Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-16


 Rroun Bolton & Go. will be open this evening
 The Western Union Telegraph company has reduced it's rates to all principal points throughout the country.
 A very successful reception took place yes terday at room 12, Dwight school, Miss Brownell and Miss Norman teachers.
 There are twenty seven thousand tons of coal afoat in the harbor awaiting transporta- ton to different points
 The hearing before the board of railroad commissioners in the matter of the Hop River disaster was begun at Hartford yester- day.
 A German and reception was given Miss Gardner on Hillhouse avenue last night. The residence was thronged with beauty and fashion.
 Rev. MT. Kelsey will give the sixth lecture on his recent journey in Europe this evening in the College street church. The public welcome.
 The Naugatuck Railroad company are cut ting ice fourteen inches thick at East Litch- field. It is the finest crop the company ever harvested.
 The Young Women's Christian Association meets tonight at Association Hall at s o'clock. Ladies desiring to become members are invited.
 MT. J. Nolan, boss track repairer of the Housatonic railroad, has received present of $50 from Road Master Lane for having the best section on the road.
 The new house which Mir. Yung Wing, the I fr1H ri will be of brick with Portland stone trim ming and cost about $2O,OOO.
 The East Hartford Ice company has stored about one-third of the capacity of it's house, which will contain not far from 2,500 tons, and the ice is said to be of very good quality.
 The Grays' quartette composed of H. K. Beach, Frank Lee, Jas. Howarth and Frei- erick Smith, sing at the Young Peoples en- tertainment in Madison tomorrow evening.
 Robert J. Ramsden, of South Wethers- field, who was injured Monday by tackle block, with which he was raising boiler, falling and striking him or the head, died yesterday.
 Olive Branch Lodge No. S4, F. X A. M.,. of Westville, installs it's officers next Thurs day evening, and supper and dance will fol low. An occasion of extra interest generally is arranged for
 Physicians notified the Bridgeport Select men, Tuesday, that a rag dealer was ill with smallpox at an Italian boarding house in that city He was removed to the almshouse, and the house where he lived was disinfected.
 Dr. Noah Greasy and Dr. Johnson, of Hart ford went to Meriden, Tuesday, and visited Coe Brothers farm, where they made post mortem examinations of six dead mules, to discover, if possible, the cause of their death.
 The new schooner Orville Horwitz, Capt. Chauncey Kelsey, launched a few weeks ago at West Haven, arrived in this city yesterday morning with ,O6O tons of coal, the largest cargo of coal ever brought to this port by New Haven schooner.
 In the inquest that is now progressing on the death of Miss Davenport, who was killed by the cars at Stamford last Monday, the principal point of inquiry is whether Engi- neer John H. Baker blew the whistle on ap- preaching the crossing where the accident occurred. The testimony on the matter is so far contradictory.
 While at a station on the Elevated road in New York last Friday, Mir. J. B. Strange, of Bridgeport, grasped a woman who was jump np from a train that had commenced moving and was in great danger of going under the wheels He succeeded in getting her safely on the platform, but in accomplishing it wrenched his arm so as to break 1t.
 The Dwight Place church fair was well patronized last evening at Peck's Grand Opera House and many new features were in- troduced The voting for the most popular merchant, to be presented with handsome $40 ice pitcher, stood in the following order M. Bristol & Son, J. N. Adam & Co.,, Brown, Bolton < Co.,, E. Malley, J. B. Kirby & Son, W. M. Lamb, W. B. Fenn, Monson < Car penter, Smith & Stone, Brooks Co.,, M. Frank, H. Plumb, T. 0. Lewis, Benjamin & Ford, E. P. Judd and George E. Dudley. Prof. Wehner and Miss Axt rendered some fine instrumental music. This evening the operetta 'fTwo Blind Beggars" will be given as a special attraction.
 Lodge and Society. Aurora Encampment No. 27, l. 0. O- F., will work in the third degree tomorrow (Fri- | day) evening at 7:SO, and the annual election of officers will also be held. The attendance l of the Patriarchs of this and other encamp- ments is expected. An Aged Couple Pass Away Together. l Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bullley, whose criti- cal illness was spoken of yesterday, both | passed away yesterday morning at their resi- | dence, No. ls1 George street, MT. Bulkley l dying at about nine o'clock, and his wife | about an hour before. They had each been ill about week, the former with bronchitis | and other ailments complicated with old age, | the wife with rheumatic ailments (which at | last reached the heart1 and the infrmities of l years Mi Bulkley's age was seventy-n | years and four months. Mrs. Bulkley was | seventy-fye years and ten months. Their de- votion and solicitude for each other was very | touching, and more so as they became aware that death was fast nearing them The death of Dr. Bulkley, their only child, short time ago, no doubt hastened their death. The funerals will take place tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock, Rev. Dr. Todd officiating | MT. BuIkIey had been a member of the Church of the Redeemer since it was organ ized. He was born in Wethersfeld, Conn, and had been in the chair making business on Orange street for fifty-iye years, most of the time where his shop is now. He was conscientious, good man, and his wife was a worthy lady and life companion.