8 NEW ENGLAND NEWS :TEMS Kprinailrld and Vicinity. The contract for constructing that section the Troy and Greenfield railroad between the and'North Adams, has been awarded by th state to C. McCUUlaa A Son of Chicopee The Palmer Journal says that Mr Hear.- 1. Brown of Brimfield has discovered errors enou.fo in the count of the senatorial vote in e isteia Hampden to elect bimselt and defta* Mayor Smith, who was declared chosen by oa plurali ty. He will accordingly contest the seat. Rev Dr Buckingham's society are actively dis cussing the new church project, which took shape with the appointment of a soliciting comm -te at the recent parish meeting, anti the pros pect is quite hopeful. No subscriptions, however, have vet been made. The annual rental of w, in the present church will take place January 1. Bv the completion of the third rai; on the Al bany and Susquehanna railroad and the COnstruc tion'of a branch of 21 miles, coal can be brought in Boston and Albany cars direct from the mines at Carbondale and Wilkesbarre, Pa to this city. The lirst lot of cars left Albany for the mines on Thursday, returned on Saturday nd will arrive here to day or to-morrow. This is an arrange ment which dealers and consignees in this vicinity will appreciate. The ntw town hall at Chicopee was dedi cated on Thursday; the ceremony being an in troductory address by the president of the occa sion, F W. Carter, the presentation of mem trial tablets bv the “ladles' soldiers' aid society,’ and addresses bv Col E. P. Nettleton, Judge Wells, ex Senator Stearns, A. L Soule and others. A concert by Gilmore’s band, conducted by Ar buckle, coaatitut id the entertainment ot Ie even ing, which was followed by a grand ball. The city treasurer’s books, which have just been balanced for the fiscal year. make, after ac counting for more than usual expenditures, a fairtr gr thvb exhibit, and the debt now stands as foli- vi Funded debt, $70,009; permanent loans, $256,0u0; tem orary loans. $-16,000; nn paid croer/. SIS til; total, 5355111. The cash assets are $lB6 440, ’caving, December 19,1871, a net indebtedness of $248,671 A: the close of 1870 the indebtednes.- was $268,732, making a re duction for this year of $20,061. Besides this, the gain in real estate the past year has been $21,540, making a total gain of $41,601. Tt toil-bridge came very near being converted into a free cruising about half-past 11 o’clock, Mora;:' night, regardless of charters or lobbies. At that hoitr three young men of West Spring field were crossing tiro venerable structure, when, at about the middie, they discovered fire in the planks. They gave tie alarm, and upon prying up the floor, a vigorous com going on in tho dry timbers, which, in a few minutes more, would'cave harnessed the wind to its service and swept things. The stockholders can iff-rd to reward these young men, for there is a certainty that the pnblic never will. S t ringfield’s contribution for the relief of Chi cago was sls 611, exclusive of considerable sums forwarded direct by the contributors. In a let ter to City Treasurer Folsom, acknowledging the receipt of the money, George M Pullman, treas urer c r the relief fund, says; “In the name of our impoverished people, many of whom are still suffering greatly in spite of our efforts, we thank your sympathising citizens and yourself for thus kindiv and largely augmenting our means of. re lief. Let al! who hare generously given of their store to swell the grand total of vour contribution be as.ured that their bounty shall be wisely ad ministered through the medium of this organ ization.” The surer lor court has continues in session th? past week, and, besides considerable business of little moment, the following sentences have been imposed: George Clark, for the highway robbery of Augustine Burt and other offenses, to state prison for life; Patsey Curley and James Dun lavy, for the murder iu the second degree of a com .'anion named C.ary, the former to three years in the state prison, the other to the same rim =in th? house of correction. The trial of Dr Tucker of Westfield, for the alleged abortion and indirectly death of Mrs Mary Kurtz of the same place, was thrown out of court bv the district attorney entering a nolle prosequi because the .r timeuy of ths dying woman was declared inadmissible. Though it seems to ns that the demonstration of popular and political favor tor Gen Lee, last week, practically setties the question of Ms ap poimmen: as postmaster of Springfield, some of rhe rival candidates still regard the matter as open, and are earnestly pressing their claims. New papers and advocates have gone on since fcr Gen Lie himself; Capt Hutch and his triends are making a hopeful contest; and Lieutenant Gov ernor Trask is reported in Washington in behalf of Mr Mt. The latter is certainly a tnM wor thy voung ’eEtiemin, and would make an excel lent'postmaster; hut he ean never stand up again such backing as this. It" he had any chance before, it is certainly destroyed now. A S riagfield correspondent of a distant jour nal tens us something we had net dared to repear ourselves, concerning the visit of the Landsoxe Ka tian grand duke to Springfield. While rest ing and dining at the Massasoit house, this cor reipnii-isat says, the neighboring hallo and lob bi, j of the hotel were crowded with some cf the fairest and most curious of the fair and carions sex of Springfield,—peering thnraga doors tuil crack-.. and around comers, for a full observation of this "noblest Russian of them all;” and Lea the grand duke cams to taka bis leavo, end thank the landlord.