Connecticut western news., 1881-03-30
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

prohibitory constitutional amendment.
 MANY members of the Legislature think that a session will be necessary next winter. 7@ @
 THE annual session of the grand lodge of Good Templars of the State will be held in Portland April 26 and 27.
 SOME wealthy citizens of Bangor have petitioned the Legislature for a charter for woolen or cotton factory to be put up there, with 8 capital of $1, 1,0O0,000. tss
 A CENSUS of the church going popula- tion of Portland was taken recently, and it was found that while there are IT, ,175 seats in the Protestant churches of Portland, only 8,021 persons occupied them. This is 8 better record than most cities would make.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 THE Governor and Council have ap- pointed April 2 as Fast-day.
 THE statue of Gen. Prescott by Story Is so we'll advanced that it will be un- yelled on Bunker Hill June IT,
 THE Catholic colonization company of Boston will send out forty families for Nebraska the 27th.
 THE White Mountain freezer con- pany, whose workshops were recently burned at Laconia, will locate at Nashua if the city council will grant ten years exemption from taxation.
 JACOB CARTER, survivor of the war of 1872, and postmaster of Concord from 1853 to 1860, is dead. He was prominent Mason, being the oldest Sir Knight in New Hampshire, and had been member of the Legislature.
 A TOTAL ABSTINENCE convention, called by 500 Massachusetts clergymen of different denominations, has agreed to ask for an amendment to the State Constitution similar to the cast iron one just adopted by Kansas, preventing both the manufacture and sale of in- toxicating liquors.
 THE Supreme Court has decided in favor of the constitutionality of the law taxing church property in excess of $10,000, holding that exemption is 8 privilege, rather than legal right. It has also rendered decision for the plaintiff in the equity suit of the Ashue- lot against the Cheshire railroad, where by the latter has to pay 5000 to the plaintiff in certain bonds.
 VERMONT.
 PAw1KT is to have a handsome new town hall, built partly by private sub- scription. -
 THE St. Albans rolling mill is turn ing out from seventy-fve to eighty tons of steel rails daily.
 THE little town of Baltimore has de clined so much in wealth that it has had no school for two years. .-
 IT IS estimated that over 200 tons of hay have been purchased of Addison county farmers during the past winter and drawn across Lake Champlain.
 LAND-1ocKED salmon are becoming plentiful in Lake Champlain, whose waters were stocked by the Vermont fish commission five or six years ago.
 VERMONT has had fifteen hangings since 1779, of which ten have been since 1864. There are now three persons awaiting execution. Carr, who is to be hanged next month, and Almon and Mrs. Meeker.
 THE sugar season has opened unusu- ally early and active. The " first run" was excellent, selling for shilling 8 pound, while the best syrup stands at 85 cents and $1 per gallon, prices that indicate bountiful supply.
 IT IS expected that l,500 teachers will attend the fifty second annual meeting of the American Institute of July 5-8. President Garfield and the Governors of several States have been invited.
 MASSACHUSETTS.
 SIXTEEN miles of track have been laid on the Massachusetts Central Railro between Hudson and Boston.
 TRAVEL has already set in towards Martha's Vineyard, and several families have arrived for the summer.
 BEVERLY and Marblehead, which used to send 100 fishing 'schooners to the ly dozen vessels.
 THE State Sabbath Committee has issued circular to all the clergymen in the State, calling for remonstrances against the Sunday train law.
 EAST BOSTON has not patronized the free soup much this winter, which is taken as showing 8 marked improve ment among the poor of the district.
 THE first annual meetinglof the league of American bicyclers will be held at Bos- ton May 30. There is to be parade, in which 500 are expected to take part.
 SUBSCRIPTIONS to the building fund of the Boston Young Mems Christian As sociation now amounts to $136, 815, leaving $38, 1855 still to be raised.
 AN Ipswich man, whose house was burned in 1860, has just discovered that an insurance policy which he supposed had lapsed was good, and the company have paid the amount of the insurance.
 WORK on the exhibition building of the New England manufacturers and mechanics institute at Boston progress ses rapidly. The iron trusses for the roof are being put up. There are al- ready between 500 and 600 applications for space, generally for large exhibits.
 CONNECTICUT.
 THE Connecticut Reporters Associa- tion will hold it's annual meeting at Hartford April 15.
 MRS. SUSAN R. HUSTON of Taunton, Mass, has given $1, 900 in aid of pub lie library in Meriden.
 GEN. WEAVER of presidential renown will speak early next month in New Haven, Hartford and the other cities of the State.
 THERE is said to be no law in Con- necticut against "bob" veal, and several carcasses of it have recently been sold n New Haven.
 THE widow of Alexander G. Cutler of Norwich, victim of the Narragan- sett disaster, cannot obtain an insurance of several thousand dollars on his life, because his body cannot be found.
 THE executive committee of the State Agricultural Society has fixed upon Meriden as the place for the next an