Connecticut western news., 1881-06-22
NEW ENGLAND NOTES.
MAINE.

MAINE. ERNEST LoNaFE1now, son of the poet, will paint portrait of his father for Memorial Hall at Bowdoin college.
 THE Kenduskeag river has been plant ed with alewives, and the Kennebec and Mattawamkeag will be stocked with shad.
 HAYNES, the Rockland murderer, who was shot in trying to escape from the State prison at Thomaston, will prob ably die.
 THE contest for congressman from the second district is getting hot. Captain Guy 0. Goss, Col. J. w. Spaulding and J. w. Wakefield are conspicuous candi- dates.
 THE regular meeting of Friends at Portland opened Saturday, 75 represen- tatives being present. Letters were read from yearly meetings in the United States aud in foreign countries. NEW HAMPSHIRE.
 DOVER appropriates $5,0O0 for free vaccination.
 JOEL BArcHE1DER, aged 70, hanged himself at East Northwood Sunday. A DRUNKEN man tried to assault Gov. Bell at Manchester last week, but was pulled off before he hit him.
 HENRY CHURCHILL, of Coleraine, has made 400 pounds of sugar from only 50 naples the past season, averaging ex- actly eight pounds to the tree.
 Ar Westfeld 8 16-year-old girl died from eating two plates of ice-cream. She had been sick with cold, but recovered sufficiently to get out Saturday evening, when, in an overloaded state, she in- dulged in the ice-cream, and died from its effects Sunday morning.
 B. H. WILDER of Manchester, the in- ventor of the knitting machine and other contrivances, has invented gun some what similar to the Gatling gun. It was tested last week and worked successfully, it's five barrels firing 1000 shots a min ute. The trial was made on the Massa- besic lake, and through @ field-glass the balls were seen to strike two miles away, in radius of ten feet.
 A WASHINGTON boy has four grand parents living, aged 89, 82, 80 and 73 years.
 TROUT are rapidly disappearing from Vermont streams, and are said to be killed by the so-called protective law. "
 B. W. WHITES house and barn, and Dr. Blanchard's office were burned at Derby Sunday loss $1 500, insurance $500.
 THE Central Vermont has decided not to allow Sunday excursions on the road, and the Passumpsic goes still further by forbidding trains of any kind on Sun day.
 MosEs T. VAN DooRN bid off for $51O Simonds to settle balance due as village school district collector, amounting to about $96O.
 REV. s. l.. B. SPEARE makes the ad- dress before the Philadelphian society at the Middlebury college commence ment, Rev. Hensy N. Hudson, the Shakespearean scholar, the address and William W. Gay of Malone, N. Y., the poem before the alumni. THE Green Mountain Universalists, assembled at White River Junction, report parishes with 2,913 families, 35 churches with 1,797 members, 50 Sun- day-schools with 3,336 members, 55 church buildings, and parish property worth $249, 700.
 THE new tax-law gives rise to an oc- casional row. Ira Pierce, an elderly Brattleboro man of considerable wealth, went for Col. Fuller, one of the listers, Saturday, asking why his list had been doubled, and they had 8 lively scuffle in which MT. Pierce was sorely disfgured. The affair was finally settled amicably. MASSACHUSETTS. THE Massachusetts Horticultural So ciety have pledged themselves to aid the Worlds Fair.
 BRooKToN is no longer the baby city Maiden having adopted city charter by a vote of SO1 to 500.
 THE Boston Common Council has vot ed to renovate the old State House ant use it for city departments.
 THE Boston overseers of the poor re port 4,653 families helped during thu year, and 12, 773 visits made, at cost o $123, ,525.
 THE Boston and Albany Railroa' Company burned gasoline for consid erable time in their locomotive head lights, until one engineer set an engine house on fire by handling it. Then was discarded.
 CONNECTICUT.
 SHERIFF CoRBIN, of Holland county has appointed 0. F. Macfarlane, (
 Wilmington county, @ deputy sheriff.
 PooUoNooK's fat man, Warehem Gris
 wold, died last week. He weighed 37 pounds, and undertaken Merwin made coffin S feet long, 30 inches wide an } 22 deep.
 LEROY BEARDsLEY of Roxbury ha plowed up on his farm an Indian battle ax weighing twenty pounds. There an Indian graveyard on the farm an relics are often found. THE Superior Court of Litchfiel county is making it hot for Winste , rumsellers. Ninety-three liquor dealer in all have been fined $1, 800 and cost this term, besides agreeing to quit u business.
 , THE Congregational ministers I Windham county have voted that, whi 3 they sympathize with some trouble tn, , Rev, MT. Marsland has got into, an ! think his moral character is all righ < yet he had better not preach for yea o RHODE ISLAND. . THE Methodist ministers of the Pro idence and Providence North distric reaffirm their resolution never to knoy 8 ingly remarry persons who have bee n divorced for other reasons than adu
 tery.
 ErTA A1MY, of Woonsocket, got up
 sensation by trying to shoot hersel , having had some trouble with Fran l. Garter. The bullet didn't come nei l her but she nearly died of fright, al
 threw the pistol out of the window. e NUMEROUS outrages have occurrt