Connecticut western news., 1881-01-26
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE,

MAINE.
 MIR. RILEY KITTREDGE, of Belfast, | Me-, wrote President Hayes's message, 663O words, on an ordinary postal card.
 Gov. PLAIsrED declared in his | inaugural that the law for the imprison- ment of debtors is the chief cause of the | emigration from that state.
 IT COSTS to cut ice on the Penobscot and Kennebec rivers from fourteen to twenty-two cents ton fifty cents to load 1t on vessels, and about $l. 50 to freight 1t to market.
 THE Trustees of the Maine Insane Hospital report that there were 419 patients in the hospital at the beginning of the year, and 436 at its close, the largest number ever recorded.
 THE ship Charlotte w. White, mostly owned in Belfast, William P. Dye of Castine captain, is supposed to be lost with all her crew, as it has not been heard from since October 19, when it left St. John, N. B., for Liverpool.
 MORE than 600 boys in all parts of amounting to $500 offered by Stillman corn raised by boy under IS on one-
 
 Stockton, received the first prize of $2OO, raising 2,256 pounds, and Frank l.. Jordan, of Brunswick, the second of $50, with 1885 pounds.
 THE ice-men of Maine had good luck this past season, and sold fully l ,0OO, 900 tons of their pl loduct, bringing into the State $1, 100000, perhaps more They are again making preparations for housing an enormous quantity of ice The prospect is that l, 800, ,00O tons of ice will be cut and stored the present winter. The work both on the Kennebec and the Penobscot is in Progress.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 CONCORD is again to have the carrier delivery system as an adjunct to its Post-office July l.
 OF $27S, ,000 worth of internal revenue collected in the State the past year, about $20O, 900 came from Portsmouth.
 BENJAMIN H. PooR, Democratic Rep resentative from Bath, has had notice served upon him that his seat will be contested.
 THE skeletons of three children, seem- ingly about @ year old, were recently found in bale of foreign rags at the new paper-mill at Claremont.
 Cor. JOSEPH CIL1EY, of Nottingham, has just celebrated his 90th birthday He is 8 veteran of 1872, having received 8 wound at Lundy's Lane from which he still suffers, and was a member of the United States Senate in 1S46-7, being elected to fill the unexpired term of Levi Woodbury. He is in full pos session of his mental faculties, and takes great interest in the news of the day.
 VERMONT.
 THE Dorset marble company, with a capital stock of $500, ,O0O, has been or ganized at East Dorset.
 THE Vermont poultry show will be held at Rutland, February IA. It is expected to be the largest ever held in Vermont.
 WITH the reduction of Congressional districts one of the State normal schools, probably the one at Johnson, will have to be given up.
 } IT is said that the selection of the two companies to go to the Yorktown (Va. centennial will be decided by con- petitive drill, and ambitious companies are already drilling. THERE are eighty-fve boys and seven teen girls in the reform school at Yer gennes, and its expenses have been $39, 1884, of which $25, 738 has come from the State Treasury. 7 A LITTLE GIRL in Bethel has swallow : ed 8 nickel. which has stuck in her throat and is graphically described as acting like a stove-damper. She can l swallow liquids and small mouthfuls of ) food, but large ones turn the penny and close the passage.
 MASSACHUSETTS. ) GEN. BANKS has accepted the presi- dency of the Boston Club, formerly the Banks Club.
 GEORGE LANES of Melrose has sold l his trotter "Florence to w. P. Balch :, :, of Boston for $10,000. Her best time is 2.254.
 ALL THE shoe factories at South Abingdon are being pushed with orders. The tack factories also have all the busi- ness they can attend to. 3 THE First Baptist Church of Fall . River will celebrate it's centennial next f month. J. D. Dawley, of Boston, for l merly of Fall River, is writing history g of the church.
 BETWEEN the city of Lawrence and Lake Winnipiseogee there is power t equivalent to 5000 horses, half ot which is running to waste. The en- Q ployment of this power has built up Lawrence, Lowell and Manchester. THE evangelical Baptist benevolent y and missionary society has decided to ) put third mortgage on Fremont tenn ! pie, Boston, of 1925, ,O0O. The other two | mortgages are of $50, ,00O and $35, coo, I though $1O,0OO of the latter has not = been used.
 5 ALL BUT one of the Hopkinton boot 2 factories are running with most of their s help employed, and many who have r been absent from town during the past winter have returned. It is predicted a that the year will be much more pros- porous than 1880.
 l THE Irish moss business of Scitua te . has assumed large proportions. Dur 3 ing the past season, out of 1856 barrels D gathered and cured, all but 400 barrels have been sold, yielding not far from : $25, ,0O0. The season was particularly l profitable for the moss gatherers.
 CONNECTICUT.
 THERE are Ill petitions for divorce on file in the superior court at New Haven. , NEW HAVEN records 1, 745 births, 1, 154 , deaths and 563 marriages the past year. , THE churches in Hartford have taken