Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-17
STATE NEWS.

Rev. William Brown, pastor of the Sum-
merfeld NJ E. church in West Stratford, will
remain with the society another year.
Mr.. Charles P. Coe and wife, of Bridge
port, are in Florida.
Mile. Aimee, the human fly" walks the
ceiling at the American Theatre, Hartford,
this week.
A well-to-do Derby woman of seventy
five, it is reported is soon to wed blooming
young man of only twenty.
The armless colored boy, late with Bun
nell's Museum, is to be exhibited in Seymour
this week.
Rev. DR.. Phelps preached yesterday at the
Baptist church in Bristol
H c. Butler, of Bristol, starts for the New
Orleans exposition to. day.
Charles A. Mason, chief postofice clerk in
Waterbury, and Miss Josie E. Fisher, of
Morris, were quietly married at the residence
of Dr.. Kelsey in Waterbury Saturday. The
Rev. J. L. Peck, of the M. E. church, Off
ciated.
Ex-senator Plunkett, of New Haven, has
| asked to have further consideration given to
his bread bill. It is not to regulate raising
bread as reported yesterday, but to regulate
its sale. The yeast cake raises the bread
gardless of any statutes but those of nature.
Hartford Courant.
Horace Humphrey, of Norfolk, aged rs, was
buried on Friday. He died in the same
house i'll which he was born rs years ago.
His son, George Humphrey, resides in Win
sted
wanted to marry the New York girl burglar,
is reported visiting the Norwich Jail,
where he seemed to think he might find a
wife to his taste. He does not seem to
have been admitted to the women's ward
and so lost his journey.
Thursday is the twenty first anniversary
of the establishment of the. Knights of
Pythias in the United States. 1t will be
quite generally observed.
David Beecher, an old resident of Hunting
ton, suddenly died Saturday afternoon at
o'clock
Mrs. Hadnah Lord, of Riversville Green
wich), was found burned to death in her
house Thursday morning. She was alone in
the house and nothing in the circumstances
gave clear intination of the cause of the
accident.
Henry Fitzgerald, the New York World
reporter who was recently killed, was former
ly resident of Danbury, and while there de-
cided to study for the ministry. He gave it
up on account of money difficulties and went
into newspaper work.
New London had eighty-nine vessels that
come within the provisions of the French
spoliation bill.
The annual legislative visit to the Middle
town hospital for the insane will occur next
Thursday.
The Cromwell depot of the Meriden rail-
road is nearly completed.
Charles Hatch, patient in the hospital
for the insane, died on Friday His remains
were taken to Hartford for burial.
Michael Brown fell under a car in the New
England railroad yard Saturday night and
was nearly killed.
New London police are vexed because the
police committee let their prisoners off in the
morning without trying them.
James NJ. Meach, ex-cashier of the Mer-
chants bank at Norwich has settled with
those to whom he was personally indebted
on the basis of fifty cents on the dollar. The
stockholders of the bank are to decide on
March 10 whether to assess the shares sufE-
GENTLY to make up the capital or to go into
voluntary liquidation. It is said that during
the past eight years four Norwich banks have
lost half million dollars by poor loans and
dishonest officials.
PROFESSOR J. c. LEHARDY, NJ D.,
President State Medical Society of Georgia,
Member Athonee Royal de Bruxelle, ETC.,
etc, says: ''The results obtained by me from
Liebig Co.'S Coca Beef Tonic in my practice
are indeed fiattering." Invaluable in paraly-
sis, dyspepsia, debility, catarrh and bilious
ness fe17 3teod&1tw