Connecticut western news., 1886-02-10
HERE AND THERE.

Willard Perkins, best known as the ex-president of the Fat Mems associa- tion, has been granted divorce from his wife on the ground of intolorable cruelty. He weighs 800 pounds and she only 90.
 Horse thieves are operating to con- siderable extent in various portions of the state.
 The evil consequences of smoking are illustrated by Vesuvias, which constant ly suffers from eruptions.
 Silas l.. Erwin has been appointed post master at New Milford.
 Edward Learned, who for many years has been one of the most prominent men of Pittsfeld, Mass, has been criti- cally ill for many days and is growing weaker and the end is expected at any time.
 Rev Dr Fla, formerly presiding elder of the Springfield district, told the Meth odist ministers at Boston, the other day, that ''avarice is the one vice which is never punished by the church." There IS good deal of sarcasm concealed in the remark Springfield Union.
 The eighty-three cider brandy distil- leries in Connecticut produced 6O,47O gallons of brandy during the four months ending January 31. Ten gal Ions of cider are required to make one gallon of brandy.
 J. K. Wheeler has been grand secre- tary of the Grand lodge of Free Masons of this state for twenty -four years.
 It has been decided by the Connecti- cut Supreme Court that Yale students cannot vote.
 Morris is deeply stirred by 8 religious revival that has resulted in the conver- sion of many old men.
 For the next ten years the state fair will be held in Meriden, and $4, 4,OOO will be expended for permanent build ings on the grounds. September 14-17 has been designated as the dates for the next annual fair.
 John Dineen of Hazardville was choksd to death Tuesday evening Feb. 2 at supper by piece of meat. There will be no billiard-tables in the new Williams college gymnasium. The Springfield Republican says: U. s. Sears, 8 merchant of Stock bridge, is ip financial trouble. His liabilities are 1000. and he is trying to compromise at 10 per cent.
 Norman Kilbourn, the oldest man in Litchfeld, died at Bantam January 27, aged 95 years, g months. A Bridgeport dudelette, in the un- speakable love for friend who lay dy- ing in New York, had her poodle pups photographed and sent a copy down to brighten the last sad hours of that friend. She wouldn't have been more grieved if the dog itself had been dying. IA remark of four-year-old of my acquaint nee not long since, will, think, bear publication, although the youngster is not known here. He was inspecting picture of the '.Resurrec- tion"wherein certain angels in long white robes are depicted bearing the body of young man upward towards the skies. "Ma!' sad the embryo statesman, "Be them angels ?" Yes, darling," was the fond reply, "Well, ma, continued the little shaver, "how do dey get their 'nighties' on over their wings?" The mother hasn't explained yet.-Norwalk Gazette.
 Miss Minnie E. Cramer, sister of Jen- nie Cramer, for whose murder the Nal ley boys were tried in New Haven, was buried in New Haven week before last. The Cramer family moved to Brooklyn some time after the trial, and Minnie, who was twelve years old at the time of the tragedy, soon contracted 8 cold, which resulted on Tuesday of last week in her death of consumption. The fam fly now consists of the widowed mother and two sons.