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There was a run on a Bridgeport Savings Bank, recently. occasioned by the report that it had some of the stock of the Hartford Farmers & Mechanics National Bank Snch affairs are very absand. A savings bank that has a million dollars safety invested is affected only to a very triffing extent by fuiling to receive two or three semi-annual dividends on a thousand dollars of bank stock. The OB the other hand, loses considerable interest by his untimely withdrawal of his deposit. Last week a bill validating informal deeds given by the wife to the husband was returned by the Governor to the House with a veto message from which me extract the following: The statutes of the state disable a married woman from conveying her real estate without jounder of her husband. She is therefore at liberty to disputesuch conveyances against all the world. This bill takes from her that right as against her husband and against him alone. Such evereyncies are ordinarily made without consideration and procured by the influence of the husband, and not unfrequent ly by importanity and threats The hnshand is the last person in the worid entitled to ask an enforced confirmation of an invalid conveyance by his wife. Chaueery would not under such aircumst inces grant relief. In my judgment the legisfailure should not.