Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-04

Brief Mention.
 Foxes are devouring fowls at Nichols Farms
 MT. Levi Newell, of Southington, killed a large red adder in his door yard recently.
 A sunfiower in New London measures forty inches in circumference and weighs three and half pounds.
 The Lizzie P Simmons, New London vessel, on it's present voyage has taken 5000 sealskins.
 The New Haven Ethical Union will resume it's sessions at Loomis' Temple tomorrow afternoon at ? o'clock.
 The wife of Sheriff Birdsey, of Meriden, died Thursday night after lingering illness She was 63 years of age.
 The Sixth c. V. reunion takes place at New Britain next Wednesday. The citizens fur nish music, refreshments and dinner.
 The Rev William B. Buckingham, of St. James, church, New London, sails for Eu- rope in Guion steamer on the Fist of Sep tember.
 The funeral services of the Rev. Dr. OIi- yer Ellsworth Daggett take place this; fore noon from his late residence in Hartford The burial will be in New Haven.
 One of the work rooms of Seldon & Co.,, in the Stafford building, was found full of smoke early yesterday morning. An over heated furnace caused the trouble.
 The regular Sunday afternoon meeting at the Seaman's Bethel, lately held at o'clock, will be held hereafter at 3 o'clock. At the temperance meeting last evening eleven per sons signed the pledge.
 To-day at 12 o'clock noon l.. B. Hinman will sell at auction a1ot, 30x100, on State street, near East street. Sale positive and without reserve. Most of the purchase money can remain on mortgage.
 The jury in the case of Engineer Bristol, killed at Parlor Rock, find that the accident would not have occurred if those in charge of the freight train had obeyed orders, and entirely exonerating the der d engineer.
 There were 80 deaths last month, 54 of them males and 59 of them born in this State During the month there were IT interments in Evergreen cemetery The death rate was much lower than usual for August
 The chairman of the Greenback State Cen tral Committee has word that GeneralWeaver, Greenback candidate for President, will speak here on the evening of the 11th, week from to-day. There will be mass meeting on the Green.
 The employees of the Housatonic railroad are now being examined for color blindness. The veteran Conductor Beers, of the Nauga- tuck road, has just passed successfully his ex- animation. He has run train for 31 years without mishap.
 No more Y M. c. A. Sunday evening open air meetings this season. A large number of the young men of the New Haven Y. M. c. A. will go to Meriden on the evening of Sep tember 14th and conduct ''serYice of song," which will open the State convention.
 A boulder weighing twenty tons was found on the edge of the Naugatuck railroad track, Wednesday, between Naugatuck and Beacon Falls. Mir. Eggleston had an in- clined plane of blanks constructed, and very slight push sufficed to send it rolling into the river.
 The eleventh annual reunion of the Eighth O. " will take place at New Hartford, Fri day, September 17th Company c, mostly raised in that town, extends the Inequalities Mir H. Chapin, the secretary, formerly of this city, informs us that all veterans not of the Eighth are also invited.
 The fair of the Horticultural Society is to be September 21, 22 and 23, and not October 2 and 6, as we stated yesterday. It is Pro- lessor Daniel 0. Eaton, of the Sheffield Sci entiic School, who was appointed one of the judges on plants and invited to read an essay on ssBotany and its Relations to Horticul- ture, and not Professor D. Cady Eaton, whose studies are in the direction of the fine arts.- Palladium, 3d.
 The funeral of Mir. Isaac Stock takes place this afternoon. Six ex-conductors of the New York and New Haven road, who were associated with the deceased in the railroad service, will assist as pall-bearers, viz, Eh. Upson, J. H. Franklin Superintendent of the Boston and New York Air Line), Eli Quintard Superintendent of the New Haven and Derby railroad), Ward Nichols and Dan- iel Bacon, all of New Haven, and Charles Reed of Hartford