—as he that stops at the Massosoit cm hardly fail to wish to do, a-, least,—fir the rare comforts and rich luxuries of that hostelry, he addej, as the culmination of his praise, but with a slight twinkle in his eye,—"and I cer lainly never saw a hotel where there were so very me. y very pretty chambitmaicU.'” The land lord, we understand, declines to give a list for publication. The annnal meeting of the Hampden agricul tural i-l'i-'y was held in this city, Wednesday and resulted iu a sharp struggle to decide whether the management of the society should rest with the farmers or the more sportive Springfield club, the victory apparently being with tie farmers finally, though the other side say that the pro ceedings were illegal, and that the society has so tied itself tip that no one is authofzid to do any bueinu-s for it. The following officers were elect-. ed; President, Phineas Stidnisn of Chicopee; secretary, J. N. Bagg of West Spring fieid; treasurer, J. E- Russell of Sprincf: .Id; vice presidents, I 1). D’izx of Springfield, N. T. ft2Hth m SpringfiJH, R. W Bemis of Chicopee, JuiaS. of Holyoke, Norman T. Leonard of Westfield, 11. M. Sessions of Wilbraham, James S. Loomis of Palmer. Joel M. Tucker of Monson, G. i Ful ler of Ludlow, G. F. Brown of Briitleld, C 8. Newell of Longmeadow, E D. Allen of As»- warn, E N. Fowler of Southwick, F. T. Moore of To.iand, B. H. Barlow of Granville, W. E. Boieed to some extent in Northampton, anti was high sheriff of the county for several rears. He always retained a lively interact In the'pros penty of his native town. and ciaoy of the nanu* factoring interests of the place are largely in debted to him for tbeir prosperity, by his coun sels and pur»e. His wife and three younger chil dren were with him at the time of bis death Capt Henry E. Alvord, lately p-ofec- >r of mili tary science in the Amherst *gricci-u si college, has resigned his commission in the 9th cavcjr, to assume charge of the estate of his fath the late I). A. Alvord, late collector of Internal reve nue for the ninth district. A sarioes explosion occurred, on Monday morning, in tho store of Newell Brothers at Shelburne Falls, by which two employes of the store, Elliott Gillette and Elmer Briggs, were bad ly burned and tho building considerably injured. A large kerosene oil safe standing in the back store had been emptied, and Briggs, who was inside the safe for tho purpose of cleaning it out, called for a lamp, which Gillette was in the act of hand ing him, when the gas ignited and caused the explosion. Gillette was considerably burned about tho face and bead, and Briggs was still more seriously injured, the exposed parts of his person being completely blistered, Mid his flesh in some places adhering to his clothing as it was taken off It is hoped the injuries will not prove fatal, though fears are entertained of that result. The windows and doors of the room were bunt out, as was one large window in the front store room. Some of the i’ittefield Shakers are constant takers of books from the Athena-uro, and invaria ble choose the highest class of books. The Mount Turn and Easthampton railroad carried 600 paying passengers during the first eight days it was operated, and its freight busi ness has also been good. The selectmen of Enfield have lately paid John King of Greenwich SSOO on account of damage to bis son through a delect tn the highway. This “delect" was a post set up near the middle of the road, where a sluiceway bad caved in, and the post occupied that portion for more than a day or night, so that a smash-np was almost solicited. The raising of sugar beets and the production of sugar are attracting a good deal of attention among the friends of the Amherst agricultural college, where the experiment has been successfully tried, and it is stated that the bast granulated sugar can be produced for seven cents a pound from sugar beets, and, return a better profit to the producer than most otthe crops now cultivated in the Connecticut valley. Cultivators of sugar beets in France pay a tax of SSO an acre to the gevemment, and produce sugar which competes in the English markets with the sugar raised in rhe English colonies under the most favorable circumstances. The factories or refineries in France are so profitable that tho owners get back the whole capital invested in about three y ears. The coroner’s inquest upon the body of the brakeman who was knocked off a car and killed by a bridge in Webster, a few days ago, resulted in a verdict severely censuring the railroad cor poration “for suffering a bridge of a character so dangerous as to render it unsafe for a brakeman to pass it while in a sitting posture on the top of his car at his post of duty." The jurors also call tie attention of the state railroad commissioners to the bridge. Tbs large manufacturing property at Millville I Blackstone), formerly belonging to Welcome I arnurn, wa< sold at auction on Wednesday under a power of sale held by A. T. Stewart of New Tors, for $50,000. Mr Stewart was the mort gagee and bis agent bid the property off. A con dition of the sale was that the $15,000 should be paid in greenbacks within ten minutes. Of course the agent was prepared to do it, while nobody else was. Barre is thoroughly estranged from her first lore, the Massachusetts Central, on account of the supposed adoption of the Hardwick route, and when the next assessment of 20 per cent is called for, a big row is anticipated. Williston seminary, Easthampton, opens its winter term with 190 students. This number will be increased by the usual new-comers during the first month of the term. The Franklin Savings institution at Greenfield, having paid its depositors at the