Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-04
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 The Peck, Stow h Wilcox company will re- sume operations next week. They will pay up Friday for the year 1883.
 H. D. Smith & Co. resume operations this morning.
 Mrs Granville Weed of New Haven is spending few days with her parents on Main street.
 Thomas Eagan, took place yesterday after noon. The interment was in the Catholic cemetery.
 The Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co.,, have decided to rebuild their edge tool factory which was recently distroyed by fire.
 There will be an annual town meeting on Monday next, January z.
 There are many complaints made of the sidewalks on Center street A person runs a risk by walking on what they term 8 side walk. Already number of people have turned up their toes nearly in front of Mar tins clothing store. At this place there is a very steep grade which in this kind of weather makes it very dangerous to foot pas- sengers.
 John Miller, of the Grove house, is giving prize bowling He gives ten dollars in gold to the best bowler, five dollars to the second and two and & half dollars to the third Each man to roll five balls. Jan. 2.
 New Britain.
 Mir. Cornelius B. Erwin is very critically ill
 The Stanley works has associated with the Central Manufacturing company of Boston for the manufacture of tacks.
 The German Baptist church on Elm street was dedicated on Tuesday.
 There were many callers on New Years da- although the number was not as large as la { year. The pt o1 7 Mayor Pickett was exceedingly pleasant.
 The funeral of Eugene A. Burt was attend ed Wednesday afternoon at his fathers resi- dence on South Main street. The body was accompanied from Montreal by Mir. Alden and MT. Gilman, with whom Mir. Burt was associated in business.
 The New Britain Scientific association has engaged MT. Raymond Lee Newcomb, natur- alist of the Jeanette Arctic exploring exps- dition, who told in such an interesting man. ner last spring his thrilling ''story of the Jeannette." to give another lecture on Wednesday evening. January 9th, in the High school (formerIy Normal hall. The subject will be "Recollections of Russia and Siberia" and it will be illustrated by about forty stereoscopic views taken from fine pho tographs brought from there by NIT. New comb. Jan. 3.
 State News.
 Rev. Hugh MalIon, of Wallingford is ill with quipsy.
 The winter term of Wesleyan university comm enced yesterday.
 In Ansonia Wednesday Andrew Mahoney fell on the foot bridge and dislocated his shoulder.
 Reed $ Co.,, of Higganum, estimate theil loss by tue burning of their establishment al about $45,O GOO. It was partially insured.
 Groton has refused to pay $500 for good fire engine and will continue to depend or New London engines transported over on the little ferryboat.
 The Dime Savings bank has declared g dividend of 2 per cent. from the net earn. ings during the past six months. The de posits amount to over $13O, 900. The widow of the late Samuel Smith, ol Madison, is very critically ill and there seems very little hope of her recovery. Thomas H. Smith, a near neighbor, is also seriously sick.
 The 112th reception of the Governors Foot Guard to the governor will take place at the armory (Allyn halD on Wednesday evening, Jan. g, beginning at o'clock. The cards bare the date 1771-l8s4.
 The State Woman's Suffrage association will hold a convention at Hartford on the 14th and 18th, and will discuss bills giving women the right to vote in school matters and on the question of liquor licenses.
 In Branford Tuesday night Gustave A. R. Hamre and EstelIe E. Beach were united in marriage by Rev. c. F. Osborne at the Con gregational parsonage. The bride is 8 daughter of Mir. John Beach, and the groom SWede who was accidentally shot at Mir. Besch's houge, where he was employed Dr. Maurice B. Bennett who for seven. teen years has had his residence and practice in Coventry, is about to leave the town. Mir. Joel Stone and family of the same town also contemplates leaving Coventry for the West in February. Mir. Stone is tired of plough ing our rocks and wishes to put the share in prairie soil.
 MT. William s. Henry. of Manchester l Green, met with painful accident Saturday | afternoon, while lifting a heavy case ot | goods at the depot. The weight of it came against bis leg, turning his knee joint out and causing very painful dislocation. It is | feared that the injury is of such a nature as 1 to prove troublesome for long time. | The Clinton Agricultural society has cleo | ted the following officers for the ensuing 1 year: President, George B. Elliott; vice presi | dent. Edwin H. Wright; marshal, B. John son; secretary, Sylvester P. Hull; treasurer 1 Ezra E. Post. It was voted to hold theil | next fair the first Wednesday in October 1884. The receipts over all expenditures fol | 1883 were $54.
 l The claim that General Buffers fifty-year old horse Phil is the oldest in New EnglanG is erroneous. There is an older one in Ken sington, owned by Mrs. George W. Ford | The old horse, when about ten years old carried Mrs. Norman Porter, of Berlin, tG the White Mountains and back in the saddl @ He was sold to his present owner because i was thought that at fourteen years he va too old to take trip to California.