Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-10
State News

The second annual spirituAlist camp meet ing will be held at Mantle from August to September 15.
 Joseph Waffere, a Waterbury barber, ab. Y seconded Friday night with about $50 belong Ing to his employer.
 \ Gustave Ducks, of South Manchester, a 7-year old son of john Ducks, was drowned while bathing in Globe hollow pond Fri [ day.
 William Meade, of South Manchester, has ' been challenged by Tarifville runner, and ! they will run 100 yards for $100 side at \ South Manchester.
 South Manchester boy, five years old, named Wilson, was lost while berKying the other day and slept under a tree all night | while a large force of men was out hunting \ for him.
 Gould's yacht Atalanta arrived at New Lon don Saturday, having made the passage from Twenty third street. East river. New York, in | hours 45 minutes. She returned up the
 Sound yesterday.
 ! The Hartford creditors of the late Cornel- | jus J. Vanderbilt have been paid in full with interest from the proceeds of the recent sale ! of his residence. There is surplus of sev. | eral thousand dollars. Colonel George H. Perkins, the treasurer I of the Norwich and Worcester railroad, is in | his ninety-fifth year and has been connected ! with the road more than forty years. He is \ probably the oldest man in active business in I the State.
 Two Torrington colored brothers recently ! took licenses. one for marriage and the other
 for dog. Then they mixed them up, and ] when the expectant bride read her 'idescrip. five list" from the license which her swain presented there was trouble. Two Torrington colored brothers recently | took licenses one for 8 marriage and the oth- l CT for dog. Then they mixed them up,
 and when the expectant bride read her ''des- criptive list'' from the license which her
 swain presented there was trouble. \ Another attempt was made to burglarize 1 the residence of Hial s. Grannis on At- 1 water avenue, Birmingham, on Friday night.
 The occurrence was kept quiet in order to \ give the officers an opportunity to hunt up 2
 ciew, but nothing was accomplished. Nelson J. Lee has given up his temperance campaign in Bride because he wasn't ! paid enough. He publishes card saying, l Angels would not be welcome there unless \ they brought their lunch" The local work CTS threaten to retaliate by Investigating Lees | record. -- Arthur Platt, of Danbury, was run over by the 7:30 p. m. train Saturday, at Bethel, | and instantly killed. He went down on the I 6:15 D. m. train, intending to return on the | up train. After the cars .started he attempt- I ed to jump on, lost his hold and went under the train next to the last car. Two cars
 passed over him, cutting and mangling him I terribly.
 | The new peal of bells for St. Marks | church, New Britain, were raised Friday, but | will not be hung until Tuesday. They are designedto be keyed on the first third and l fifth of the scale, the large bell to be on 4 flat. It is hoped that they may be in tune with the South and Center church bells
 which would give the first, third, fourth, sixth and eighth of scale. One citizen sug- | gests that the whole be played by electrically
 from one key board. The great bell in the I First Baptist church weighs 300 pounds and is the largest bell that hangs in any ately this bell and that of St. Maryis church
 are not in tune with any of the others.