Connecticut western news., 1888-03-07
OLEOMi RGARINE.

AuC SiaAtuS dSatuSe Slie City NA ANeW Haven for damages caused by icy side Wa ks are said by the Palladium to aggregate S75.O0O.
 A cyclone strnck Newton, Kan, last Friday, wrecking many buildings, kill ing two persons and iuiuring a large number of others.
 At San Francisco burglars ply their trade with such daring that they even raided the house of the chief of police and stole $500 worth of iewelry.
 Miss Lnuisa M Alcott is reported very i'll of braln fever at Dunleith place in R 'xbury. It is feared that she will not survive the attack.
 The Democratic postmaster at Pal myra, Mo-, hanged himself last Friday because he was called upon to make good shortage of S7OO in his accounts.
 To decide long existing dispute the width of the Connections at Deep River has been measured on the ice aud is fonna to be } 496 feet wide, or IA feet less than half mile.
 Garrett Roach, son of the late John Roach, died in New York city on Fri day, aged 40. He had been associated with his father in the shipbuilding busi- ness.
 E. Col James Smith, recently proprietor of the Overlook Mount in House in the 'Catskills, and the Magnolia House, on the St John's river, Florida, has leased the Weantinaug House at New Milford, for the coming season.
 Prosecuting Agent Fowler, of N, Haven, says there are about 75 persons in that city who are selling liquor with out license, and yet the police of that city have been specially instructed to look after all violators of the law
 By the law exempting from taxation to the amount of ,000 the property of honorable discharged soldiers the amount of real property therrb, exem- pted in this town amounts to over $40. .UO0 - New Milford Gazette, Mir and Mrs Hiram Perkins, of Winsted, will celebrate their golden wedding on March 13 Mir Perkins was made a voter in 1882, and has voted at every electors meeting, and at every annual town meeting since that time.
 Rev Dr William S. Carr, professor of Christian theology at Harvard theologi- cal seminary aud trustee of Amherst college. died at his home in Hartford Sunday, aged 59 years.
 | Prof Ernest Young, aged 36 years, professor of history and Roman law at Harvard college, committed suicide at B 'ston last Faiday. Over study had unbalanced his mind
 General" Joseph Tntman. 42 inches tall. was married at B ,ston nn Saturday to Miss Ida Sherwood, height 36 inches. The ceremony was in Music hall before an audience of 5000 people.
 Gan hogs be taught tricks?" asks ( chillren's paper. Yes. they can. They have learned the tri k all by themselves of taking local paper for years and ther sending it back marked refused" anc they could be taught all sorts of othel tricks-except paving-if anybody was a mind to try.-IEX
 A New EoTaon county paper makes the suggestion that clergymen might dt we'll to exchange pulpits with editors once in a while, and aids: If an eiito conduit say more things from the pulpi which would make things lively in tho pews, then We very much miSiudge th' capabilities of our profession.
 Oscar F. Beckwith, who over six year ago murdered Simon Vandercook i, ! Austerlitz, N Y. was hanged last Thurs day at Hudson N. Y He h,d been tried several times, and sentenced six times to be hanged, the last move of his coun sel being an unsuccessful attempt t, have Gov Hill commute his sentence t life imprisonment.
 Tue composing and press rooms O the Hartford Evening Post were des troyed by fire early last Thursday morn ing entailing a loss of S20 GOO with a, insurance of $l6 GOO. The Post with ii accustomed enterprise appeared as usu al the same evening, the mechanics
 work being done at the Case, Lockwoo
 X Brainard Co.'S establishment Tn
 same fire burn ed out the Connection Catholic newspaper establishment.
 A Mew Haven dispatch to the Ne,
 York times says that the managers c
 the Consolidated and the New Englan
 roads have made peace and agreed upo .i and signed traffic contract. On phase of this, says the dispatch. restore
 to the ,nsnlilatel road the Housa tonic Valley milk, which recently Ina
 has been taken by boat from Wilson
 Point, South Norwalk, and taken S much against the wishes of tue farmer. < The change. it says, will be made bt l fore April 1st
 The scene at z 'ar B ilge, on tn : Hnusitouic river Is baautifnl ont People residing ill many of the house about there cam ,t get ont owing tn th ice blockade. The highway is impas able, and the scene is being visited b hundreds. The Water Is falling. but leaves cakes of ice behind that will ne