Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-28
A New Telephone swttch Board.

A New Telephone Switch Board.
 The new switch board built in this city, which has just been put into the Springfield Telephone Company's office in the city of Hol- yoke, is the most rapid working and convenient one in the country. It is made in the form of vertical table for fifty wires and is only four feet in length. The operator sits in an ordinary chair and has the whole thing within easy reach, although there are now 25 circuits in operation. These occupy space only 27 inches wide, with room for transmitter in the center. One movement of 8 little switch disconnects the battery and connects the op- erator's transmitter with the required circuit, while call from any station causes.a little doorl to drop, revealing the number of the line. Thus all bell ringing and plugging are done away with. This neat and compact ar rangement was invented by A. G. Shell, of this city, and George F. Perkins, of Holyoke, superintendent of the Springfield Telephone O., who have applied for patent.
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 Manager Jarrett gives 'tFun on the Bristol 1 in Hartford next Friday evening.
 Bishop Williams preached at Christ church, Springfield, Wednesday evening, in the spe- cial course of sermons given there this winter.
 Rev. Dr. Daggett, now of Hartford, former ly pastor of the church at Yale College, has a pretty poem on Ruth, in the Congregational ist.
 G. Fred Reed, of Hartford, formerly of New London, has graduated from the medical department of the University of the City of New York.
 Mrs. Margaret Guinin, Of No 1 Madison street, woman forty-two years of age, who fell down flight of stairs last Sunday, died Tuesday from compression of the brain.
 The Rev. Dr. Spencer, of Trinity church, Norwalk, was taken violently ill just at the close of service, Sunday. He remains very weak, but it is not thought serious results will ensue.
 John H. Hsvlin, business manager of Ab- bey's New York Park Theatre Company, was in the city yesterday. He announces Bartley Campbell's Fairfax for this city next Friday and Saturday evenings.
 Rev. Mir. Hayden Iectured in Waterbury Thursday evening. Though it rained hard he had an audience of about 400. He was introduced by 0. I. Tremaine of the Scoville House. He left yesterday for New Britain, where he had an engagement to lecture.
 George M. Hogan was buried Thursday from his residence on Goffe street. The de- ceased was an old and respected man who has long worked at carriage making. He had been in poor health for several years. Rev. Dr. Beardsley oficiated. The interm ent was in Evergreen cemetery.
 Rev. D. M. Hodge is in New Haven this week, meeting the other members of the Di vorce Commission at the house of President Woolsey, of Yale. The meeting is held tc | consider the matter and to divide the worh among the several members, to be investiga ted before reporting later in the year.-Dan- bury news
 Morris Fitzgerald, of Bridgeport, who was reported to have changed his belief from the | Catholic to the Protestant, comes out in a card in the Bridgeport papers stating that he had not made such change, but was still. al | ever, of the Catholic faith. He has recovered | from his illness and acknowledges kind aid received from Protestants, but maintains his l old belief