Connecticut western news., 1892-06-23
STATE NE TVS.

The Hartford Bank celebrated the centen- nial anniversary of its organization last week. There was a banquet at the Hartford club at which speeches were made by President James Bolter of the bank, Sen. Jos. R. Haw- ley and other distinguished guests.
 The number of Congregational churches now without pastors in Connecticut is forty six or 15 per cent of the whole number of churches in the State.
 Meriden will celebrate it's twenty-flfth an- niversary as city on July 4, with a mass meeting, an exhibition of manufactures, and an evening display of fireworks.
 The First Congregational church and socie- ety in Winsted will build new edihce and chapel, and have voted to purchase for site the Beecher property on Park place.
 There are now seventy three inmates of the Gilbert Home, Winsted; only three deaths have occurred at the Home during the four years of it's existance.
 On Sunday, the 18th inst, Harry Stevens, of Norfolk. went on his bicycle from Norfolk to Pittsfield, Mass, and returned, distance of 90 miles in 10 hours.
 The regular meeting of the Connecticut probate assembly will be held at the probate office in Stamford, June 18th, at 10.S0 a. m. Members are requested to present questions | for discussion.
 It is reported at New Haven that Cornelius Vanderbilt is to establish at Yale a memorial of his son, who died of typhoid fever a few days ago. recitation or laboratory building will probably be the form of the gift. Reports from Hartford county are to the effect that buyers are already in the field to sec ure the coming tobacco crop, and some growers have sold their crops for 30 cents a pound in the bundle. This is an unusual course for the dealers to take. Carl Swenson, the Winsted florist, has placed two large beds of foliage plants on the lawn in front of the town hall. In one of the beds Is the figure of a star and in the other a heart. The effect is said to be very fine.
 turtle was captured by couple of An sonians recently with: "P. H., 1878, inscrib- ed on 1t.
 The Housatonic Railroad Go. are going to build handsome new depot at Danbury costing S5O.oOO.
 At the June term of the Superior Court at Winsted, on Tuesday of last week, Chief Jus tice Andrews presiding, the following divor' ces were granted Jennie E. from Ira Surdam Caroline from George Rogers; Flora from Lewis R. Shores Mary from Wm Nc Anany | Julia O. from James Lewis; David E. from Hattie Spender; Catherine from Jacob Lamb The success of Dr Charles H. Peck in wln. | ming the S50O prize at the College of Physi- clans and Surgeons is the more remarkablea as he was the only man in the 116 contestants who WAS not college bred. Brains tell, every time. Dr Peck came home, Saturday, driving up from Bridgeport with his unces horse which he brought up from New York to the Park City by boat.-Newtown Bee. | D. H. Post, Yale student, owes S2, 200, aud has been run down and locked up by a New Haven constable. He was found in Waterbury His father lives in Wilkesbarrs, Pa. and will | come east and settle. man was killed in East Hartford last week by taking hold of a broken Trolley wire. The wire had been emitting sparks but had ceased doing so before the ms n took hold of it. The fourteenth reunion of the Eleventh Regiment Conn. Vols. was held at Hartford last Saturday. The regiment was organized thirty-one years ago. One of the command CTS of the regiment was Colonel, afterwards Major-Gensral, Griffin A. StedmRn, who wal killed before Petersburg, Va.
 It is reported that the traffic contract be. tween the Reading road and the NewEngland will soon go into operation.