Connecticut western news., 1881-06-01
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

MAINE.
 ONE hundred men, who camp in 8 tent 100 feet long, are rapidly extending the Eastern railroad to Old Orchard.
 ENGLISH capitalists have bought the Ruby King mine, owned by Col. Holt of Portland, for $75O, ,00O. It is in Colo rado, and a competent engineer pro- nounces it unusually rich.
 A HANDFUL of glycerine cartridges ex- ploded in Robert Rays pocket as he was entering carriage at Medway, one going through his wrist, and another being stopped by his watch, which it completely smashed, while two others shot the driver in his back and feet.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE. or CHESHIRE county is clamoring for some of the offices in the next Legisla- ture, saying it is always right and al ways ignored. s.-
 H. M. WARREN of Chester put letter in barrel of apples that he sent to market last fall, asking an answer from the buyer, and recently got letter from Birmingham, Eng, where the apples were sold.
 THE remains of Lady Blanche Murphy, the writer, who recently died at Con way, N. H., have been taken to Boston and shipped to Liverpool. They will be placed in the family vault on the estate of her father by the side of her mother, who died many years ago. -.a E.
 VERMONT. Cows are sold in Addison county at $25 to $50 per head, and hay at $14 and $16 per ton.
 FATHER MA1oNEY of Bennington has assumed charge of the parishes of Mid dlebury and Bristol.
 WEST RANDOLPH has typhoid pnet- monia epidemic, several persons having died and others being severely sick.
 SEVENTEENTH thousand dollars have already been subscribed by residents of Middlebury to establish 8 cotton mill.
 A wATER-sPoUT broke on Mt. Mans field recently, carrying away several bridges and ruining one road beyond repair.
 Co1. ALBERT CLARKE of St. Albans makes the Decoration day address at Weybridge, and ex-Governor Proctor at Cambridge. ..s-
 THE cotton mills at Middlebury will be enlarged and stock company with $2OO, GOO formed, employing 300 hands. years, until recently.
 THERE is quite a colony of the "Hicksite" branch of Quakers in South Starksboro, and William Allen, col ored man, is now holding series of meetings in their meeting house.
 THE Montreal and Vermont Junction Railroad Company has elected John c. Baker, of Stanbridge, President, ex- Gov. Smith e-President, and A. H. Gilmour Secretary and Treasurer.
 BATH wants to try iron ship-building in spite of the tariff. At recent meet ing of business men there $1OO, GOO was pledged for an iron ship yard, and a committee was appointed to raise $200,- GOO more by subscription.
 CURTIS BARRETT of Strafford drove his COWS home with 8 balm of GIead sprout, 30 years ago, and then planted it. It is now 82 feet high and eight feet in circumference two feet from the ground, and from one of its roots has SAOWA b4O0 OU AOOb MASSACHUSETTS,. ATTLEBoRo has appropriated 1925, ,000 to build two High School houses.
 THE Boston hod-carriers and plaster CTS have struck for an advance in wages.
 THE centennial of the Massachusetts medical society will be celebrated al Harvard university June 2.
 THE Boston Common Council, con. curing with the Aldermen, elected Al. fred T. Turner City Treasurer.
 JUDGE NATHAN CROSBY, aged eighty. | five, has just finished half a century as I justice of the Lowell police court, and says he means to hold the place some time yet.
 JOSEPH W. CLARK has given $1O,00( to the Episcopal association for the re- lief of aged and infirm clergymen at Boston, as memorial to Randolph M Clark, its former treasurer.
 THE Old Colony railroad company has arranged system of night signals by drawing colored curtains over tn, headlights of the engines, giving st strong 8 light that blunders are hardly possible.
 A PARTY of Lynn men, headed b, George z. Collins, are making & rathe unsuccessful war on liquor dealers. b, urging the abutters of buildings of ap plicants to protest against granting them licenses.
 CONNECTICUT.
 THE New Haven aldermen have ap propriated $1, 800 for free public vac cination.
 THE Portland butchers having forme, 8 combination to raise the price of meat the customers are boycotting them b, eating less of it.
 CITIZENS propose that New Have shall buy the water works from the pri vate water company for $2,OOO,O 900, bu there Is 8 strong opposition to shoul dering so great 8 debt. DAVID ALLEN TowNER of Bosto fatally shot himself at Middletown, an was found dead on his mothers gray in the cemetery, having left a note fo h1s uncle telling him his intentions. H was business man and well connected Il RHODE ISLAND. l THE rinderpest is fatally attackin cattle at Pawtuxet.
 THE striking Fall River puddlers al making it hot for two men who hay resumed work, though they have nc i touched them, and say that they won work now under any consideration ii