rate of 6 per cent semi-annually, has declared an extra divi dend of 5 per cent, payable January 1, thus pay ing depositors for the last five years, 7 per cent, free from taxes. The Daily Republican has a larger circulation in Monson than ever before, and the prospect is that both the daily and weekly lists in that town will be greatly augmented before New Year’s. Subscriptions can be left with Mr Towne at the pjst office. The railroad meeting at Sonthbridge, w eaaes day evening, to discuss the Palmer and Provi dence railroad project, arid the building of the Sjutbbndge and Palmer line, was addressed by DrS. C. Hartwell and A. J. Bartholomew of Southbridge, David Wight of Sturbridge aud James G. Alien of Palmer. An unusual interest iu the project was mani'ested, and it was voted to hold another meeting, next month. A com mittee of seven leading citizens was also appoint ed to arrange for calling a town meeting in Jan uary, to act on the question of a town subscrip tion to the stock of the Smthbridge and Palmer road. The directors held a special meeting at Southbridge, Thursday forenoon, and voted to proceed ar once by committee to secure private subscription to the stock in the towns along the line, and appointed James G. Allen of Palmer, Dr S. C. Hartwell of Siuthbridge, and David Wight of Starbridge as a standing committee to consult with the directors of tiie Providence and East Thompson (Ct.) line in furtherance of their joint interests, with authority to seek such urther legislative action as may be necessary to secure she construction of the through line. Th? Worcester northwest (Athol) agricultural society has elected these cithers: President Wil liam B. Spooner of Boston; treasurer, T. H. Goodspeed; secretary, E. T. Lewis; committee “ngrounds, L. W. Hapgood, D. E. Chamberlain, C. W. Moore. The society is in good condition financially, and has gained a reputation for giv ing about as good cattlt-fbows as can be seen in western Massachusetts. The Vermont aud Massachusetts railroad will petition the nr.xt Legislature for leave to I straighten their road between Fitchburg and Gardner; also between Frying and Taruer’s I Falls, acd for authority to increase their capital I stock to the extent of SI 500,000, or to issue I bonds convertible into stock. Progress of the Hoosae tunnel in Xovember: East end 161 feet, central shaft (eastward only) I 54 feet, west end 131 feet, aud 54) feet of brick arch built. But 50 feet of the west end of the tunnel I remsius to be arched. Five thousand pounds of j nitro glycerine are used at the tunnel every moUhij. Joseph North of West Stockbridge, superin tendent of the Cheever ore bed, was robbed by a gang of roughs in a New York street car, last rCNk, Ot Ji 100 which be had just drawn from the bank'for the parf.ose Of paj Ing iff hi? men, The company recently had a clerk robbed in tbe same way, of money to pay miners, and thought to get their cash this time safely by sending the super intendent. Spencer's new SBO,OOO town house, which wa to te completed by January, will probably not be finished till April. Dr Edward Hitchcock, professor of physical education at Amherst college, is writing a lecture on “Walking.” Lyceums and lecture eommitteea should look out tor it. A a Fisk cf Bernardston has bought a farm cf 75 acres in West Deerfield for 86000. Tits Worcester free institute has received an additimi gift from WUitem Knowlton of Up pjn, In toe to.-m of 600 feet of handsome, square, rubble wall, capped arid trimmed with white granite, which Le has constructed along the east line ot tbe grounds. The Worcester county west agricultural so cie'.v has elected for p,esident, George M. Butte -1 rick; secretary, OramelCijrk; treasurer, Charles JBrimbiecom, all of Barre. North Adams A fire broka Out is the build ing’ponging to Burlingame Darby on Main etreev. about 1 o’clock, Wednesday morning. The first foor was occupied by Henry -Jones a» a confectionery store. His goods were badly dam aged by water; insured for 4900. H. L Liv er more oco.wied the second .story as a boarding house. Hie Jarniture and goods were almost en tirely destroyed; not insured. Un arks Liver more broke his leg by jumping fr.om the second story piazza. Tlw fire originated in tbe base ment where a me.-t market was kept by Henry Cousins, whose iosfi Is about $500; IbiwreJ for 8600. The origin of She fire is unknown. Both the Worcester and Fitchburg jails .fre full to overflowing. The eighth annual festival of the farmers cf' Berkshire, will be held at Thrtis’s hotel in Lenox,, December 28, when they will discuss the com- i prenenslve topic of tbe "pa.tpptesent and future of New England farming. The descendants of Barzilla Little of Middle-! field will hold a family reunion at Windham, 0., I January2l. They are great singers and have: rousing coueerfs at their gatherings. The Churches of Middlefield and some cf the Becket F Ameses belong to this family. EtuSeVM IflWHMacbuireMs. The New Bedford papers report that the Beve THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1871. railroad slaughter, tha Chicago Are ana the daily reports in the papers of deaths from the explo sion of petroleum oil, have made the pandit trade better than ft has been for jears. William Brown, who lias been stopping >?w days at Lvnn, cut bls paramour’s throat with a dirk knife, during a quarrel, Saturday morning. A neighbor named Allen, arou.od by the woman's screams, went to tho door and attempted to en ter, but was met by the murderer, wi.o with the knife reeking with blood in his hand, dared him to advance a single step. Adon w< nt for as-sis- 1 lance, but before he reiurned Brown fled to the woods. He was immediately pursued by police i officers, and being likelv »o be captured, turned j suddenly aud attacked Officer Thurston, and in the struggle both fell. Brown stabbing the officer several times. Officer Whitton used bis club without effect, whin City Marshal Barrett com ing up. drew bis revolver and shot Brown dead. The affair caused great excitement in the city. The late Dr Dean, founder of Dean academy at Franklin, willed $lO 000 to Miss Sarah G. Dulev, its precep'reis, and SSOOO each to Miss Emma D. Senter aud Miss Eliza B. Barry, two of the teach ers The academy, which he had before given $250 090, comts in for S3OO 000 more. A portion cf tho South Boston flats, mortgaged to the state by the Hartford and Erie railroad, have been sold under the mortgage, tbe state being tbe purchaser at $545,.