Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-26
STATE NEWS.

The loss by the late fire at Oakwood Hotel will be 5000.
 Congressman and ex-Senator Eaton speaks at Newark next Wednesday night.
 On and after October g the Hartford and New York boats will leave Hartford at p. m.
 The Waterbury soldiers monument will be unveiled October 23d The oration will be by Senator o. H. Platt, and Governor Waller and his staff are expected. Invitations will be sent to the Governors of the New Eng land States, to the Second regiment and to many prominent individuals.
 Alonzo Anderson, of Windsor, who mur- dered his child and has been confined in jail since the crime, is reported to be seriously ill of typhoid fever. negTo's love for water melon is supposed to be the cause of his ill., ness.
 William Coughlin, who was recently com mitted to New London jail as tramp, has had an apopletie fit in his cell and was in jured by falling to the floor. His right side is paralyzed and he is in very critical con dition.
 During the thunder storm Tuesday morn ing chimney of the Holland silk mill at Willimantic was struck by lightning, and some damage was done to the roof by falling brick. Otherwise there was no injury
 Lyman Fenn, eighty-three years old, of Roxbury, fell and broke his hip recently. He is very low.
 The Rev. Albert U Stanley, of Warehouse Point, has resigned the rectorship at St. Johns Episcopal church and accepted call to parish in Webster, Mass. David WPlumb of Shelton, former resi- dent of Bridgeport, has given his check to | the Bridgeport Hospital association for S5,- ! 600 for the purpose of endowing free bed. | The income from this amount will provide l for the perpetual care of one sick person
 Mrs. T. o. Maine and her daughter, Mrs. | Newton, of North Stonington, were brutaly assaulted by two drunken men while driv- ing at Pawcatuck on Monday. Assistance I arrived in time to protect them from severe injury, however:
 1 William Blake, while stealing apples on the farm of Mir. Hetchkiss, in Prospect, on Monday, received charge of buekshot in the sback of his head from Hotchkiss' gun. Dr. | North removed the shot, which caused only l slight wounds.
 J. H. Emerson, of Ansonia, one of the pro- | prietors of the Sentinel, has taken the man | agement of the business department of the 1 Philadelphia Chronicle Herald. Joseph Tom | linson, of Shelton, takes his place in Anso- nia.
 | A harvest festival is to be held in the Ken 1 sington Town hall October list. The after 1 noon will be devoted to the exhibition of 1 live stock and to athletic sports near the hall, and the evening to display of fruits, 1 vegetables, flowers and fancy work, and to a | musical and literary entertainment. k. A. l Morse is president of the organization, L. J. Peck and P. Cornwall, vice-presidents; The ron Upson, secretary and treasurer. Exhib- its are desired from all parts of the town.
 The season for boarders in Litcefeld is
 nearly over. The Lake View closes this
 week, we hear.
 Mr. Seth HurIbut, of Litchfeld, killed 8
 coon on Wednesday last that weighed little
 over 19 pounds.
 The heirs of the late Gideon Perry, ot
 Litchfe1d, have sold his place near the East Mill to Bartlett LaYin. T Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, of Litchfeld, has
 sold Joseph 0. Lamphier about 20 acres o1
 land about two miles northwest of the court
 house.
 MT. William H. Plumb, of Litchfeld, hal ! sold his farm of about seventy acres about
 two miles west of the village to Mrs, Julia D ) Ripley, of New York City. Dea. w L. Goodwin, of Harwinton, ha- refused an offer of $50 for Jersey heife calf two days old. Fred Capel's little fve-year-old son in liar
 winton was kicked in the face by a hors
 last Friday and nearly killed. It is the sam boy whose hand was so badly eaten by pig last spring.
 Mrs. William Roberts, long time ant P highly esteemed resident of New Milford r died September 18th, aged 94 years.