Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-04
STATE NEWS.

The Good Samaritan Temperance society ! of Hartford is prospering finely. It has talk en and fitted up good hall at No. 62 Asylum street, and there is goodly attendance at it's meetings, especially Sunday evenings. Last evening MT. w. F. Peebles of Stamford was to speak.
 A Minneapolis letter containing an account of the recent Grand Army encampment there ..says: "A Connecticut comrade de vised the wooden nntmeg as distinctive badge for the old Chnnecticut men. He brought 1000, and & thousand were soon hanging by blue cords from as many button holes."
 Charles H. Sweet, painter employed by Hussey & Co.,, painters, of Hartford, fell ] from tree in that city yesterday, and frac- tured one of his hips
 MT. Henry c. Meyer has been appointed teacher of the German language and of book keeping at the Brown school, Hartford, sue ceeding the late MT. H. F. Ringer.
 The cigar factory of Edwin Rockwell, of Bethel, was burned Thursday with it's con tents. There were 20, GOO cigars in the build ing. The loss amounts to over $1, 800 on stock and $400 on the building. The insur- ance is small.
 The annual meeting of the Connecticut Oyster Growers and Dealers association will
 be held to-day in New Haven. Seven Reform school boys were discharged from the school Friday on their parole of
 honor.
 A thirty pound snapping turtle was caught
 in Rockville a few days ago and is said to
 beat the record in that place by two pounds.
 Attorneys Charles G. Root, of Waterbury,
 and Samuel P. Newell, of New Britain, had a difference in court at Plymouth on Thurs day in which Mir. Newell charged MT. Root with dishonest practices and said the Water bury attorneys were banded together so that it was impossible for itigants to obtain jus tice in the Waterbury courts, and MT. Root remarked that Mir. Newell had not an honest hair on his head. There was more disturb ance and then the case went on as if nothing had happened
 A writer from the Spiritualist camp meet ing at Mantle says: Cottages are constantly being erected, and in a short time the camp buildings will outnumber those at the viii lage of Mantle. Boating, fishing and clam ming come in for their share in the sports There is plenty of dancing, skating and bath ing"
 Moses Chandler, ,::an old and much esteemed resident of Burnside, East Hartford), died Thursday at his residence, at the age of 76 years. He commenced business in his early manhood in Burnside; first, as a shoe man ufacturer and later as a storekeeper of gen eral merchandise. The latter he relinquished about three years ago. The funeral took place at the Congregational church in East Hartford yesterday.
 In Westbrook recently a reunion of the descendants of Captain Nathan Kiatlrnd was enjoyed by thirty of the family cousins at the home of D. w. Grosvener. The occasion of the gathering was the presence in the town of Horace T. Bushnell and his wife, who was one of the family from Davenport, Ia.
 The number of interments in the Catholic cemetery in AnsOnia for July was twenty one, the largest ever occurring in the same space of time since the laying out of the grounds.
 w. w. Lee was buried yesterday, Sunday, in Guilford. The Masonic fraternity turned out. MT. Lee was for a number of years in the stone quarry business at Sachem Head, but of late he has held situation as super intendent of railroad in Florida. On ac- count of i'll health he resigned his position in April last and returned home, and has not been able to do anything since He leaves two young ladies, daughters who have the sympathy of all He was fifty-feur years of age.
 The cigar factory of Edward Rockwell, of 1 Bethel, was burned Thursday with it's con tents. There were 20,000 cigars in the build l ing. The loss amounts to over S1 300 on | stock and $4O0 on the building. The insur- l ance is small.
 The clock shops in Thomaston will soon | shut down for two weeks.
 An Indian attached to the Buffalo Bill show stopped runaway horse in Meriden by lassoing the animal
 Ivy mountain, near Torrfngton, said to be the highest point in the State, is to be crowned with tower.
 The Meriden and Cromwell railroad is now in running order from the swamp to Crom- well eight miles.