Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-25
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Mr. James Reilly, of the firm of Gallagher & Reilly, left yesterday for visit to Chicago and other points West.
 Mir. Samuel Eben Barnay takes the place temporarily of the late Professor Norton at Sheffield Scientific school.
 Lieutenant Boville, of the Salvation Army, leaves New Haven this week for work in oth- CT camps of the army.
 MT. M. Spier, the coal dealer, leaves for Germany early in October for visit to his birthplace. He will return in about two months.
 Mrs. Clara Louise Kellogg will leave Bir- mingham tomorrow.
 Policeman Helget, who is suffering from frequent attacks of hemorrhags of the nose consequent upon injury received in quelling a row on Grand street, is better since going to the hospital where he can receive imme- diate attention when the attacks come.
 MT. Horace Gibbs of Mills & Gibbs of New York was in this city Sunday, the guest of his friends Messrs. Bolton & Nicely.
 MT. Ludlow Barker of Hartford the dealer in musical goods is able to sit up little, for the first time in an illness of two or three weeks.
 Mr. H. W. ConkIin of the Hartford bazaar is recovering from 8 severe attack of mala ria.
 President Watrous says he has not the slightest idea that the Boston and New York Inland road will ever be built; he considers it an impracticable scheme from every point of view.
 A. S. Welch, F. E. Field, E. W. Willis and W. O. Staples started for Lynn, Mass. ,yester- day, to attend the meeting of the National Council of the O. U. A. M.
 Miss Annie Muller, of New Britain, is vis- iting friends in this city.
 Mrs. Margaret B. Willard, of Madison, Conn.,, arrived safely at Phillippopolis, Tur- key, whither she has gone to engage in the work of instruction in connection with mis- sionary work.
 Rev. Leander T. Chamberlain, late of Nor wich, and one of the most brilliant Congre- gational pastors of the State preached his first sermon as pastor of the Classon avenue Presby terian church, in Brooklyn, on Sun day.
 Editor Candee, of the Bridge port Stand ard, who went on the Willard Northern Paci- fic excursion, had his pocket picked at St. Paul, losing $l9o and valuable papers. Con- gressman Miles caught strange hand in one of his pockets, from which he had only few moments before removed several hun dred dollars
 Elisha Rogers has growing on his farm an apple and pear tree. the limbs of which inter- lace each other. Two of the crossing limbs rubbed so that they became attached togeth- CT by the bark and day or two since he picked an apple from the apple tree with the top shaped like pear. The nondescript fruit was not eatable.-Norwich Bulletin.
 A five -year-old son of George Byxbee, of Nerwalk, was found lying dead in boat Friday. He had been drowned, but who pulled him out of the water and left him in the boat, without notice to anyone, is un- known. It is thought to have been some other little boy, too frightened to tell of it. He had apparently been dead but few mo- ments when discovered.
 The barn of Ansel Arnold, at Willimantic, has been twice robbed within a month. The last time a carriage was taken and has not } ct been recovered. At the first visit the thieves carried of 8 fine harness and valu- able robe. The work was apparently done by men familiar with the place. as the parts of the harness were hung in different places and a stranger would hardly have secured the whole set. Tho barn has also been made hiding place for thread stolen from the Linen company and which WAS accidentally discovered in the haymow.
 At the Willimantic fair, which opens Octo- Der Sd, there will be race trotted in the evening under the electric lights. Thirty four lights are to illuminate the track. This is the first race to be trotted under these conditions, and is expected to attract great crowd. Special trains will be run.
 Mrs. Hannah Latimer Pierson, wife of Stephen c. Pierson, formerly of Hartford, died on Saturday at the home of Miss An toinette R. Phelps on Washington street in that city, where she had been some weeks. Mrs. Pierson had a large circle of warm friends in Hartford.
 Mr. Samuel H. Ravens died at his residence on Buckingham street, Hartford, Sunday evening from internal injuries that he re- ceived by falling from 8 ladder on Wednes day of last week. He was picking grapes in his yard when the ladder on which he was standing gave way, pre- eipitating him to the ground, a distance of twelve or fifteen feet MT. Ravens was born in Windsor, but passed his life from boyhood in Hartford He had an extensive acquain- tance, and especially among railroad men, having been connected with the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill road from the time that it's construction was begun up to the date of it's passing into the hands of the New York and New England road. For many years he was the lumber and supply agent for the road, and previously had charge of the roads bridges Twenty five years ago Mir. Ravens was chief engineer of the Hartford fire de- pertinent, and he was associated with the old volunteer service for many years. He was an ex-fire commissioner, ex councilman and ex-selectman of Hartford and highly es- teemed. Besides his widow, MT. Ravens leaves four children-the wife of Thomas R. Berry, Dudley W. Havens, of the water de- partment, the wife of James s. Morgan and the widow of the late Robert c. Northam, jr., of Harfford