Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-21

Rev. G. W. Banks, of Guilford, is pros- trated by fever, but is not regarded as dan gerously ill.
 German immigrants are being imported into eastern Connecticut to meet the demand for farm laborers.
 Four children of Ezra Mansfield, of Dan- bury, have been poisoned by eating wild car- rots. One has died.
 The Groton monument is to be ''carried up'' twenty three feet, making it 15O feet high, and other improvements are to be made.
 The infant daughter of Frank Burr, of Bridgeport, fell from the second-story win dow of her fathers house and received fatal injuries.
 At the meeting of the Teachers associa- tion at the High School to-day at 2:3O p. m., Prof. Silliman is to lecture on the "Geogra- phy of the New Vest"
 The dam pertaining to the paper mill of w. w. Smith, in Seymour, was carried away Thursday forenoon. No damage beyond that to the dam was done.
 valuable horse belonging to MT. J. Gar diner Hammond, of New London, slipped in his stall Thursday evening and broke his leg just above the gambrel
 The total rainfall of this week has been only 237 inches, while March 19 we had 3.69 inches, showing that we had an inch less in all this week than we had on that day.
 The St. Vincent Mutual Burial association will hold their annual meeting in the Church street Opera House tomorrow Sunday af- ternoon at o'clock See advertisement.
 W. E. Newell is building large and hand some dwelling house at 561 Chapel street. The dimensions of the house will be 34 by 52 feet. It will be completed by October, this year.
 Company E, Seventeenth battalion, N. G. s. N. Y, of Newburg, who are to be the guests of the Putnam Phalanx, Hartford, on the 17th of June, will leave that city at noon on the 16th, returning the following Satur- day.
 Colonel Healey, clerk of the Committee on Lamps went to New York last evening to obtain samples of street signs to be placed on the street lamps. It is proposed to have the lamps contain the names of the street on which they are located.
 man named John Ryan, in Ansonia while harnessing horse yesterday morning to drive to his work, was kicked by the ami nal in the abdomen and expired almost in- stantly. He was worthy, industrious man. and leaves a wife and six children.
 The Mayor has called a meeting of the AL dermen for Monday night and of the Board of Councilmen for Tuesday night of next week, for the purpose of acting upon the re- port of the Committee on Appropriations recommending $1, 800 for the use of the Board of Health.
 Forty-five warrants were issued yesterday in East Haven against dog owners who failed to have their canines registered by May l, making Il warrants in all that have been issued. About dozen cases that were stated to come up before Judge Bray were settled on payment of the costs and promise to register.
 The death of Edward J. Tytus Yale class of '68, husband of a daughter of the late John M Davies, of this city. is announced. He died May 19 at Saranac Lake, N. Y, where he was stopping for his health of ty- phoid fever. He was Q much esteemed gen. tleman, whose death will be deplored by 1 large circle.
 The new transportation company has ef- fected a contract with the Consolidated road to carry 9O,OOO tons of coal which the road | has bought at Clearfeld, N. J. The road evi- | dently intends to have clear field for it's | supply of coal It will be brought either | from Philadelphia or Amboy in barges in- | stead of in schooners as heretofore. Planting operations have been greatly de- | layed by the storm this week, but the farmers | find consolation in the prospect of big hay | crop; and strawberries nice and luscious I came in with a rush last evening from the | great strawberry regions near Norfolk, Va. l The prospect is that fine berries will be sold | today at from IS to 25 cents quart