Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-25
oonaition ef ths state Pr,son.

| Condition of Che State Prison. By the annual report of the directors o the Connecticut State prison we learn tha l there were in confinement at the commence ment of the year 2s7 prisoners that 10 were committed during the year and 12; have been released, leaving in confinement at the close of the year 219; which fgur, represents about the average for the year, ol 21 less than for the previous year. This di minution is held by the directors to point tc diminution of crime, while the population increases.
 The health of the prison is reported to be slightly better, fer the year, but far from what it should be Better sanitary arrange. ments are needed.
 The financial statement shows 8 deficit oi about $7, 900, which is $2, 1000 greater than the 1881 deficit. This, the directors say, is due to the smaller number of prisoners and the greater cost of some staple articles of food. The number of recommitments is also decreasing, which good result is ascribed. in part, to the humane efforts of the Connecti- cut Prison association. The prison discipline is reported to be good
 Personal.
 Mrs. G. M Thomas, of S5 Woicott street, Fair Haven, died Tuesday of pneu- monia, aged 25 years.
 David Mccarthy, of Meriden, who was so badly injured at the ice house at the peat works, died Tuesday night of his injuries.
 Dr. E. A. Wilson, of Rockville, and Miss Ida Beach, daughter of Mrs. George Beach, of Broad street, Meriden, were married on Tuesday afternoon.
 Dr. Bradstreet read an interesting paper, subject, ''Spiders and their webs," and E. B, ,Everit read another on Science and Re- ligion'' before the Y. M. C.. A. in Meriden Tuesday evening. The hall was crowded.
 In Hartford yesterday Edward D. Robbins, of Wethersield, was appointed member of the State Board of Education.
 Ex-Mayor Robertson and granddaughter, O., yesterday, to be absent about three weeks.
 General orders No. 3, issued from the Ad- jutant Generals office, officially announce the appointment of Joseph J. Sweeney, of New Haven, as assistant adjutant general, rankin g as colonel, vice Fox resigned, and Jabez L.. Woodbridge, of Manchester, as assistant quartermaster general, with rank of ieuten- ant colonel.
 Mir. Horace Day has returned from Florida much improved in health by the trip.
 Rev. Edgar Doolittle, retired Congrega tional minister, living on Main street, Wal lingford, and father of Mayor Doolittle, of Meriden, is very low and his recovery is doubtful.
 Governor Waller returned from Michigan Tuesday evening.
 Joseph Arthur, manager of Edouin's Sparks company, has invited Governor Wal Ter to occupy the Carll private box at Carll's Opera House on Friday night to witness "A Bunch of Keys"
 An operative in Osborne $ Cheesman's factory, Birmingham, was struck on the eye the ball and was extracted by Dr. George Beardsley last Monday.
 Mir. Cornelius Curtis, an old and esteemed citizen of Birmingham, who was stricken with paralysis few weeks ago, is much im- proved.
 Mrs. Richard Aspden, of Seymour, fell upon the ice last Saturday near her residence
 
 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is expected to lecture in New Haven soon on Evolution and Revolution, or the Moral Uses of Luxu- ry and Beauty"
 While working at his trade as carpet weav- CT on Tuesday at David Welch's, on Water street in Derby, Wm. Dodge was stricken with paralysis. Other strokes followed dur ing the night and death ensued at o'clock yesterday morning. MT. Dodge was in his roth year. He came from Newburg, N. r., about fourteen years ago.
 The venerable John Phalon, of Cemetery avenue, Birmingham, is quite sick with pneumonia.
 New Milford furnishes the latest case of accidental shooting. Lafayette Snyder played with his fathers pistol and landed 8 bullet in his abdomen, from the effects of which he may die.
 Miss Mary, only remaining child of Dr. and Mrs. James A. Pelton, of Middletown, died at 5 p. m. Tuesday, after long and painful illness from disease of the heart. She was an intelligent Christian lady.
 General Frank D. Sloat, of this city, at- tended meeting of the Knights of Honor at Middletown Tuesday evening, and gave 8 history of the order and it's development.
 MT. Bradley Barlow died in the New Haven hospital Tuesday, aged sixty two years, of a disease of the intestines. He had been there bnt 8 short time. The deceased was former ly employed at Belle Dock, and his family reside in Bridgeport.