Connecticut western news., 1885-05-06
HERE AND THERE.

Connecticut contains 5000 members oi
 the Grand Army of the republic.
 Last year less marriages occurred ir
 Connecticut than in any preceding year
 for quarter of century, and yet il
 was leap year.
 The annual meeting of the Connecti
 cut Homeopathic society will be held
 ct the Allyn House, Hartford, on Tues
 day, May 19.
 The feat has been accomplished oi
 sending 72 simultaneous messages over
 one telegraph wire.
 "Why should red COW give white milky" was the subject for discussion in an Arkansas literary society. After an hours earnest debate the secretary was instructed to milk the COW and bring in 8 decision according to the merits of the milk. It was blue.
 Julia Ward Howe counts nearly 2O6 women employed on daily newspapers in this country.
 The Simsbury creamery company are now using from 400 to 1900 quarts of cream per week from Norfolk, besides what is collected in that vicinity The last tobacco sales in Glastonbury are re- ported no more satisfactory than those made earlier in the season. Many farm CTS held out with a sort of forlorn hope that they could do better, but were ti- nally obliged to yield to the inevitable. w. Bonnell's creamery in the west part of Salisbury is doing an extensive business He makes and markets the butter of over 200 COWS at present, new dairies are being added every little while. A Bridgeton, N. J., man has planted over 200. 900 cocoanuts at Bis cayne Bay, Fla, and will make the num- Der 1,OOO,OOO before he stops opera tions.-Connectica Farmer, May ?.
 William J. Hill, formerly barber in Willimantic, is wanted on charge of bigamy. He left Willimantic suddenly last August, taking with him property not his own, and has not been heard of since until the news reached the place by detective at work on the bigamy case.
 Frederick Holmes of Chester was kill ed Friday morning by being crushed under his team, which was overturned. The accident occurred about two miles from Higganum.
 At Bridgeport on Thursday evening, April 30, Miss Carrie St Leon Sumner, daughter of Colonel Samuel B. Sumner, was married to Dr Charles 0. Godfrey by Rev Henry Ward Beecher. Among those present were Mir and Mrs P. T. MT and Mrs Nathaniel Vince Ter. Mir and Mrs William D. Bishop, MT and Mrs Sidney P. Beardsley, ex-Gov. ernor and Mrs Charles B. Andrews of James Phelps of Essex, Mir and Mrs Samuel Fessenden of Stam- ord.-Hd1Ho1d Couraaat
 The New York World says: "We keep representative of this paper in the Ludlow street jail. :" This adver- tisement of the character of the Worlds staff seems to have been wholly unnec- essary. y.-Haryord Post
 The 66th anniversary of the institu- tion of Odd Fellowship in this country was celebrated Monday evening, April a7, at Allyn hall, Hartford. Mir Joseph L.. Barber was the orator of the occa- ,ion. 3
 A dispatch dated London, May 4, ,ays: ''Earl Granville stated in the House of Lords this afternoon that Rus 1 sia agrees to submit the Penjdeh mat ter to arbitration, and if the decision is against her to withdraw her troops" This is regarded by many as an assur- anee of peace.
 The Sons of Veterans held state in New Haven May 19.
 The New Haven Union says: "One of our sextons, in making his report of burials, is explicit to commendable de- gree. For instance, such entries as this occur: Died, John Smith, male; aged three years; unmarried"