Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-22
State News.

The Danbury fair netted 5000.
 Typhoid fever in Waterbury is on the de- crease.
 Edward Fitzgerald died in Branford Friday night of consumption, aged 32.
 Lieutenant ". Burr Hall, of Wallingford, has gone to Baltimore on business.
 A train on the New London Northern rail road was stoned by tramps recently.
 A Greenland seal, weighing over 200 pounds, was caught in net at Stamford re gently.
 About eighty-fiVe men are at work at the Wilson Sewing Machine compRny's shop in Wallingford.
 Her Atonement' will be given in Hart ford three evenings next week beginning Monday night.
 Meriden has bought a lot for new High school building for $19, 300 and the work will be begun at once.
 New Haven party had supper at the Talcott House, Branford, on Thursday night. They rode in barge.
 Bryan F. Mahan, of New London, has gone to Charleston, s. O., to settle up an estate. He will be absent about ten days
 The Democrats of the Eleventh Senatorial district nominated James E BeckWith, of Waterford, as their candidate for Senator.
 The Waterbury young Republicans have started political club, which meets once month. It's rooms are to be elegantly fitted up.
 George w. Johnson, a farmer in Suffield and very incorporate man, shot himself dead Friday afternoon in the cellar of his house about one mile west of the Sufield depot.
 About one hundred and twenty-five mem bers attended the Twenty second regiment re- union at Hartford on Thursday. Mir. Gwil- lam of New York, delivered a historical sketch of the regiment.
 Montario, the bulIst-proof Portuguese ne- gro who stabbed Police o Officer Hill in Nor wich early in September, is improving slow ly. It is expected that he will live to be tried and perhaps get to position as con- vict.
 The construction of the proposed extra double track of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad from the junction, short distanca below the present station in New Rochelle eastward, will be commenced immediately and pushed with the utmost vigor.
 The Smith will case, New London, is before the Supreme Court of Errors for a final hear ing. Great interest is manifested in the re- suit as the decision will involve not only the disposition of charitable bequest of $780, 900, but will serve as a precedent for many similar cases ia the State
 At about o'clock Friday morning, as George Kilroy spinner residing at Norwich Town, was passing along the banks of the river near SturteVant's lower mill, he saw a bundle, said bundle he found had in it the dead body of male infant, prematurely born. The remains were buried by the town in Norwich.
 In New London Mrs. M. A. Ogden has purchased on private terms the beautiful house and grounds of G. G. Haven on Pe- quot avenue, and MT. Haven has purchased the Perkins place for $45, GOO. Gurdon Nor ris has bought the Patchen property for $21, ,OOO and I. F. Brown paid $1, 500 to Ann M. Brown for two Pequot avenue lots.
 The will of Hezekiah Hall, Wallingford, has been admitted to probate. Linus H. ,son of the deceased, is named as exeeutor and the farm is left to him subject to payment of g, ,000 to his brother Nathan. The deceased leaves $2, ,OoO to each of his four daughters and the balance, said to be $2O, 900, to his widow. P. T. Ives has qualified as admins trator of the estate of the late E. s. Ives and he and Henry Martin are appointed apprais- orc