Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-03-26

Jessie Smith, Q well known resident of
West Norwalk died suddenly of heart disease
last Sunday night, in the SD year of his age
His funeral was attended Wednesday from
the chapel in West Norwalk, Revs. Clapp and
Selleck officiating. Six of his grandsons acted
as pail bearers. Deceased was member of
Harmony lodge, New Canaan, and the inter-
ment took place in that town with Masonic
honors.
Speaking of the very large whale recently
reported captured by the Lizzie p. Simmons
of New London, the Nautical Gazette says
@''When we were in the whaleship Junior,
Captain Tinkham, of New Bedford, in 1915
9, and while in the Arctic, the second season
of the great Bowhead whale catch, we took
whale that slowed in $40 barrels of oil.
The whales jaw was hoisted on deck and the
entire crsw-thirty in number-crowded in
between the buoy sides. Two hundred bar
rel whales were by no means uncommon In
those DAYS in the Arctic" The whale of the
recent item was not said to be the largest but
the most profitable on record. It brought in
! all about $40 The yield of oil was 1853
| barrels.
The Norwlk Gazette says: The expectancy
| of new railroad near here at West Norwalk,
or some other cause, has made a boom in
real estate and on April LIST many changes
| will be made. Mr.. E. Benedict has pur-
chased and will occupy the Henry Davis place.
Mrs. Ira N. Shepherd has purchased the F. A.
Selleck place and has taken possession. Nego-
tiations are pending for the sale Of the J. 81.
Raymond place. Charles Mather has pur-
chased building lot on his fathers home
stead and viii build house George Mather
builds house on the 81. B Mather property.
Mrs Baker removes to the Hall homestead,
and Stanly SilIiman will soon occupy the old
Henry johnson place. Mr.. and Mrs. Keyser
remove to the Hathaway house. Mr.. White
will probably occupy the Selleck house and
! farm.
correspondent says in the New York
| Evening Post:-The Inauguration this year
of the department of history and political
science, which is the form that part of the
bequest of the late Colonel Northam has
taken, calls to mind the interesting fact that
Trinity college was the first of American
colleges to introduce the study of political
science into the academic curriculum, pro-
lessor of agriculture aud political economy
having been elected in 1924. In those days
the college was possessed of a botanic gar
den, IN which the fora of nearly all parts OF
| the world were represented, which accounts
for the professorship of agriculture. In
| this new department, aside from the instruc-
ton by lectures and otherwise under the
| resident professor, Mr.. Ferguson, the course
provides several series of lectures by non-res-
idents, a number of which are now being
delivered Bishop Williams lectures each
Friday throughout the year to the seniors on
ancient history and the history of the holy
Roman empire, and to the juniors on English
l history and that of the United States. State
Attorney Hamersley is to give a course of
lectures to the seniors on constitutional law
| and the constitution of the United States, and
| a series has also been provided for this year
| by men actually engaged in the administra'
| ton of government affairs, on the science OF
administration and the public service.