Connecticut western news., 1889-01-23
average of 1,5OO ounces to the tor Interspersed with this is silver, which

The field where the discovery has been made is now being dug over by mining experts, and it is believed that the finds" will prove of great value. A company of Connecticut capitalists, organized under the name of the Tennessee Transportation company, with capital stock of $250,0OO, have bought the steamboats on that river and will navigate it this winter.
 The Torrington Register says: We were shown new maple sugar Saturday, and were assured that it was not old sugar melted over, but made of sap .lrawn on the first of January by Jerome Johnson. January new maple sugar may pass for curiosity" :"
 The Presidential electors chosen by the voters of this state at the last elec- tion, met at the Capitol in Hartford on Thursday, and cast the six votes of Connecticut for Cleveland and Thurman Charles l.. Broadway, of Middletown, was chosen messenger to carry the vote to Washington. -. ..
 The executive committee of the Hart ford Yale Alumni association met yesterday to discuss the coming annual inner. It was voted to have 1t on the ..vening of Wednesday, February 6, in she Foot Guard armory. The Hon ,,hauncy M Depew is confidently ,xpected among the guests from out of town.
 One of the most brilliant events witnessed by Bridgeport society people or some time was the wedding of Miss Jessie, daughter of General Freight Agent H. c. Coggswell and niece of Col w. H. Stevenson, to MT Ghas H. Delaney, of New York, which occurred on Wednesday evening of last week, in St John's church.
 There are now only four vessels, with total tonnage of 625. mailing from New London engaged in the whale fishery. In 1850 there were fifty ves- sells, tonnage 16,9O2 Of this number thirty four were full-rigged ships, ten were barques, two brigs and four schooners To-day there is not @ ship, barque or brig hailing from the port. The final settlement is being made with the stockholders of the defunct | dnusatonic Rolling Stock company. There remains for final dist, ibution l IS, 556, and stockholders will receive B. A for each share held by them. The work of paying the final dividend was begun Saturday morning -[ Hartford Courant.
 Mir George F. Brooks, who is busy i trim ming trees and vines about Norwich, finds the buds unusually large on the | lilac and honey ysuckle vines, and has l noticed several rose-buds SO advanced in the past week that they bore assur- ances of blossoming if the weather I keeps mild. Crocuses are peeping through tine ground in many places. -I INOrW1Cn Bulletin.
 During the past year the postal re- celpts from all sources in Connecticut reached the sum of $935. .354, 91. The principal sources of this revenue, of course, arose from the sales of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards, which yielded $S79, ,499 II. From box rents there was secured $55.544 09. The total expenditures were $785, 657 80, leaving an excess of receipts over expenditures of $14S,797.11.
 The Litchfield Enquirer says: Three
 ramps. while track walking on the Conn Western, Friday, Jan II, found g large rock on the track in the cut betu cen Norfolk and Canaan. They al once set to work to remove the obstruc. t1on and succeeded in clearing the track l just ten minutes before the passenger train whizz.d by. These fellows prob. ably averted bad accident, and the good deed ought to be put down to the credit of the fraternity.
 Judge Warner. the judge of the dis. trict court of this county, is obliged to retire from the bench, because of the limitation of age 1; he reaches 70 in the course of few months. He has per. formed the responsible duties of the position in an able and satisfactory manner His successor will be appoin ted by the present legislature. There are already several aspirants for the place, residing in Winsted, Canaan Salisbury, New Hartford and others tc hear from. They are all good fellows and the Leader would be glad to sec them all elected, but only one can get there. and that one will be -[ [Winsted Leader.
 It is propossd on Jan "A. which will be Thursday next, to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of our Connecticut constitu. tion. Of course the central figures ir the celebration will be the origina three towns, Hartford. Wethersfeld and Winsor, but all the later planted vines of the commonwealth are interes
 ted in honoriug the occasion. There
 will be historical exercises in the Center church, Hartford, beginning at 2 o'clock
 D.. m.. when Governor Bulkeley vii read the charter of 1889, and the Re
 J. H. Twichell will deliver an historica
 oration. A reception will probably b.
 held in the evening, at which te,