Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-05
STATE NEWS.

 up'' at New York for 10 days for being drunk in the Bowery at New York and having in his possession 'tfour bowie knives, two re- yolyers, two razors and two railroad sand wiches."
 Midd1etown does not fancy being called the graveyard of the State." Says cor respondent: Cleanliness abounds everywhere. We have excellent waterworks, a good sys- tenn of sewerage, fine air and all the elements of purity of air, etc. We are not obliged on the arrival of trains to turn out the entire population to go to the depot to make it ap- pear to the travelling public that we are an enterprising and wide awake people. Thrift speaks for itself. We don't go to Meriden or New Britain to borrow money, and have now, as in the past, money to loan the people of those cities, without which, in times past, they would now have been bowling wilder ness.
 The Lee family hold a reunion in Allyn Hall Hartford, to-day. w. W. Lee, of Mer- iden, has been at work for two years on the
 family genealogy
 Terrence O'Brien and Richard A. Clancy, of Bridgeport, who spent their vacation in Ireland have returned home sooner than they had anticipated, being annoyed by En- glish detectives, who took them for dynaml- ters.
 Plenty of dancing, skating and bathing are reported at the Spiritualist camp meeting at Mantle this season.
 l Since the death of Rev. James T. Dickin- son, of Middletown, it has, been made known | that he was the giver of the Yale college John Haynes fund, which will be further en- \ riched by the provisions of his will. In November last the late Francis Sheldon, | publisher of thesDeep River New Era, took | out life insurance policy for $2, GOO in the | Life and Annuity company of Hartford \ The amount was paid his widow sixty days | days before it was due.-East Haddam Ad | vertiser
 By the middle of this week the shipment | of peaches from the fruit-growing districts of the peninsula, between the Chesapeake l and Delaware bays, will gather good deal of | headway. The outlook for the seasons crop | is very bright indeed. A careful estimate made early in July placed the yield of the | peninsula at 5,000,000 baskets. Since this | was made, however, the trees have dropped large quantities of their fruit and the yield will not exceed 100000 baskets. While this is not considered a very large crop, l it is more than satisfactory to the grow CTS and is sufficient to supply every demand. It is considered in excess of last seasons yield, when the market was kept | full and the prices, as rule, were very mod l crate. The ripening crop will probably ex- | eel in quality the fruit grown during the past l three or four years This prediction IS | made by growers, upon the grounds that the | yield last season was moderate and the trees | are III @ vigorous cOnQ1G1On ana JuSG ul1ou sufficiently for the fruit to be well formed, | nicely favored and ripened. When the trees are too heavily laden none of the fruit at ! tains that degree of perfection as when only 1 a moderate load is borne.
 | Yesterdays Hartford Courant says Jere- miah Hurley of Washburn street, Spring l field, went out into his garden early Saturday ' morning to Eshoo" away COW that was eat l ing his potatoes and cabbage plants. But
 when he reached the spot he found not one COW but a herd, and somehow they had an unfamiliar look But he didn't stop to re- connoiter He pitched in to save his domes- tic vegetables for his own use As he bore down on the herd all but one struck into mad gallop and left the inclosure, but this one failed to ''shoo" worth a cent. He met
 Mr. Hurley considerably more than half way and politely assisted him in keeping his feet dry by lifting them well out of the dew. In short MT. Hurley soon found
 that he had encountered one of Buffalo Bills FFfery untamed," ;" and retired to the house to
 nurse badly gored arm and leg. MT. Cody was summoned, and the mystery of the plains was soon cleared up. An early milk man left the parks north gate open, so that l the herd of buffalo silently slid out and pro- ceeded to advertise the excellence of MT.
 Hurley's crops by peacefully grazing thereon. Buffalo Bill arranged to pay the doctors bills
 arising from MT. Hurley's mistake, and com
 pensated him for loss of work and the ner- vous shock. This little tilt cost the Wild West show $525.
 The report has been circulated in New England and New York papers to the effect that throat and lung troubles had seriously, and in some cases, fatally affected summer visitors from New York among the Litch- field and Berkshire hills, creating much sur l prise in that locality. Dr. Deming says that there are 8 few cases of bronchitis or colds caused by the changeable weather, but
 no epidemic He also says that he never knew of a case of consumption originating in stranger while there. The EnQuirer of this week publishes letter from physician at
 Aiken, s. C., who has made a speciality of throat and lung diseases, who considers that there is not another town in New England which is so free from consumption as Litch- field.
 It is said that Charles P. Sturtevant, of
 East Lyme, will be a candidate for comp troller before the Republican State conven- ton. MT. Sturtevant has represented his
 town in the House and State Senate.
 Companies D, and A, Third Regiment, c.
 N. G., have engaged Charles Evans of New
 London to cater for them during the Mantle encampment.
 The Rev. F. D. Hartman, father of the rector of Trinity church, Portland, has be- come rector of Christ church, Middle Had dam.
 Sometime Saturday night, malicious scoun-
 drels removed two wide blanks from the
 footpath on Yellow Mill bridge Bridgeport. Why one happened to walk into the hole is a mystery as deep as the feeling that could induce the commission of such deed.
 The tramps' cave in Lewis Woods at New
 London has been found to contain plunder from the stores of Eugene Bell, w. w Smith
 and Gurdon A. Lester. Yesterday three of
 the five burglars escaped from their pur
 suers. One of them, known as Shorty John
 son, is the burglar who was caught in Ayety's
 man trap st Gf6t6n last year when he at= tempted to rob the store.
 The entire cost of the Putnam Convent
 school is estimated at s5b,000 CT 40,000,
 Rev, Dr. Vygen expends his entire fortune in building it.
 The camp meeting at Wtllimantte is likely to be more than usually interesting this year,
 Among the preachers announced to occupy
 the stand is the noted bishop from Africa, Bishop Taylor.
 Frank Kennedy of New York, suspected piekpoeket who is under $500 bonds on
 charge of plying his vocation in Middletown
 on centennial day, has been again arrested in Norwich