Connecticut western news., 1882-07-26
HERE AND THERE.

There are about 400 boys in the State Re form school at Meriden.
 Levi Newell of Southington is said to have killed half dozen rattlesnakes within two weeks.
 The reunion of the survivors of the old 32d ! regiment of Massachusetts volunteers will probably be held at Ware. The town of Greenfield supports but five persons at the poor-farm. One is 93 years | old aud the others are over 75. Sixty freshmen have passed their entrance examination at Williams college, and class of from 90 to hundred is expected. William Tweed, son of the famous Boss Tweed is stopping with his family for the | summer at the Everett house in Deerield, Mass
 A Providence woman has given 1000 to | St. Georges church at Central Falls, to go toward lifting the debt, and $1, ,OoO to local missions
 Edward J. Darcy, the Hartford inn-keeper who helped little Johnny Chahill get drunk on beer and whisky. was fined $50 and costs and appealed
 The wife of Postmaster Samuel Sperry of Woodbridge hanged herself in garret Sun. day and died Tuesday. She had been subject to insane spells.
 The town hearse at So. Hadley Falls was recently stolen, and it's remains were found in tield all but the iron-work and ono wheel having beeen burned. J. F. Cummings wife, employed in the Somerset pottery-works, Fall River, drowned herself and her three -years-old child in the river Wednesday night.
 Mrs. Eveline o, widow of Oakes Ames, died at her residence in North Easton, Mass. Wednesday evening, aged 73. She has been in poor health for several years.
 F. D. Cummings of Ware, boasts of field of herdsgrass and red top which averages 1-2 feet high, specimens measuring i 6 feet and It cuts three tons to the acres.
 The Massachusetts reform clubs in quarter ly session at Haverhill last Wednesday, 39 clubs being represented, declared for a pro. hibitory amendment to the state constitution.
 John Babcock holds that he did not mean to deface the stone which he recently took from his daughters grave in Greenville cem- etery, but merely to remove it from his lot. He has been discharged from arrest
 The wife of E. McPherson of Rockville, left
 on Wednesday of last week for a visit tc friends in New York, and nothing has been
 heard from her. The family had been q happy one, and her disappearance is myste
 rious.
 A party of 36 children arrived at Green
 field from Boston, Thursday under the direc- tion of a committee of Women sent out by
 the Y. NJ. U.. of Boston. They were quarter
 ed with various farmers in the surrounding : towns.
 An order for six days camp duty for thu four regiments of infantry at NiaDtic and fo seven days duty for the battery, the forme beginning Sept. 4th and the latter Sept 2d
 has been issued. Gov Bigeow will reviev , the troops on Friday. The editors and some 90 of their friend went on the recent junket of the New Hamp shire press association, and the Keene Sen tinel improves the occasion to remark tha the demoralized organization hangs togethe , merely for the sake of fhalf-rates from hotel and railroads.
 ' The steamer Rhode Island of the Prov
 dence and Stonington line was run into at A. M., Wednesday, off Huntington, L. l., b the Alhambra of the Halifax line. On 3 wheel, the wheel house and considerable rig d ging of the Rhode Island were torn away the damage amounting to fully $1O.O00, br no lives were lost. The Rhode Islands 10 T passengers were transferrd to the steame l. Providence and taken to New York. Tn s Alhambra kept on it's course to Halifax an t was probably not damaged.