Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-28
STATE NEWS.

+. James Wylie, the checker player, is to play in Danbury next week. One of his op- ponents will be J. J. Hinman, of Southbury, ! who is called the best checker player in Cen
 necticut.
 Some curiosity hunter has offered $50 for the New London two-legged dog recently de- | scribed.
 The railroad commissioners have post poned action on the dangerous crossing at l Willimantic until October 1st, to give the
 railroad company time to move the side ! tracks to another place. This, it is said, l will do away with much of the danger.
 The estate of the late Cassius Welles, of I Hartford, inventories $411, 1926 Mark Burns, once a famous pitcher for the ! Rose Hills of Fordham college, is an inmate ! of the insane retreat at Middletown. The Mayor and Common Council of | Bridgeport inspected yesterday a bronze { statue of the late Elias Howe, jr., the sewing ] machine inventor. It will be placed in Sea side Park
 The inauguration of the free delivery sys- tenn at Norwich has been postponed from September 1 to October 1.
 Company F of the Twenty-third regiment has not acquiesced in the postponement of the regimental reunion to next year and has arranged for a reunion at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, September g. The rest of the regiment is invited.
 The palace dining-car line that will be opened on the Boston and Albany and Con solidated roads September 20 is to be man aged by W. D. Mann, patentee of the Mann boudoir car.
 The little daughter of Patrick, Webb of Fishers Island was shot in the forehead Sun day by Nicholas Carter and will probably
 die. Carter was drunk and the shooting is thought to have been accidental.
 Since Friday, when the cool wave set in, there have been more than 1 LOGO cases of
 cholera morbus in Hartford and vicinity.
 There is talk of establishing German
 paper in Bridgeport, to be called the Journal, but 1t seems to be difficult matter to inter
 est those possessing sufficient funds. The corner stone of the new Catholic
 church in Bridgeport the Church of the
 Sacred Heart, will be laid Sunday, Septem-
 Der 7th, with imposing ceremonies by Bishop
 McMahon, of Hartford. Rev. D. J. Cremin is pastor of the parish. For the convenience of Catholics in the eastern part of the State who may wish to attend the ceremony, the parish committee of Norwich have chartered steamer to make an excursion on that day
 Colonel Livingstone of the Fourth artillery
 U. s. A., stationed at Fort Adams, Newport will visit the camp at Mantle next week Two members of the staff of Governor Rob inson of Massachusetts will spend week at Mantle, studying the system of the Connect icut militia.
 The fishing steamers Arizona and Annie L. Wilcox were in New London harbor Tuesday and left Tuesday night for fishing cruise to Montauk. The Arizona claims the largest record this season for one weeks fishing and also for the expired portion of the season. three and half months She took in one week TOO, 900 menhaden and up to Tuesday had 12, ,000, 900 fish to her share this season. The largest hauls were off Delaware break water.
 M R. Moran of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railroad left New London by the boat Tuesday night for New York en route for the scenes of his present duties in Florida He expects to come home to vote in November and will remove his family to the sunny South on his return there after election.
 William H. Bangs, Meriden farmer, died last January, aged seventy-fve years. He | left four children. He had given his real l estate during life to a married daughter with | whom he lived, the consideration being that l she should support him during the remainder 1 of his life. For some time before his death 1 he paid frequent visits to New York, usually | several days. When it came to | dividing his small personal estate an alleged l widow, young and living in New York, de l manded her share. None of the family had ! known of any such person, but her claim is | being pushed hard.