‘>00. The premises are burdened with two prior mortgages. The revolver with which Keating shot his wife and himself at Littleton, last week, has been found rolled op in a vest under a cider barrel in tbe cellar. When asked wbv he tried to kill his wife, Keating replied, “She vexed me; she wouldn't serve mo.” In other words she wouldn’t milk the cows and chop wood. Mrs Keating is still alive, and with all her troubles has come down with fever. Tobacco is selling quite freely in Amherst and vicinity for 25 cents a pound, through. It is like the early and latter rain. Men pay their debts, tbe women and children hr.ve new clothes, and every bedv feels lovelv, generally. The Legislature will be asked to charter a rail road from Conway to Deerfield, and one from the Vermont and Massachusetts railroad in Winchen don to the New Hampshire state line. Armstrong, tbe North Bridgewater murderer, will not be tried, as his counsel aud the attorney general have given notice that he will p’end guilty of manslaughter, and that this plea wifi tie accepted by the government. Cornelius Conners, indicted for the murder of Officer Wilber of the Chelsea police, was ar raigned in the supreme court on Saturday, and pleaded not guilty. His trial will not take place for two or three months. William Emerson, one of the persons concerned in the rape upon the Whitehead girl at Lowell last summer, and who forfeited by non-appear ance the 55000 bail in which he was held, was ar rested at Malden, Thursday night. He has been in Maiden for somo time, and his friends were in tending to start him for tbe Weston Saturday. Charles Laskey, a convict serving a three years’ sentence for larceny in the Charlestown state prison, and employed in the engine room, escaped cn Sunday afternoon. There was a fire on Sunday morning in tbe store Nos. 19, 20 and 21 Hawley street, Boston. Tbe following are tbe losses: Foley Co., junk dealers, $3000; Walworth Co., gas generators, $70,060; William R. Bennett, $2000; Bartlett Bitnam, S3OOO Tbe building was damaged $7090, partially insured. A special official census, just taken, shows that New Bedford has 171 manufacturing concerns, in which $1 461 000 are invested, with an annual production of $8,139,270. The 3905 employes are paid $1,717,971 annually. The Fitchburg railroad dividend is 4 per cent. Rev John B. Green, the Unitarian Clergyman at Chelsea, was awakened, Wednesday morning, by a burglar at his bedside, rifling his pants and vest containing a gold watch and $25. The cler gyman “went for him” and chased him out of doors, but the fellow made good bis escape, after being fired at by a policeman. The insurance commissioner declares the Inde pendent insurance company of Boston insolvent, and the supreme court has put an injunction on it. Col B. F. Lawrence, a wealthy man of 60 years, from Elgin, 111., became insane at tbe American home, Boston, Friday morning, and jumped from the third story, falling upon an iron picket and so shattering his leg as to render amputation necessary. His injuries were fatal. A genuine kuklux disguise, captured in North Carolina and sent to Gen Grant, is one of the curiosities exhibited at the dumb animals' fair in Boston. It is a horrible-looking affair, made of qiack cambric with a white border and white round spots up and down tbe front. The cover ing for tbe head and shoulders is of the same ma terial, and runs up into a high peak. There are two long, white projecting horns, holes for tbe eyes, a long, red artificial nose, and earlets also bordered with red. Mrs John Dix of Boston, who recently cele brated her 100th birthday, was one of 13 chil dren, each of whom reached the age of 75. They were ail born in Charlestown, and on the same location, although the house where some first saw the light was burned in the Kivolutionary war. Charles Mellin, of the firm of Mellen, Ward Co. of Boston, convicted in 1869, with others, of fraud on the government, and sentenced to rive years in j ail and a fine of $100,009, has been par doned by Hie presiuent and his fine remitted. “Warrington’s” Bazar Gazette, published for free distribution during tbe continuance, of the woman suffrage bazar at Boston, is chiefly de. voted to advertising, of course, but it has lots of good things in it, equally of coarse, considering who its editor is. We may add that Mrs “War rington,” who presides over the Bazar Case, has got ap op.e of the sweetest red-line editions of a bill of fare it has ever been our iot to see, in which elegant extracts, cold dishes, squash pie and ice-cream are sandwiched in between adver tiseipents in the most artistic way. This publi cation looks like a fairy newspaper, and com pares with the more masculine Bazar Gazette as Milton’s Eve with Adam,—- For coutemplatioil he, and valor formed, For softness she, and Wyet attractive