meeting. ch THE Hartford Landlords Associati nd has voted to advance rents now payi ed $5 to $15 per month 10 to 15 per ce wo after May 1, and higher ones in p
 portion.