Connecticut western news., 1886-10-27
HERE AND THERE.

The old Pratt street Savings bank of Hartford has over S11, ,OOO,O in de- posits. -
 A Brookfeld farmer has a SOW which gave birth to litter of 21 pigs-Daa- bury Necs.
 On Thursday the Consolidated rail road company paid into the state treas ury $260, ,O00 in taxes.
 Henry D. Beach has been appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Nauga- tuck road by President Bishop. The Methodist society of Naugatuck have sold their church fer $750O and purchased site for @ new one at a cost of 2,OOO
 It is said Topeka, Kan, with popu- lation of 100, 900 inhabitants, has not a single saloon within its limits to repre- sent rumocracy.
 Mrs Sophia Brown of Winsted passed her 97th birthday October IF. The old lady is hale and hearty and reads and sews without glasses.
 The Hudson river ore and iron com pany has purchased the Cold Spring furnace, and will start it up after an idleness of several days.
 There is always 8 compensation. The frost that nipped the southern tobacco crops helped the Connecticut cabbages. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
 The canal and waters of the Housa- tonic near the Birmingham dam are full of shad A. to inches long the result of placing the fry in the stream last spring.
 The Peekskill, N. Y, blast furnace, which has been lying still for several months, is being put in order and will start with full force of men in few weeks.
 Last June swarm of bees was seen to enter one of the chimneys of Will jam Bryant's residence, Harwinton. Last week 43 pounds of honey was taken from the chimney.
 Latest reports from Harry Byington of South Norwalk, who is now in South Carolina, state that his case is hopeless. He will be brought home to spend his few remaining days
 Edward Nichols, of Hotchkissville. died recently at the advanced age of 96 years. He is said by Woodbury reporter to have been the oldest Mason in the state, having joined that order 75 years ago.
 Miss Eliza A. Landfear of Meriden, who for many years has been state sec retary and organizer of.t the w. c. T. U., has been seriously i'll for several months and is said to be in need of financial assistance.
 A Lady named Augustina Ahumada has died in Santiago, Chili, at the age of 115 years, and at Talca Mrs Juana Gatica has died aged 130 years. The latter leaves two sons, one 88 and the other 95 years of age.
 1uo NEW hdFSu aSScSSoIS utdVc 1Ouuu nearly 2000 new buildings, the total value of which they have fixed at $500, 900. The increase in the number o1 new buildings is 30 per cent more than in any previous year in 10 years.
 The Winsted Herald notes that on the farm of Fred F. Wadhams, in Morris, there is small orchard yielding this year over 200 bushels of apples; this same orchard last season, when apples were so plenty, yielded no fruit at all.
 Last year nearly all the railroads o1 the state were applicants before the ; state board of equalization for reduc, tion of their taxation lists. But so fal this year reduction has been asked fol only by the New York and New England and Connecticut Western railroads.
 Lucy Fisher, aged nineteen years :: and twenty-six inches high, and Gen eral Rhenbeck, ten inches taller an6 weighing forty-fve pounds, wer. married Tuesday evening in New Yorl at Bowery museum. The brides par ents live on Carlisle atreet in Ney } Haven.
 A Shanghai rooster on the farm of w H. Arnold, in Woodstock, has adopte, four Maltese kittens, whose mother wa mangled in trap and had to be killed The rooster gathers the orphans unde his sheltering wings every night, an, } the kittens appear we'll satisfied witt their new home.
 William A. Quintard, Norwalk un dertaker, attempted to jump from
 moving express train at the statio l Tuesday evening, Oct. 19, and fell un Q der the wheels. His head was nearl severed from his body. He died abou an hour afterward. He was aged 2 { and unmarried. He was nephew C . Mrs. A. B. Cobb of West Norfolk, Ct. l. Seth F. Plumb post No 80, G. A. R.
 of Litchfeld met Monday evening. Octe 3 Der Is, and were presented by the ladie
 of Litchfeld with 8 set of flags costin
 $125. Remarks were made by the Re T B. r. Kidder, who introduced Mis
 Laura M. Sweet; daughter of Conrad ! Lyman D. Sweet, who presented tn :. flags in a neat speech. Wiaaste0 He1'alt
 Steep Rock, in Washington, Litcl | field county, has been bought with 9 - acres of surrounding land by MT Ehric