Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
STATE ITEMS.

ment day.
 The new Howe Manufacturing Co.,, of Bridgeport, with capital of S100, 900, has shut it's factory and will go out of business.
 The Humane Society has 1.654 members in the state. who made 40, GOO complaints. The society received legacies of $15, ,OOO in 1888.
 Cyril P. Benedict, of Bridgeport, who was in prison for using money of the Adams Express company, has been pardoned by the president.
 The fagman at the Asylum street railroad crossing in Hartford, Thomas 0. Franey, has been stationed there twenty-seven years, and has never been east of the tracks.
 The government has awarded 2 con- tract to the Colt Patent Fire Arm Manufacturing Co.,, at Hartford to provide 5000 new model revolvers for the navy.
 The statue of Gov R. S. Hubbard, which is to be erected at Hartford, will be after the model offered by Sculptor Gerhardt. Several changes will be made in the model before the statue is erected.
 New York scientists visited Barnum's animals in Bridgeport Saturday and experimented on them with electricity. The carniverous animals resisted fierce ly, but the elephants relished the electricity hugely. . +a
 A Bridgeport man has invented 8 muter" by which the sound of piano when beginner is practising can be heard only few feet. That must be as great blessing to humanity as the discovery of steam.-(W Waterbury American.
 On the road from Whigville to Bristol stands gnarled and aged oak with 8 history. A sign on it reads: Protect this tree. It is hundreds of years old. contains bullets of the Revolutionary war. Near this tree were held the first town meetings of Bristol"
 The Bridgeport Leader presents an improved appearance with it's outside pages filled with reading matter, in place of advertisements. The Leader entered recently upon it's 18th year of publication. s.s
 The preliminary trial of Miss Kate Murray, for arson, was held in Bristol on Monday of last week. The evidence was merely circumstantial, and seemed insufficient to convict her. Miss Murray was bound over, and bonds were given for $2.OOO.
 Abraham Chalker, aged 99 years, died at his home in Old Saybrook 31st ult He was the oldest man buried in the town for many years. He apparently was in good health up to two weeks before his death, when he received @ severe fall, injuring his hip seriously.
 The Seth Thomas Clock Co.,, of Thomaston, have been awarded the highest prize for clocks at the Austra- lian Centennial exhibition, having secured, in competition with the clocks of the world, the highest number of points. for time keeping and general excellence of manufacture.
 Mr Benjamin c. Lum. 8 book keeper in the New Haven Savings bank. was ac.:idently locked in the big vault of the bank on Friday afternoon and was not discovered and released until the next morning. He says he spent the night quite comfortably.
 E. $. Dixwell. of Cambridge, Mass. :, has presented to the New Haven His torical society valuable and ancient papers which had once belonged to his ancestor, John Dixwell, whose name Is stamped in history beside those of Whalley and Goffe. as the three New Haven regicides of Charles I, of England.
 A pot of money concealed in 6 chimney, was found in East Haven 6 year ago by man named Forbes. It had been hid away by his father, and many of the coins were over 8 century old. The amount was divided among three heirs, and the coins are now sell ing we'll because of the old dates.
 Winsted is making extensive arrange ments for the state encampment of the Grand Army of the republic, to be held in that place the present week. It is expected that four hundred delegates will be present, and an interesting programme of entertainments has been prepared. On the evening of February 18th the rink will be open for public campfire and reception.
 The order of toasts is as follows:
 1. "The Grand Army of the Republic"- National Commander-in-chief,C Congressman Warner, of Missouri.
 2. "The Volunteer Soldier'-General 8. L.. Woodford, of New York. .-
 3. "The Prisoners of War'-The Rev I. M. Foster, of New Haven.
 4. Address-By the Rev J. H. Twichell, of Hartford.
 g. "The Womans Relief ps"-Chaplain-
 6. "Sons of Veterans" Commander ". H. Pierpont, of New Haven. .2 J.