Connecticut western news., 1897-01-07
STATE NEWS.
Measles are prevalent at Worthwhile.


 Congressman Hill, of Norwalk, brought from Washington for his daughter's pretty wedding largo mistletos bough which is quite common to the oak tree of the Virginia forests, and fine speci- mens of which may be found in the Washington markets at this season of the year Mir Hills bougb, however. was eclipsed by a monster specimen which the happy groom himself climbed to the altitude of 70 feet to cut from a forest tree in Alabama, and which he brought as rare trophy to his bride This enormous bough filled a large trunk, and Is probably the rarest speci men of the curious growth ever seen north of Mason and Dixon's line.
 There are 250 tobacco growers in East Hartford with a total acreage of 1,200 acres. The crop this year will average 500 pounds 10 the acre or nearly 300 tons in all. The value of the crop at an average price of IT cents per pound is $500, ,000
 The report of the county commission CTS for this county for the year ending June 20, shows that there have been committed to jail in one year 323 pris- oners, of whom 6 were females Drunk enness was the cause of 153. assault 22. larceny 21. burglary 15. vagrancy 13; II were sent to state prison. The net indebtedness of the county July l, 1896, was SAYS 02.
 Charles P Woodbury, Assistant Clerk of the House in 1883, and Clerk of the Senate in 1885, died at East Morris on Dec. 80 from pneumonia He was coun- sel for the Connecticut Building and Loan Association, of Hartford, and was 39 years old.
 The firemen's ball at New Milford on January 18th will be the event of the season in that town.
 William l.. Barnes fshed through the ice on Moves pond in Holland one day last week and caught fifteen pick erel. The largest one weighed St pounds and measured 2t feet from tip to tip. The smallest one weighed one pound and ten ounces.
 A scarlet fever epidemic prevails at Stafford Springs and several deaths have occurred.
 Mrs Eliza Bancroft, 55. of Litchfeld. was found dead in bed at the home of her son-in-lsw, T. B Kesvany, in Waterbury, Wednesday morning of last week. Heart disease was the cause of her death.
 The Greenwoods O., at New Hart ford have added to the capacity of their big ice house storage room for additional 5000 tons, so that it will now hold Is 900 tons of ice.
 The State Grange will hold its annual meeting in New Haven on Jan. 12, IS, and IA. Every grange in the state wiil be represented.
 Timothy Harlow Abbe, the octogenari- an fr-oug whose trial on the charge of arson was held in Enfield, was bonnd over to the superior court under l,50O bonds.
 The celebrated Charles Pond will case has been settled out of court. IT. city of Hartford Is to take the lands left to it by the will for park purposes. about 90 acres. Also one half of the residuum minus S58 a67, the city's share of the SS7. 800 paid to Anson P. Pond, the brother of the tesiator. who withdrsws the contest. Besides the land 1t Is es- timsted that the city will get about Sl25 900 to develop and care for the new park.
 The annual report of the state bank com missioners for the year ending Oct. 1. 1896. shows gain of over six million dollars in savings bank deposits and over two million dollars in assets. De- positors have received over five and one-half millions in interest