Connecticut western news., 1883-05-02
HERE AND THERE.

Lake, Winsted, and snow drifts are nc rarity in that vicinity.
 Col H. P. Harris, of Ore Hill has been appointed by Governor Waller, mem Der of the State Board of Charities.
 Olin H. Warner expects to have the statue of Governor Buckingham ready for casting in bronze by June. It will be placed in the west vestibule ot the capitol.
 Mable Morrison, granddaughter ot John Worthing ton of Jay street, New York, was the first baby to cross East River bridge, and her baby carriage was the first vehicle to cross.
 One of the girls employed at the Bridgeport cartridge shop just after re- ceiving her pay, Wednesday, stood by an open window counting it when gust ot wind came and ten dollar bill was car ried away by it and could not be found.
 Young women tramps are complained of by the Bristol Press. They travel in squads, one tells pitiful tale, another cries, and they all divide the spells when they reach the street. They claim to come from Waterbury, but they are probably from Meriden.
 Gloucester fishermen claim to have seen on the Grand Bank live trunk turtle, forty feet long, thirty feet wide, thirty feet from the apex of the back to the bottom of the under shell. The fippers were twenty feet long. Ev1- dently Saratoga trunk turtle. Michel Corey. of North Adams, died several months ago of peculiar disease that attracted the attention of many physicians. Mrs Corey noticed short time ago that her husbands grave had sunk in. She had the coffin disinterred and found that the body had been stol- en.
 Mrs Clarissa Raymond of Wilton, reached her 1O1st birthday, last We'd nesday. Mrs Raymond resides with her only daughter, Mrs Nathan Comstock, a we'll preserved matron of v years. Dwelling in the same house she has her grandson, John Comstock, who is 58 years old and his wife and their son, aged about 30 years.
 The treasury department at Washing ton, April 23, shipped to collectors throughout the United States stamps of the new denominations to the value of $3O,OOO,OOO. The stamps shipped were of all denominations, and were made up in 1, 15O packages, weighing in the aggregates 15 tons requiring 200 of the largest sized mail pouches to accommo- date them.
 MT Ovaitt of Waterbury has hens which lay big eggs, attends to his duties as professional nurse, sells receipe books and does a little accident insur- ance business, all of which notwith- standing he has 8 crushed finger. What that man would do if his fin ger was whole there Is no telling. He might be able to catch real trout, even. -[ Danbury Item.
 A fire started in New Haven, last Thursday, at 10 A M, in the third story of the brick shop known as the veneer ing, polishing and vanishing depart ments of the New Haven Clock compa- ny, corner of Wallace and St John streets. The fire was caused by a pull ley friction. Five men slid down a tin conductor, Fred Buckley broke an an kle by jumping from third story win dow Over 800 men are directly and in- directly thrown out of employment. Loss $25, 5,OOO; fully insured. The com pany will rebuild at once. :.
 The New York and New England railroad has recently received from the Philadelphia and Reading railroad a large and powerful engine, which it is proposed to try fora while on the Wes- tern division of the road. It weighs about 175 O0G pounds, has eight drivers and is a peculiar looking machine. The engine is designed to burn the dirt and refuse of coal, the fire box and boil er are unusually long, and the engineer and fireman occupy separate cabs, that of the former being over the middle of the boiler and the other we'll aft.