Connecticut western news., 1889-02-06
STATE ITEMS.

capital, to be called the Litch6eld Market Co.,. has been formed in that town.
 Years ago New London whalers re- ceived from eighteen to forty cents per pound for whalebone. Now 1t brings $3.25.
 Hon B. w. Seymour, of this place, was chosen one of the Presidents of the State Bar Association, Wednes- day.-[Litchfeld Enquirer.
 The annual reports of the four Hart ford savings banks show nearly $l1- 900, ,OOO on deposits and dividends last year amounting to $6O0,O00. The annual dinner of the Winsted Board of Trade is to be eaten at Hotel Andrews on Feb 4th. At their meeting last week the Board of Directors dis cussed numerous propositions for booming the business of the town.
 Bishop Mallalieu has appointed Rev s. I. Ferguson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., as presiding elder of this district, to serve out the remainder of the conference year, in the place of Rev Dr Hare, who recently died.
 Rudolph Ericsson, of New Britain, the inventor of the new explosive, extralite," received on Monday of last week, letter from his uncle in Swee- den stating the right to use the discove- ry in England had been sold for e2O,- 900.
 News has been received of the death in California of Owen Brown, GA, the last member of "Old John Browns" family of Harper's Ferry fame. MT Brown was near relative and name sake of the Hon Owen Rrown King, of Watertown, who had planned to pay him visit in the near future.
 Col Frank s. Parrot, aid-de-camp on Governor Bulkeley's staff, died at his home in Bridgeport, on Wednesday evening last, of pneumonia, at the age of 29 years The funeral occurred on Saturday afternoon. The members of the governors staff were in attendance, and by request of the family, appeared in citizens dress.
 General Harrison's new dress suit is to be made out of cloth manufactured in Connecticut. While it is good idea to patronize American manufacturers, and while cloth made in Connecticut is doubtless excellent, we hope that the President. elect is not silly enough to order his nutmegs from the same locality.-LChicago News.
 Friday afternoon an unmistakable indication of oil was found in the oil well that is being bored in Southbury
 For some time the water and the sand had been giving new hope, but now
 experts present said, the odor and the appearance alike said oil. And still the
 well is only 1,560 feet deep. while ordinarily oil is not found short of 2,0O(
 feet in the very oil regions themselves II Waterbury American.
 "What strange things we see," saic Conductor Phillips of the Derby road "Among my passengers over the new
 Botsford branch last week were boy 16 years old, a man 46 years old ano grandfather 84 years of age, who had never been on railway train before The old gentleman grabbed the seats as though he expected to be fired through the window and was in mortal fear that the train would go off the track. "-
 Hartford Post.
 , Henry w. Adams, who was killed during the car strike in Brooklyn, wal formerly 8 merchant in Litchfeld. Ht lost all his property by speculation and was then for some time clerk fol
 his brother-in-law, Mir Wheelock, whose
 place of business is in Maiden Lane
 For six weeks he had been out O.
 employment and thus came to apply 3 for work on the street car line Dan bury News.
 The most remarkable roof in Danbu
 ry tor in the State) covers greer horse at the nursery of J. H. Ives, or Moss avenue. It is composed of mega tives from the photograph galleries O B. R. Ritton. MT Ritton had at on, ; time 10000 of these negatives, tn,
 accumulation of the long years he ha( been in the business. This green hous' of MT Ives is completely covered witl them, and the light of the sun shine through scores and scores of counter
 felt faces from whose real faces tn light of the sun has gone out forever 9 George B. Wilson, veteran of tn
 Seventy six Illinois regiment, came t. town Monday of last week, lame an'
 weary, and put himself in the way to b arrested for vagrancy. He was taken Ii a charge by Sheriff Slocum, and when h , told his story few sympathizing Gran Army men furnished him with none [ and paid his fare to Hartford, where h 6 will be cared for by Mark Twain. M n Wilson was deck hand on Missis h sippi river steamboat, on which Mar k Twain was pilot. [Winsted cor Water , bury American.
 The handsome new residence of P. ]
 Barnum, at Seaside Park, Bridgepor
 was nearly destroyed by fire Frlda d night, entailing loss of $25,00O