Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19
Seymour.

The other day Fred. Emery, the ice man. seeing horse pass the depot that very much resembled his, exclaimed, ''There's fine
 match for my mare" Eager to ascertain who owned the much envied property, he in quired who possessed the animal, and was somewhat chagrined to learn that it belonged to him.
 Smiths paper mill has been improved by
 coat of paint.
 great many of our citizens went to New
 Haven and Waterbury to see Barnum's
 "greatest show"
 s'Dick' Morris ferret escaped from his
 lair the other night and went out on 8 ram
 page, killing duck belonging to Judge Nun
 son Judges dog retaliated by killing the
 ferret.
 The members of Upson Post No. 40, G.
 A. R., held a meeting Monday evening to
 take action in regard to decorating the sol
 diers' graves. There will be no parade or
 memorial services, the decoration being car
 ried on with the same informality that has
 characterized them for the past few years.
 A Catholic priests robe was picked up ip
 the vicinity of Dr. Stoddard's Sunday It
 was thoroughly fumigated with tobacco.
 The uptown bon-tons had a supper at Rich
 ard Morris lunch room Saturday night.
 Some workmen while digging ditch on
 the Wooster lot, recently purchased by Dr
 F. w. Pulford Saturday, found cGput naOT t1SIne of two skeletons. The lower jaw of one contained a full set of perfect teeth Probably the doctor will make use of them The improvements on the grounds of the NJ E. church commenced last summer are being completed Concrete pavements are being laid about the church and substantia fence will be erected in front of the church The ladies of the Congregational society gave sociable at the residence of Mrs. Vii bur Simpson Wednesday evening. Cake | ice cream and other edibles were served and singing and games were the chief amuse \ ments of the evening.
 Mir. Morgan, of Bridgeport, did not accept | the position of organist rendered him by the Congregational society, as has been reported | in some paper, the terms being made | quate to induce him. The choir at present l seems to be considerably broken up, and as a | consequence the congregation seems to di | minish of late.
 | W. s. Cooper has returned from Forest | vile ard accepted position in the factory of | James Swan
 Business is daily increasing at the mill ot | the Seymour manufacturing company. A | second turbine water wheel has been put il | recently and We understand that they will soon enlarge their mill and also put up an | other mutfie Some trouble seems to have been experienced in conducting the water from the race, under the railroad track, to ! the mill but undoubtedly this difficulty will | be overcome in due season.
 E. and H. P. Day are going to build another addition to their mill, the mill at present being inadequate to furnish the re- quired capacity.
 l Mr. and Mrs. George A. Smith celebrated | the fifteenth anniversary of their marriage Monday evening, with the assistance of quite | 6 number of friends who took them by sur prise. Notwithstanding the inclement weath ' CT an enjoyable time was had
 Dexter A. Gillette died at his residence in I Oxford last Thursday night, aged 33 years a hAd nnT1 ci0 nRc H1ifI, typhoid fever, when pneumonia set in and terminated in death. The deceased had been an employe in the shops of the Douglass Manufacturing company in Seymour for 1 many years, where he had many friends who very highly esteemed his geniality and frank open way which always characterized him His funeral was largely attended from his late residence, about a hundred Seymour people being present, including about sixt, Odd Fellows of Mechanics Lodge, of which the deceased was a member. Rev. MT. Snow offsiated at the house, and the Odd Fellows took charge of the remains at the grave Chaplain Edwards reading the burial service He leaves wife and two children and many friends to regret his early demise. His widow receives $1 ,500 from the Odd Fellows Mutual Aid association.
 Two gentlemen, one minister, the other a
 barrister, with exceedingly long ears, came up on the train from New York the other night. They were discussing Beaconsfeld
 vs. Gladstone, when the subject changed to the thereafter" The divine labored very
 hard with his legal friend to make him be- lieve in eternal punishment, but to no avail The pleader at the bar became exasperated and exclaimed in loud tones, "You can't in
 ject any such dogma into me, so desist D
 But what do you think becomes of a man
 when he 'shuf1es of this mortal coil ?'" said
 the minister importunately. 'tMetempsycho- sis l" replied the infuriated attorney. "Trans-
 strated the clergyman. Exactly" returned
 the advocate. The preacher looked pitying look at him and said, ''Well, there is one con solution you may have in such belief-you
 won't have to be jackass in the next world 7"
 They changed the subject to the deadlock at
 Washington, and the lawyer got of at the next station.
 May 18th, 1881.