Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-23
Collision at Bridgeport.

Passenger Train Strikes n Switch En- zine with Serious Resuits-Cne Passen- ger Badly Injured.
 The passenger train on the New York and New Haven road leaving New York at B. m and due in Bridgeport at 9:29 collided with the switch engine of the Naugatuck road at the South avenue crossing in Bridgeport yes terday morning. The smoking car and one | passenger coach were turned over at an angle of 45 degrees, and the passengers thirty in | number, badly shaken up. Newman Lisky, l Of New York, passenger, was thrown against the stove and badly injured. Several others were slightly hurt. Both engines and two freight cars were badly wrecked. The track was blockaded and trains delayed for several hours. Lewis F. Marshall, harness dealer in Norwalk, was on the train and severely hurt. Town Clerk Daniel Maloney and George Wells, of Fairfield, were severely bruised.
 BraLeman's Mishap
 William II. Armstrong, head brakeman on tho freight from Hartford to the Harlem river, slipped of the top of car of the train when it was about two miles above Meriden, Thursday night. He struck on and rolled down an embankment. His hip was hurt, but he walked to the Meriden depot and was ahle to take a train for his home in this city.
 Heavy Haul.
 twenty ton boiler for the Consolidated road, made by H. B. Bigelow & Co.,, was drawn by Smedley Bros. & Go. with sixteen horses yesterday to the Fair Haven depot and thence by rail to the shops, it not being considered safe to have it drawn over bridges to the city on account of the weight. The wagon used is capable of carrying forty tons, and is the largest in the State.
 The Beautiful Display
 At Mir. George L. Streeter's jeweIry estah- lishment gives evidence of an ever increas- ing appreciation of the growth of our city and the increased demands for beautiful goods. The inroads upon the stock made by the throngs of customers this week are made good by 8 replenishment, and the stock is full of bargains in every department,-of watches and jewelry, gold headed canes, silverware also elegant diamond jewelry, from $40O down. The store will be open on Christmas day till noon for all those who cannot make their purchases before that time
 The Tax Committee. The tax committee held meeting in the Town Agents office last evening. They heard the case of Michael R. Enscoe's lien on a piece of property laid on Edwards street in 1869. There seems to be no charge for said lien on the books of the present or past col lector, and the petitioner claims that the tax had previously been paid.
 In the case of Birdsey c. Lake it was voted to abate the taxes on property which had been foreclosed and that the interest on other property be abated, provided he paid his back taxes before April 1st, 1883. The committee voted to meet on Tuesday next at o'clock to look over the list being prepared by Tax Collector Futile of those delinquents from whom there is no possibil ity of collecting any taxes.
 A Dead Body Foul nd-A Mystery Proba- bly Solved.
 Two young men named Edward How'd and Samuel Barnes while out fox hunting in Branford Thursday afternoon came upon the dead body of man. It lay at point about one and half miles northeast of Stony 1 Creek, on the edge of Towers swamp, and the location was said to be very near the town line between Branford and Guilford. The l remains were so decomposed that it is said l the features could not be distinguished. The body was partly covered with snow and ice and was dressed in dark colored trousers, a cheviot shirt and had no vest or coat on so far as the boys observed. A hat and one shoe lay some distance away. One ear was no. l ticed missing and hole was in the forehead 1 over one eye. The belief is general that the 1 remains those of George Barker an old, | broken-down man, about sixty years of age, 1 who wandered away from the Branford alms- | house about year ago, and has never since | been heard from. An official investigati on
 is being held.
 An Old Volume.
 A valuable old work has just been present
 ed to the Young Mems Institute by Mr. ] Harry Austin, the architect. It is large
 volume, elegantly printed on linen paper and
 abounding with beautiful plates of English
 scenery, churches, and old castle ruins, etc.,
 in the county of Lincoln, England, and was published in 1900. This volume is one of
 an edition printed in specially fine style ''for 1 the nobility,'' and sold at a price which
 would be considered quite expensive for
 books in these days The names of many
 prominent English noblemen appear in the
 volume as subscribers to the work, headed l by His Majesty's Family.' In the work is
 8 picture of an old oak which was then stand ing a. Bowthorpe, between Stamford and
 Bourne, in Lincoln county. At that time it
 was many centuries old, and measured thirty l seven feet in circumference. There was a
 great hollow in the tree trunk, which had
 been foored and door fitted to the opening, and inside many twelve persons fre- quently had picnic dinner.