Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-27
STATE NE WIS.

Miss Daisy Upham, daughter of Colonel G.
L. Upham of Meriden, arrived home from
| Smith college Tuesday noon. Miss Upham
is graduate of Hartford High school.
The Wilcox block, Southington, which
| was damaged by fire in January, is nearly
ready to be occupied. Henry Peck, who
broke his leg at the time of the fire, is able
| to get around the house.
Nick Conway, of Southington, and P.
| Meany, of New Haven, have arranged to
| dance clog reel and Irish jig for purse of
| 500 to take place in Southington on April
| 10th.
! The United Merry Twelve, of Southington,
are to give ball at the Casino in April.
| M. N. Woodruff, of Southington, has of
fered to remove the building standing di-
| rectly back of his hall on Main street and
| lease the ground to the fire department as
| site for the proposed new hose house, the
lease to run ten years at rental of $40 per
annum, at the end of ten years the ground
| to be released at $50 per year. The fire
marshals have not yet acted upon the propo-
| sal of Mr.. Woodruff.
The employees of w. G. Harding & Cos.
| extensive wooden mills struck in Stamford
| Wednesday for the restoration of 10 per
| cent. reduction made last fall. The pro-
prietors claim to have run all winter at loss
| to keep their hands employed and will not
yield.
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| members of the Connecticut Mutual Life In
| suranee company was held Wednesday
in Hartford, General w. B. Franklin
in the chair Directors were
Thomas Sisson, Ebenezer H. Kellogg, Ed
| win S. Tyler, Jacob L. Greene, William B.
| Franklin, Charles NJ Beach, John NJ Tay-
| lor, all of this city; Frank w. Cheney, South
Manchester; James J. Goodwin, New York;
Charles J. Bishop, Boston. The auditors
| were reelected as follows:. E. Wadsworth,
| George w. Parsons and James S. Tryon of
Hartford.
G. T. Preston, of Wellington, has sold the
Deacon Vinton place, owned and occupied
| by Sherman Topliff, to Mrs. Emma Chad
wick, of New Haven, formerly Emma Hunt,
of Hartford.
The Hartford team for this season looks
like strong one and ought to make good
record. Eleven men have been engaged, as
follows: John J. Remsen, of the Hartfords
of 1857, is the equal of any fielder and
base runner in the country and good bat
ter; F. G. Tenney, the pitcher, made his
mark in the Brown university nine; J. o.
Lufberry short stop, filed that position last
year in the Domestics of Newark; Samuel B.
Childs, first baseman, played that position in
the Yales of 1888 without an error
during the intercollegiate series; R. Fl.
Petit, second baseman. and G. Mack,
catcher, both made good records in last
year 8 M6r1QenS; Id2QOen, LnlfQ DaSe-
man, played with the Grand Rapids and
Westield mines last season, and ranks A in
his position; E. Fl. Way comes from Goshen,
N. Y, and is said to be good man both in
the field and at the bat; Henry Gruber, F. j.
Murphy and E. Beecher all played here last
season and are well known to patrons of the
game. The Hartfor6ls will practice vigorous
ly during April, having among other engage
ments one game each with the Boston league
and the Yale University mines the Hart
ford grounds The season of the Southern
New England league opens in ALay.-Hart-
ford Courant.
The Christian Union says it is known that
there some forty Congregational clergy
men in New England who propose, if posi-
BILE, to change their fields of labor before next
July.
Many farmers in New London county have
sent to New York for immigrants whom they
have employed at $40 per month, for the
year. Thus far they are pleased with the
men.
The Washingt, Post learns that Charles
R. Baldwin, of the Waterbury American, is
likely to succeed A. B. Mygatt national
bank examiner.
The Bridgeport health officer goes from
house to house inspecting their interiors, to
see about the drainage.