Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-09
State News.

The Winsted Silk company is building an addition 1OOx4o feet.
 Slight frosts have been noticed in Winsted for the past three or four mornings.
 The Cee company are building 40 foot addition to their cup shop in Torrington. Quite number of Rocky Hill farmers are camping out, as they do every year after hay ing, near the Sound.
 The Rev. and Mrs R. F. Herrick, of Rocky Hill have started for their new home in Montevideo, Minn.
 The Excelsior Knife company of Torring- ton are about to commence the manufacture of steel squares for carpenters uses.
 The Connecticut cavalry association have their yearly reunion at Bridgeport next We'd nesday, with parade and a shore dinner at Seaside Park.
 The Rev. Edward E. Lamb, pastor-elect of the Congregational church of Agawam, Mass, who died recently at the age of forty-eight, was for seven years at Collinsville, this State
 Mrs. Louise Fowler, of Hartford, mother of Alderman and First SelectmRn Fowler, died early Tuesday morning after suffering from a severe and painful illness for some time.
 Willie, the 12 year old son of John L. Will son, Sufield, started all alone to visit Mir.
 
 safe and sound.-a pretty good trip for a boy of his years. Leader Beyer Of the Howe band of Bridge 1 port authorizes the statement that the band will remain together for the present, and | that Inducements to go to other cities will not be considered. Hartford companies escape without heavy | loss on the Wright braid mill at Lawrence which was burned on Monday with loss of $160, GOO. The risks held there are, Etna $3, 900, Hartford $2, 900, Orient $1, 800. The executive committee of Wesleyan uni versity have confirmed the nomination of Elmer T. Merrill as tutor in Latin and Thomas H. Eekfeldt as tutor in Greek. The college property is to be Jagged on the Cross street side. It is announced that in consequence of an injury to the horse Yellow Dock, his owners l have sold their subscription to the $1O,O purse in the 2:19 class at the Charter Oak 1 Park races. The purchaser is W. H. St0ph- enson. 1 At the Hartford gas works, repairs which l will consume several weeks, have been be- 1 gun on one of the holders in which the gas | tanks move. One of the number can always be spared and the work will have no effect on the gas supply. :. At the silver wedding of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Nichols of East Longmeadow, Mass.
 
 mony was by the Rev. MT. Axtell of Vernon, and poem was contributed by resident of Stafford Springs. The man who invented the first steam whistle for locomotive has recently died in Montreal. His name was Henry c. Buckley, he was Connecticut man, 8 mechanic of great skill and was for many years 8 fore man in the pattern department of Trask'a great car and locomotive works in Spring field, Mass. He made the patterns for one of the first engines of the Boston and Albany railroad. At the time of his death he was foreman in Thompson $ Houston's Electric Light company shops, Montreal. In a triangular shaped burying ground nearly opposite the palatial mansion of the late J. W. Stanton, near Stongington bor- ough, stands marble monument erected by the late Dr. John W. Richmond, of Provi- dence, R. l., and on the front of the nonu- ment is the following interesting inscription, which explains itself; and by him 8 fund was left with the town of Stonington to forever keep the grounds and monument in repair: s'when Rhode Island by her legislature from 1844 to 1850 Repudiated' her Revolutionary Debt Dr. Richmond
 removed from that State
 to this Borough
 and selected this
 as his Family Burial Place!
 Unwilling that the remains
 of himself and family
 should be disgraced by being
 part of
 the common earth. of
 Repudiating State"