Connecticut western news., 1895-01-10
STATE NEWS.

A valuable horse was 70 frightened by the trolley cars in Hartford on Monday that it reared mp and fell dead.e
 Nn 4uean Hungerford. of Sherman, knit and sent in 1894 thirty-six pairs of mittsns to the Home for the Friendless New York.
 During the past year. 2838 liquor i- state, and the revenue from them was 3001. .35z 83.
 'sThe New Era" . weekly newspaper published in tho intereete of the c0lored people of Connecticut, has made it's ap. psaFancs with O. R Smith (oolored) as editor.
 Tho Connecticut river is frozen from Hartford to Essex. and the steamer Hartford closed her trips for the winter On Doc. 28
 Work on the temporary bridge over tho Connecticut at Hartford has been abandoned until after the ice breaks up in tho spring.
 The engagement is announced of Miss Anna Louise Carter. of New Hartford, to Dr Walter Booth Adams, of Beyroot, Byria.
 0. N. Gill, Yale. '89 the oarsman and football captain, has made application to tho Board of Foreign Misaion of the Presbyterian Church to be sent as . missionary to China or Africa.
 The oldest person in this state is ''Annt" Sally Brown, of North Granby. She was born in March, l79O, and her mental and physical faculties are we'll preserved. She would easily pass for m octogenarian.
 Four fires were caused by electric vires in Hartford this week.
 The loss on the Beardsley House building in the recent fro has been ad- justsd at a. 800. which with the $l .15O nu the furniture makes . total of $3 $50. This is lees than many estimated it, but, according to the Winsted Citizen, it is $500 moro than the estimate made by Q carpenter the day after the fire.
 Testimony was taken last week in New Haven in regard to the validity of Consolidated R R Go. The testimony will be submitted to . referee in the United States court 1t Hartford some time this month. A number of stock holders of the Housatonic road claim that tho lease is invalid.
 Ansonia is credited with being the homo of woman e4 years old, who puts on the skates and takes spin on the joe with the rest of the girle. Her name is An James Gosling. News. We doubt her age. If she is . Cooling, of course she is not m old goose.
 William Yost, aged 46. employed by tho Consolidated road. dropped dead at his home on Orchard street in New Haven. last Saturday morning, of heart disease, He leaves . wife and family.
 Judge John W. Fowler, Milford's venerable town clerk, is suffering with whooping cough. He is 87 years oi age.
 Ex-Governor Giddings, of Michigan. suggests Senator Joseph K. Hawley for the next candidate for the ce-presiden- cy upon tho republican side.
 James O'Brien was fined $l25 and oosts at Waterbury, the other day, for allowing minors to loiter in his saloon.
 Derby and New Haven men have un- der consideration the transformation of Rock Rest, on the banks of the Housa- tonic river, into . summer resort for working girls. They expect to board tho girls for a week each.
 The annual ball given by the iremen q Litchfield on Wednesday evening Dec. 18th, was . grand and enjoyable N16air. The net receipts were nearly 1aok00.
 Nineteen days sleighing in December b Litchheld's record for '94
 Litchheld has some s'smart alecks. 1" The Enquirer says: The parties who rang the Episcopal church bell just .ae>sr midnight on Monday (New Year) axe to be commended more for their en- thusiasm than for their thonghtfullness. Several of our people were suddenly awakened from sound slumber thinking Akat there wss Ere.