■Gen. La Fayette arrived in Hartford on Saturday about 11 o’clock, A.M., where he was most cordially received by the civil authorities, the military, and an immense concourse of people. At half-past three, P.M., he went on board the steamboat for New York. We learn that he intends to revisit New England the next spring.
■Gen. Ebenezer Mattoon of Amherst is a candidate for an Elector of President and Vice President for the District of Franklin. Gen. Mattoon was in the “tented field” during most of the war of the Revolution. He is a patriot, has long been a distinguished and faithful public servant, is a gentleman of the “Old School,” and is not pledged to vote for any party. “Principles, and not men,” will influence him.
■The Northampton School Committee has authorized the superintendent to purchase 60 seats and desks for the high school to provide ample home room seats for the 481 students registered this year at the high school. They are 29 seats short.
■Easthampton furnished the principal part of today’s business in District Court when seven liquor sellers were brought into court, following raids made by the police of that town early yesterday morning. One of the defendants, a woman who appeared in court with four small children, pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
■Three residents of Westhampton Road have filed a suit against the Northampton Planning Board in order to stop development of a 77-unit subdivision off Westhampton Road. The planning board unanimously approved the subdivision of the Tinkham Development Corp. at a meeting July 10, after an earlier unanimous disapproval on March 28.
■The east wing of Cooley Dickinson Hospital will be reopened Sept. 15 to accommodate an increasing patient load. The 12-room wing was closed in June 1972 to save money after the patient census had been down over a period of months.