grace. Samnei T. Boynton, late proprietor of the Parks house, Boston, has “stepped out,” leaving bills to the amount of $20,000 unpaid. Up to Monday, 117 notices of petitions to the Legislature were filed in the secretary of state's eftiee, one third more than in any similar period heretofore. By a firs, Monday evening, on Congress street. Boston, Chase Co lozenge manufacturers, lost 540,000, and Wilder Co.’s paper stock, valued at $45,000, was badly damaged by water, but in sured. The building, owned by Mr Kreamer, was damaged S6OOO. I Our Dumb Animals’ fair at Boston, which closed, Saturday night, netted $20,000. Allen Co's shoddy mill in Wakefield was burned, Monday night; it was insured for $19,000 which probably covers the Ices. Calvin Handy, a Baptist clergyman of Straf ford, Vt., while passing over the Dover street bridge at Boston on Wednesday evening, was knocked down, chloroformed and robbed of his I silver watch aud SIOOO in bills. The dead body of a boy about 12 years old was found, On Wednesday, in a limekiln at South Boston, with both legs burned off. B v W. H. Cudwor’h in the middle of a lecture at Esst B jstcu, the other evening, asked to be excused while be slipped around to his church to marry a couple, an engagement he had forgotten. Tbe knot was quickly tied, and toe lecturer soon ye turned and went on as if nothing had hap medal which was cist by the Haytiens for nvMMita ‘on to Senator Sumner, but which, un der tbe cone titution, he was obliged to decline, fl U aDd in B °s Wn bnilt n P° n tha Cushman was born, has appropS Cushman 1 sdJooL'^ I Brighton is Hjotete over the moral cf all the staugklw-honjes in .‘he and the construction m dn abattoir off tn.* 1 *dosi i Borton’, Hartford fed Erie railroad I’M unfed $135,334 above its opw&ting expenses do- I trig the last financial year. Plsstne. EcttffhfrH. Dale, mayor of B MgoC den y ar noon on Sunday, of apoplexy. ,»r Dlalc ♦tifs a prominent merchant, *nd bold L >8 I office of mayor from March, 1863, UH March, 1869, being again elected, last March. He was a native of Salem. Mats. Tho Portland Preis says it is rumored that ti e European and North American railroad is now owned and controlled by Pennsylvania parties, who are connected with the Central road of that state. In other words, tbe road on which too i.topluof Malnn have bestowed all tbeir public lands acd a large money subsidy, has already fallen into the bands of that king of railroad kings, Tom Scott. A fire at Unity, Saturday night, destroyed four stores, the bouse of Josiah Harmon and the office Of A. T. Watson. The Continental mill at Lewiston, which has a capacity of 28,000 spindles, is to bo carried up to 62.000 as speeoily as possible, which will make it one of tbe largest mills In tbe country. A state temperance convention will beheld at Augusta, January 17, to devise means to secure a more general and impartial enforcement of the prohibitory law. Brigadier island, in Penobscot bay, near Bel fast, containing 1000 acres, which was tho prop erty of the late David Sears of Boston, has been sold to parties in Rocklaud for $40,000. The directors of the Boston and Maine railroad have voted to distribute two new shares, at par, for every five of the old stock, to be paid in five installments. Aew Hnmpahire. G. H. Tilden Co., dealers in books, station ery and newspapers, at Keene, and who by the way have just put in a full stock of holiday goods, are agents for The Republican in that thriving town, and will be glad to take subscriptions to either the daily or the weekly paper. The people oS Hampton Falls, whose ancestors 30 years ago compelled tbe Eastern railroad to construct its track over the Hampton marsh rath er than permit it to come near their village, now see tbe matter in a new light, and a change of route is pr> jic'.ed through the villages of Sea brook and Hampton Falls, avoiding the marsh. The town is now ready to help pay for the change. The novel wager between ex-Mayor Frank Jones of Portsmouth and Major Donovan of Lowell, by which tbe major was to wheel Jones on a wheelbarrow from Lowell to Portsmouth in a week, for hiss47s gold watch, has been for feited by tbe latter, as a week’s time is more valuable to him at present than a gold watch or even a wheelbarrow ride. Vermont. At the annual meeting cf the state agricultural society and wool-growers’ association at Burling ton on Wednesday, these officers were elected: Prisidrm, Henry G. Root ot Burlington; secre tary. Henry Clark of Rutland; treasurer, N. B Stafford of White River Junction. Resolulions were passed protesting against any change in the principles of the present tariff, and asserting that the repeal of the duty on wool would result in ruin to that branch of industry. There is considerable stir in Windsor county owing so the discovery of gold upon an island in the White river, a quantity having been as sayed and found to give the profitable yield of SI9BO per ton. The soil is a black sand, in which tbe yellow grains of more or less fineness can be seen. The discoverer, an Englishman named Saltry, leased the island for a small sum, before making known bis good luck, and is now selling rights to dig, the owner of the island himself pay ing SSOO for one. An interesting bank case has just been decided in the Bennington county court, the First na tional bank ot Bennington being held liable for tne loss by burglary of $4900 in bonds deposited by Enos Adams as collateral security for a loan. The case had been tried before, tbe jury failing to acree. Oliver Elmore, the hermit of Winhall river,” died from the effects of exposure, last week, at the foot of Stratton mountain, where