Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-15
LOCAL NEWS.
Personal.

President Porter arrived home Wednes- day.
 Rev. Father Mallon, of Wallingford, is i'll with chills.
 Mir. F. Miller, proprietor of the Birming- ham Hotel, is quite i'll, but improving,
 Edward L. Cahill has been appointed by Dr. Doherty assistant registrar of vital statistics.
 Dr. A. NJ. Rice and wife have returned home from their trip to Saratoga Niagara Falls and Watkins Glen.
 Mrs. William Bowen, of Ansonia, aged sixty, died Wednesday. The funeral takes place from the Episcopal church this after noon
 Rev. Mir. Broderick of New London, sails for home from Europe to-morro He will have a reception by his people when he re- turns.
 ed home from Europe Saturday, has been for few days past at the Mansion House, Litchfeld with his family. The many friends of Mir. and Mrs. Fred erick Converse, residing on Olive street, will be glad to learn that Mrs. Converse is recov- ering from her late serious illness. MT. George P. Edgar, of Norwich has been l appointed special agent of the Northern AS surance society of London, his office being in Boston. He will have charge of the New England division.
 MT. Artemus Bruce, of Pomfret Landing. gave birthday party yesterday, the 14th of | September being his ninetieth birthday. Mir. Bruce served in the war of 1872, for which \ he draws @ pension. Miss Jennie Tweed, aged only twenty, and ] an invalid most of her life, died few days ago at the residence of her brother, General l w. M. Tweed, of Litchfeld, Conn. She was l the youngest daughter of the late William M. l Tweed.
 MT. John R. Gildea wishes to state that an item in an evening paper gave the impression l that the case of McMahon IS Wren of Bridge port, before Justice Kenyon. was decided against him in default, which impression MT. Gildea wishes emphatically to contradict. l Martin Ryan, stone cutter in Norwich, has been arrested on suspicion of being the vandal who mutilated the tombstones in T. E. Ryan's marble yard in Norwich Monday, ] to the extent of $1, 500. Ryan had been em- l ployed at the marble yard and recently was discharged. Ryan gave $500 bonds and was 1 released
 United States Senator William P. Frye, of Maine, is resting from his arduous labors in the recent campaign at his romantic camp on the Rangeley Lakes He is an expert with the rod, and is very popular with all the peo- | pie of that section of the State. He left Paes's Hotel at Phillips, for his camp last I Wednesday.
 I MT. John Baldwin, who resides at Strat- l ford during the summer, but whose home is at South Oyster Bay, Long Island, has made the habits of game birds study for many years and is otherwise interested in natural history. He had the good fortune recently to discover the perfect nest of meadow
 wren in the Stratford marshes, and has sent it to the Scientific society in this city. It is a most curious specimen of the house. build
 ers work and one not often met with in this
 section He has also picked up and sent to
 the society the Jumbo" of the side walkers
 or fiddler crabs, mammoth specimen oi
 the crustaceous genus, and one also of rare
 occurrence. The society appreciates these
 attentions from the friends of science and
 its collections are growing gradually rict
 with the gifts thus received. B,9dgeporf
 Standard.