Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-09
State News.

Mir. Charles Lathrop, respected citizen of Holland, died last week.
 The Rev. D. F. Chapman, of North Ston- ington, is very sick at the Baptist parsonage.
 George Wolcott, of Wall1ngford, who has had charge of the town poor for the past year, has loft for parts unknown.
 SaDr. J. J. Averill, of Falls Village, had pair of bay horses stolen while standing in front of his house hitched to phsston.
 Orange Selectmen offer reward of $2Oo for the capture of the four masked burglars who entered Daniel F. Treats house Satur- day night.
 Wilmington is rejoicing in a religious revi-
 val. Union services are held every evening
 and there is growing interest among old
 and young.
 Freighting at the stations along the Naug atuck road from Waterbury to Winsted has | increased to such an extent that the morning | train is unable to run on schedule time. George P. Wilbur, of Noank, who has l served as baggage master and station agent
 on the Providence and Stonington railroad
 ever since the road was built, has re- signed and will remove to Key West. Three families of boys in the vicinity of Hop River have caught and tanned 8 mum bcr of grey squirrels and letting them go in one instance the squirrels have built a nest | In tree not more tkan two rods from 8 | dwelling house.
 1 At an adjourned town meeting in Winsted Saturday it was voted to prop up the old bridge over Mad river for the winter, and l early in the spring build new piers and take l bids for new iron bridge and submit them l to meeting to be held at some future date. l A house situated in the northern portion of Holland, belonging to MT. John Fuller and occupied by MT. Snow, was burned to the ground Sunday afternoon. The fire was first discovered in the roof. All of the furniture
 and some of the windows and doors were re. moved.
 1 Mir. H. c. Dauchy died suddenly of heart 1 disease in New London Sunday. Mir. Dauchy recently purchased the Leander Lewis prop 1 erty and moved to New London from Sag l Harbor about three weeks ago. He was l formerly New York dry goods merchant, l but retired from the business some time ago | on account of failing health.
 It is a somewhat singular coincidence that the widows of two Hartford firemen, killed
 at the Kohn block fire in that city in May, l 1878, should have died within few days of l each other. Mrs, Camp widow of Foreman
 D S. Camp, of the Stillman hose died last | week in Hartford. and on Monday of this l week Mrs Etta Parker, widow of Hoseman 1 John H. Parker, died at Newburyport Yer
 mont, of consumption.
 l Monday of last week party of six hunters 1 from South Coventry went hunting in Co.,
 lumbia and report bagging twenty-five grey l squirrels. Wednesday four hunters in Bear Swamp woods shot sixteen, and party from 1 Springfield, Mass reported excellent success. | Probably the most successful single hunter 1 is Will Wellwood, who lives in the town of Andover, he having shot sixty one squirrels, 1 some of them red, since fall hunting com. | menced.
 1 The oyster law went off the natural beds 1 in the Thas'es river on the first of Noven.
 Der, and the oyster men were prompt to visit l the oyster beds to reap their annual harvest,
 but they were surprised to find that the l spawn had ''set" upon the oysters in such numbers as to actually make them saleless. | It is said that young oysters have not been | so tbickly distributed of late years in the 1 Thames river as during the past season, l which appears to have been unusually favor
 able to their development. There is prom
 ise of large native crop of oysters from the l Thames in 1884 if the oysters now set have ! no drawbacks Similar reports come to us | from the Providence river beds.-Noraoich l BatELetin.~