Connecticut western news., 1884-11-19
Jason Augur,a Connecticut man, went

Jason Augur,a Connecticut man, went to Florida half a dozen years ago with a hundred dollars and broken constitu- tion. Last week he returned hale and hearty, with a neat little fortune of over $40,0 An orange grove gave him his money. A nine-acre grove at Rock ledge, which he bought for SI, POO two or three years ago he has just sold for S10,000. It may hot be as exhilarating, but it is no less interesting to know that another Connecticut man who went to Florida at about the same time has sunk many thousands of dollars on planta- tions almost adjoining Augur's. s.-Ne,c Fork Times
 Seventy-six towns in Connecticut now vote license and ninety-one vote no H. cense.
 The men of the Branford Lock com pany struck on Monday, on account of a ten per cent reduction in wages and a reduction of one hour in the daily working time. The strikers number 325 and are orderly. The managers say the reduction was decided on some l weeks ago, but postponed so that there should be no charge that it was made for political effect.
 Ohio has more colleges than any oth- CT state in the Union-35 to 2S each in H. hnois and New York, 2G in Pennsylvania and 19 in the state with the next num- Der. The Ohio institutions are, how ever, one and all weak and comparative ly worthless. The value of grounds and buildings belonging to the whole 35 Is but s, 193, ,000, while their yearly in- come from funds is but S210,000, and from tuition but S125, O0O
 The work of organizing local branches of the Woman's Christian Temperance union goes bravely on in Berkshire county. When 90 per cent of the taxes in Massachusetts are due to the liquor traffic there can be no doubt of the i'm perative demand for temperance work, and of thls John B. Cough says "The W. 0. T. U. is doing more than all oth- CT organizations put together"
 The Berkshire County Eagle says:- Rudolph Schmidt's saloon, 10 Depot street, Pittsfield, was burglariously en- tered by one John Richmond late on Monday night and about g 50 in cash some eatables and cigarettes stolen. In the district court, Richmond, who halls from Albany, was bound over to the grand jury in the sum of S70O.
 The railroad commissioners of Massa- chusetts acting upon a remonstrance from citizens of Hampden county, have advised the Boston X Albany road to do less freighting on the Lords day. In performing whatever business may be necessary, they recommend that care be taken that each man has one days rest in seven and that no employe be forced to work upon the Sabbath against his conscience.
 The Continental hotel at Fargo was entirely destroyed by fire Nov. IT. All the guests and inmates escaped in safety but most of their effects were destroyed Loss S65, ,0G0, insurance S40,OO0.
 Notices were posted throughout the Cumberland coal region Monday by all the companies, that on and after Dec. l, the price of mining coal would be re- duced from 50 to 40 cents per ton.
 Mrs Catherine Craft of Lambertville, Hunterdon Co.,, N. Y, celebrated her 98th birthday recently, and among oth- CT interesting "reminiscences recalled the fact that she had voted for Jeffer- son for president. Unmarried women then possessed the right of suffrage in New Jersey, but there was property qualification. Married women were not allowed to vote, on the principle that they were represented by their hus- bands.