Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
STATE NEWS.

George Gould, 60, employed in H. D.
 Rolph's factory in Stamford, was picked up in the road by the factory with his head smashed. It is supposed he was assaulted. He will probably die.
 While the sloop Ellen lay at anchor on Monday four miles off Stratford, tug with three barges in tow passed, just clearing the sloop: the first barge struck her, the second missed and the third struck her. She was left with three feet of water on deck, her boats broken loose by the collision and the vessel sinking in forty feet of water. The tug passed on and the men on the Ellen were rescued by the oyster steamer o. H. Rowe. They do not know the mama of the tug, but hope to learn it and make matters warm for it's owners.
 A kitten in the house of Martin Finley, of Birmingham, plays daily with 8 number of young skunks, the same as if the skunks were kittens. The mother skunk has lived for year or more under MT. F1nleys barn. Captain Geer, of steamer Block Island, devoted part of Sunday to searching for the rock that tore hole in the steamer last week, He sounded all along in every direc- tion. and the most shallow place he found at half tide was thirteen feet. The injury was ! probably done by spur of rock, which can be found only by sweeping.
 The Bridgeport News tells on the authority of Prosecuting Attorney J. C. Chamberlain a N 8 attention. In brief it is this: MT. Chamber lain fed during the winter four quail which became quite tame There were three males and one female in the family. When spring came the male birds fought until two were | killed. The surviving male and the female mated. The female laid sixteen eggs, but declined to sit. Then the cock undertook ! to brood the eggs, but as often as he left the nest the hen would roll the eggs | out, and in this operation, often re- peated, six eggs were broken. From this ' point the story in the News goes on thus: ! Every time that the male found some of the eggs displaced on his return to the nest he rolled them back where they belonged. His excited actions showed that this tampering with his charge distressed and angered him. | The displacement by the female and restora- ! ton by the male of the eggs went on for about week. Then the female bird sud denly and mysteriously disappeared. What became of her is not known. but MT. Cham berlain strongly suspects that the male bird, ! wrought up to a violent fit of rage by her obstructive and unwifely tactics, set upon her and killed her. After she dlsap- peared his task of incubation met with no | further obstacles, and a few days ago infant quail emerged from six of the ten eggs that remained to him. Those which did not I hatch probably became addled from the ! rouph way they were treated by the female. The father is very proud of his young brood and treats them with true maternal affection and the most devoted regard l for their physical needs and general comfort. It is a very peculiar case and, 1t the story | were vouched for by one whose veracity was l not SO unouestioned as that of MT. Chamber | lain. might be open to doubt. MT. Cham berlain says, however, that the statements | above related are strictly true, the whole
 having come under his personal onseryatlon. | He took great interest in the quail colomsts | from the time they settled on his place and l has since watched their movements down to ! the latest phase of the drama.
 l MT. Herbert Wells, the yardmaster at the | Morgan street station in Hartford. was struck | by train there Wednesday morning and | received painful but not dangerous injuries. | His nose was broken and his head badly | cut
 Minded articles are being written to prove l Charles Stuart Tobias Walport, of Danbury, l a lineal descendant of King James III of | Scotland.
 A noted fisherman in Danbury claims to have settled the long-mooted question of | whether fishes have the sense of smell. It IS | well known that they possess acutely the | sense of hearing and seeing, tasting and feel ing. probably. He found a school of perch,
 and threw in a number of different kinds ot
 tempting bait, but all to no purpose. He ther
 took one of the principal kind used-angle
 worms, and covered with the salts of rhod1
 um, and cast the bait into the water. I'm
 mediately no less than dozen went for tht
 savory morsel.
 | D. W. Thral1, agent for the Humane socie
 ty at Hartford, demanded of veterinary
 surgeon Monday the privilege of inspecting
 | the beasts he was factoring. The surgeon
 gave him fifteen minutes to get out, ane
 Thrall failing to go then was landed in tn
 street by force. The surgeon has now de
 manded of the society to take measures t
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