Connecticut western news., 1890-05-21
STATE NEWS.

There is mounted mail carrier in New London.
 Charles H. Pine, of Ansonia, will be the Memorial day orator at Winsted.
 The big Park block in Winsted is having patent Canton steel roofing put on.
 The annual meeting of the State Medical association will be held in New Haven May 28, 29 and 30.
 A farm of forty acres with good buildings thereon, about mile from Terry vile, was recently sold for $55O.
 A child was born in Waterbury two weeks ago which weighed but twenty four ounces. The child is alive and we'll.
 William T. Cutter, of East Lyme, has been reappointed State chemist by Gov Bulkeley for the term of two years, dating from May 17th.
 Arrangements had been made for the funeral of Mrs Samuel Green, of Thomaston, on Wednesday, when much to the delight of her friends Mrs Green came to life. She had been in trance.
 We are very glad to hear that Judge B. w. Seymour has returned from the South entirely restored in health, and that he is expected here, next week, for the summer [Litchield Enquirer
 When James J. Coyle, of Waterbury, answered ring at his doorbell late Tuesday night he found a female infant, wrapped up in flannel, on his door step. There is no clue to it's parentage.
 A young lady in Torrington is suffer ing from blood poisoning, caused by the coloring matter in black stocking which affected slightly chafed spot on her heel. The entire limb is now swollen to the hip and very painful
 Rev Dr Joseph D. Wickan, of Man chester, Vt., the oldest living graduate of Yale college, has been visiting Benja min Hubbell, of Derby. He is 93 years | old, although he does not seem over TO- and he travels extensively.
 The state papers frequently tell big | fish stories, dog stories, bull stories etc, but the Connecticut Farmer wins the leather medal by saying "Nortl Woodstock is putting on airs over a SOW which has just given birth to 20 pigs and has produced 70 in four filters.
 Dell Reeves, the noted rattlesnakt hunter of Portland, has bagged half . dozen rattlers since May l, and Ina! made contract with the New Yorl serpent fanciers, Curtis x Cook, t, supply them with rattlers, to be ex hibited by them. He has St vera serpents ready for them now. Reeve hunts the serpents with forked sticl aud captures them alive.
 Alkaline Platt, wife of William H Platt, is reported missing, and som' very suspicious people think it cas- of foul play. The couple are aged an. colored, the husband 79 and the wifi 83 years old, and the husband has tn reputation of abusing the woman, hay ing thrown her down stairs and broker her wrist several years ago. The hus band says he does not know where hi wife is.- Whsted Citizen.
 Daggett's postal card contract has col lapsed. The latest samples from Wilkiu son Bros, Shelton, have been rejecte by Wannamaker and the firm has grow tired of sending samples of better stoc than that now used by the Government as evidence in returned rejected cards half of them being cards of the Russo stock now acceptable and in use. Tn factory has done little during the pas week and it is plain that Daggett is sic of the job and jobbery. He cannot affor to make the cards in Shelton and ge stock from elsewhere, as the small ma gin on the contract would be eaten Il by the freight Therefore he has iterall given up the contract and his bondsme for $1OO,O 900 will have to answer to th Government = New Haven News.