The examiner., 1882-01-28
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HI 1AdSSdCHuS0bGS GA0 CdI0 LII GuS
 State are the offspring of criminals.
 At No. Flower street on Wednesday
 last, Joseph Smith in a Respondent fit,
 bought we'll to quit, this earth forthwith,
 at the end of close line. Poor fellow.
 The Meitoo, the first of a regular line of
 steamers under the Chinese flag, recently
 arrived at London with large cargo of tea.
 The Indian Territory is one of the rich
 est portions of our national domain. It
 contains no less than fl ,097, ,O27 acres with
 timber, minerals, water and fertile soil.
 Sergeant Ben Davis, who sighted and
 fired the first gun on Fort Sumter after | the cOnfederates took possession of 1t,
 living quietly in Pawtucket, R. I.
 A report comes from New Haven that
 the Liquor dealers association has 1000
 to be spent in the " third house" of the 1 Moses Bean, a prominent citizen of
 Baskerville, dropped dead of heart disease
 ln a steam mill. He has two brothers,
 John Wesley Bean and M. F. Bean, who
 are leading Methodist clergymen.
 Part of the St. Paul's Catholic orphan
 asylum at Worcester, occupied by 52
 children, was burned Monday night, Jan.
 23d. John Roberts. four years old, was sufocated. The others escaped. Dr. Glenn of Jacinto, Gal, has sown l 35 GOO acres of wheat and expects to SOW 1 25, 900 more. He has also vineyard of 4, 900 acres. The country has no larger farmer.
 spent during last year $500 for 243 new I 1hr0r TfS Ilc volumes drawn last year than the year previous. Less fiction was called for rela- lively, and more volumes on history and biography.
 The chief royal topic of the day in Eu- rope is the mysterious disappearance of King Louis, of Bavaria. He has left his kingdom without word of farewell, and is travelling about 5,acOgnStO, vouchsafng no trace of his whereabouts.
 There is one man in Kansas who is evidently convinced that prohibition is not a failure. He lives in Salina, and has been convicted on thirty-three indict- ments, fined $3, 800 and imprisoned for thirty days.
 The Catholic priests in Baltimore, warned by the tinkling of the burglars alarm bell, hastened to St. James's church and found a burglar tamperipg with the parish poor box. One of the priests had taken 8 revolver along, which kept the burglar peaceable till the police arrived.
 The Connecticut Humane Society held it's annual meeting in Unity hall Iut S. day. Speeches were made by P. T. Bar mum, mayor of Bridgeport, and others. As result of the first years work, the society reports progress in reform of abuses.
 Mrs. Lucretia Bacon, daughter of Epaph- roditus Champion of East Haddam, and wife of Asa Bacon of Litchfeld, died Thursday morning at the residence of her granddaughter, Mrs. Thomas R. Trow- bridge, Jr.. in New Haven. Mrs. Bacon was in her 99th year.
 The exercises of the class graduating from the Normal school at New Britain were held on Friday last. About 100 members of the Legislature attended the exercises Gov. Bigelow gave diplomas to IA young women and two young men. Ellen Gallup of Ledyard was valedictorian. graph system of Germany was strikingly | demonstrated during late disastrous gale. While business in England and on the continent was largely suspended in consequence of Interruptions in the tele- graph service by prostrated wires, German cities were able to communicate with each other as usual.
 A stone bridge to be built at Minneapo- lis will consist of sixteen eighty-fe spanl and four one hundred feet spans, and the shore pieces will have total length of nineteen hundred feet. It will support two railway tracks at night of over sixty feet above the water, and wills run diagonally across the river below St. Falls. The cost is estimated at nearly $5OO,OOO.
 The international revenue office reports as stamped during the fiscal year ending June 3Oth, 1881, 4,311, ,O2s barrels of beer. Allowing thirty-one gallons to the barrel this would give 443, 641, 1888 gallons as the aggregate beer product for the year. The increase over the previous year was 963, 91S barrels, or 2e, ,8SO.;458 gallons.
 mass convention of the people of the Black Hills was held in Dealwood recent y, and adopted resolutions favoring the division of Dakota on the forty-sixth parallel, and the admission of the southern { ,ne was appointed to go to Washington md urge the matter upon Congress.
 About 10 o'clock Monday night the dock warehouse of the N. Y. steamboat con- oany, situated at the foot of State street, { vas discovered to be on fire and was wholly consumed. Providentially the wind blew the flames toward the river, or he destruction of buildings in the vicinity would have been serious. By great efforts he fire was confined to the warehouse.
 About o'clock on Tuesday morning, while yet some of the fremen were at york at the dock warehous it was discov- red that the Hartford High school build ng was in flames. This was also destroyed, only portions of the e-blackened walls remain standing. It s supposed that the fire was caused by an q verheated furnace. It was one of the test appointed school buildings in the tate and the loss is serious one to the ity.
 An indictment for murder in the first T. egree has been found at New Haven gainst Walter B. Malley. James Malley nd Blanche Douglass for killing Jennie |ramer August 5, 1881. The jury's is said to have fallen like a omb shell among the prisoners friends, 8 ho confidently expected that no true bill = ould be found. The Malleys thems lives ere much surprised and disheartened,