Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-13
STATE NEWS.

Tuesday Naugatuck railroad stock was quoted higher than any other rallroao sIock in the United States.
 "Old Sport" Campana recently drank at Birmingham sixteen ounces or tiie Iilo'uie of Jamaica ginger on oeI.
 The A. D. Clark shuttle company, recent lv bu,.ned out at Woonsocket, are starting business at Putnam, Conn.,
 New Tondon will not have a professional base ball club the coming season, and the proposed ball ground at Osprey Beach has been abandoned.
 Deputy Sheriff Loveland is under arrest for perjury committed in a liquor case 1n the Hartford county Superior court 1aesoay' He pretended to read record from mem orandum book which proved on lnvestlga- tion to be perfectly blank
 The insurance on J. D. Gills art store at Springfield Mass, damaged by ire Weones- day morning, included the following risks in Hartford companies: Phoenix, 5,O0O; Hart ford, ST, 500; Connecticut, S5,625 Secretary Whitney of Cleveland's cabinet frequently visited Somers during the hfet!me | of his grandparents on his mothers side, who lived to be nearly 100 years old Ills mother, a native of the town, was Laurlnoa | Collins until her marriage with General l Whitney, and was daughter of the late | William Collins.
 l MT. Edward Allen, formerly of the drug ! firm of Allen & Sawtelle of Hartford, dled | at his home in Rocky Hill early Wednesday | morning. He was sixty-eight years old ana | was married four times, his last wife, who | was Miss Louise P. Parker, of Harttoro'
 surviving.
 l General s. E. Chamberlain, the newly ap- pointed warden of the State prison, was ln | Hartford Wednesday, Mrs. Chamberlain ac- ! companying him. General Chamberlain IS relieved from asking anyone to go on hls l honds. from the fact that the Hon. David | Clark. who was unacquainted with General | Chamberlain except through his reputation, ! kindly volunteered to be his bondsman.- Courant.
 William H. Edwards has been chosen sec-
 retary of the Smaller & Hall quarry company
 Portland, to fill the vacancy caused by the l death of Charles Henry Sage. For the past hve | wears MT Edwards has been the assistant
 postmaster. Harry Hobson now fills the va
 cant place at the postof1ce.
 A horse and side-bar buggy were stolen
 from the barn of Edward Payne at Windsor
 Tuesday night.
 l A little child of c. Mosher, of Thomaston
 was left alone in the house Tuesday and l having found box of matches, promptly ! made a bonfire of a basket of clothes. Th' l mothers prompt return saved the premise
 and baby.
 The residence of Mrs. Samuel D. Hubbard I Middletown, was entered by burglars Tues day night and robbed of watch and chall
 and other property.
 MT. J. H. Mabbett, formerly editor of tn ! Meriden Press Recorder, IS in Greenheld Mass. Mr Mabbett's two children seri
 ously i'll with inflammation of the lungs, ant
 it is feared they will not recover.
 The contract for the erection of the Slate l memorial hall on the Free academy ground at Norwich was signed on Tuesday Tn
 building is to cost $10O,0OO. Ground vii l be broken and work begun on the building a l soon as the weather will permit. The con
 tract calls for the completion within year The funeral of George Brooks, of Southine !, ton occurred Tuesday afternoon at o'clock , About forty Masons, forty-fve Foresters an twenty members of the Order of St. Georg
 escorted the remains to the Baptist church
 of the church, the Rev. George Sutliff. Mrs c. D. Pierson and Miss Julia Robbins Ter :. | dered music The remains were burle ! with Masonic honors in Oak Hill cemetery. a Wallace North is no longer the tallest ma
 1 in Southington, as Osborne, the New Britai r crockery man. who has opened a store l Q Southington, is six feet seven inches. Q Colonel Joseph Remington, father of Mir t l Henry Allen, of Branford, died at his hon ! l in Jacksonville, Fla, March 1st. He will |
 | remembered by the surviving members ( l | the 17th Connecticut regiment, as Unite n States marshal for the district of Florld q while the regiment were stationed in s : Augustine.
 2 MT. John Morse, of Litchfield, the son ( 2 Representative Asahel Morse, starts for Mort
 | Carolina this week to take charge of a farl
 | there.
 Mrs. Asahel Morse, of Litchfeld, met wit
 l A severe accident two or three days agc F breaking her leg near her thigh.