Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-11
State News.

In Essex arrangements are m progress for reunion. at that place of all the bands in the State The affair is in charge of the Essex cornet band and a committee of citizens
 The Happy Few, of Birmingham, enjoyed an excellent time on Thursday, on the ex- cursion in the Strong King to Burns' Point The sail up the Ousatonic was perfectly de- Iightful
 There is living in North Stonington man who was eighty four years old in February last When he was twenty-one years old he deposited in the old Chelsea savings institu- tion at Norwich one hundred dollars. Neither the deposit, the interest nor the dividends have ever been disturbed He must have to his credit between six and seven thousand dollars, according to the regular rate of increase. That is the way ae small sum of money yields fortunes
 At Roton Point, Darien, Tuesday. Benia- min Nathan, one of party of patients from the Bloomingdale insane asylum, was drowned while bathing. No one noticed his disap- pearance till after the bathers had left the water When recovered the body had been in the water about three-quarters of an hour and all efforts at resuscitation proved fruit Iess It was during this same excursion that female patient made her escape. She has since voluntarily returned to the asylum.
 The town and city of Bridgeport have been at loseerheads for some time regarding the rent of the police station. When the i'm
 provements were made the city agreed to
 rent the police rooms for ten years at sum not to exceed $500 per annuu. A steam heater put in to heat the police department
 also furnished heat for the town clerks, pro-
 bate, assessors and selectmen's offices. When
 the selectmen demanded rent for the year
 ending November, 1882, the city refused to pay until it's bill for steam heat was settled.
 The controversy has been going on for nearly year until at the last meeting of the council the bill was ordered paid. Probably | the town will now reciprocats. | News.
 The New England road has settled it's diff
 culty with Charley, son of Mir. William H. Glover, for $100. Charley, who has been
 with his Grandfather Bartram in Hanover, l this summer, bought two tickets at the New
 town station for Sandy Hook last spring,
 Mrs. Eugene Bulkley, the agent, selling two 1 tickets from Newtown to other places on ehe New England road, one to
 be used on the return trip. A brake
 man was acting as conductor when | Charley was on his way back from the Hook, | and, anxious to show that he was boss, he | told the young man that his ticket was no 1 good and that he must pay his fare. Charley | had no money and the brakeman made him 1 jump of from the train while it was moving, l refusing to stop and let him of. Charley | landed in sand bank, luckily, and escaped | with lame leg, but 1t was dastardly piece | of business and Lawyer Wilson has finally l placed the matter before the railroad officials | in such light that they came to terms at l $1oO.
 The report of Engineer Mcfarland on the l Connecticut river below Hartford is as fol lows: 'In 1880 project for improvement
 was adopted looking toward the part of the river from Hartford to Rocky Hill, by pro- ! tecting the cavinR bank with mattresses, and l by building wing dams to concentrate the 1 force of the current. Previous to this dredg- | ing had been resorted to to remove shoals,
 which generally formed again after each for the permanent deepening and
 straightening of the channel across
 Saybrook bar. The only permanent
 work under the present project was the oon- struction of the dam at Glastonbury bar,
 eight miles below Hartford. The operations of the past year consist of the temporary i'm
 provement of Glastonbury bar and Hartford
 bar by dredging, new and old contracts, and work on the Hartford bar wing dam, which
 latter will now be completed. During the ensuing year operations will be confined to contracts now in force for dredging in the Salmon river and at various shoals in the Connecticut, and l for the completion of the wing dam at the
 Hartford bar. It is important that the pro-
 tection of the caving banks be begun at | once, particularly at points where wing dams 1 have been built, increasing the SCOUT and ! rendering the bank liable to erosion. For l the rapid prosecution of this work, for ad-
 ditions to the Saybrook bar jetties and for
 such dredging as may be necessary, it is | recommended that the sum of $1O0, GOO be | asked for, to be made available as soon as possible.