Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-09

church in Mantle, was presented with SIS by bis people recently %
 Charles E. Woodruff, editor of the New Britain Herald, has been confined to his home by illness, but is improving. --=-' ". A. Briscoe, of Norwich, law partner of Jeremiah Halsey. has in preparation and win soon publish an index to the Connecticut re ports. It will undoubtedly prove to be very valuable work to. members of the legal pro- fession especially. saaa-ss
 Samuel J. Coburn, for many years princi- pal of the old High schpol, Middletown, now resident of Fremont. N. r., brought the body of his daughter to Middletown for burial Wednesday,. she died of quick con ! sumption, was about 16 years old, and most amiabls and esteemed young lady. Mrs. Co., burn was sick at home and unable to come on with the remains
 Rev. J. O. Peck leotured in the M. E. church, Southington, Monday night on ''Young Blood"
 William M. Hubbell, of Oxford, has bought ! the place on the corner of the turnpike and Christian street road of MT. Frederick Hub bell, and will occupy it in few weeks. MT. Nelson B. Williams an old and re- l spected citizen of. Oxford, who has been in feeble health all winter, died at his home on l Riggs street last Saturday. His funeral was attended from St. Peters church, of which | he was member, on Tuesday by a large number of his fellow townspeople and rela- tives. Rev. MT. Bailey ofiriated.
 Mrs Porter, of Goshen, who died Monday in consequence of fall on the ice, was the l mother of Charles J. Porter sheriff of Litch- l field county.
 MT. George Coley, of Georgetown, died last week Thursday, aged about 60 years, and his funeral was attended by Rev. S. J. M. Mer- win on Sunday. The interment was in Um- pawaug cemetery. MT. Coley had been sick @ long time with an internal cancer. His sufferings were very great. His patience was remarkable. zr..a -.-
 Mrs. Elizabeth N. Marigoid, for many years a resident of Waterbury, died in Bridge port Tuesday morning at o'clock of dropsy, brought on by heart disease. She had been Q great sufferer for many years.
 MT. James P. Murphy, who has been for 8 number of years past second steward on the steamer City of New York, has recently been promoted to be chief steward of the City ot Lawrence
 Mrs. Henry Whittlesey of Mantle, an in- valid for many years, died on Tuesday even ing.
 Joseph Cook lectures in Bridgeport thit evening, in the Presbyterian church; subject
 Failures of Unbelief.''
 Mir. and Mrs. E. Kingsley celebrated the fiftieth, or golden, anniversary of their d marriage at Norwich, Wednesday evening.
 Father Walsh, of Waterbury, cabled thil
 week $1, 134 for the Irish relief fund ant
 $9o3 for the Land League Mir. zeigler, the brakeman who was hurt on the Shepaug engine in the recent acci
 dent, IS likely to recover. The amount oi damage will probably not bs less than $s,
 OOO
 Mrs Charles Holcomb and daughter, ot Branford, arrived in San Francisco on the 24th alt. Before their departure they wer the recipients of handsome tea set iron , Mrs. H. s father, Gurdon Bradley and broth l CT.
 Mrs. George Vandenhoff gave some yer!
 fine readings to small audience in Walling , ford, Wednesday evening