Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-14
STATE NEWS

The repairs on the First Congregational
 church in Colchester are to commence this week, a contract having been made with John c. Mead, of Hartford, to that effect The repairs, it is expected, will be finished in November
 Bridget Dooley, aged about 40, and em- ployed as domestic in the family of the Hon. Samuel L. Warner, of Middletown, has
 been missing since Sunday. Quite delegation from Middletown will go to New York, Saturday, on the steamer l City of Springfield.
 Edward Wilson, late superintendent of the Middletown public schools, will probably open preparatory school in that city for those who desire to enter college. Lieutenant Governor Sumner visited the Reform school at Meriden Tuesday. A delegation of Knights of Honor of Bridgeport will attend the picnic of the Bridgeport Knights on Friday. The mother and daughter of Major Frank North who have been taking care of him at Oakwood hotel, started for their home in Nebraska yesterday. Major North is mend ing rapidly and is past all danger. Complaining of dull times is quite gen eral among proprietors of summer resorts this season, but more people have gone to Norfolk this year than ever before, and @ large summer hotel to be built there is the talk now If it had been ready this season it could have been easily filled, as hundreds of people have not been able to procure ac- commodations there. Norfolk is the highest point in the State, being 1 400 feet above the sea.
 Captain D. Dickinson, of Saybrook, rolled a score of 300, the highest possible, at nine pins twice in succession at Block Island Monday.
 MT. St. John, the Prohibition candidate for the presidency, will speak at the Baptist summer resort, Crescent Beach, Mantle, sometime this month.
 The Rev. Professor John Phelps Taylor,
 formerly pastor Of the Second Congregational church, New London, nov professor at An dover college, is visiting friends in New Lon don.
 Charles Jordan, of Willimantic, has the contract for building pier midway of the Willimantic river for the bridge which is soon to be built near Robert Browns resi- dence on Columbia road. The stone is being quarried in Pudding lane. The Willimantics played the Springfelds
 at Norwich Monday and won, g to D.
 Chief Marsh of Bridgeport, has received letter from lady in Akron, Ohio, who said
 she was married five years ago to man who
 called himself John King. Five days after
 the marriage, she says, her husband left her,
 saying he was obliged to return to Bridge
 port to attend to ms farm1ng ana OGuer luGor-
 ests there. She desires to know if her hus-
 band is the man who has married so many other women.
 The Pennington Valley Agricultural cor poration will hold it's second annual fair at Cherry Park October 1st and 2d Colts band has been engaged for the last day.
 Eugene Barbour, little boy of Torring- ton, while playing with some other boys Fri day, fell and broke his arm at the elbow.
 William s. Baker has returned to his home in New Hartford, after having been under the care of Dr. Shew at the hospital in Mid dletown for three months. His many friends will be greatly pleased to hear he is decided ly improved.
 Groton people are to have meeting in a few days to arrange for commemorat1on ot the anniversary September 8 of the battle of Groton and the burning of New London
 The church of the Immaculate Conception at Waterbury has been repaired at cost ot $15, ,OOO and will be rededicated, probably Sunday, when forty priests and four bishops are expected.
 A company in Connecticut manufacture nearly all the licorice in this country-17,- GOO, 900 pounds a year. Confectionery and medicine take about 100000 pounds and the remainder goes into tobacco.
 A young lady operative at the factory or L. L. Loomer's Sons, Birmingham, yesterday afternoon in bending down near a rapidly re- volving shaft, had her hair attracted to the same, considerable quantity of which was pulled out by the roots It was very mar row escape.
 Norwalk has club composed of colored gentlemen, which meets on Main street over the store occupied by G. & s. H. Holmes. Its name is the Sumner Union League club. Its object is to perpetuate the memory and illus trious deeds of the late Hon. Charles Sumners and for the promotion of the political, edu- cational, industrial and social interests of the colored people It also pro poses to establish library for the dissemination of useful knowledge among the colored people. Its officers are James Gordon, president; David Green, vice president; John L. Weston, treasurer; Emanuel Van Clief, secretary; Walter Felton, corresponding secretary; executive commit tee, John Grant, c. B. Whaley, Charles E.. Walton and the above officers.
 One of the strangest incidents in connec- tion with Sundays earthquake is related of picnic party who were enjoying themselves down the river near Poquetannock cove. At the moment of the shock a number of the party were running fast race, and all but one came simultaneously to the ground. There are scoffers who profess to see nothing strange in this and say that earthquake IS new name for lager beer, but such enemies to the progress of science have ever existed and feebly opposed everything new in the line of discoyery.-New London Day.