Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-23

Bromley, the San Francisco Chronicle says: George T. Bromley has been appointed con sul at Tientsin, China No appointment could be more popular, for no more genial and kindly gentleman lives in California. He is so well known and so universally liked that he will be great loss to the community, He is a figure that has been prominent through the rise and development of the city and State and the appointment is one that will be accepted as a compliment by the en- tire community"
 The Hon. I. c. Lewis, of Meriden, has given $1O0 to the Sons of Temperance, being the same sum he has given annually for five years.
 Pea culture on Fishers Island is an up-laill business, on account of the large number of pea-stealing blackbirds. The expense of powder to kill the birds is vuite equal to the cost of the peas bought at retail.
 The dead body of John Heath, sailor, was found floating in the Thames opposite New London Sunday afternoon. He was one of the crew of the schooner William Mil Ter. He was paid off on Thursday, and went to New London where he settled some bills not seen and it is supposed that he fell over board while trying to return to his vessel There was no inquest.
 Captain Traynor, who started from New Haven to row across the Atlantic, has put into Georgetown, Me. He says his dog went l mad and he had to kill him. He says he | was homesick and adds that he will soon | continue his voyage.
 l. During Saturdays storm at Brookfeld part ! of the siding of barn WAS torn away; a ! COW in the field was killed, and lightning 1 struck hickory tree which had been struck 1 twice before, hay stack was burned and | other trees struck. The hail was very vio- 1 lent and cut the tobacco badly. George Chelsea, boy seventeen years old fo11 Toa4xrT It is supposed that his back is broken. 1 The carrier pigeons owned by A. P. Clark | of Meriden, which were released at Borden l town, N. J., Sunday, reached home in five 1 hours and forty minutes. The distance is 1 IA miles.
 1 There is much dysentery in Upper Anso- mia, which is attributed by the physicians to 1 lack of sanitary precautions. The oyster planters at the Housatonic river
 have caused the arrest of Henry J. Lewis ! for dumping starfsh in the river.
 Thomas Morton of Simsbury, familiarly
 known to the people there as ''Uncie l Tommy" died Friday morning aged eighty l one. The funeral services were held on Sun | day afternoon, the Rev. H. M. Livingstone
 officiating. The deceased was Q native ot New York State.
 S. Russell Childs, M D., of New York | died yesterday. He formerly lived in Litch. 1 field, and was famous physician. | 1u0 hoF W. huSu6S, or " oSl | Goshen, lies critically i'll at his fathers resi-
 dence in Bridgeport with Bright's disease
 He is 8 member of the New York East con
 ference.
 The carrier pigeons owned by A. P. Clark 1 of Meriden, which were released at Borden l town, N. J., Sunday, reached home in five
 hours and forty minutes. The distance ii
 IA miles. Average speed 724 yards
 minute.
 Dr. Frederick Gilnack, of Rockville, lost ,
 valuable horse Sunday in Q singular way
 The horse made misstep while going at
 moderate pace and, without falling, brokt
 both hind legs near the stife joints in trying
 to right itself. It was killed.
 In New Milford a barn belonging to Mer
 win Hill was struck by lightning on Sun
 day and burned with it's contents of hay ant grain. A stack of hay containing seven tons
 the property of Seeley Richmond, was alsr
 struck by bolt and burned. The rainfall l axceadad t1yo incbac