Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-28

yard of Huntingtc n street residence recent Iy when young tw O. year old of the house with maritime proc uN1tles set tin milk pail afloat in it. Next snne thirsty fantail. pig con the pride of a neighbours flock, which perched on the edge 6H the milk pail and leaned over to wet hi whistle with the wa ter in the bucket; bl 1t Isaac Newton's law asserted itself, the p, uL careened with the weight of the pigeo n, and caught the birds neck between the edge and the side of the bucket I'm. young duffer fairly shrieked with delight as he saw the futter- ing tail of the hisa stick ng up over the edge of the bucket, and his une 'ther, coming to see what new deviItry he had invented, was just in time to save the poor antail from sud den and unprovidsd dei sth.-New London Telegraph.
 INTE INT TO KILL. Mrs. Helen Breen- of Bridgeport, has been arrested on charge of assault with intent to kill There was 8 vi jVolent row in which, ap- tarently she did all the could to finish Thom- as Langdon.
 STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. In Litchfield Monday night the house op- uosite Mir Starr's on Chestnut hill, occupied bv MT Morse, treasurer of the Echo Farm company, was struck by lightning. The cupants were all away aEaS no great damage was done to the honse-
 FAT MANS MARTHA L TROUBLES. A few years ago William Perkins, of Wa terbury, ex-president of the Connecticut Fat Mems association, who has tipped the scales at 360 pounds or whereabouts, mar ried girl almost much under the ordl- nary size as he greatly exceea1s 1t. During the past year their marital life has been more or less cloudy. Their matrimonial in felicities were aired in Waterbury's police court day or two ago. The diminutive wife remarked that her husbands conduct toward her was f'like Jumbo fighting mos- duito," and Perkins alleged that his wife was given to calling him 8 tub of adj pose tissue. He denied assaulting his wife, and paoduced from one of his capaclous pockets section of 8 young quarry, carefully done up in huge brown paper bag, which he ass .erted she had hurled at him with dire intent, evidently on his destruction bent. The Republican says that Judge Bradstreet shuddeEed his eyes fell on the granite, and he acquitted Willard on the spot.
 ALL THE OLD wRECKs.
 Captain T. A. Scott is about to remove all the old wrecks along the harboE shores.- Norwich Bulletin.
 RAGS AND CHOLERA.
 The sanitary committees of New York are having quite time over 776 b ales of rags from Caltima, Sicily, by the bark Fillippo, to be reshipped to this place for the Chelsea Paper company. The health officer declines to let them leave New York beft Ire they have been disinfected. MT. Augustine Smith, president of the Chelsea Paper com pany, was present at the meeting of the quarantine commissio: ners Monday and was asked to give his opin ion regarding the effect upon rags of the superheated steam process of disintection> He said the steam injured the rags by making them damp so that they became mildewed. He would not buy any steamed rags unless he was obliged to. He thought that the steam disinfecting process damaged the rags any where from $5 to $10 ton. Mir. Smith said that he had handled res s for thirty or forty years, and he never kne of any con- tagious disease breaking out in paper mill. He had never disinfected his rags, and i'm porters had never been requir ed to disinfect his rags by the health authorities at this port prior to Dr. Smiths time- MT. Smith said: sI have carefully investie ;ated this sub feet and am satisfied that case of cholera was ever conveyed into any paper mill in this country or in Europe by rags" The com missioners have not yet rendered their de- cision-Norwich Bulletin.
 The lightning struck on the farm of Chas. Naples on Wauwecus hill, Monday evening, and killed seven sheep in his pasture.-Nor- wich Bulletin.