Connecticut western news., 1888-12-26

The balance in the state treasury at the close of the fiscal year was $75l, 699.O3. aa z her husband in Holland, was sentenced last Saturday to state prison for life. E
 The Mississippi steamer, John Fl. Hanna was buried Monday night Ut Plaquerine, La, and thirty or more persons lost their lives,
 The Lanesville (New Milford) depot on the Housatonic railroad, has been removed to the Silica mills and the station named "Still River"
 William c. Sheppard has left the editorial chair of the Naugatuck Review, and on the first of January will begin his duties as assistant editor of the Pawtucket R. I Evening Times.
 It is said that the Middletown Journal, which was suspended just before the election, Is to be revived in January, with George W. Fisher as city editor.
 On Thursday afternoon occurred the funeral of Mir Henry N Beardsley, man. ager of the Bridgeport street railway. The horse cars did not run and the drivers attended the funeral in 8 body.
 The livery stable in Winsted owned by l.. B. Futile was entirely destroyed by fire this Wednesday, morning. The horses were all saved. The loss is esti- mated at &, 2,5OO and there was no insur- ance.
 A circular has been issued by the Hubbard Escort of Hartford, accom- panied by petition for signatures, urg- ing that the coming General Assem bly, be asked to enact law providing for a secret ballot.
 A peculiar case has occurred in Brookfield. A farmer in butchering 8 hog found imbedded in the stomach, 8 silver fork. It had been missed for three weeks, but it is not probable it had been in the stomach that long.
 Judge Henry w. Taylor, of Canandai- qua, N. Y., who has for some time been the oldest graduate of Yale, died on Tuesday, of pneumonia. He was gradu- ated in the class of 1916. He was an ex- justice of the New York court of appeals.
 The general manager of the Housa- tonic railroad states the interesting fact that the blizzard of last March was a direct loss to the company of $l3, ,O23, ,67 and probably as much more through the suspension of traffic and loss of revenue.
 H. P. Wade, Jr., of Elias Howe, Jr., Post G. A. R.. of Bridgeport, veteran of the Seventeenth Conn Volunteers, has been appointed assistant inspector general for Connecticut on the staff of chief Warren.
 Of the 1,687 criminal cases disposed of in Connecticut in the last fiscal year, 118 resulted in convictions, 28 in aauit- tals, and 20 in disagreement of the jurors. Bonds were forfeited in Al cases and there were 631 nolles.
 Several local papers have assumed that Senator-elect Edwin EcNeill would be prevented from taking his seat by his acceptance Of the position of Gen. I superintendent of the St Joseph < Grand Island railroad. We are assured that such will not be the case. He will be in Hartford during most of the coming session. Litchfeld Enquirer.
 The farmers about here are about to form sort of club or society, the object being to stop, as far as possible, tobacco raising. The paper reads that any man who shall raise tobacco more than for his own use, shall pay fine of not less than $500 or more then $1, ,OOO. They are getting tired of being robbed by buyers T New Milford Gazette.
 The Goshen correspondent of tho Winsted Herald writes that there are three rocking stones in this county. One weighing twenty or thirty tons k in the north part of Goshen. about two rods from Norfolk line, and can be moved an inch and 2 half Another of about the same size is on the Clemons farm in Litchfield. The other is Sam sons Rock in Washington.