Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-27
!. State News.

1 Sufield had it's first case of malignant
 diphtheria Sunday, resulting in the death or James Reeds SOB.
 Mir. 0. s. Hunter, Hartford, has been ap- | pointed superintendent of the Electric Light | company of that city, to fill the vacancy caused by MT. Hubbells death.
 ] Henry Marshall, of Bethel, stopped at the Turner House in Danbury Saturday night and | blew out the gas in his room. The next | morning he was found unconscious, but was
 revived after some trouble.
 The sculptor John Rogers has completed 1 an equestrian statue of General T. F. Key l holds to be erected in Philadelphia. He will Il give private exhibition of it at his studio in | Stamford on Thursday afternoon.
 1 Mir. Frederic Archer, who is to give recital in the Center church, Hartford, shortly after the dedication of the new organ. l is the musical editor of Music and Drama, \ and oresnist of the Church of the Trans. | fisuration, New York city, and is one of the best organists in the United States | New London has case of brutal whipping | in the public schools The victim is Charles
 Prince and the teacher, Eunice A. Hewitt, | beat him with rattan till she raised great 1 welts on his legs and made the flesh raw. 1 The boy says he only laughed in school. The 1 teacher has always stood well in the schools and her story has not been heard.
 Cards are out fer the marriage of Miss Jen- | nie Porter Mills to Rev. Frank Woods Baker, ! the ceremony to take place in Boston. Miss | Mills has been passing the summer in Bridge port with her sister, Mrs. Tracy Warren.
 Miss Lyon and Miss Dolie Dutton, Wash l ington belle, will act as bridesmaids, dressed | in combination of white satin and null and Il with Gainsborough hats.
 Many friends attended the funeral of Mrs. | s. c. Pierson Monday at the residence of ] Miss Antoinette R. Phelps, Hartford. The I hv
 lessor Pratt The bearers were: B. A. Merriman, Dr. Nickerson, J. C.. Twichell, l Postmaster Erwin D. Hall, W. M. Mosher and Colonel 0. l.. Upham, all of Merlden. Senator Platt was among those who attended from Meriden.
 In Seymour. on Saturday last, Sheldon c. | Tucker died of typhoid fever, at the age of | forty years The deceased, few days ago,
 attended the Hartford races, returning home | from which he took severe cold which ulti- | mated in his death. Mir. Tucker was the | only son of Medad K. Tucker, an old resi-
 dent of Seymour, and was much respected. | He was at one time clerk in Birmingham I dry goods store, in which capacity he was \ well liked. For the last ten years he has
 been in the employ of the Fowler Nail company.
 Sam Pine's last exploit before he was ar- rested was stealing the horse of Deputy Sher- | if Finch, who was looking for him at North Salem, and driving to Purdy's station four Amiles away. There he loafed three or four
 hours in 8 bar-room and discussed the chances of his own capture with the crowd. l At night he robbed the station of $50 and 8 grip-sack and drove with his stolen horse to Lake Mahopac. This horse played out there and he stole another, drove through Pater- | son and robbed 8 dwelling, then went to l Ridgefeld and broke open bank and store
 and was captured there. While waiting to | be sent to New York for the Slocum assault he has admitted this string of offenses. The will of the late Mrs. Esther B. Ray mond, of East Hartford, divides all her right l in real or personal estate acquired under a | clause in the will of her late husband, Albert | c. Raymond, among the legatees and devisees mentioned in his will. To her sister, Eliza beth B. Street, she gives $1, 800; to Esther D. Street, daughter of Elizabeth, the interest | of $1, ,5OO until she becomes of age, then the whole amount to be hers; to her sister, Mrs. | l.. Roberts, $3, ,OO0; to w. F. Raymond,
 brother of her husband, $500; to
 Mary Juliette Smith, $1,OOO; to Her man M. White, $500; to Sarah E. Briggs, 1 $2OO; to American Home Missionary society of New York, $500; to Anne rican board of foreign missions, $500 All of her house. hold effects, silver, jewelry and clothing go to her sister, Frances l.. Roberts. If the sum left by his father is not enough for the support of her brother, Arthur, so much of
 the reeiduary estate shall be used for the pur- pose as shall be necessary, under the advice of Mrs. Roberts. The remainder of the es- tate is given to the First Ecclesiastical soci-
 ety of East Hartford. MT. Joseph Breed of Hartford is the executor under the will, no
 bond being required.