Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-31
STATE NEWS.

Waterbury has increased the salary Of the Mayor from $500 to $1 900 year. Postmaster H. N Wales of Willimantio is expected to assume his new duties January 1st.
 Stamford is to have a new weekly paper making four in all. It is to be called the News.
 Albert Parkess of Hartford, 12, was drown ed yesterday afternoon while skating 2 pond in Parkville. Charles Coupland, of Seymour, has been granted patent for roll for drawing and spinning machines. pointed chairman of the committee on pat ents by Speaker Carlisle. The reflection of the Hartford electric lights upon the sky is plainly visible from South Coventry section.
 The Thompsonville Grand Army post will hold public installation exercises, followed by supper and ball, January II.
 The Wilmington Congregational church is reported to be $500 in debt to it's lately de ceased pastor, the Rev. o. s. Morris.
 William W. Tomlinson, of Shelton, is en- toying his sojourn at the South. His wife is soon to leave to join him at Jacksonville.
 Many farmers in Cheshire are shipping ap- ples to a mince meat establishment in Phila- ISA SOA~ the cars.
 No candidates for admission to the Nor nal school at New Britain and for State teachers certificates appeared for exannina- ton Monday
 The counsel for John Nymann of Rock vile, recently sent to State prison for life, have been allowed ten days more to file evi- dence for new trial.
 Thomas G. Donovan, foreman in the Douglas foundry at Middletown, has just en- tered his thirty ninth year of continuous ser vice in the establishment.
 Israel F. Brown, Mrs. Edward T. Brown and Mrs. George Colfax, all of New London, left for Macon, Ga, Tuesday. They will re- main away about one month.
 In January the Naugatuck road will pay a semi-ann al dividend of per cent. on $2, GOO, 900 worth of stock, of which $1 ,434, 800 is held in Connecticut by 453 holders.
 Connecticut can boast of being represented in Congress by the oldest man in the House, | John T. Wait, aged seventy-four years. He is the member from the Third district.
 United States Commissioner Marvin was engaged on Tuesday in Hartford taking the dispositions in the suit of the Overman Wheel company vs the Pope Bicycle com pany.
 Mrs. L. A. Durfee, of South Coventry,
 
 to have been of a cancerous nature, baffied the skill of physicians in that section and elsewhere.
 William Hodge, young man who former ly worked at the Pratt street. House in Hart ford was lost at sea eff the coast of Massa- chusetts a few days ago. His parents reside in Collinsville.
 G. s. Hudson of Riverhead, who fell and broke his leg in the culvert naar the Hopson & Chapin works, New London, five weeks ago, was taken to Greenport by the steamer Manhansett, Monday.
 The poem of T. M Warnock, read at the Meriden High school dedication, contained many rich thoughts and was complete his tory of the school-dating from the old Tur- her hall building down to the present time.
 Vice President E. M Reed of the Consoli- dated road was in New London Tuesday in consultation with the common council com mittee with regard to widening the cut at the junction of Howard street and Pequot avenue.
 Dr. Ashabel Woodward, who recently died in Franklin, left a brother, Otis Woodward, residing in Ashford. Another brother, Jo- seph, died quarter of a century ago in Mansfield, where he was engaged in mercan- tile pursuits and was also postmaster.
 In the United States court at Hartford oh Tuesday Judge Shipman handed down his decision i'll the case of the Bradley & Hub bard Manufacturing company vs. the Charles Parker company concerning bill of equity to restrain the defendant from infringing on an improved extension lamp fixture. Judge Shipman dismissed the bill on the ground that the patent claims nothing which the public did not have previously.