Connecticut western news., 1881-03-16
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
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THE House has refused to concur with the Senate in keeping the State elections in September. NEAL Dow made complaint against seventeen places. in Portland where he thought liquor was sold. In five of them liquor was found.
 THE executive council has rejected all the appointments of the Governor, to holding that he has no power to remove except by the approval of the council. THE Senate has passed 8 resolution directing the governor and council to join with the Maine soldiers and sailors association in inviting President Gar field to. o.atte1id the reunion in the sum-
 AN autopsy on the body of the late Col. Waldron of the Lewistown Gazette revealed in his right lung large leaden slug, which had been there ever since the battle of Gettysburg, and probably caused his death.
 NEAL Dow has filed protest with the county commissioners of Cumber- land county against the payment of the deputy sheriffs, on the ground that they have not done their duty In regard to the liquor traffic, and therefore are not entitled to pay.
 THE city council of Portsmouth have granted exemption from taxation for ten years to the projectors of cotton manufactory which it is intended to build there at 6 cost of $500,00 or more. Frank Jones, the brewer, is one of the projectors.
 THE executive committee of the soldiers and sailors association of the State have voted to invite President Garfield to be present at the reunion of Maine veterans next summer, and also to ask the Legislature and Governor and Council to unite in the affair and make the president the guest of the State.
 - - NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 AN extensive bed of kaolin has been discovered in Kittery.
 SOME one unknown has given 1000 volumes to the Deerfeld library.
 ABOUT 8OO,OOO young fish will be placed in the waters of the State this year by the fish commissioners,m most of them salmon.
 THE State Senate has rejected Con- stitutional Amendment changing the time of the State election from Septem- Der to November 6.
 THE Adiutant- General of the State gives the military strength of Maine as ,024 men, of whom Fl are officers. The number of men in the State liable to military duty is 79,3SS.
 A BILL has been presented in the House providing for the repeal of the Constitutional Amendment making ses- sio11s of the Legislature biennial A number of banks ask to be incorporated.
 THE Temperance Association of Rock ingham County has passed o resolution looking to a Constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of distilled and fermented liquors, except cider.
 THE superintendent of schools of Manchester reports that five of the pub lie schools there are all French, and that in the primary schools French children constitute more than forty four per cent. of the whole number, and in the middle schools twenty one per cent.
 THE Chase mansion in Portsmouth, one of the oldest and most interesting in that historic town, Is soon to pass under the auctioneer's hammer. It has been in the possession of the family over 125 years, and was the scene of an enter tainment to Washington when he visited Pot tsmouth in 17S9. The last descend ant of the Chase family has just died, m ing the sale necessary.
 VERMONT.
 OF 257 women in Burlington entitled to vote at the recent election only sixteen did so.
 ABoUTa quarter of the Vermont towns have elected women as superintendents of schools. 5 | ST. JoHNsBURY has voted to continue it's hquor agency, but to publish the names of those buying of it. DIPHTHERIA is doing frightful work at Leicester Junction, four out of five chil- dren having died in one family.
 FARM wages are expected to be higher this season than for some time past. Farmers are already making contracts at from SIS to $22 per month.
 BRATT1EBoRo has debt of $82, 563, and has made 8 reduction of 5000 during the year. Putney, with debt of $10,7 ,762, has made @ reduction o1 .$2, ,O66. ...-..--e
 FIVE hundred voters in Burlington have signed paper calling for an en- forcement of the prohibitory law and pledging their personal aid. Another paper, signed by 1,284 women, has the same end in view.
 IF ALL Vermont towns were like Now port, with its record of 34 marriages, 3G deaths and 53 births for last year, the census returns for the State would make different showing.
 | THE Campbell mansion recently burned in Windsor was over 100 years old, and, in the course of 8 somewhat eventful history, had seen President . Monroe as 8 visitor there in 1877.
 MASSACHUSETTS.
 NEwBURYPoRT expects to introduce the Holly system of steam heating THE town of Norwood is now free from debt, and has $6, 900 in it's treasury
 THE returns of the railroads center ing in Boston for. the first months of tho year, show decreaee in earnings. | LIE DoStOu DoatAL OA A1uoIAcu utIs decided to take no action on the changes in street names recommended by tht street commissioners.
 TRIAL Justice Dean of Medway has made full confession to his church O the charges against him, and the churcl has voted to accept 1t.
 THE will of the late John Gray O. Boston leaves 1925, ,OO0 each to the Mas sachusetts General hospital and liar yard college. ~E "a THE sum of $115. GOO has been prom ised for the buildingl and equipmen of physical laboratory at Harvard, o1