Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-13
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 Rev. Joseph Cook spent Sunday in Hart ford, and lectured in Winsted Monday even- | ing Rev. Dr. White, of this city, is down in l Harwinton this winter for lecture on ''Life ] and Living" G. L. Lang has been appointed superin- tendent of telegraph of the New England road, with headquarters st Boston. Mrs. Abbie Granger, aged S7, mother of Judge Granger of the Supreme Court, died of paralysis last Thursday evening and was buried from the house Of her daughter, Mrs. Root, in Canaan, last Saturday.
 Captain James F. Simpson, formerly of the Fourteenth c. ", and now first lieuten- ant, brevet captain and quarterlnaster of the Second United States cavalry, stationed in Arizona, is in Waterbury on furlough.
 Patrick Connors, the brakeman struck by bridge at Portchester, died Thursday night.
 Henry c. Rowe has been elected president, H. Lee Mallory vice president, and Charles Steele secretary of the Young Mems associa- tion of the Second Congregational church.
 Messrs. E. P. Yale, Miles Bristcl, W. NJ. Lamb, E. P. Merwin, A. w. Parn zee, P. M. Schoonmaker, E. W. Hi3by have been elect ed society's committee of Dwight Place church society; 4. A. Townsend, clerk, and E. W. Hgby, treasurer.
 The newly elected officers of the Fair Ha- ven Union Cemetery association are: Presi- dent, Willis Hemingway secretary, II. w.. Crawford; treasurer, Lucius Rowe; direc- tors, E. P. Goodsell, jr., Nelson 4. Ludington, Horace H. Stong, Henry R. Smith, Lucius P. Deming, John $. Sanford, 2d MT. William II. NIoseley, son of NIT. Mose- ley of the New Haven House, takes the man. agement of the depot restaurant. Ex-NIayor Joseph H. Sprague, of Hart ford, is the latest active candidate for the in- l surance commissionership, making now at l least five applicants for the position. 1 Mrs. J. P. Brace, of Litchfeld, broke her arm Saturday by fall on slippery side walk.
 1 Wm. B. Hawley has been appointed post l master at Sherman, Fairfield county, and Everett E. Salisbury at South Killing]y, Windham county.
 ] MT. F. c. Bangs. tho well known actor, whose splendid in1personation at Peck's Grand Opera House few years ago, playing ! as one of the triumvirate with Barrett anc Davenport, will be remembered by the New 1 Haven public, is spending few days in this | city as the guest of Massene Clark, Esq, anc his young friend, Frank P. Clark. Mir Bangs is in fine health anl he resumes short 1 ly at Booths Theatre, N. Y., in ''The Corsi can Brother" Since visiting here last ht has starred it on the Pacific coast and in the 1 West and South, meeting with great success He pays a fine and critical tribute to hi 1 friend Edwin Booth with reference to the latter's work in England Mir Bangs was il 1 the Sturtevant House. his headquarters 1T ] New York, when the fire broke out there las Sunday night, and had narrow escape from being hemmed in by the flames and smoke ! He grasped 8 few articles of wearing ap parel and his beautiful tiny pet skye terrier which has accompanied him in 10000 mile of travel, and made good his exit. Acure for sc5atIca.
 From Vanity Fair.l
 A cure for neuralgia and sciatica-and, a l I am told, an unfaiing one-is too valuable l not to be recorded.
 An English officer, who served with distinc tion in the war with Napoleon, was once Iait
 
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 f Take- q moderate sized potato, rather larg than small, and boil it one quart of water Foment the part affected with the water il 1 which the potato has been boiled as hot & it can be borne at night before going to bed 1 then crush the potato and put it on the affec ted part as poultice. Wear this all nigh and i'll the morning heat the water whiel should have been preserved, over again, ant again foment the part with it as hot as can b borne. This treatment must be persevere, with for several days. It occasionally re quires to be continued for as much as two o three weeks, but in the shorter or longer tim | it has never yet failed to be successful.