Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-08
STATE NEWS.

The former residence of MT. F. Sedgwick, Stratford, now occupied as a faith home by f the Rev. Arthur Sloan, will be closed as such ' next week and the remaining patient will de- part. This ends the faith cure as far as | Stratford is concerned, as MT. Sloan is to connect himself with Boston institution, ! where faith is used in cases where 1t is ap- ! plicable and medicine when required, which seems to be a rational manner of cure. f The veterans of the Fourteenth 0. V. are \ anticipating a pleasant reunion at Clinton, ! September IT, Free return tickets are to be | issued by the nso1idated road, and Bridge port will probably send large delegation. l Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has taken rooms at the Bassett House. Birmingham, for a few | weeks soiourn, her father and mother, MT. ! and Mrs. George Kellogg, accompanying her. I The Hour proposes that Norwalk and South \ Norwalk fire departments unite this fall in I giving a parade that shall eclipse all former 1 events of the kind.
 John Bentley, of North Stonington, while suffering intense pain, requested his wife to | inject morphine into his arm, passing her a ! bottle by mistake containing tincture of cam ! phor, which she injected into his arm and | failing to relieve his pain she repeated the | operation on both legs before the mistake was discovered. MT. Bentley's condition is considered as serious by his friends, the ! limbs having swollen badly, causing great pain, but it is hoped it will not prove fatal. Grand Army men from Sheffield, Ashley I Falls, Canaan and Falls Village will visit
 Bridgeport to-day.
 Those eggs which Mr. Crane found in his sand bank he designed to put back and watch the result of the matching, being under the inn pression that they were turtle eggs. Curios- ity led him to open one of them, when 0 young adder nearly six inches long wriggled forth. The project of leaving the eggs in the bank to be matched was immediately abandoned.- Danbury News.
 Albert Beighton, an employe at the Htna works, New Britain, was knocked senseless while at work Friday by being hit on the head with heavy iron pulley. He IS at tended by Dr. Co1nings, who thinks his pros poets for complete recovery are good.
 Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, of Stamford, has given $1 ,000 to the American association for the advancement of science. The announce ment of this gift was made at meeting of the society held in Philadelphia on Thurs day.
 Lester & Wolsey, Norwich firm of ma chinists, stopped their employees as they were going to work Thursday morning and told them to get ready for an excursion to Lyle's beach which was done to the satisfaction of everybody concerned.
 The remains of the three-months' old child of L. H. Carter, Plainville, were brought
 
 where it died of cholera infantum after brief illness The funeral occurred to-day at 1 o'clock The parents will have the sin cere sympathy of the community in the loss of this their fifth child. Mir. and Mrs. Bur we'll Carter, the grandparents, and MT. and Mrs. L. Carter, parents of the children, wish to express their deepest feelings of gratitude and heartfelt thanks to the cottagers of Sa- chem's Head for their tender sympathy and most untiring assistance during the hours of sickness, watching and sorIow. Without ex- ception they feel that friendly hands sought every opportunity to tighten their grievous burden and share their sorrow. To the peo- pie of Plainville, who have remembered their afiiction by kind deeds and sympathy, they wish to extend the same feelings of re- gard. Waterbury American, 9th.
 Isaac Clarke, colored man who has passed the last fifty years in the New Haven aims house, claims to have been born at Montauk Point in 1878, which would make his age one hundred and six years. He followed the water, sailing on coasting vessels and whalers until he was ffty-six years of age, and then, being broken down physically, found refuge in the almshouse, where he has since remained.
 Thomas Hogan was badly burned at Miller Brothers shop, Meriden, Saturday morning. A pot of hot resin tipped over and both hands were terribly burned. Dr. Otis attend ed him.