Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-21
PersO aI.

Personal. Senator Warner Miller and wife, of New York, are stopping at the Selden House. Palmer w. Crocker, the brakeman killed at Norwalk Monday night, was buried at Man tic Wednesday by Bay View Lodge of Ma sons.
 Rev. Dr. Alvah Bond died Wednesday in Norwich, where he was pastor of the Second Congregational church from 1885 to 1864. He was 89 years old, native of Sutton, in 1915.
 Conductor Hart has taken temporary charge of the up express on the Consolidated road, Conductor Tinkham being i'll in Spring field.
 Dr. c. A. Dorman has returned from his health trip end will resume business imme- | diately.
 Blakeslee & Son, of New Haven, have fin ished their contract for the Consolidated
 railroad. They filled in g tract 25O feet wide, 5000 feet long and l2 feet deep, in Meriden, at cost of about $1O,O0O. l Walter s. Judd,a graduate of the Yale Law
 school and recently admitted to the bar in New Haven county, has gone into partner
  l Rev. Dr. O. H. White, of this city, conducts
 services next Sunday in the Congregational
 church in Plymouth. Colonel James s. Chalker, formerly of
 Hartford, has been appointed special treas
 ury agent. Colonel Chalker is now living in
 Jersey City, N. J. 1 Henry D. Averill, general ticket agent of
 the Housatonic road, has recovered from his
 late illness and is agaln able to attend to bus | mess.
 Blakeslee & Son, of New Haven, who put l down the new Belgian pavement on Main
 street, Bridgeport, will August l commence | laying the West Rock pavement Wall
 street, Bridgeport, between Water and Main | streets, and the Westerly granite pavement
 on Fairfield avenue, Bridgeport, from the l depot to Main street. The cost will be about l $1O,OoO.
 Mr. H. T. Sperry, editor of the Post, does 1 not improve in health fast his physi-
 clan, Dr. Avery, would desire, and consul
 tation of physicians was held to-day. MT. | Sperry is suffering from erysipelas of the leg,
 which was superinduced by the fall over a | box in the new office of the Post. His friends
 trust, however, that he will soon be able to
 be about-Ha7tford Tunes. | Disposition of Three Quarters Of Mill l lion Dollars.
 The will of the late Mrs. Samuel Russell | of Middletown, has been admitted to pro-
 bate. The following are the principal pro visions and bequests l To her grandson. Samuel Russell, s4oooo abso i Iutely.
 l To Helen E. w. Russell, widow of her son John A. 1 Russell, $15,O00 l To the American Bible society of New York and l the Domestic Missi nary society, $2,OO0 each. | To the American Tract society $l,O0O | To the trustees of the Berkeley Divinity School
 $3OOO, the annual income of ich is to be expended l in educating young men for the ministry. l To the trustees of St LuBes Home $500. | To Mddletown Char1tab society S50O l To the Indian Hill Cemetery association S3O0 the
 income from which is to be applied to keeping the | chapel in orter.
 To Julia McMaser S ,oOO. to Samuel Russell Butler
 and Jonathan H Butler $1 900 each, Mrs Mary Gill l ma, d S3OO0. Nee'ey Chckering, of Chicago, III :,
 SI 0OO Sarah Sl O0O Jane Spencer & ,0Dn Robert
 w. Harrington B. 0OU a piece of pasture land near
 the cemetery her nirces daughters of the late Ed
 ward A. Russell, $1 .O00 each.
 To the trustees Russell Free Library $40,O0O, Connecticut Industrial School for Girls $5,O0o to | build 8 home. ,
 Her personal efects such jewelry, etc., are given I to various parties.