Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-23
State News.

A 9O-feet brick finishing room is being built at the Seymour paper mills.
 The Danbury town fair will open Oct. 9th and continue through the following Saturday.
 The Ridgefeld town fair is being held this week Thursday and Friday will be largely devoted to horses
 The Greenbackers of the 1st (Hartford) Congressional district have nominated George W. Hewitt of Rocky Hill for Congress.
 Governor Andrews has appointed Mir. G. N. Woodruff, of Sherman, one of the Fish Commissioners in place of James A. Bill, whose term has expired.
 The parsonage for the Catholic church. in process of building in Portland, is externally
 finished. Jtis handsome structure, and when completed will cost $1O, ,00O.
 Henry McHather, of Norwich, and Harry Young. of Boston, bagged 7O9 birds on the Connecticut river in five days last week, the largest days work being 235 birds. Monday afternoon four-year olddaughter of Charles A. May fell from a third story window to the ground, breaking one leg and fracturipg her skull with fatal effect. The United States Stamping company at Portland are doing quite an extensive busi- ness, having sold more than 100, 900 torches They are so pressed to fill their orders that they are working over time.
 John McCardle, of Thompsonvil1e, while returning from Hartford, fell asleep in the early afternoon train Tuesday, was carried beyond the station without knowing it, and 1 upon awaking jumped off. He received sev- eral injuries about the face and one wrist was badly wrenched.
 The annual meeting of the State Spiritual ist association at Willimantic will be of two days duration, the 25th and 26th, and J. Frank Baxter will be the leading light of the occasion.
 The managers of the Connecticut Stock breeders association have offered induce ments to the owners of Maud S.,' 'sSt. Julien'' and "Rarus," the three fastest horses in the world, for trial of speed at Hartford Sometime next month.
 The Hartford county superior court has al- lowed Henry Ratz of Thompsonville to change his name to Henry Raites, because mischievous neighbors spoke of him and his wife as told rats' and the children as little rats, ''some even calling them ''mice." The will of Albert c. Raymond. of East Hartford, gives the use of his property to his wife during her life and at her death to the town of Montyille for a public library the sum of $1O,O0O; to the town of East Hart ford $17, ,0O0 for library and 8 building to contain it to the First Ecclesiastical society of East Hartford the rest of his estate The property will inventory about $40,0oO.
 The jury in the case of Conductor Bacon, killed on the Valley road at Hartford, July 20, find that the accident was occasioned by the neglect to close the switch after freight train had passed from the side track to the main track the night before; that the parties responsible for the accident are the railroad company, the engineer, Frank c. Stillman, who was running the freight train, and the night watchman Charles Foot; that the rail road men failed to give instructions sufficient ly explicit as to the duties expected of the night watchmen; and that the colors on the signals at the switch had become somewhat faded and dingy.