Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-20
LAW ti NEWS.
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sSrief Mention.
 Golden Rule Encampment meets this even ing for work in the degrees.
 H. Machol, the well known merchant tailor, opens business in the store 217 Chapel street to-day, opposite Bunnell X Scranton's He has laid in fine stock and handsomely fitted up the premises.
 Henry O'Neil, of Jersey City, has bought the trotting stallion Uncle Sim of Patrick McKenna, for $1 1000. McKenna paid $750 for the horse two years ago. The horse's name hereafter will be Columbus, jr.
 New Haven Commandery No. ?, F. H. Wal dron, eminent commander, will be one of the many masonic, military and civic bodies to attend the dedication of the Seymour monu- ment in Hartford next Thursday, October 27.
 Wm. E. Dodge, of New York, has donated $10O towards stocking the proposed reading room of the Young Mems Christian associa- tion in Ansonia This, with the fees of the members, will give them respectable start.
 Elford Russell has returned to Orange, his native place, from West Haven, where he has lived for some years, and has built very handsome residence on the Green, where he will have house-warming in about three weeks
 Lieutenant Governor William H. Bulkeley, . General Joseph A. Hawley, Congressman John R. Buck and $. A. Hubbard were ta- ken from Washington in the steamer Excel sior to Yorktown, going with representatives from various parts of the country.
 Rev. Mir. Otis, who has been engaged to preach for year in Orange, has resumed his studies in the Yale Theological seminary, supplying the pulpit on Sundays. He prom ises to introduce his bride to us during the Christmas holidays V0lley Sentinel
 Seven men were killed and two injured, one probably fatally, on Connecticut railroads last week. But in every case so far as re- ported there was no undue negligence on the part of the representatives of the roads. The persons killed were either careless in walking upon or crossing tracks or in doing service upon trains
 Mir. and Mrs. Valentine BohI, of Waterbury. are being visited with sad afiiction in their family. Their four children were attacked with virulent throat disease (1nembranous croup), from which two of them have died. John L., aged little over three months died last Thursday, and Edward w., aged nearly seven years, died Tuesday, while the two sur- ViVlng children are not expected to recover.
 The Congregational society of TrumbuIl, Conn.,, at it's recent annual meeting, received present of 5 900 from Almon E. Plumb, a resident of the parish. The pastor of this church, Rev. Nathan T. Aerwin, attains the present autumn seventeen years of his pres ent settlement in TrumbuIl. Mr. Merwin and his wife are natives of Milford
 Young men who have attained their major ity and others who have recently acquired a legal residence here and desire to become vo- ters should call at the offices of the registrars of voters at once and file their applications.
 The Light Guard wore a novel badge when they left for Yorktown and Charleston It consisted of nutmeg, through which a hole was bored from end to end, and through this hole red ribbon was run, which served to fasten the badge to the coat.