Connecticut western news., 1881-04-27
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.

ANAH'N~~ $5, ,239 to iquidate its debt of $5,OOO Sunday.
 PHYSIQUE ISLE has voted $10,000 to the Aroostook River railway company If it will extend its road to that place.
 THE capital stock, $40, for new woolen mill at Sangerville has been sub- scribed, and work will begin immediate ly.
 EAST CoR1NTH is greatly excited be- cause citizen has absconded with his step daughter, leaving wife and three children.
 IT IS estimated that Auburn shoe manufacturers will save $50, 900 year | by the expiration of the Mckay patent, for sewing shoes, next August. THE Supreme Court has just decided that hotel-keeper is not responsible for any property stolen from guest in bathing-house belonging to the hotel.
 THE little town of Kittery has a 1 public library fund of $31, ,625, whose l income for the year was $2,2O4, while Gov. Ichabod Goodwin has been re- elected president.
 SUICIDE in Maine, instead of increas- | ing as other crimes have, is reported by the Portland Transcript to be less frequent now than 25 years ago, the number now in 8 year being actually less than then, notwithstanding the in crease of population. NEW HAMPSHIRE. NAHUM ROBINSON has resigned as deputy warden of the State prison and is succeeded by Thomas A. Pillsbury. Ex-Gov. SMITH has offered to the students of the agricultural college prizes of $25 and $15 for the best essays on subjects connected with agricultural or the mechanic arts, the same for excel fence in elocution, and prizes of $12 and $8 for excellence in reading. Ir APPEARS that Lady Blanche Mur. phy, who recently died in North Con, way, did not elope with her husband, as has been stated, but her father was present at the wedding and gave he1 away, and wanted to help her in her new life. This she always refused, however. VERMONT.
 NoRTHF1E1D will start up it's slate mil to get out material for the State prison building at Windsor.
 ris expected that Rutlands grand list of $40, GOO will be raised to $100, GOO under the new tax law. THERE are some fifty churches in the rebellious Burlington district of the Troy Conference, and 15O in the Yer mont Conference.
 THE returns of the sav1ngs banks fol the first quarter of the year show an in crease in deposits of 1862, 745. Perhaps the new tax law has something to dc with it.
 LAWYERS Davenport of Brattleboro and Eddy of Bellows. Falls have issued a circular in which they claim that the income of government bonds is taxable under the new State tax law, but ex-Judge Barret holds the opposite opinion.
 A DANv1L1E church had sensation Fast day, when the minister denounced promenade concerts and summer board. CTS as corrupting to the morals of the citizens of that village. One of the brethren arose in church and defended | these demoralizing influences, and the sympathy of the town is with him. MASSACHUSETTS.
 GEN. A. F. STEVENS will deliver the Memorial day address at Plymouth. THE new town of Wellesley at it's first town meeting ungallantly refused tc elect a woman member of the schoo committee.
 THE authorities of Lawrence find that of 42 samples of vinegar examined 15 contained sulphuric acid and were uuft to be used.
 THE building fund of the Boston Young Mems Christian Association now amounts to $142, ,792, and they ask fol $32, POS more.
 THE salaries for the city officers ot Boston for the coming year aggregate $126, 15O, an increase of $11, ,891, over the salaries now paid.
 THREE firms are now engaged in can ming Boston baked beans, and their an nual production is not less than 1, ,000, 900 or 5,00O,0 cans. | A LARGE meeting was held in Lowel at which resolutions were unanimously adopted approving the action of tht mayor and aldermen in refusing iquo1 licenses.
 THE 106th anniversary of the Con cord fight was observed there with sa lutes of cannon, @ display of the na tional colors and partial suspension O business.
 THE Boston storage warehouse com pany, with capital of $20O, ,00O, thu Massachusetts fish exchange, with capital of $1O,0OO, and the Globe yarl mill of Fall River, with $175, ,0O0 capital have been chartered.
 | MASSACHUSETTS veterans contributed $1 ,897, or more than one-half, toward the fund for the benefit of Mrs. Cooper
 of Philadelphia, whose husband did s,
 much for the soldiers during the wa
 and afterward died ill poverty. | THE old, 9th regiment association eel
 ebrated the 20th anniversary'of its marcl
 through Baltimore at Lowell, about 10
 comrades being present besides tn
 Lowell members. The next meetin!
 will be held in. Stoneham.
 Medway school district are so displease
 at the withdrawal of a popular teache
 and the substitution of another tha
 they have "boy ycotted the latter, and
 though he opens school daily, tn
 benches remain empty.
 l CONNECTICUT.
 THE Hartford rowing club has dis
 banded and will sell allits property. A COMPANY for the manufacture (
 cold-air machines, by which ice is rer
 dered unnecessary for purposes of freez ing meats, etc., has been formed in Ne Haven.
 PLANS for the establishment of a pel ) manent professorship of ecclesiastics music ill the Hartford Theological Sen mary have been matured and provisio
 made for it's support. THE semi-annual report of the Catholi