he has lived for 30 years in a hole dug in the bill, with no com panion save his dogs and hens. When a young man he resided in Connecticut, and was driven to this strange life by the death of the woman whom be loved and was to marry. He had many wealthy ar.d influential relatives in that state— among them a member of Congress—who have often tried to induce him to abandon his singular habits, bat without avail. Thaddeus R. Fletcher, a wealthy citizen of Bur lington, died on Saturday at the age of 70. He recently gave SIO,OOO each to the home for the destitute in Burlington and the Essex classical institute. Franklin is considerably excited over what are supposed to be indications of oil in a pond in that village, some boys while skating a few nights ago having accidentally found that an inflamma ble gas issues from holes cut in certain parts of the ice. Rhode fslnnd. Rhode Island is the only New England state where farms are increasing in value, and this is owing to the growth and prosperity of her man ufacturing villages. Even there, hundreds of acres cultivated 50 years ago are now abandoned to the rabbit and the woodchuck. Providence is at last to have a hotel worthy of tbe wealth and enterprise of tbe city. It will be six stories high, with a front of 60 feet and a deplh of 92, thus affording opportunity for spacious and commodious arrangements. Tbe first floor will ba occupied by e’egaut stores, with a depth cf 60 feet, Canaeclicui. Over 1600 of the 10,000 women signers to the anti-woman suffrage memorial, presented in Con gress, Thursday, by Senator Buckingham, are residents of Connecticut. The senator vouched for them, and disapproved of the coming reform as follows: “They are not msnly women, but women of good sense, and their judgment is en titled to consideration. They do not say any thing about tbe abstract right of suffrage, but they sav that having already their fall share of the burdens and responsibilities of life, they fear that others more bold than they may succeed in having imposed uoon them other burdens and responsibilities unsuited to them. Therefore they ask Congress to protect them from those dangers. They say that the extension of woman suffrage to them will be adverse to tbe interests of the working-women; that it will introduce fruitful elements of discord into the existing marriage relations, and that it will be freighted with dan ger t 5 the general good order of the country. I sympni.ite with them. I see no possible benefit which can arise by the extension of suffrage to women—benefit to them or the country." When a Bridgewater deaeon nudged a sleeping stranger with the contribution box, the other Sundar, that individual awoke to acknowledge tbe attention, bns went otT again, softly protest ing t.e didn’t smoke." Recent tobacco sales in Windsor and East Hart ford have brought large prices. Ooe lot of wrap pers sold for 55 cents, another at 57, and a third for GO. Of coarse the quality was extra nice. More than half of the new issue of tbe stock of tbe old Hartford fire insurance company has al ready been subscribed, and 885 is freely offered for rights. Every one supposed that the Jarves gallery of ola Italian pictures was finally settled in the Yale school of fine arts, but it is now said that the faculty pf Tale will unite with Mr Jarves in giving a ciC.ar tl^e to all the pictures in the gal lerv in case a purchaser appears before January 1, 1872. The pried asked is £:lO,COO, or half what the gallery woald bring if sold in London. Tbe small-pox excitement at Wesleyan univer sity has died out and tbe students wl’O eo sud denly departed for their homes will reifru after the holidays. There have been only two omes at the college, yet a student was looked upon as a walking pestilence and many of them were ac tually driven away by the fright of hotel and boarding-house keepers. The center school district of Enfield have vot ed to lay a tax of seven and a half mills on the dollar to pay tbeir indebtedness, this being the first laid for a series of years. A horrible ease of neglect occurred at Hart ford, last week, a friendless man who had fallen down a staircase, while intoxicated, and re ceived dangerous injuries, being left to die in an old building, without fire or care. He lingered for three days so neglected that cats fed upon his wounds, and finally died on Friday. His in juries were not fatal, and only demanded good CS Mr Dolbear, mate of the schooner Eva, was washed overboard and drowned off Montauk on Wednesday night. The Orient fire insurance company was organ ize! at Hartlord, Tuesday, with Charles T. Web ster as president and George W. Lester secretary. The machinery of the old City company Is to be applied to the new company, tbe capital of which is $500,000. Regular passenger trains commenced running, Thursday, on the new Connecticut Western railroad from Hartford to Millerton on the Har lem road in New York, connecting via the Dutchess and Columbia and Poughkeepsie and Eastern roads to Fishkill and Poughkeepsie. It has been decided to make tho appeal for sub scriptions to ths $500,000 “Woolsey fund” foi Yale college to the clas-es. In the hope that class rivalry will stimulate effort and secure more lib ers! contributions. AI he death of Myron 8. Webb at Windsor trmi tl.tr discharge of a pistol which he was carrying, took place late Tuesday night. Tbe conclusion, arrived at from hasty impressions, that he tommitted suicide, seems to have been incorrect, as farther investigation goes to show He bod built the kitchen fire as usual, and seeing bis revolver lying lout of place, started to return it to a drawer in bls room where