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A Run on a Hartford Savings Bank. HARTFORD, Jan. 28.-A run upon the Dime Savings Bank of this city was begun on Wednesday and continued until this afternoon. when those who had drawn out their money found that the rumors which led to the run were without foundation in fact, and commenced to return their money. The bank is sound.
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CONNECTICUT. Run on a Savings Bank. Hartford, January 28. A run upon the Dime Savings Bank of this city, commenced day before yesterday and continued until this afternoon, when the depositors found the rumors without foundation, and returned their money.
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Latest News by Mail Mrs. Cornelia Bush has been elected state librarian of Kentucky. Sixteen thousand napkin rings was a recent order to the Meriden Britannia company. The Putnam fire insurance company of Hartford, Conn., has voted to discontinue business. The Leonard silk company at Warehouse Point, Conn., are running on three-quarters time. The trustees of the Kentucky state asyJum for the blind are charged with robbing the state of $5,000 a year. Joseph B. Grinnell, formerly member of Congress, has been appointed receiver of the Central railroad of Iowa. There has been a run on the Hartford, Conn. dime savings bank, by which $42, 000 was taken out. The scare was perfectly groundless. Winslow used to say that he could more in an practice in a and now preach year. hour folks than believe he could it if they didn't before. They talk about a butternut tree, at East Hampton, Mass., just cut down, which contained 15 squirrels, a bushel of nuts, and five large snakes. A committee of Louisville (Ky.) citizens are to call a mass-convention of people of the south and west to consider the wants of those parts of the country. The number of matriculated students at the Leipzig University lacks only a score or 80 of 3,000. Among them are 63 Americans. At the Berlin university there are 62 Americans. The railroad commissioner of Rhode Island is engaged in a crusade against grade crossings, and an order has been introduced into the legislature providing that no more shall be built. The Lopsdale strikers. who have voted to return to work on Monday, have lost three week's pay. With a large number it was a serious question whether they were to starve or not. t The unemployed of Schenectady, N. Y , have appealed en masse to the city council Ir for work, representing that unless the city t finds them employment speedily it will be r "steal or starve" with large numbers of them. e A secret meeting of the members of the Wisconsin legislature opposed to the rea peal ot the Potter railroad law was held at e Madison, Thursday evening. and it is reported that a sufficient number were present to defeat the bill to repeal the law. e A hundred and sixty-two men and 193 y women, over 90 years of age, died in New Hampshire in the six years ending with of this number. men and g women were over eight 1875, and, 100. eight The oldest v was 106, one was over, and another lacked but one day of 105. e The assessors in a town of Cheshire county, New Hampshire, when asked for at information regarding their appraisal of y real estate for taxation recently replied & that they "agreed not.to .tell until they real estate, 80 they can alter their figures, d if necessary.' a It is stated that the famous and long e of sought for Planchas La Plata mine in Arizona, which Spanish history says yielded is pure silver in such huge pieces. 200 years g ago, that the crown confiscated it for its II own use, has been found by a man named Crutz, about 90 miles southeast of Tuscon, near the Sonora line. t The saddest individual case of loss by y Winslow's torgeries is that of a man who t recently loaned the plausible swindler $20, n 000, wh ch was about all the money he had in the world, on what purported to be good security, but now turns out worthless d and is now left almost penniless, with 18 large family to support. r Joseph Bork, the defaulting city treasuo rer of Buffalo, N.Y., finds his assets $400,000 in excess of his liabilities, while those of the firm of Lyon, Bork & Co., of which e he is a member, are only $75,000 short, so is he will pay up, turning his real estate g stealings over to trustees to hold for the benefit of the city, and realize on it when it ir can be advantageously sold, and in turn he t will not be prosecuted. e The entries to the Springfield poultry y show cover almost every known variety of fowl, the last being from a Connecticut d man who will send a trio of Batavia black games, about the only specimens in the r country. As a side-dish to the poultry, there will be some hatching tanks from Col. Thompson's trout farm, in which the a the careful observer will be able to see troutlings separating from the spawn. r Whitefield, the great evangelist, has been is dead a hundred years, but it 18 with difficulty he has been kept in the crypt where his body has been laid, in the old church at Newburrport, Conn. Parts of his skelee ton and chips from his tomb have been carried away by relie hunters, and the sexton has orders to watch every visitor. Somebody once stole one of his aams, but after being taken across the Atlantic, it was returned with a letter of penitence from the f thief. The box in which it was sent is now kept in the coffin.
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New England. CONNECTICUT. -Rev MI Shipman, of Norwich, says that he was once called to marry a man who was to be united to his fourth wife. As he approached the couple he said, as usual, "Please rise.' The man fidgeted about on his chair, and finally remarked, We've usually sot." -There has been a run on the Hartford dime savings bank, by which $42,000 was taken out. The scale was perfectly groundless.