Connecticut western news., 1883-03-14
HERE AND THERE.

Rev Lawrence Walsh of Waterbury has received and forwarded to Ireland $2,364 since the call for $1 contributions.
 Tobacco sorting at Eaton's and Wat sons warehouses in Kent, will probably be closed in about two or three weeks.
 bill has been passed by the legisla- ture prohibiting trout fishing in Corn wall until April 1, 1885 :; penalty, $7 fine; second conviction, $7 and 30 days imprisonment.
 Sheldon Smith, of Roxbury, has just received seven head of Holstein cattle, @ direct importation Edwin Seeley also purchased COW and calf of that breed paying $500 for them.
 Custer county, Montana, is the lar gest county in the United States. Its area is 5000 square miles. It is larger than the states of Vermont, New Hamp- shire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Del aware ana Rhode Island.
 Trains on the Northern Pacific are supplied with 'grub box to be used by the passengers in case the train should get showed in on its journey. The box contains bread, crackers, can- ned beef, fish and Boston baked beans.
 The farm known as the Enc farm in Colebrook, formerly owned and occu- pied by the late W. H. Smith, has re- gently been sold to parties from out of town for $2,5OO. This was formerly one of the largest and most productive farms in town.
 At the same hour and in the same room where the funeral of William D. Gregory of Wilton, was recently held and by the request'of the deceased, his daughter Anna was married to George Pike of Southport, Rev MT Thompson of the Congregational church perform ing both ceremonies.
 A. B. Kent of San Francisco, Yale '53 has given the college $6O,000, and the faculty have decided that it shall be used in erecting a chemical laboratory, which will be begun in the spring and fin ished next fall This and the Sloan laboratory will give Yale excellent advan- tages for the teaching of chemical and physical science.
 A fire starting in the bolt shop of Thompson, Steiger < Go. at West Win sted, last evening, burned that and the adjoining works of the Henry spring company loss of Thompson, Steiger x Go about $1O,O00, insured loss of the Henry spring company $1O, GOO, insured for S3, 200 each in the Etna and Con- necticut of Hartford.
 The Washington World and Citizen Soldier, the old soldiers paper, the peo- ple's paper, is now in it's eighth year, enlarged to AS columns. eight pages, in entire new dress, every week, at only S1 year. Specimen copy free to any ad- dress, on postal card request, by the World and Soldier publishing company, World Building, 1Oo6 F St., Washington, D. c.
 A Bridgeport infant will probably go on record as the smallest child ever born in the State. It was born February 3, and weighed just one pound, It now weighs (three weeks old) one and quarter pounds, and is a perfectly form ed child, seems healthy in every way, takes its food with apparant relish, and seems to be as likely to grow up as any ordinary child
 The state board of health report that the death rate for January was larger than that for the same month in the three proceeding years. Scarlet fever and pneumonia were the prominent dis eases. New Haven had an epidemic of measles with 10 deaths and Thomaston was swept by measles, there having been 50 cases. Scarlet fever is appar- ently spreading in the Northern part of the state.
 James Timlin complained wildly to the city attorney at New Haven the oth- CT day that somebody had shot him in the head, and was locked up as drunk or crazy Wednesday physician came to examine his mental condition and found pistol ball fattened next his skull. He continues wild, and his
 
 mother says much Bible reading has made him mad. He says, however, that one William Combs shot him.
 The late Gov Jewell of Hartford leaves an estate of about $500, ,O00, which is devised according to will dated June 13, 1873. A trust fund of $300,O00 is given to his brothers, Pliny and Lyman B., who are the executors, the income of which goes equally to the widow and two daughters. His mother and brothers and sisters each receive $2,5OO. The rest of the estate is added to the trust fund for his family, and or their decease the whole will be divided among the legal heirs.
 A Westport man has his family rela. tionship terribly inter-mixed. As the relationship now stands he is brother in-law of his own daughter, uncle to his own grandchild, and his wife becomes step-mother to her own brother and grandmother to her own niece, while his daughter becomes sister-in-law to her own father, and his son-in-law be-