it belonged. Before reaching there he probablv tripped or fainted and the pistol was discharged by hie fall. Tbe fatal wound was of such a character as would have been: almost impossible had he held tbe pistol close to his head. Add to tins that he had been cheerful as usual, and had no possible motive for the act, and the more mature conclu sion will seem to be tbe proper one. OUR AORICVLTURA.L PROOUCIS. The table of the census bureau, just completed, showing the value of the farm crops, exclusive of I farm stock, of the states and territories for the year ending June 1, 1870, foots up $2,445,000,000, a sum more than sufficient to pay the national debt. It is believed that this table is more care fully made up than ever before, and it probably comes short of rather than exceeds the truth. But taking tbe figures as they stand to represent tbe true value of our agricultural products fur a year, and we see more clearly than ever before bow true it is that agriculture is the industry that underlies and supports all others. New York was tbe banner state for agricultural prod ucts. their value in the year named being $253,- 526,153. Illinois camo next, $210,860,585; and Wyoming stands lowest in the scale, producing only $42,760 worth of agricultural products. The figures for tbe New England states are as fol lows: Maine, $33,470,044; New Hampshire, $22,- 473 547; Vermont, $34,647,027; Massachusetts, $82,192,878; Rhode Island, $4,761,063; Connecti cut, $26,482,150. Tbe value of live stock in the country in 1870, I as shown by tbe official census figures, was sl,- j 524,271,714. The whole number of horses report- i ed was 7.141,083; of mules, 1,128,688; of milch I cows, 8,953.748; of oxen, 1,299,283; of other cat-1 tie, 12,433,834; of sheep, 28,956,667; of swine, 24,651,084. The wool clip of the country is a matter of so much importance, and the sources of its supply are changing so fast, that we give entire the cen sus table showing tbe production for the year i ending June 1, 1870:— JBW BNOLAXII BTATBB. Lbs. Lbs. Connecticut, 254,129 Maine, 1,774,168 Massachusetts, 306,C59 Vermont, 3,192,137 New Hampshire, 1,129,442 Rhode Island, 77,328 Total, .6,643,863 MinllLX STATES. Pennsylvania, 6,561,722 Delaware, 58,316 New Jersey, 336,609 Maryland, 435,213 New York, 10,599.225 Total, 17,991,085 NORTHWESTEKX STATES. Illinois, 5,739,249 Michigan, (8,726.145 Indiana, 5,029,023 Minnesota, 407,185 lowa, 2.967,543 Nebraska, 74,635 Kansas, 335 005 Nevada, 27,029 Ohio, 20.639,643 Wisconsin, 4,929,647 Total, 47,929,647 BORDER STATES. Kentucky, 2,234,450 Virginia, 877,110 Missouri, 3.649,390 West .Virginia, 1,593,641 Tennessee, 1,889,762 Total. 9,744,253 COTTON STATES. Alabama, 379,773 Mississippi, 288.285 Arkansas, 203,275 North Carolina, 799,667 Florida, 37.562 South Carolina, 1156 314 Georgia, 846,947 Texas, 1,251,328 Louisiana, 140,118 Total, 4,094.269 TACirtC STATES. California, 11,391,743 Oregon. 1,080,638 Total, 12,472,381 TERRITORIES. Arizona, 679 New Mexico, fSI.OSO Colorado. 204,925 Utah, 109,018 Dakota, 8,810 Washington. 162.713 Idaho, 3,415' Wyoming, 30,000 Montana, 100 Total Territories, 1,294,590 Total States, 100,080,088 Grand total, 101.284,678 Gen Buder has been made chairmen of the congressional committee on the revision cf the 12^S of the United States. A delicate hint that he must wait until the laws are properly made and revised, before be can be trurted with his great work of “executing” them. —[Boston Bazar Gazette. jloca£ notices. Arcttcs are still plenty at the Central Shoe Store. To eradicate pimples from the face, use the “Dol lar Reward Soap” unsparingly. Worth Kembmbxbikg.—At this season, when out door exposure chills one through, the cold often lays the foundation for very serious complaints, a dose of Williams’s Extract Jamaica Ginger is invaluable. Oil explosions most frequently occur from the lamp being upset and broken. By using Pratt’s Astral OU you avoid this as well as every other danger Incident to unsafe oil, it being in every respect a perfectly pure, reliable and case article. People who have out their wise teeth, use the Sozodont, and all who do, are willing to declare to all who don’t use it, that it is the most perfect and delightful thing for the teeth they ever dipped a brash into. 'To produce that permanent elasticity of the nerve structure, so essential to the healthy action of the nervous tystem, tone and stimulate it with Smolan der’a Buohu, which entirely eradicates kidney, blad der and glandular diseases, mental and physical de bility, diabetes, gravel, female weakness and uterine maladies. It has the emphatic endorsement of fkmUy physicians. investments. IMPORTANT TO HOLDERS OV UNITED STATES FIVE- TWKNTIEB. Banking Hotrra op Jay Cooke 8c Co., j P'iiladei.phia, December, 1871.1 The now completed swecss of the New Five Per Cent. Government Ix>an places it beyond doubt that the entire Public Debt of the United States can be, and soon will be, funded at 5 per cent, or a less rate. The (me Hundred Millions of Five-Twenties of 1862, ealleil in for payment September 1, and on which in terest slopped December 2, are now nearly all re deemed and cancelled. In addition to this large amount the Secretary of the Treasury, being unable to purchase Five-Twenties in the open market at par, or less, in coin, has called in for redemption Twenty Millions more, interest to cease March 7, 1872. This fixed policy of the Treas ury Department, and the demonstrated ability ot the Government to promptly place a Five Per Cent. Loan, indicate that all holders of Five-Twenties will soon be required to surrender them for redemption, receiving in return either coin