Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-05
STATE NEWS.

Commencement week at Trinity college, Hart ford opens the Fist Tuesday is class day and eleven
 saS will fiji two vseSnt nrofessorshins st their meeting. The Trinity college sophomores cremated andy tics Tuesday night.
 which is being established there by the Schuyler edmPeRs ed PFsssiden 0e NorPhrep; % ~ secretary J. P. Stowe; treasurer, c. R. Lewis; directors, Dr Austen.
 The Bridgeport aldermen and common counci played six innings of base ball at P. T. Barnum' $ grounds Wednesday for the benefit of the Barthold fund The score was: Aldermen 47, Council 34
 Mayor H. H. Pyle off1ciated umpire:
 Captain H. P. Goddard of the old Fourteenth c ". formerly of Hartford, but of Baltimore
 has been making a brief visit in Hartford. tural school, sails for Germany Saturday, June 20. for trip of three months. Judge Lawrence, of New York; has opened the default of Nathaniel Sands and permits him to de duce the amount of the attachment have been unsuccessful. Sands is still at Nor walk.
 Mir Sherman Hart has left for the West, expect ing to go to work in Kansas City. Messrs Samuel
 and Robert E. Stone. formerly of Guilford, have sent for MT. Hart.
 MT Theodore Thomas has rented for the summer house in Madison, and Guilford is almost jealous
 of the fortune of her sister town in the prospect she has of so distinguished resident. Dr. Charles Sweet of Lebanon one of the family
 of bonesetters is trial at the Superior court
 in Holland for alleged malpractice in setting an arm
 plaintiffs have Dr. William Breck of Springfield al expert on Wednesday.
 The widow of Colonel Charles L. Russell being quite seriously ill at Bridgeport it was thought proper that the beautiful memorial wreath con tributed by Russell post of Birmingham to hel husbands grave should be sent to her. Upon go ing to the cemetery, on Monday to get 1t for thai purpose, it was found to have been stolen. Miss Nellie Wooster, daughter of Mr. L. T. Woes ter of Seymour, formerly of Ansonia has beer
 elected president of the class of S6 at Vassar col lege. The choice was unanimous one, being the first time in the history of that institution that such an honor was conferred. Miss Wooster has been at Vassar for three years, having been pre- pared at the Birmingham High school.
 A Litchf1eld man saw large and beautiful bird on his land the other day, and never having seen such bird before, he for his gun and killed it. Mrs. Ripley, who lives about two miles distant wants him to pay the value of her lost peacock.
 The following is a list of the officers of the An sonia and Birmingham horse railroad: President Lewis Hotchkiss; secretary and treasurer, Albert ter, David Torrance, Lewis Hotchkiss and wm. B Wooster.a
 The Valley Sentinel says: Rev. Charles W. Shel ton arrived home Saturday eVening from 6 months trip and visit among the Dakota Indians
 both civilized and savage, in the interests of the with him a number of Indian curioSities both useful and ornamental One was the ball dress of the wife of chief (of whom he purchased itl and it ii covered with various scenes in the warke exploits as well as having been several times wounded The dress is made of plain cloth with short sleeves anC otherwise very little ornamentation, and is sus pended, when wOrn from the neck and shoulders There were bow and quiver of arrows,a large an6 handsome pipe, necklace of animals teeth. wal