Connecticut western news., 1889-01-30
STATE ITEMS.
Waterbury is soon to have crema.

CongreSSman-elect SlmOnus naS been re-appuiuted lecturer on patent laws at Yale University.
 The First church, Winsted, held it's 105th annual meeting recently. It has $50 Ill. mbers
 A Culebrook River man who tried saving off au apple tree limb he stood on Is slowly recovering.
 The Daubury Press, formerly the D,nbury Morning Democrat, has changed to an evening paper.
 J H Flagg and Col E. M. Graves, proprletnrs of the Union hotel, New Haven. have voluntarily assigned.
 A. E Knox. late editor of the Wood- bury Reporter, has become editor of the hoale, state Prohibition paper.
 President Smith of Trinity college (Eplscnpal) ut Hartford will endeavor to raise $3OO, ,UUU to provide mure bulld- iugs for that institution.
 Sumner Atwood, of South Carver, is o9 ears old and has uever used tobacco pr alcoholic drlnks in any form. He Is about tn celebrate his golden wedding.
 The Record and the Telegram. two Hartford morning dailies, have consoli- lated. aud tue joint production will be known hereafter as the Telegram Record.
 In the cigar factories of the First district of Connecticut 5.572. 925 cigars were made in 1889. These factories had 799,S75 cigars at tue end of tue !ear.
 Of the 273 members of the legislature and the five executive ufficers-a total of 2S7-~ho assumed offi:e Jauaary 9. 2l7 are natives of the state they repre- sent.
 General R.nold S. Mackenzie. of the Second Conu H. " A, died at his residence on Staten Island, on Saturday Jan. l9 The irterment was at West Point on Tuesday.
 The deposits in Connecticut savings banks have increased over three aud one-half millions of dollars during the past year. The total amount of deposits is now nearly one hundred and six millions If dollars.
 Yale college has five graduates in the United States Senate MT Dawes, of Massachusetts Mir Randall Gibson, of Lonisiana; Mr Stewart of Nevada; Mir Higgins. of Delaware, aud Mir Wulcott, of Colorado Neither Connecticut sena- tor is Yale lnan.
 Alfred Walker. of Norwich, has re- c-ived a musket which was used by John Cook in John Browns raid at Hurper's Ferry. The mnsket was drawn by Wake, in a distribution of fair prizes at Martinsburg, Va.
 \ well-knnwn New London merchant, doing large business, never counts hiS silver. He dumps 1t in the scales ; weighs it and then computes the amount by allowing stipulated weight for each doll or fraction thereof.
 A hearty nd hale set of triplets are William A Grant. all of Tnrriugton. age 67 years. Matthew claims to be the oldest because he was born half hour the soonest.
 A 3S-man power electric motor Is to be placed under the draw of the Fair i,.ld avenue bridge. It will be charged from the electric light works. It Is an experiment. and the first ever used for this purpose. Que to three men are required to turn the draw by haud.- Bridgeport Cor. Newtowu Bee.
 Yes. yes, this IS wonderful winter in C,nnecticut-violets c in Norwich, dande. lions in New London, crocuses in Mil ford, lilies iu Fairfield. strawberry blos- soms in Meriden, blue birds in Water bury and jail birds in New Haven - Waterbury Republican. There is in the town of Canton an aged widow, whose husband served iu the war of 1872. She receives pension from the United States government and has been entitled to an exemption of $l 900 on her taxable property, bat she has never claimed it until this year
 The company boring for oil and natural gas in S"uthbury, recently came across & nuggett. which some of the experienced workmen pronounced gold bearing. Tine find was taken to Water. bury for an assay, and there it was found of such importance that it was sent to Washington.
 The 25Oth anniversary of the adop ton of the Constitution of Connecticut was celebrated ill the old Center church at Hartford. on Thursday last. The Hartford Times says:
 "This constitution was the frs written constitution the world had pro duced as permanent limitation oI governmental power. It was the frs American organic law to embody the democratic idea"
 The Waterbury aldermen have ap proved a proposal for four years' con tract for lighting the city with l50 ar, lights. of 2.OOO candle power and thirt, incandescent lights, from dusk to dawn not less than 312 nights ill the year, fol $l9,OOO The council amended by making 100 of the arc lights to be o POO candle power.
 An old fisherman at Norwich make