payment or bonds oi tho new issue bearing an average rate of 4} per cent, interest. In view of these facte, the present holders of United States securities must decide whether it is not beet j to make at once such a change o) k'™* “"'“I w enable them to realize as profit, or adC 0 J e r tai, tbe pre-ent average premium of 12 to»' P® l, o o on Five-Twenties, white at the same time 1 n I creasing tbeir annual Income. To those who whh to take advanfageof the present most favorable opportunity for making the exobaage suggested, wo strongly recommend the First Mort gage 7-30 Bonds of the Northern PaciSc Railroad, now selling at par und aea rued interest In curroncy. The results already accomplished in the construction and equipment of near y Three Hundred Mlles of i Road, and the rapid development of the adjacent country, have established tbe permanency and raooeas of the Northern Paelflo enterprise, and created a large and increasing demand (or the First Mortgage Bonds ot the Company. With their high rate of interest, their ample security, and tbeir convertibility Into tho Lands of the Company at 10 per cent premium, they constitute a most desirable investment, and can hardly fail to advance considerable above par at an early day. The holder of a 81000 AVe- Toenly J>Md who acw j changes it nout for Xortlicm Pacifies, thereby in creases has principal by 12 to 14 per cent, receiring say 81140 an Northern Pacifies for 81008 in Hec- Twenties. He also permanently increases the yearly interest income on his investment more than 38 per cent, or from 860.00 in gold to 883.22 in gold. These meet unusual opportunities for the profitable conversion of Government Bonds into Corporate Securities of undoubted reliability, cannot, In the nature of the case, long continue. Loanable capital is increasingly abundant, both at home and abroad; Government and corporate disbursements for interest and dividends m the next ninety days will disengage some Two Hundred Millions of capital, most of which will at once seek reinvestment; really desirable invest ment securities are scarce compared with the present aud probable demand for theta, hence an early »d ---vance in tbeir value is morally certain. The 7-30 Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad are being rapidly absorbed by the people, and the Company expect soon to be enabled to substitute a six per cent security for tbe residue of tbeir construction loan. These facts promire, very soon, to change tbe en tire aspect of the loan market, which is just now so peculiarly favorable to investors, and suggest prompt action on the part of those who wish to exchange securities in time to profit by the present premium on Five-Twenties and the present low price of Northern Pacifies. JAY COOKE A CO. Philadelphia, New York and Washingtos. Financial Agents Northern Pacific Railroad Com pany. ROHN. In this city, 16tli, a son (Henry N.) to Henry TVuight. In this city, 16th, a son to Henry L. Searle. in this city, 18th, a son (Samuel Emery) to Edmund Bailey and grandson to E. C. Bailey of Chicago, formerly ot this city. In this city, 18th, a daughter to Homer E. King. At Chicopee Falls, 13th. a son to George W. New ell. At Greenfield, 15tb, a daughter to Gilbert Mat- NARD. At Shelburne Falls, 15th, a daughter to Lyman N. Richmond. 1 n Thompsonville, Ct„ 29th ult„ a daughter to Wil liam Leonard 13th, a daughter to Joseph Dauby. At Enfield, Ct., Ist, a son to George M. Dayton. At Lee, 16th, u daughter to James Reardon. At Belchertown, 13th. a son to E. G. Baldwin. At Monson, 16th, a daughter (Agnes May) to W. F. Sanderson, formerly of South Hadley, and grand daughter to Henry Adams ot this city. At Brattleboro, Vt., 6th, a son to C. F. Schuster. At Northampton, 12th, a son to Charles Damon 13th, a daughter to William Buewstbb, At Easthamptou, 7th, a daughter to L. Monroe Prestos. At Stafford Springs, Ct 14th, twin eons to Oscar G. Owen. At Bernardston, ]3th, a daughter to Henry C. Cushman. At Lee, Bth, a son to W. H Blaxvelt. At Westfield, 11th, a daughter to Joseph King, 2d. At Amherst, 18tli, a daughter to Horace Cook. At North Hanley, 15th, a son to Mviion Smith. At Longmeadow, 18tb, a daughter to Patrick Ward. At Northampton, 16tb, a son to F. A Stockwell; a daughter to Geobge 11. Daniels. Sarhskw. In this city. 20th, at tbe residence ot the bride’s fattier, by Elder W, N. Pile, Marcus Goodell and Emma E. Duckee. AI Chicopee, 19tb, by Rev E. B. Palmer, Edward R. Stickney of this city and Ida L„ daughter of William G. Porter. At Thompsonyiile, Ct., 14th, by Rev Mr Jestup, Frederick Sloan and abby M. Lacky. At Northampton, 14th, Geobge H. Brown aud Belen A. Field. At Cleveland, 0.,14tb. by the father of the bride, as sisted by Rev Dr J. Lloyd Breck, A. Lawrenob Hop kins, son of President Hopkins of Williams college, and annah P., only daughter of Rev Dr Charles Breck. At South Hadley Falls. 14th, by Bev G. L. lusher, William T. Smith aud Lydia B. Frost, both of South Hadley. At Lee, 13th. Robert it. Harder of Pittsfield and Mary A. Couch. At Sontb Royafcton, 7tb, Zenas W. Tolman of Athol and Rozella Foster. At Pittsfield, 3d, John T. Van Deuben of Hudson, N. Y„ aud Bella Smith. At Westfield, 13111, Joseph A. Tiskuam and Han kah Clerey. At Deep River, Ct., I3th, William H. Hall and Hattie D. Cornwell of Middletown. At Brattleboro, Vt„ 7th, Lyman J. Huntley and Idella Vary Crosier. At North Woodstock, Vt., 7th, Leander H. Stow and Habtubt F. Perrin, both of oodstock At West Halifax, Vt, Willard C. Davis of Wln- Che-ter, N. 11-, and Jlrs Caroline Clark. At Keene, N. H„ 4th, Lorenzo W. Gloss of U in chester, N. 11,, and Anna R. Spaulding of Ilins