Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-10
STATE NEWS.

George H. Barber, formerly of Collinsville, was recently nominated for Mayor of De- troit.
 The gross receipts of the armory fair in Bridgeport last week foot up $5, 900; the ex- penses were $1 800. Josiah N Hubbard, representative-elect from Middletown, has served one term in the Kansas State Senate.
 The Rev. J. H. Chapin, of Meriden, has de- c1ined a second call to the First Congrega tional church in Erie, Pa.
 Harry Hall and William Trask, two Wa terbury clerks, have been missing for week. They had little money when last seen.
 Cider manufacturers around Hazardville have filed all available casks, and refuse to take any more apples with or without mon ey.
 Mrs. H. D. Smith and daughter, of Plants vile, will spend the winter in Georgia. MT. Smith will accompany them, but will not re- main long.
 Charles Smythe, of Southport, is in jail on charge of bigalny and perjury. The per jury was in support of his proposition that he had only one wife.
 The Bridgeport schooner Little Charlie, lying at the Essex dock, took fire Saturday night and the cabin was gutted. A child two years old was burned to death.
 Mir. John F. O'Neil, for about two years past connected with the Hartford Telegram as city or night editor, has gone to New York to enter journalism in that city. Timothy Houran, of Thompsonville, has pocket and foul play is feared. Men are at work dredging the river for his body. J. Edgar, the twelve year old son of w. H. Giles of Meriden, who has been ill with ty phoid malaria for some time. died Sunday The funeral will take place at 10 o'clock to- day.
 A series of entertainments for members of the Hartford Young Mems Christian associa- tion have been arranged, the first coming November 1S The series closes May 9th with members social.
 Charles E. Morehouse, of Sharon Valley, is accused of manufacturing cider brandy without fully complying with the United States laws the subject. He claims that he believed that he was conforming to all re- quirements.
 A bloodhound belonging to William Beaunworth, proprietor of the Lion brewery in East Bridgeport, bit MT. Beaunworth s two-year-old little girl in a fearful manner Sunday. The child's face was badly lacer- ated. The dog was killed. The funeral services of the late Mrs. Mary E. Taylor, wife of Henry M. Taylor of Meri- den, were held at 2 o'clock yesteld day after noon from the residence of Mrs. Taylor's father, Wm. H. Golden, 589 East Main street, Meriden. Rev. J. H. Breckenridge of ficiated.
 The case of John Ebbs, the Bridgeport drug clerk who has been under $1 300, bonds for trial for manslaughter, has been nolled- Ebbs was charged with putting up a solu- tion of morphine of more than ordinary strength and causing the death of Mrs. Hackett.
 Jeremiah Dooley, 8 young man of twenty years, was killed at Middletown on Saturday night by the Il o'clock Air Line railroad freight train. He was walking towards his home on the railroad track and was intoxi- cated. He was killed outright, both legs be- ing cut off just below the hips and other parts of his body were horribly mangled. Wright's river bridge at Westbrook tum- bled iu Sunday night in the storm. This bridge has given the town authorities more trouble since the town was organized than all | the other bridges combined. We never meet l a man from that way after a little storm but ] what we expect to hear him say, Bridge is down again. n."-Connecticut Valley Adyer- tiser.