Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-23
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State News
 The police are looking for Leonard Fl.
 Jones, telegraph ineman from Williman-
 tic, who has been beating hotels at Norwich
 and New London out of board bills under
 various assumed names.
 Middletown's city debt is $227, 500, having
 been reduced $6, 29O last year. The re-
 ceipts were $35, ,237 and running expenses
 $27, ,754. The value of taxable property
 is $5, 800 ,oOO and the mayor recommends
 tax of six mills.
 Hartford dead beat has been working
 the saloon keepers by drinking beer in those places illegally open on Sunday and paying
 for it with nickel. Then Monday morning
 he would appear, insist that he had paid
 $5 bill for his drink and demand $4. 95 in
 change. If the demand was refused he threatened to complain of the illegal sale. At least four saloon keepers were swindled. Mir. and Mrs. D. s. Bartram, of Norwalk, celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their
 marriage Monday evening at the family resi- dence. All but two of the children, Frank
 and Eli, who are in distant cities, were
 present.
 Miss Sarah Alton of Putnam, Windham
 county, aged 23 years, has for four years
 been suffering from spinal disease. She could not move without the use of crutches.
 The best physicians of the State and of Bos-
 ton pronounced her case incurable. After
 her last return from Boston bound up
 in 8 jacket of plaster of Paris she
 become rapidly worse. Miss Alton had been frequently importuned by pious friends to have recourse to prayer and faith dream in which she thought that she saw herself cured by prayer. She communicated with her friends in Boston asking them to pray for her recovery At o'clock Tuesday afternoon she invited some of her neighbors into her house to pray with her. They prayed together. Miss Alton immediately became conscious of change for the better. Since then she has discarded her crutches and is improving rapidly and is confident of en- tire recovery.
 Colenel Keith, the father of Mrs. J. W. Woodbridge of Hartford, is dead at Sheldon Springs, Vt.
 Homer W. Brainard of Hartford, a gradu-
 ate of the High school last spring, has been l awarded valuable prize at Harvard college for standing 1O0-the maximum-in Greek l and Latin
 Edward McClenn, young man who lives at No 27 South Prospect street. Hartford, drank with friend on Sunday and it required
 three hours work by 9 physician to get the poison out of him that got ioto the liquor by l mistake.
 1 MT. A. Q. Routh, who has been chief op- l orator at R. s. Delamater's photograph gal l lsry, Hartford, for three years and who is
 recognized as g master of his profession, 1 leaves to-day for Charleston, s. O., where he l is to engage in business for himself. He has l about closed negotiations for the largest gal lOry in that city.
 George A. Buddington. who died quite
 suddenly at New London Saturday, had been ! a strict abstainer from intoxicants for ten years but two weeks ago he began to drink l to such an extent that he died from the ef- | fects. He served in the war as 8 member of 1 the Fourteenth Connecticut volunteers, and
 was among Connecticut's youngest enlisted | men.
 1 CONNECTICUT BIBLE SOCIETY. The finance committee of the Connecticut
 Bible society held meeting on Monday last
 at the directors room of the Travellers h. \ were presented from the different | fields where the society is oper-
 ating. In every community where the | Bible distributors are laboring, or have been | recently, there are manifest results in the en- couragement and activity of the churches, in souls converted and in enlarged attendance upon public worship and Sunday schools. The call for more workers is very urgent. Although many are offering their services the | tried and faithful men are not easily found. GAMBLING AT BRIDGEPORT.
 Bridgeport is somewhat excited over the
 policy shop, and gambling in general. At
 least one daily paper has given notice that it
 
 any such schemes whether they are policy or church fair, and the Rev. John Lyon has already delivered four sermons in a series directed against gambling in all it's forms. Until very recently the slips of policy drawings used to be thrown in over the wall at the works of the Cartridge company. Now employees have been forbid den to receive policy numbers while on duty. Still there must be room for improvement for the same paper that came out so uncom- promisingly prints the following without word of reproduction: Bridgeport ladies have the baking powder mania. A certain brand is sold st the grocery stores, in every half pound can of which is packed a present or an order for the same. Just now there is a reckless use of the powder, for purchasers have found in their cans orders for dress goods, lamps and ether articles. as well ss napkins. table cloths, towels, jewelry, per fumery and many other articles"
 Speaking to a room full of people at re- nRfous meeting in this city this week, the female exherter cried out: ''There you sit, night after night, like blocks of stone We have been talking and praying for you day in and out, yet you hang back and seek not the mercy scat. We can't go on this way. Why don't you hurry up and get converted ? Whats the matter, anyhow-has the devil got you all 9"-Bridgeport News.