Connecticut western news., 1890-08-06
STATE NEWS.

The Advents at Wallingford will soon erect new church edifice.
 On Saturday last, Mir B. Wheeler of Danbury, celebrated the 99th anniver- s;iry of his birth.
 Waterbury's corrected. census figures are 33, 1S4 in place.of the first figures, g., 200. This makes the gain 12, 9l4.
 The Housatonic Railroad Co., is to build new iron bridges on the Derby branch. One at Derby and the other at Ansonia.
 The encampment of the state national guards at Mantle has been named Camp Embler, in honor of the adiatant general.
 Last Thursday the mercury reached 96 degrees at Hartford, 92 at New Haven, 95 at Waterbury and the same at Danbury.
 The Bridgeport Farmer has been sued for libel by Dr Merrow of Bridge | port, who asks for S1O,OOO damages The case will be contested.
 The Fifth Connecticut Regiment hold their annual reunion in Bridgeport, on auSuSt luc Ot the battle of Cedar Mountain. The annual reunion of the surviving members of the Twenty third Regiment, c. ", will be held at Seaside Park, Bridgeport. Tuesday, September 9th. While officer honeran was attempting to arrest James Mooney at New Haven last Thursday night Mooney became re- | fro on6 ooUorotv hQn6IQH | that he may die.
 Linus Dibble of Say brook, plowed up an 1894 dollar of undoubted genuine ! {, ess few days ago. It is valued at | $500. Here Is one instance where farm | ing pays in Connecticut
 E. J. Phelps, for some time the city editor of the Hartford Courant, left last week for Spokane Falls, Wash, where be has become part owner of the Spokesman, a new and thriving paper. Rev c. H. Riggs, founder, and pro- 1 prietor until two years ago, of the Bristol Press, has received 8 call, which he will accept, to the pastorate of the Congregational church of East Hartland
 Miss Julia Curtain of New Haven has | within the past few days horsewhipped several New Haven young bloods for circulating stories about her character. The young woman seems to have the sympathy of the public with her.
 The latest census figures give Bridge port 48,94O, New Haven 85,826 and Meriden 25, 320. The latest figures from different parts of the state go to show that the population of the state will exceed 750.0OO.
 The financial firm of Gilbert & Gay las undergone change of name, and Is now known as Holmes & Gay. The new name belongs to Rufus B. Holmes, who for many years has been an un- named member of the firm, and it's successful manager.-Winsted Herald. | W. J. Smith. Waterbury civil engineer, will begin soon the survey for the extention of the Shepaug, Litchfield and Northern Railroad from Litchfield to Torrington, distance of six miles, where connection will be made with the Naugatuck division of the Consolidated road.
 Mir Levi F. Allen, for more than eighteen years an engineer on the Conn ecticut Valley Railroad, died at his residence in Hartford last Thursday evening, after an illness of five weeks. Mir Allen was born at Walpole, N. H. in 1885. He had been an engineer for 32 years and was one of the oldest in the employ of the Valley division of the Consolidated road. He leaves wife.
 Among the personals in Byington's editorial letter (dated Washington, D.. C., July 28) to the Norwalk Gazette is the following: "Mr William H. Fay Tor of the Rockville Journal, and the founder and present secretary and treasurer of the Connecticut Weekly Press Association, is in this city on a visit to his wife, Clara King Taylor, g writer and poetess of note in the New England States, at present filling g position as clerk in the Census Bureau