The examiner., 1881-12-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The notorious Sara Bernhardt, who is starring it in southern Russia, has been insulted and stoned by anti semitic mobs.
 At the establishment of Linus T. Fenn. 2O5 Main street, is an attractive display of furniture for holidays.
 Mrs. Van Cott, the woman preacher, is drawing large crowds at the Central Meth odist church Norwich.
 The Connecticut Bible Society has made donation of forty Bibles to the States prison at Wethersfeld.
 In Texas, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, Bourbon bones are receiving a rattling.
 Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen has been confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of State.
 A Penny Press (daily) has been started in Meriden. We hope 1t is not of the ''Peny-wise ard Pound-foolish" sort. Trains on the New York and New Eng land road between this city and the Hud- son began running regularly Monday. There were three incendiary fires in New Haven Sunday night. At one of these three fremen were injured by the fall of wall.
 
 | order for an equestrian statue of Washing ton to be erected at Philadelphia to cost s27OO.
 A young lady named Anna Parnell has lately come to visit our city. She is the guest of MT. and Mrs. Henry O'Connor of Queen St.
 Thirty freshmen in the scientific school of Yale college will leave, part of them cfo ho for recitations.
 Fearful storms have prevailed at sea, and near the west coast of England great number of vessels. mostly small ones have been wrecked.
 The American Tea Co.,, B Asylum St, 7, are giving away for the holidays very useful article called 8 coffee perculator, to each of their patrons.
 Dakota raised 9,8O2, ,OO0 bushels of wheat this year against 1880, 900 in 1879, and claims that ''eyerything has increased in the same proportion" The East Hartford streets were lighted for the first time Tuesday evening. The streets of Hartford have been lighted for many years, yet darkness prevails as much as ever.
 Thomas Mast int1s that there is more money in lead pencil than in gold mine. He has recently sunk $40, ,OOO in an alleged bonanza, and good pencil costs only ten cents.
 Town Treasurer Strong has paid $46, 991. 83 into the county treasury, being the amount of tax laid on the grand list of Hartford toward building the new county court house.
 Col. John W. Forney died in Philadel phia last Friday morning at the age of GA. He has been very prominent as an Editor and for seven years was Secretary of the l United States Senate. 8. Iverson, alias George Nelson, one of the masked burglars who attempted to rob | Tax Collector TwitchelI at Beacon Falls l Nov. 2S, was arrested at Boston Saturday and sent to Connecticut. Gen. Judson Fitzpatrick our minister to Chili, died on Sunday, Dec. A.. at Santiago at the age of 46, lacking few days. He won distinction in the late war as cavalry commander, and since the war as a politi- clan.
 Governor Bigelow spent Sunday in Hartford, being the guest of MT. H. T. Sperry, although the latter gentleman never shouldered torch in his behalf during the whole campaign.
 The committee appointed on the erec- tion of soldiers monument have decided in favor of 8 triumphal arch, at one of th ? park entrances, the work including solid and substantial stone bridge for public use.
 MT. Dwight Porter of Hartford is pre- pairing his report for the census bureau at Washington, giving the water power statistics throughout the country. We do A Railroad Stocks or not.
 The burglar Gillepsie pleaded guilty ard was sentenced to State prison for ten years. The colored man Thomas received sentence for twenty years to the same in- stitution. He was proved to be the man who assaulted the servant at the house of Dr. Russell.
 The lady of the White House will be Mrs. John Davis, daughter of ex-Senator and future Secretary of State Frelinghuy- sen, and the wife of President Arthurs private secretary. She is regaaded as fled for her new social duties.
 Thirteen men were burned to death early Saturday morning in boarding house on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad, seven miles from Pittsburg, Pa, and of 37 who escaped many are badly burned. These are traps generally built by the R. R. Company and of course are outside the supervision ol law.
 Reports of the locust plague in Western | Turkey seem almost incredible. The | government is said to have collected and | destroyed ,620 tons of young locusts, and | the consequent saving in the district of Konia alone is estimated at $6, $50, 900. | The suffering among the natives, from 1 loss of haryests, is very great.
 The trial of the Malley boys will begin in New Havan at the criminal term of the superior court, which opens in that city on the third of January. Judge Hitchcock will preside during the term. Both sides claim to have discovered since the West Haven trial much important evidence, and among other things it is said that the state has positive proof that Jennie Cramer was alive on Friday night, August 5, which was the night before her dead body was found on the beach. The defense have claimed that her death must have occcurred Thurs