Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-08
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 Frederick A. Hart, of Southington, who has spent the past three or four years in Italy and Spain, returned home Friday evening. He left Spain at the approach of the cholera.
 Adolphus Wunder, the Norwich engraver who tried to blow his brains out Saturday night, succeeded only in blowing out his right eye However, inflammation has set in and he may die.
 A Waterbury man named Kilduff recently went about in the night ringing door bells. One house refused to answer the call and he fired several shots into the chamber windows He cannot be found.
 D. s. Sanford, of Bedding, returned last week from tour in Germany. On the voy- age he made the acquaintance of Thomas Hughes and.. secured from him partial prom l ise to lecture.in Stamford next winter. B. Goodmans buckle and brass goods l works of Ansonia, employing nearly 100 | hands, are to be moved to Bridgeport. F. ! T. Barnum will expend $12, ,000 fixing up | 8 building of his as an inducement for the change. l< e- l Andrew Moylan, of New Britain, attend | ed camp meeting Thursday and came home with his skull crushed in. He is not expect ed to recover. Jerry Burke, his companion, has been arrested on suspicion of committing | the assault. Moylan has not been able yet to make statement.
 The Newtown Bee says: "Judge David Belden, as boy, was bound out to the car penters trade in Hattertown. The boy, | full of wild pranks and mischief, took no ! interest in his work but did take interest in cultivating ability to think and speak, and to-day he ranks as one of California's promi- nent jurists."
 Ex-President Arthur after leaving Bridge port went to the Curtis House, Lenox, Mass, | and will remain during September. A num- ! Der of receptions will be given him by cot tagers and probably the Lenox club will ex- ! tend to him bountiful hospitality. But 8 greater expected arrival is President Cleve- l land, who has been invited by Secretary Whitney.
 The will of the late Philo Hurd, of Bridge port, contains legacies as follows: Mrs. Sa- rah M Hurd $1 ,000, Clara H. Durham, Gar rie M. Durham and Jessie r. Dunham Sooo each The remainder of his estate, about $200, ,000, is divided equally among his son, Melancthen M. Hurd of New York city, and his daughters, Mrs. Captain James E. Dun ham and Mrs Caroline M. Meeker. It is ! likely that the estate will be settled without an inventory. --. ..-. Frederick H. Nichols, of Waterbury, writes to the American: EFI read in the American of September that the War department claims that Herbert Fay of Columbia, Ohio, was the youngest soldier in the late war, he having been born September 2, 1848, and enlisted August g, 1862 would like to state was born in Chatham, Conn, June 26, 1S48, and enlisted August 5, 1862, in Company H, Twenty first regiment, c. ", and served three years"
 The grand regatta of the season will come off at Goodspeed's on the 18th inst. The race will be opened to East Haddam round bottomed boats under twenty-six feet. The course, which is two miles long, will be sail ed four times. This is probably the finest course on the river as boats can be seen from any point There will be three classes with prize of ten dollar gold piece for each class. Admission to either class will be only fifty cents, entrance money to be received by the second best boat.
 The races announced for the fall meeting at Stafford Springs are as follows First day. Thursday, October 8, 2:45 class, $15O; 2:28 class, open to trotters and pacers, $2OO; fat race, $10O. Second day, Friday, Octo hurdle race, $1O0; 800 class, $50 pony l race, $50. The entrance fee is 10 per cent. of the purse. The society will furnish barn accommodations and feed for horses free of charge, and the railroads will bring the horses at reduced rates.
 The fall term of the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffeld began Wednesday. A ! large share of the old scholars returned and many new ones are enrolled. Prof. Smith l made anumber of improvements in the build ings during the vacation. Storm doors have
 been put at at tIee east and south entrances, new floors have been laid, two CT the halls newly plastered and the rooms papored Tn | fresco imitation. The platform of the chapel | has been extended and the reading room | thoroughly renovated, while double windows
 have been put in all around the first story of the building