Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-16
STATE NEWS.

1 The Rev. Thomas A. Davis, pastor of the 1 Lynn African Methodist church, is spending his vacation in Hartford. where he is well
 known. He is securing funds for the school
 at Due West, S. C., which is in charge ot l his son, the Rev A. G. Davis. The latter is | a graduate of Lincoln university and mem
 Der of Fairfield Presbytery, which is mostly 1 made up of young colored men from that in ] stitution who doing an educational and | religious work on the border line between | North and South Carolina. The Rev. Dr. Grier, president of Erskine college, appears ! as one of the indorsers of the Due West school MT. Davis will preach at Pearl street 1 African church Sunday night.
 | Charles M Winchester, of Salem, found 1 his wagon run out from the shed few | mornings ago, but supposed it was only the ] work of mischievous boys. A day or two | later his horse, harness and wagon were gone It seems that the thieves took down the fence and drove the team out back of the
 barn and through the lots so as to not pass near the house. The same night s. c. Hall at Gardner's lake, lost a harness, two blank
 cts and whip. No clue has yet been ob- tained
 Last spring c. H. Larned, of Stafford
 Springs. shot dentist named Smith for sup
 posed intimacy with Larned's wife. Smith
 was merely wounded and Larned is now
 under bonds for trial Now there is another
 chapter to the story. Mrs. Larned went by herself to New London and worked at dress making. Tuesday MT. Larned made up his mind to visit his wife. He found she had gone on an excursion and waited for her in her room She did not return till 1:30 Wednesday morning. Then she had a man with her and MT. Larned after remaining hidden a short time felt that he had sufficient ground for carrying away the mans clothes, which he did and handed them over to the police Then the officers visited the house, but the man had gone, wearing as was learned from some who saw him in the street very scanty amount of female cloth ing. Nr. Larned will not prosecute but will sue for divorce.
 The late Rev N. D. Bently, of Norwich after leaving what he believed to be the 1 greater part of his estate to his heirs and 1 benevolent objects, desired that the residue 1 be used in erecting monument to his mem l ory It is now said that the residue, after 1 the legacies have all been paid, will amount | to s1O,OOO.
 David Morley, for many years judge of | probate for the town of Lyme, was buried 1 Wednesday. He was seventy years of age.
 A starfsh measuring fourteen inches has been caught at Stony Creek, and is said to | be the largest ever seen there.
 The first suit against the Wallingford Gas | company for damage to trees by leakage of | gas has been brought by James H. Holmes | and wife. |
 MT. Sturges Whitlock having been present ed by his father, John Whitlock, Esq, with | a fine barometer tried it a day or two since | on journey up the Naugatuck road. At | Seymour the instrument marked fifty feet l above sea level, High Rock 100, Waterbury | 200, Thomaston 280, Litchfeld Station 400, | Torrington 500, Winsted 625 and Norfolk 1 100 These figures are probably approx | imately correct.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 There was found floating sideways in the | river at ThompsonviIle Wednesday evening a canoe which had no occupant. The canoe | was brought to shore and there recognized as the property of Edward o. Reed, of 9S Quin cy street, Springfield, Mass, twenty-eight years of age. In it were two coats, one of which belonged to MT. Reed and the other to his business partner, J. J. Gibbons. It is presumed that Reed had been canoeing on the river and that his boat overturned. His relatives in Thompsonville were visited, but IS they had heard nothing of him it is sup posed that he was drowned.