Connecticut western news., 1881-03-09
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

MAINE is said to be the only State which never lost flag by capture during the late war.
 THE town of Bridegton has voted by 375 to 53 to appopriate $40, 900 toward the construction of railroad from Bridegton to Portland.
 THE Insurance Commissioner states that of the 89 fire and marine compa- nies doing business in the State in 1880 II paid out for losses more than their whole receipts in premiums.
 THE present numbering season, which | is just closing, has been the most pros- porous for years, and it is estimated | that 15O, ,0O0,0 feet of logs will be driven into the booms this year.
 THE city council of Portsmouth have l granted exemption from taxation for | ten years to the projectors of cotton | manufactory which it is intended to build there at cost of $5OO,O or more. Frank Jones, the brewer, is one I of the projectors.
 MEMBERS of the Legislature interested in commerce have held meeting for the purpose of forming the Maine Ship owners and Ship masters Association. The corporators comprise some of the
  State. They will apply to the Legisla- ture for a charter.
 IT is charged that much of the mis management of the State Insane Asylum is due to the fact that there is too much politics about it. All the trustees but two, and one of those a woman, are active stalwarts, and it is said that the most menial employees in the asylum are discharged if they do not vote the right ticket.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 THE annual meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic for New Hamp- shire at Plymouth has elected the follow ing officers Commander, Col. Martin A. Haynes of Lake Village; senior vice commander, Col. D. M. White of Peter boro junior vice commander, Thomas Ellis of Ian caster.
 LABoRERs repairing St. Johns Church ju Portsmouth recently discovered small cavity behind an old sounding board, in which was bottle of liquor, | some pennies, and piece of wood bear ing the date of the erection, 1908. The church members of that date evidently didn't have very strict views on the | liquor question.
 THE terms of the recent munifcent bequest of $180,00O by the late John M. Pinkcrton of Boston to the Pinker- ton Academy at Derry are that the trustees shall hold it in trust, until the interest, with the exception of yearly annuity of $3,20O to Q relative, shall amount to $50, ,000, when building, costing not more than that sum, shall be erected.
 BENNINGTON has & debt of $242, ,O29, a reduction of $19,36S during the past year.
 l DANvIL1E has man who has lived on the same farm fifty two years, has never been more than twenty-six miles from home, and has never ridden in a stage coach or railroad car.
 | MASSACHUSETTS.
 THE plasterers of Boston and their helpers have struck, the former for $3 per day and the latter for $25O.
 SENATOR HoAR of Massachusetts will deliver the oratien at the commence menu exercises of the Yale law school in Jrne.
 THE estate 581, 5S3 and 585 Wash iugton street, Boston, assessed at $S3, GOO. and on which there is mort gage of $6O, ,000, sold for $135, 200 to F. G. Barnes.
 MRS. ISABELLA PIGEON of Fall River, who was reported some time ago as having fallen heir to large fortune in England, finds that she cannot get it and has resumed her occupation as weaver.
 T. W. GREENsLITT, editor of the late DanielGonville (Conn.) Sentinel, has taken charge of the editorial depart ment of the Webster, Mass, Times. MY. Gleenslitt is an editor of large experience and ability.
 A MYSTERIOUS detective claims to know the real murderer of Mrs. Clue, for kill ing whom Stearns K Abbott is now under sentence of deatl,, ard claims to have the clothes and photograph of the real criminal, and also the pair of shoes which fitted the tracks in the snow. He is confident that Abbott will be released.
 TIE Hs; yard Crimson tells the follow ing s;o Y Of how the S10O, 900 was given fot tke rev law school: President Bostoo, met n old gentlemen we'll huONu hOE 1t'o llOeidhtH IpWdlu GAo COl' leSe. As they passed each other, the "Well, vrct do yoa want now? The "A new law school. A few days ai;er tie President 1eceived an in- vitatioA to lunch. Ate. t?king lunch alone with his host, Ghey sat talk ing about general college matters q Il e 1o Il brought rp. When asked what amount would De needed for tie new building, the President named $100,000. His host excused himself for moment, and } soon 1etHrped to the room with papers wbicl gave "$100, ,000 to Harvard Uni } versity for 8 new law school building. , CONNECTICUT. RECENT sales of tobacco in Southing ton have ranged from II to 15 cents pel pound, in Ellington from IA to 15 cent. l and in Sufield from 15 to 16 cents. A WOMAN tried for drunkenness in New Haven court the other day, com plained that her brother had informed against her simply that he might us. the witness fee to play policy. : THE keel for $35,OOO three-mastet schooner has been laid in Fair Haven TEE Senate has rejected bill pro posing to re-enact the old prohibition, , law of 1856. The House has rejected } the bill substituting imprisonment fo life for capital punishment, and has passed the bill making the penalty fol forgery not more than five years. RHODE ISLAND. PRESIDENT HAYES appointed as cade' at large Edgar Bonaparte, son of Jerom Bonaparte of Newport and grandson | of Daniel Webster.
 s A BILL has been introduced in thu Legislature making marriage a civi