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proves to have been an anaconda 25 feet long, thrown overboard from a vessel laden with living curios, because it had died. THE speech of Senator Fuller of the 24th district, printed on page 1st, while interesting and readable, is a clear and instructive presentation of insurance matters, put into such plain language as to be easily understood by any one. The speech has been highly spoken of by the legislative reporters, and in editorial columns of state papers. The Hartford Post says: "Seldom has a more scholarly and able speech been made in the senate than that made by Senator Fuller against the valued policy fire insurance bill, yet he was not a frequent speaker. But he always voted." THE reports of massacres by the Indians are generally turning out to be murderous assaults on the Indians by whites, and the result is, as usual, a lot of infuriated red men, an Indian war, an enormous expense to the government, and the killing of brave soldiers who had no part in inciting the uprising. The beginning was the arrest of Indians on a trumped up charge of violation of the game laws. It appears that the Indians were only exercising rights given them by United States treaties, and the violated laws were those made by unauthorized local authority. The party in charge of the arrested Indians claim that they tried to escape, and that it was necessary to kill them. It would be a good thing if Uncle Sam's troops would point their guns at some of the trouble breeding white squatters on Indian reservations. IT is probable that the worst was told in the beginning about the Willimantic savings bank trouble, more than the worst, in fact. The sensational reports first issued are reducing their dimensions with investigation, and now the wonder is why did Walden destroy or mutilate the books and run away, instead of facing the music. Perhaps the people will be the more willing to forgive in the exultation of finding that the matter is not as bad as at first feared. But it is bad enough. The bank may go on. It will be better for depositors and all if it is continued in life. To wind it up would shrink its assets, sadly cripple its borrowers, and generally demoralize business. It will be better for everybody concerned if the bank takes a thorough house-cleainng, and starts over with a new set of servants, or at least a discharge of the imprudent, incapable, or untrustworthy ones. The bank is likely to realize $9,000 on one transaction in which its money was risked without giving it a share of profits. It is said that it has no legal right to this, and the inference is that the concession is in the shape of "hush money" to stop investigation. The disclosure or suspicion may lead to something more than a "hush." Commissioner Crofut estimates the resent liabilities of the bank to be $490,747.09, and figures amount of insolvency at $27,469.73. He recommends that the bank go into the hands of a receiver.
