Connecticut western news., 1884-03-05
HERE AND THERE.

on trip to Florida.
 The decrease in the national debt dul
 ing February was about $2, ,5OO,0 900.
 Twelve business places were burnet
 at Utica, N. Y. Sunday morning. Los
 about g, ,OOO,OOO
 Pittsfeld sent nine barrels of clothin,
 to the Ohio flood sufferers and vii
 send as many more.
 At New Haven on Tuesday Februar,
 26, Paddy Ryan plead guilty to robbine
 the New Milford post office and wa
 sentenced to two years in state prison
 The United States stamping com
 pany's works at Portland, Conn were
 burned Saturday afternoon. The build
 ings covered four acres. Loss $375, GOO
 insurance S275,OOO.
 Hugh J. Jewett is director in 2C
 railroad companies, Samuel Sloan in 23
 Jay Gould in 24, George B. Roberts ir
 26, Augustus Schell in 29, Sidney Dil. Ion in 36, and Frederick l.. Ames in 52 Governor Waller has the honor of is. suing the first notary public certificate ever granted in this state to woman. It was issued to Miss Mary Hall of Hart ford, the first woman to be admitted to the bar in Connecticut.
 There is said to have been 500, GOO Christians in the world at the end of the first century. 10, GOO, 900 in the time of Constantine, 3O,OOO,OOO in the eighth century, 100, ,0OO, 900 at the time of the reformation, and 450, ,00O, 900 in 1888.
 The Bartholdi statue of Liberty will soon be erected at Bedloes Island or at the Battery in New York city. This mighty figure is 148 feet Tn height and will stand on pedestal of 150 feet, hay ing foundation 35 feet above tide water.
 The extensive hennery and adjoining buildings at White Plains on the farm of Charles J. Quinby, president of the New York Fanciers' club and one of the largest breeders of Wyandotte and Black Java fowls in New York state, were de- stroyed by fire on Sunday morning, Feb. "A. Over 300 pans of wel-bred fowls, valued at from BIO to $2O, were lost. The loss is estimated at $3,000.
 The annual meeting of the stockhold- CTS of the Housatonic railroad company was held Friday in the company's office in Bridgeport. The old board of direct ors were reelected as follows: William H. Barnum, David s. Draper, William D. Bishop, Horace Nichols, A. B. Mygatt, Edward Leavitt, John B. Peck, Charles K. Averill, William E. Downes. At a subsequent meeting of the board Hon W. H. Barnum was elected president, David s. Draper vice-president and Charles K. Averill secretary and treas urer.
 The excess of our exports over i'm ports of merchandise for January was $19, GIT, ,487; for the seven months end ed January 31, s81, ,696, 316, and for the 12 months ended January 31, $104, ,370,- 280. The imports of merchandise for the twelve months ended January 31 were worth $684, 414, ,674, against $752,- 858, ,491 for the twelve months ended January 31, 1882,a a decrease of S69, 443,- SOY. The exports of merchandise for the twelve months ended January 31 amounted to $788, 7s4, 954, against s7S3,- Al, 148 for the same time last year, an of S5, ,343,8 ,806.
 The big furnace of the South Boston iron works was lighted Saturday for the first time in 12 years to cast 12-inch rifle mortar for the United States or dnance department. This is to be the first of five heavy experimental guns au- thorized by the last congress. The sec ond will be a 10-inch breech- loading rifle, the body to be of cast iron, rein forced by a wrapping of steel wire; the third 12- inch breech-loading rifle, en- tirely of cast iron and to weigh 57 tons the fourth much like the third except that 1t is to be lined from the breech with short steel tube to reach a little beyond the trunnion, and the fifth 12- inch breech-loading rife, the body of cast iron, to be reinforced by steel ring around the breech and to be lined the full length with a steel tube. These heavy rifles are expected to endure charges of 200 or 300 pounds of powder with projectile weighing 700 pounds, giving a velocity sufficient to penetrate "A inches of iron. The works have also contracts with the navy department for six and eight-inch steel breech-loading rifles for the new steel cruisers and for changing 10-inch, smooth-bore Rod man. guns into eight-inch muzzle-load- ing rifles for tho war department Springfield Republican, March f.