Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-17
State News.

The thief who stole the team from George | A. Northrop, in Bridgeport, has been cap ! tured in Philadelphia.
 1 Joseph Cranker fell thirty-fve feet into 6 ! coal bin on wharf in New London Thurs | day and was seriously, perhaps fatally, in l jured.
 ! Meriden will have an anti-meat meeting to ! form an organization of those willing to dis ! continue the use of beef until prices are re. | duced.
 The New England road. at it's meeting in l Boston Thursday, adopted the acts concern 1 ing 1t adopted by the Legislatures of Massa- | chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut One of Thomson & Ce. s safes had a very severe test in the late fire at Putnam, Conn. I but it fully sustained the good reputation of 1 the firm. The contents were uninjured. The s'glandered horses'' of H. s. Merwin, of Durham, about which so much has been l said and done in legislative way and other | wise, are alive and working every day, appa l rently as sound as any horse.
 Mrs. Gov Bigelow visited the Industrial school at Middletown yesterday, at which the commission upon the number and condition of neglected, abused and dependent children held meeting Some of the members re mained into the afternoon to visit the school
 rooms and inspect the institution. Mrs. Hannah Forward Clark died at East Granby Wednesday, in her 97th year She was the mother of Prosecuting Agent Charles H.. Clark, of Hartford, and sister of the late Walter Forward, of Pittsburg, Pa, mem- Der of Congress and Secretary of the Treas ury under Taylor also of the late Chauncey and Oliver Forward, the one member of Congress from Pennsylvania, and the other a prominent citizen of Buffalo. Mrs. Clark had lived eighty years in the house in which she died.
 MT. Robert Buell., well known capitalist of Hartford, died at 10 o'clock Thursday evening, aged,about 80 He had shock of
 paralysis last night at his residence on Pros pect street, and although a physician was
 speedily summoned he survived less than
 fifteen minutes. It was a third shock he had
 had, the first occurring in August, and the
 second two months ago. Mir. Buell. left his
 native town of Clini on when a mere boy,
 and nearly penniless. In his boyhood days
 occurred the accident which lamed him for
 life He fell from rock on the beach, dis
 locating his hip, and the country doctor
 failed to reduce the disIocation. From Clinton
 MT. Buell. went to Saybrook and learned the
 tailor's trade and after residing in Colchester
 and various other Connecticut towns, and 1n
 Northampton, Mass he removed to Georgia,
 and was in business for several years Re-
 turning to Connecticut he settled 1n Hart
 ford and was In business Tor some years Wltn
 Mir. Franklin Clark. MT. William H. Kelsey
 was in his employ at that time. When the
 firm of Buell. & Clark were dissolved, Mir.
 Buell. went into real estate brokerage and af-
 terward into stock brokerage. His office was
 for some time in the old City bank building,
 the room now occupied by Mir. Roland
 Mather, but for many years he occupied the
 comfortable office in Hills block so we'll
 known to thousands of our citizens. In this
 place for years was held the nightly council
 of Mir. Buell., Major Goodwin, Charles H.
 Brainard and Henry Keney, for discussion on stock operations. MT, Buell. having abun-. dant means and cool judgment, was very sue cessful and acquired a large fortune.
 His wife survives him. Two sons, one of
 whom was clerk in the Phoenix bank and the other in the hardware business in New York, are both dead He leaves grand daughter, wife of Allen J. Clark, a member of the firm of Nicholas Brothers & Co.,, of New York city. Mir. Buell. was chairman of the board of city brokers and for many years was director in the Hartford bank, the Etna Fire and other large corporations He was one of Hartford's leading citizens, and his loss will be deplored. C01t2G7ot.