Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.

is to be built at Augusta.
 A MILL fol making bags has just been begun at Richmond, with a capital o1 $12O,OOO
 A TEMPERANCE camp-meeting will be held by all the State organizations al Lake Maranocook in July.
 THE Maine historical society last fall began uncovering the foundations of all old fort at Castine, supposed to be Baron de Castine's. The excavations made disclose lines of old stone walls, an old well, stone pavements, stone steps leading to underground chambers, iron hinges, and implements.
 VERMONT.
 BARRE is to have new Odd Fellows Lodge, and one is also to be organized at West Randolph. NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 EDGAR A1DR1cH will deliver the Decoration Day address at Littleton. REV. B. F. LAWRENCE of Brunswick, Me-, accepts call to the Baptist church at Meriden.
 Rev. M. V. B. Knox, of Claremont, gives the Decoration Day address at Haverhill, and Rev. J. w. Adams at Newport.
 FISH COMMISSIONER POWERS has nearly 300, 900 newly matched fish at the State matching house, which he is now dis tributing.
 The annual communication of the New Hampshire Masonic grand lodge, held at Concord, elected Frank A. Nc Kean, of Nashua, grand master.
 ABOUT 100 journeymen painters at Manchester have notified their employ CTS that they will strike May 21 for $2 per day, an advance of 50 cents.
 THE Governor has pardoned George Wilson and Edward Keene, both sen- fenced to eight years, the former for rape and the latter for mansIaughter. MASSACHUSETTS.
 THE Fall River sp1nners have raised $500 to start 8 cooperative store.
 THE Lowell plasterers who struck ten days ago have had their wages raised to $2.75 g day.
 THE American electric company, of Boston, has been chartered, having capital of $12,0O0.
 THE Boston aldermen voted to concur with the city council in appropriating $15, 900 for the Fourth of July.
 THE daughter of Henry Beyor of Highgate was killed recently by having her head crushed with a heavy field roller.
 SEVEN hundred and fifty dollars have been subscribed for the Gilbert Haven memorial window in the Peoples Church at Boston.
 DURING March and April the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren considered 209 cases, embracing 463 children who had been neglected or otherwise cruelty treated.
 WENDELL PHILLIPS will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard this year, and Charles Godfrey Leland the poem. Joseph H. Choate of New York will preside.
 THE son of Rev. J. A. Buckingham of Newton, who ran away to avoid marry ing Miss Benton of Hanover, NIL, has been heard from. He says that the responsibility of the undertaking was too much for him, as his income was only $6 week.
 THE Sunday Moil of Boston recently printed reflection on Dr. Paganini, West-end physician, and he brought AOOA SuAO AOA R4O,OUO, Oub uuO1uS UuO property mortgaged, he bought the mortgage and foreclosed Saturday, as the Mail says, 'gobbling up every stick, type, chair, scrap of paper and even the proof sheets of the paper" GEORGE w. NUDGE, of Lynn, ad- dressed the shoe and leather dealers of Boston Wednesday evening in regard to their exhibits at the coming fair of the New England manufacturers and me- chanics' institute, saying it would be the largest ever held, and that the shoe and leather business of Massachusetts rep- resented $S9, ,375, ,792. .... CONNECTICUT.
 Ex-Gov. HUBBARD makes the Decora tion-day address at New Haven.
 THE pharmacy commission will hold it's first meeting in Hartford June 7 to decide the fitness of druggists and assistants for their work.
 Ex-Gov. HUBBARD of Hartford paid $30 for the first Connecticut river salmon of the season recently, and gave it to Oliver Hoyt of Stamford.
 THE State Homeopathic Medical So- ciety at Hartford elected H. M. Bishop of Norwich president, and W. B. Dun ming of Hartford president.
 FISH Commissioner Hudson has or dered 146, 800 land-locked salmon, that have recently been matched at Vest port, to be placed in the various waters of the State.
 THE majority of the senior class of Yale College intend to be lawyers, 8 large number physicians and 8 very few ministers. A small number will get married and go abroad as soon as they graduate, while some will teach and others go into journalism.
 RHODE ISLAND.
 BROWN University will graduate forty two students.
 OVER one hundred summer cottages have been rented at Newport, and the season promises to be very brilliant one.
 THE Ninty-frst annual meeting of the Masonic grand lodge of Rhode Island was held in Providence, Monday, and Thomas Vincent of Westerly was elected grand master.