Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-28
State News.

Next Sunday Bishop McMahon will lay the cornerstone of the new church of the Sacred Heart at Wethersfeld. The Rev. Father Quinn of St. Patrick's church will deliver the sermon.
 The annual target shoot of the Hartford Light Guard will be held at the Franklin
 range on Saturday. There will be pool shoot
 ing at POO and 300 yards, also subscription | match at the same distances. The depositors of the Hartford Dime Saw
 ings bank applied for a receiver Tuesday. | Objections were made that they had no right | to do so, but the court held that they had and the matter was postponed until Novem- l Der O.
 The State Treasurer has begun, in the name
 of the State, suit for $15, 500 against George | Keeler of Bridgeport, on loan originally | made to E. V. Hawes and transferred to | Keeler in his business transactions with | Hawes.
 | Ung Lay Frank, Norwich Chinaman, who
 has been long enough in the country to gain
 a residence, was refused naturalization the
 other day because the law declares that ''only | white males and Africans, or persons of Af-
 riean descent, may qualify to vote"
 The reports in the New York Sun and
 other papers that the wife of Mir. c. w.
 Woodbridge, manager of the Western Union Telegraph company in this city, left her home | in company with Brattleboro physician or some other party, are wholly without founda-
 tion.-Neao London Telegram.
 The Congregational society of Holland have
 raised their new bell It's weight is 1O1O pounds The bell was originally cast in
 1792, recast the same year, again in 1926, re- founded in the present form the present year.
 It bears the inscription. t'Let him that hear eth come"
 1 Ward Bassett, who committed suicide on
 board vessel just after leaving New York
 last Friday, has been identified as a former l resident of West Suffield. His body has been his former home. He had led wandering l life for years, but was of good family and of
 much intelligence.
 An old tobacco merchant familiar with the l business for forty years, said a few days since: 'I have examined the Connecticut
 crop pretty thoroughly and pronounce it one of the best have ever seen. Whatever may | be said of the crop elsewhere, it is certainly l true of the several towns on the east side of l the river-it never was better or more abund- | ant"
 John B. Douglas, a young lawyer of Wind
 sor Locks and vice. president of the Han- cock and English club there, has declared for l course of the Democratic party on the tariff question, its action ID regard to southern claims, its manner of conducting the cam paign, etc.
 Connecticut is good for five thousand
 majority for Garfield if every Republican in | the State does his duty in the next ten days. Windham county ought to furnish about half | that majority, and she can if every Garfield
 man comes to the front and brings his Repub-
 lican neighbor with him WindaGDa County Transcy1pt.
 grand Republican torchlight parade is to | occur on Friday evening in New Britain. It
 is certain that near three thousand torches I will be in line. All the companies in Hart expected from Waterbury, Southington, Bristol, Pennington, Canton, New Hartford, Berlin, Newington and other places. Ample arrangements have been made for bounti- ! ful collation..