Connecticut western news., 1884-01-09
HERE AND THERE.


 Rev Francis Hawley, father of Sen Itor Joseph R. Hawley, died at his residence in Hartford, January 2, at the lvanced age of Sl years.
 The Springfield Republican is using a new printing and folding machine, which prints on both sides, cuts, pastes md folds 12OO0 quarto sheets to the hour.
 Two Voluntown Conn. girls took a Iemiiohn of whiskey to bed with them the other night when tLeIr m 1th r's house was being searched and the officers didn't find it. But they couldn t sep the dodge to themselves and when it got out the officers searched the place over again an made seizure. Spring feld Repabiican.
 The state savings banks in Connecti- cut are said to have Sl0000O of unclaim- ed deposits, half the sum being in one Hntford bank The banks have 10 L e isis Jf these de?ositors with the state controller and there is talk of asking u @ c)ming Legislature to compel them % print the lists in the newspapers for il e information of possible heirs-.Spring- field Repu5iican.
 In New Haven on the 4th an import ant decision was given affecting the signing of recommendations for liquor licenses. In tine case ill question the names of the five signers were all in the same handwriting, which was that of the applicant. It was proved that in each cuse the use of the name was fully authorized and the commissioners held this to be sufficient to validate the recommendation.
 4 steamboat whose hull is built of paper is a recent addition to the variety Of uses to which this material is put. After all, since racing shells have long been made of it, the present advance to steamboats Is only a matter of degree, while the successful use of railroad car wheels has solved any doubt of durabl- ity. Who shall say that one day we may not see paper proiectiles carried in paper ammunition chests and discharg- ed ill battle from paper artillery?-N !. Sun.
 Yesterday (4th) was the coldest day ever known at Jamestown, Dak. It was IS degrees below zero in the morning and 42 below at noon. The air was filled with frost, but the stiff breeze from the northwest calmed down last evening and the weather moderated. No trains have run on the Jamestown X Northern road to Darlington since Tues day.-R. G. Dun & Co of New York report 319 failures in the United States during the week ending January f and 20 In Canada, probably the largest num- Der ever reported in seven days. The increase is in the west and south and New York city.-Hatford Post.
 The notorious Frank James is said to be seriously i'll with pneumonia at Independence. Mol New York Her ald reporter quotes Leopold Morse as anticipating that Gen Butler will hay, another state fight on his hands thi fall. If that is all, he will probably se the folly of it before November. Con- gressman Collins does not anticipate that Butler would take greenback nomination for the presidency unless he got democratic endorsement. George Edwards has recently been released from the Co ne.ticut states prison, after serving a term for burgllry, and Las been re-aiTested for entering Mrs Dr Lines's house at Woodbridge, that ta e. He has spent A of his to years in prison. .-Spyingfeld Republicaa, 5tb.