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

l A party of Greeneville hunters shot forty
 three gray squirrels Monday. The Bridgeport News speaks of one of it's 1 inhabitants as professional inebriate. l The Hartford stenographers have formed
 an association and elected s. M. Styles presi-
 dent.
 l Great improvements have been made about 1 the PeqQot since the season closed at New
 London.
 | The extension of the New Canaan and | Stamford road from New Canaan to Danbury | is being surveyed.
 There is prospect that soon there will be ! formed lodge of the order of the United | Friends in Ansonia.
 A lad named Naples was badly injured by
 the explosion of his gun while hunting near | Norwich, Monday.
 General Sam Cary, of Ohio, talked temper | ance at Waterbury Sunday. A local paper
 says he looks like Calhoun and Beethoven. The Hartford City Guard have decided to attend the evacuation celebration in New York the 18th and will take big band along. New London charges $2oO for a retail H- cense and S4OO for a wholesale, an increase of $50 for the first and $100 for the other. The Yale library contains 152, ,00O volumes accessible to students Good. The Bridge port library numbers If 24o volumes accessi- ble to the public. Better.-Bridgepor Stand ard.
 Prof, Pitman. superintendent of schools in New Haven, talked to the Somers teachers and others on the methods of teaching used
 in that city Monday evening.
 Republican.
 Richard Clark, of Clinton, who lost his arm during the encampment at Mantle in i September, and who since that time has been in the New Haven hospital, has gone to Killingworth to spend the winter with his wife's father.
 pr. Chamberlain, of Hartford, was pre- sented on Monday evening with handsome
 ly engraved copy of the resolutions passed
 by the State Medical society. The engrosslng
 was done at the order of Bridgeport physi-
 cians some of whom were present to make
 the presentation.
 Mr. T. ". Kennan, formerly superintend- ent of the western division of the New Eng
 land road, has been appointed division superintendent on the Missouri Pacific road, ] having charge of trains and stations in Mis- souri. His division includes 166 miles of main line and 200 miles of branch roads. Thomas Foothill, of Greeneville, the man who some months ago in fit of insanity so carved himself with 8 razor as to cause as- | tonishment at his recovery and was after wards sent to the asylum at Middletown, but later on released, was again taken there by | Officer Stanley on Monday, being considered
 unsafe to be at liberty.
 Some of the older railroad men hereabouts will be interested to know that James Eckler, | the oldest locomotive engineer in the United | States, has just resigned his position on the | New York Central railroad, on account of his advanced age. He has been in active 1 serv1ce on an engine for forty-seven years
 and retires at the age of seventy-two.
 The newly elected officers of the Hartford | Orchestral society are: President, E. G. Parkhurst; vice president, A. G. Brown; sec
 retary and treasurer, William H. Kellogg; i-
 brarian, Fred Mandelbaum; executive com
 mittee, E. G. Parkhurst, o. G. Brown, s.
 Metzger, William H. Kellogg, F. N. Gardi-
 ner; conductor, Julius Blasius. James Elliott of Lewis street, New Lon 1 don, brought to the Day office Tuesday night a package of about four ounces of Paris green which he found in his lot, and which he is positive is the poison which proved fatal to | his AIderney COW. MT. Elliott does not be- ! lievs that the poison trap was set l for his COW, but he does think that
 neighboring chicken hater provided it for her medicine because hen pecked him. Sunday, November Il, Bishop Williams will administer the rite of confirmation at Trinity church, Nichols Farms. The hour of the service will be 2 p. m. The ladies of the parish will give another entertainment at AmbIer's factory Wednesday evening November IA. These entertainments were very popular last winter and the endeayor will be to make them equally so this.
 dramatic farce and oysters will be in order.