Connecticut western news., 1889-03-06
STATE ITEMS.

whom about one half are now living Hartford citizens have voted for a building committee and an inspector. The public schools in Torrington were closed on Feb 21st., out of respect to the memory of Rev Dr Perrin and pfc, whose funeral was held on that day.
 The Carbonized Stone and Pipe C.. was organized in New Milford recently ; the officers are Merritt Beach, presi- dent Chas Beach, treasurer and J. A. Bolles secretary.
 Norwich has on the north shore of Trading cove, an ancient mine of mag netic iron orc. Before the days of rail- roads it was worked and the ore carted to Stafford.
 Winsted has a petition before the legislature for an amendment to its borough charter, giving the warden power to regulate the sale of merchan- dlse by non resident pedlars.
 Rev Prof William Thompson, D. D., died at Hosmer hall, Hartford, on We'd nesday, after brief struggle with bronchial pneumonia, at the age of 83 years. He was born in Goshen, Conn, February 18, 1906.
 At Dr Bells sanitarium at Litchfield, Tuesday night, Lemon Bento, an elderly farmer whose home is in Morris, suici- ded by cutting his throat with jack knife while his attendants were not looking. Benton was 60 years of age and was suffering at the time from temporary alteration.
 Dr Alvan Talcott, of Guilford, has given $25, ,OO0 to Yale University to endow g professorship of Greek. Dr Talcott is Yale man, of the class of '28 and is 30 years old. He still keeps up his classic reading, and says that the best thing to go to sleep on at night is reading hundred lines of Homer.
 The Knickerbocker Ice Co.,, of New York, have purchased the right for cutting ice from Mt Riga Lake in Salisbury, and are erecting barns for stabling 300 horses to be used for haul ing the ice to the railroad station at Salisbury, distance of three miles, and from there it is hauled on the Conn. Western railroad to the Hudson river.
 According to the New York Herald, William Murray, of New Milford, has inherited $50, GOO from bachelor uncle, who left his estate to the nephew who chad done the fewest days work in his life." The will was great disappoint ment to the industrious and frugal relatives, but there will probably be no contest.
 The death of Rev Dr David Trumbull occurred at Valparaiso, Chili, February 4. He was 8 descendant of the elder Governor Trumbull. of Connecticut, and was born in Colchester, in Novem- Der. 1919. He was graduated at Yale college in 1842, and after completing 8 course of theological study at Princeton he went to Valparaiso under commis- sion from the Foreign Evangelical so- ciety Hartford Post.
 We clip the following items from the Winsted Leader:
 Efforts have been made for some time to start 8 Baptist church in Winsted, and the matter is beginning to assume form.
 We hear that there Is to be q petition circulated in a few days, asking the Postofice department to establish in Winsted one union postofice and free delivery.
 The valuable library of the late Azariah Eldridge has been placed in the new library building in Norfolk. It consists of about 1,2OO volumes, of which many are rare and costly works. The Rev Azariah Eldrldge was g brother of the Rev Dr Joseph Eldridge, who was for over 40 years pastor of the Congl church in Norfolk. They both married sisters of Hon Robbins Battell Mir Joseph Eldridge died several years ago. Mir Azariah Eldridge is dead, but his widow is still living.
 Mir Jeremiah Johnson, native of Norfolk, and 8 former we'll known citizen of that place, and who emmigra- ted to Oregon, has returned to Conn :, and at the age of 77, has taken unto himself for the third time wife who is 78. thus making their united ages just 150 years. They will now reside in Waterbury. Mir Johnson is an uncle of Lyman and Harvey Johnson, of Nor folk, and brother of Philemon Johnson, of South Norfolk.