Connecticut western news., 1881-06-15
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE,


 MAINE.
 FRANK LACHEUR was arrested at Lewis ton for being too much married, having won the hand of Lowell (Mass.) girl, while he had wife and child at Calais. BRocKToN parties are manufacturing new kind of shoe having a sole pro- jecting ee-quarters of an inch be- yond the upper leather, and adapted to use on the western prairies, where the tow-like grass cuts the upper of an ordinary shoe in short time.
 THE lumber business bids fair to be very large this year, owing to the logs floating freely to the booms. Four thousand men are employed on the Penobscot, half of them French Cana dians. The mining craze which emptied so many purses 8 year or two ago, has subsided, and poor people are no longer jostling each other in their attempts to buy stocks.
 THE sixth session of the summer school of biology, under the auspices of the Peabody Academy of Science, will open at Salem, July 21, and con- tinue four weeks. An interesting course of instruction has been arranged. The school is designed expressly for teach CTS, and affords them an excellent opportunity for study and investigation. In information about the school can be obtained from Edward s. Morse of Salem.
 VERMONT.
 THERE are lots of bears on the noun tains west of Randolph.
 DR. JAMES GIBSON JOHNSON, of Rut- land, breaches the baccalaureate sermon at St. Johnsbury Academy.
 THE State Editors and Publishers Association meets at Bellows Falls on the 28th, L. o. Green, of the Wood stock Standard, giving the oration and Rev. MT. Green, of Ludlow, the poem.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 REPRESENTATIVES of Strafford county, N. H., and York md Cumberland coun. ties, Me-, and others, will hold Fair al Dover ill September.
 THE Amoskeag corporation at Man chester recently awarded a contract tc build seven boarding houses, each two and a half stories high and 196 by 34 feet in size, having sixteen tenements in each block One million feet of lum. her, $500, 900 bricks, 2,3OO doors and 1900 windows will be used. MASSACHUSETTS.
 FRANKLIN FULLER has got a verdict oi $6, 165 against the Boston and Albany railroad for damages received by having his foot crushed by a locomotive a Boston last October.
 THE graduating exercises of the In stitute of Technology occurred on Fri day at Boston. Rev. James Freeman Clarke made an address, and MT Rogers, the retiring president, said hi adieus.
 REV. T. P. WATERS, of Ipswich, wht recently accepted call to the Broadway Orthodox Church, at Somerville, ha withdrawn his acceptance, saying tha he has discovered in his present churcl Ca universal warmth of affection" to ward him that he didn't know anything about, and thinks he'd better stay.
 D. R. NUDGE and James l.. Little offer to take $50, ,000 of the bonds is sued to build the Exhibition building O. the New England Manufacturers anC Mechanics Institute, if the friends of thu Institute of Technology will take a
 
 the whole $10O,O00 be given to that in stitution.
 APHILANTHRoPIc victim of Mrs. Howe's Ladies' Deposit Bank, and one of tn heaviest losers, tells the Boston Heralc that the poor dear woman was not bad but only foolish, and asks "why all thi hue and cry is raised about Mrs. Howe when all those Boston men whose who'll object is to swindle are allowed to g scot free"
 SI1As CUTLER, of Burlington, next t. the oldest postmaster Tn the Unite' States, has resigned. He was appointe' tl 1882, and his salary has never reachet $40 year. He says in a letter to tn Postmaster General: "I have been post master here for nearly fifty years. am getting old and feeble, and wish t be relieved of the care of the office, ant should like, as soon as may be, my dis charge cannot find any one here wh is disposed to take the office for tn compensation I have received" Tn office has accordingly been discontinued
 CONNECTICUT.
 THE Connecticut Spiritualists don like the camp-meeting grounds at Lak Pleasant, ana are trying to raise p4 ,UO to buy lot at Mantle.
 WHILE a minister was preaching a Waterbury, the other day, the lightning made the telephone wire near the pulpi snap like percussion cap, and IS actual ly said to have walked up the deacons.
 JULIUS STRONG, Hartford farm Ia borer, recently said to his employer ''You may find me dead when you com back" and shortly afterward he wa found dead in the barn, with no indica tion of suicide or murder
 Ar recent meeting of the New Have County Farmers Club J. J. Webb wen for the genteel tramps with high boot and $50 guns who shoot robins, yellow hammers and even chipping birds, dc Ing the farmers irretrievable injury. Tn more we have of this kind of talk tn hakfnP