Connecticut western news., 1881-03-23

to start $500, 900 corporation to utilize one of the vacant mill sites.
 D. B. PERRI republican, khas been AaafsG fspreBa antatiye from Minot by T2A mat4aY. inplace Ts BsSWan. 3kl R4 H H.s IA HA4nwopp df Bangor Has been cAEed tosth he Perkins street Baptist church of East Somerville, Mass.
 BATH celebrated the Tooth anniversary of it's incorporation the 18th, with an original poem, address, etc.
 EDWIN BAToHELDER of. Bangor has been arrested for brutally assaulting his wife and attempting to pull her tongue out by the roots.
 The committee of the Legislature on the Insane iHnashas prepared re. port tuaaly Ad0rsmg the manage 1mentzsof sSf5e hospisaI, which will be signed by all but one.
 l NEW HAMPSHIRE. l MANCHESTER has appropriated $8, 900 to enlarge its public library. $ JUDGE FOSTER of the Supreme Court has tdecreed S227 divorces during the past five years.
 l THE Nashua post office has netted the government BIO, 900 per annum for ssEs Psuh snsf, sMMh MJsh5lisss Slis society of of Manchester has raised $12, no for the building of 8 new church.
 LITTLEToN has reduced it's town debt s, 500 the past year, and Enfield $1, ,485, leaving $5, 115 still. Aww |@sA sF4sANKhiN man is the possessor of piano which was formerly owned by John n: Hancock, of revolutionary fame.
 TIE, Chase mansion, in Portsmouth, of historic memory, .has7been sold at auction for $2, $50.
 }. A COUPLE have been recently married n Charlestewns who had been through the ceremony ony before, witt, 8 change of Parssners, three lae and five times respec-
 THE surveys of the Forest Line rail- road from Windsor, Vt, to Greenfield make the distance about ffty-six miles, with no grade higher than sixty feet to the mile. {. &s
 ABOUT a$6O,OO0 ofstock in the pro- posed new cotton mill at Portsmouth has been subscribed, and but little doubt IS entertained as to the success of the project. = AIA 4srpI. : STHERE is nowspending before the Su- preme Court the question as to the con stltutionality of the law imposing aitax onas church property exceeding $1O,OOO in value, raised by the petition of the Fran kiln street Congregational Church Of Manchester te.haye its tax abated. ~-5. 4 I,.sls ss VERMONT.
 REV. 0. s. FROST, of St. Johnsburv. has accepted call to the School street. Baptist Church at Pawtucket, R.
 THE First National bank of North Bennington is going to reduce its capi- tai from $500, ,0OO.to $1OO. 900. and will retire $360,000 of it's circulation. E
 STEPHEN FOSTER of Derby Line has has gwen $5, ,OO0, the interest of which is to be used for the benefit of the Con gregationa church there for twenty years, after which the W hole amount goes to the church. s., sS6
 LARKN G. MEAD, the sculptor. IS said to be making at his studio ins Rome a marble angek for Brattlsbo orc 5 Thesto is that Mead surprised the good people twenty-five. years ago by holding figure of an angel in snow, and, in con sequehcso ofthe artistic ability displayed, was helped to continue his studies. Perhaps an angel is hardly as fitting for Brattleboro now, though, as it was twenty-five years age. sE fEE lsg S s MAssAcHUsETrs.
 HE Highland Congregational church ofs RexDury has called William R. Campbell.
 THE stockholders of the three Nan tasket beach railroads have voted to consolidate, forming one company with $250, 900 capital.
 THE 9th Massachusetts, regiment has voted to visit<Brooklyn, N, Y, on Dec .oraton day, ass guests Of the 18th New York regiment.
 THE Boston and Roxbury mill com pany is said to have sold all its land on Beacon street, Boston, between Glou- eester and Hereford streets, for B. 75 to $5 per square foot.
 DR. JOHN D. RUST, native of Essex. l who recently died in New York, is re- ported to have left $50, ,0O0 to his native 9 place to establish free library, which is not available, however, until after his wife's death. .a Ea kj
 THE Boston Produce Exchange has appointed committee of five to appear before the legislative committee on agri- culture, in the interest of 8 more strin- gent law in regard to oleomargarine and other adulteratel dairy products. .-
 THE Massachusetts Charitable Me. chanics' Association laid the corner stone of its new building in Boston last week. Addresses were delivered by Charles W. Slack, President of the Asso- ,ciations Governor Long and Mayor Prince, m Huntingdon Hall. 6]
 CONNECTICUT. a
 PROF. s. WELLS WILLIAMS. of New Haven, has been chosen President of the American Bible Society.
 NEW LONDON suffers from skunks driven into cellars by the severe winter. One manhas killed elevea, and sslocated" twenty -hEewithin Rradius of half mile.
 THE Moodus noises, which created much excitement in the early part of the last century and in 1852, have been heard several times lately.
 THE State central committee of the political spiritualists have voted to pay no s+attentien- to- the 'Tbill regarding doctors, nowpending before the Iegisla ture, as it rules out clairvoyant practice,
 lTIsreported in Stamford that a young man of weak, mind, in suburb called Dublin, has been kept by his parents for two or three years in cellar, where he has been treated like 8 beast and left without the light of day.
 NAUeATUoK, with population of 4,272, spent $3, AT last year for the ex- penses of criminal procedure, and the town attorney, who has been investiga- ting the matter, thinks there has been