Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-29
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 The Wilson Sewing Machine Co., have shut l down until after the annual meeting of the stockholders, which will be held at the com pany's office on Monday afternoon, August | 4th.
 The Resolutes of Meriden defeated the Ouicksteps of this town at game of ball or Saturday afternoon by score of ii to A.
 T. OKeefe will move into his new store | this week.
 J. McKiernan of Norwich, is now night operator at the Western Union telegraph
 office.
 G. K. Darlington and his family are spend | ing week at Indian Neck, Branford. | The parents of the RunneH boy, who had his 1 finger smashed while playing with post in l front of Mrs. Lewis property on Main street
 a short time ago, now threaten to bring 8 1 suit against Mrs Lewis for damages unless she pays them $500. Runnell has engaged Lawyer Harrison and Mrs. Lewis has retained | Lawyer Fowler to defend her. Will Andrews, who is clerk in the post 1 office, is taking his vacation this week. ! Wilbur c. Northrop has been spending 8 week at Stony Creek and returned home this | morning.
 Miss Annie E. Peck is at Saratoga. The Bartholomew gathering will be held at | Mantua, Ohio, this year.
 The school committee have received eight ! cen applications for the vacancy in the list | A. Cushing's effects were sold at auction on l Saturday and brought $10.27. 1 c. H. Barnes has the contract for building 1 E. c. Lewis new house Center street John Naples dwelling house, about one l and one-ha1f miles from town, was totally destroyed by fire Sunday forenoon while the 1 family were at church. Everything was
 burned except the clothing that MT. Naples
 and his wife wore. There was no insurance on the property, and as MT. Waples is poor
 man it is 8 severe blow to him. Charles A. Austin died on Sunday morning 1 at 9:30 o'clock at his residence on the farms ! after short illness of about two weeks He
 was 30 years of age and had large circle of l friends who will sympathize with his wife in | her great aff1iction. He was a member of l Compass lodge, F. and A. M., who will take | charge of the funeral services. The funeral will take place Tuesday afternoon at | o'clock
 Frank Phelps is visiting in Northampton, I Mas.
 Mrs. Thomas Wyatt, of New York, is \ spending few days in town. B. Church, jr., is the father of a daughter
 that arrived Sunday evening July 29. STATE NEWS. New Hartford was Hall alive" yesterday \ over fire balloon twenty five feet high and | sixty feet in circumfer ence which was to be sent up last evening.
 One of the men employed by Eli Wakeman at Greenfield Hill was directed to sift Paris green on potato vines few days ago. After | doing so he left a quantity of the poison in 8 l pail, and two cows, valuable but inquisitive, l swallowed a portion and died within two | hours.
 The town of Derby has thirteen drum \ corps and the inhabitants continue healthy. Danbury has club known as the Aqu- | enuckaqewauk.
 l Three Wethersfeld women tried to kill a l dog the other day by saturating rags with ! chloroform and holding them under his nose. | The dog enjoyed it, but the women nearly | succumbed to the fumes.
 | John Stevenson, of Bridgeport, charges an ! agent of John Hurd, the financial magnet l who attracted so much money from that re- \ zion, with inducing a Stratford widow to ! take the $1 ,000 she got from her husbands | insurance out of the savings bank and invest | it in Hurds stock. Stevenson calls on the l agent, who he says is church member, to 1 pay back at least the tidy commission of $20O | which he made out of the transaction. 1 Burglars entered the house of Mr. Edson l Fessenden, No. 99 Ann street, Hartford, be- | tween and 10 o'clock Saturday evening. Entrance was obtained by back window. \ They got only small sum of money and \ some jewelry. The thieves were alarmed by ! Mir. Fessenden's calling to a servant and es- | capped, leaving no clues which would lead to \ their arrest.
 \ One colored convert was immersed in the ! Housatonic river Sunday by Rev. A. Miller, ! of New York. The other candidates for the ceremony backed out on account of the rain.
 At Danielsonville on Friday young man and young woman, both under age, applied | for marriage license, making oath that they \ were over age. The man was arrested before the marriage ceremony was performed
 The summer concerts at Norfolk by Graf ! fula's New York band will commence with Mir. Graffula as leader August 9th. Three
 concerts day will be given on the park. | Mr. J. H. Hanson, of Bridgeport, was as- | saulted Friday evening by two men who first { asked the time and then snatched at his I watch. They broke the chain but did not gst the watch, and then took to their heels
 and got away. MT. Hanson once had the I same watch stolen, but recovered it, and ! says he has never taken it out since to tell the time to a stranger
 Alderman Waite, of the Pequot House, 1 New London, has offered two prizes fo1 yachts of the New York club to compete fo1 ! at the time of the yachts rendezvousing there ! on the 2nd of August
 Lucius Goodrich, of New Britain, has
 complained to the police that his seventeen year-old daughter Ella has eloped with B. A. ! Adams a married man. They went away in ' | nothing has been heard of them since. | The Pequot House at New London will be ! entirely remodelled next year. Fifty pistol makers at the Hopkins 6 Allen l shops in Norwich are idle. 1 Zimmerman, of Bridgeport, the man shot | by Esar Stieber last spring, is now able to ! get out of doors.
 ! The Granite Cutters union of Westerly will | go to Rocky Point R. l., August 19, to hear General Butler talk.
 A Norwich blacksmith is vouched for as ! having built and ridden a bicycle with one big and one little wheel 60 years ago. Bridgeport is to have new military con- | pany to be attached to the Fourth regiment. | There is trouble in Company I, Captain ] Moore, of the Fourth regiment, at Winsted, and it is feared that it will result in it's dis I bandment. This is the company in which \ some of the men were drunk at Bethel at the | time of Colonel Crofut's funeral. Captain ! Moore punished his men to the extent of the ' law for this misdemeanor, and as a result a number of the company have refused to at ! tend the drills, and disaffection is general. A little four -year-old grandson of Andrew | Wood, of Wauregan, was missed on Thurs | day morning. Earnest search was made in l the woods near the house without avail. It \ was thought he might have fallen into the I river, and the pond was dragged and the \ ! afternoon the little fellow was found in the E woods about mile from his home, very { much exhausted clothes torn and little legs | scratched by the briars, but otherwise all right.
 There is probability of social sensation ! in the city soon. Rumor has it that mar ! ried man in the government employ was con- \ siderably confused by visit from Europe ! an wife with ffteen-year- daughter to I the domicile which has for years been presid- ! ed over by an American wife. It is added that the prosecuting officer of the city will be I made officially cognizant of the facts to-day. New London Telegram. Charles Corning, New London man who lost a valuable pair of spectaeles last week, ! took the most sensible means of finding | them. MT. Corning advertised his loss, and ! the next morning the missing spectacles \ were found-in his pocket. The Essex cornet band gave Sheriff John l. Hutchingson, of that town, serenade Friday I evening. After rendering some choice music members of the band were invited to partake \ of refreshments