Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-08
State News.

The recent cathedral fair at Hartford cleared $3, ,S56.
 Hartford officers have arrested Patrick Herty, of Unionville, and George Crawford, of Lee, Mass, for stealing @ horse at Union vine
 The Americus of the Norwalk steamboat line, will continue her regular trips until af- ter Thanksgiving A very fast boat will be built during the winter for this line.
 Mrs. E. c. Quintard, on Warren street, Forwalk, lost the most valuable COW prob ably owned in that town. The animal was hit by 8 stone hurled by some brutal scoun- drel last summer, who was a trespasser at the time on the cows amphitheatre pasture, and from the effects of the injury it died last week. The loss Is a severe one to Mrs. Quintard.
 Saturdays accident at Pomfret on the New England road will probably cause the death of the engineers of both locomotives. My ron Glidden, of the passenger locomotive, who lived at Boston, is dead, and Geor; @ Kendall, the freight engineer, is not expected to live. The freight conductor, Henry E. Blood who was running on the passenger s time, has away and cannot be found
 The accident injured seven persons, wrecked two engines and smashed four cars, but not 8 passenger was graEed.
 A little 'sscene" occurred on the train leav-
 ing New Haven at CPS last evening A gen
 tleman connected with the Boston Theater
 company left his seat in the smoking car for
 a short time, taking the precaution to leave
 his overcoat in the seat. On returning the gentleman found the seat occupied by a couple of roughs, who refused to give it up. After considerable swearing on both sides, the former occupant, with whom all the pas sengers were in sympathy, poised himself on
 the arm of the chair awaiting the arrival of the conductor, to whom the unlawful occu- pants seemed willing to refer the case. The | conductor declined to interfere, and told the | disputants to settle it among themselves, whereupon the enraged traveller proceeded to right his wrongs by an appeal to force, in | which he seemed capable of bearing out his l argument to the dissatisfaction of the roughs. -Hartford CoarGnt.
 A wedding of more than usual brilliance l took place on Broad street, Stamford, last | Wednesday, the contracting parties being H. Southworth Pratt, of New York, and Miss Josephine Ham, daughter of John c. Ham ot New York, who during the summer months has residence at Stamford. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. l.. Edgar Pratt, ! father of the groom, assisted by the Rev. Mir. Braithwaite, rector of St. Andrews church, l Stamford. The groomsman was James B. Pratt, brother of the groom, and the brides l maids Misses Lizzie Brewster, Allie Ham and Mollie Scott of New York, and Miss l Pattie Clark Of Brooklyn. Among the invit l ed guests were noticed Mrs. H. Edgar Pratt Mir. and Mrs. D. B. Pratt, MT. and Mrs. F. | H. Pratt, Edgar s. Pratt, l.. K. Pratt Mr. ] and Mrs. l.. Howes, Miss Ada Bates and W s. Calender of New York; Mir. and Mrs | Frank Skelding, MT. and Mrs. D. C. Clark l MT. and Mrs. Davenport and MT. and Mrs 1 Hubbard of Stamford Miss Lille Perry oi | Bristol, R, l., and the Misses Parker o1 I Montrose. N. J. Upon the conclusion of the
 train for New York They started on an ex l tended trip through Pennsylvania and the l West.
 One of the eleven horses burned in New | Canaan was new acquisition costing $500 1 Of the twenty COWS burned, nine were valuable Jerseys, and all were extra for su perior milk and butter value. MT. A. H Byington, of the Gazette, had three thor oughbred Jersey COWS: ''Flora 3d. "Dai
 sy,'' and ''Norwalk .Buttercup'' there a. l boarders for the winter, all burned. Flors l 3d was d. of famous ''Bridget'' imported l by the late Samuel Colt of Hartford, priz'
 animal, in the Island of Jersey, and claimed
 to have made twenty eight pounds of butter l per week. Buttercup was out of Flora ant | $. M. Burnhams imported 'snana.'' and ha been conceded to be one of the handsomes Jerseys in the State. Fortunately the Hoyt I had not put their oxen in the barn Saturda, night, but left them to graze in the field, ana ] thus they were saved. All the principa ] utensils and nursery tools were in the barn 1 Among them were power thresher, powe
 wood saw, flaming mill aud two power ans
 hay and stalk feed cutters, nearly 100 tons O
 hay, $500 worth of rye in the straw, 75 t. I 100 bushels buckwheat just threshed out ant ! lying on the barn floor, 200 bushels of oats l 175 bushels of corn, 1G bushels of felt 1 beans and several thousand feet of lumbe | for the manufacture of tree boxes. It is bu little over year since the Hoyts wer
 burned out at 8 loss of $2O. 900, and the.
 had succeeded in replacing their buildings ! increasing their stock and fixtures when thi l disaster occurred.