Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
STATE ITEMS.

The oil we'll at Southbury is now down to depth of over 800 feet.
 A new fire escape is being built on the west side of Music hall in Winsted.
 George Decker, better known as Crazy Decker" died at the town house in Winsted last week Wednesday.
 Winsted will demand of the next Legislature the appointment of Win sted man on the Board of county com missioners.
 Charles Blake. of Huntsville, Litch- field county, shota white eagle, recently, which measured four feet and three inches from tip to tip.
 The Rev D. M. Moore, of Falls Vil- lage, has accepted the call of the Gong gregational church in Colebrook, to become their pastor.
 The Rev MT Mute, late pastor of the church at Riverton, has. by the death of an uncle, fallen heir to 8 fortune of about $500, 900 since he and his family left Riverton in August.
 The appeal for new trial in the case of Jacob Scheele, who is confined in the jail in Bridgeport, under sentence to be hanged, will come up at the March term of Supreme Court of Errors.
 A disastrous fire on Main St., Rock vile, on Tuesday morning, burned the Doane and Orcut blocks, occupied by stores and tenements. Loss about ESQ.,. 900. fairly we'll insured.
 Hon John M. Hall, of Willimaptic, is the only lawyer in the Senate. There was great dearth of lawyers in the House in 1887, but they will be more numerous there, it seems, at the coming session.
 The Rev Howard Clapp, formerly rector of the Episcopal church in Wethersfeld, has rendered his resigna- tion as rector of St Paul's church in Norwalk. Mir Clapp is son-in-law of Hon W. H. Barnum.
 The total number of shad caught in the Connecticut during the season of 1888 was 6S,45O, being a falling off of IL, 300 as compared with 1887. 10, 167, young shad have. been placed in the rivers of the state. The number of trout distributed in 1888 was 336,OOO.
 Connecticut has not a large military organization, but it has one of the best equipped bodies of soldiery ill the country. The fall inspection now Tn progress will show no falling off in equipments or in number of men, Waterbury Republican.
 Judge Sanford, one of the ablest Judges on the Connecticut bench, has rendered his resignation as Judge of the Superior Court. He has become blind in one eye and consultation of occu lists say that he will lose the sight of the other eye.
 A Lebanon man who had a presenti- ment recently that he was going to be robbed, turned all his money into bull lion and buried it in a swamp behind the house. He marked the spot, but the heavy rains followed and washed it all away, and he is still looking for the treasure.
 Winsted temperance citizens have been zealously demonstrating against the licensing of saloons in that town, and thus far only six licenses have been granted, four drug stores, one hotel and one other place, ten applications hay ing been rejected. The price of licenses has been raised to $500.
 The railroad depot at South Norwalk was burned ou Monday night. The hose kept on hand for emergencies was found cut, and no water could be had until the fire department arrived, too late to save the building. Persons asleep in the upper rooms escaped in their night clothes. The fire was incendiary. Through the efforts of Vice-president and General Manager w. H. Stevenson of the Housatonic railroad system, all trains on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad will stop at Bridgeport in compliance with the orders received by that company from the railroad commissioners. Since the blizzard of last March the vane on the Baptist church spire in Wallingford pointed continuously in one direction antil the day after the presidential election, when it was noticed that the vane was in good work. ing order and was pointing to the south. west, toward Washington. This may be set down as another pointer.
 The Rev Dr J. G. Oakley, of New York city, addressed an interested audience, composed of veterans and their friends, at the First M E. church, Hartford, on Wednesday evening. The subject of the lecture was ''The Grand Army of the Republic Marching Across the Continent on Wheels''
 Hartford has produced another youth full prodigy, this time in the aquatic line. He is Eddie c. Atherton, foul