Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-04
STATE NEWS.

The damage to David Lonagan's brick fac
 tory in Meriden was about $1O,000
 Burglars entered the house of James Law
 Ter of Windsor Locks. Sunday night and car
 ried off several valuable articles.
 Mrs. Patrick Morrissey, of New London,
 has given birth to triplets, all girls. The
 mother and family are doing well.
 O. M Lewis, the Yale'olass poet of 1885,
 is brother of J. M. Lewis, class poet of 1888,
 and they are the sons of c. T. Lewis, class
 poet of 1853.
 Orville Douglass, an aged resident of Suf
 field, belonging to family connected with
 the early navigation of the Connecticut river,
 died Sunday.
 The Rev. MT. Hunt, formerly of Mystic
 and now involved in divorce proceedings,
 has, it is said, given up theology and will
 study law in Dakota.
 William Davis, a brakeman on the New
 England road, was killed at Danbury on Sun
 day by being knocked from his car it
 passed under bridge and then crushed by
 ten cars.
 John Campbell, the Hartford boy who
 shot Charles O'Neil through the cheek last
 week. has been held for trial before the Su-
 perior court on the charge of assault with in tent to kill.
 The Rev. 0. H. Oliphant, for some years the very popular pastor of the Mystic Con gregational church, was on Thursday last in stalled at the Congregational church in Methuen, Mass.
 for in Middletown yesterday were as follows: Republican, Josiah M. Hubbard and George
 M. Southmavd; Democratic, Henry S. Steele and Captain John Carroll; Prohibition, Wanton H. Sherman and George W. Board man.
 Woodstock had 8 swell old-fashioned husking recently. Guests came from Boston iv,ui ito&ir tad on corn husks, the grounds lighted by the pumpkin jack-o'lanterns and 225 bushels of corn husked. An old-fashioned "shake- down" followed.
 East Bridgeport was to have had a we'd ding few days ago, but few hours before the ceremony was to come off the bride groom, Louis Rebstock, disappeared. He was heard from Friday in Ohio, and said he was disappointed in the young woman at the ! last moment and concluded to skip out. The Rev. P. Byron of Portland, formerly l assistant to Father Fleming, has been sent | to Bridgeport, the Rev. J. Connolly, ! formerly assistant to Father Mallon of Fleming of Portland; the Rev. John Crow ! ley of Willimantic, has been sent to assist Father Mallon at Wallingford. Several New Haven Catholics attended the \ fair of St. Jerome church, Holyoke, last ! week. Father Harkins, of St. Jerome church, ! expressed his satisfaction with the result of the fair to his people Sunday. The gross re- ! ceipts amounted to $6,6O0 and after the ex- penses are all paid about $6, 200 will be left, | which will go toward paying for enlarging ! and improving the church. Judge Shipman of the United States ! court has handed down an order authorizing | the New York & New England railway com pany to issue not to exceed &, 2,O00, ,000 of preferred stock at par, the proceeds to go to c. P. Clark, receiver, and be by him paid to ! such creditors as the company may direct, the company having the right to give pref erence to certain creditors. Newton Pomeroy of Somers, who missed his horse and carriage that he had left stand ing in the dooryard Saturday, and who gave chase after the supposed thief into this State without success, after returning home to I rouse the neighbors found his horse quietly standing few rods from where he left it. MT. Pomsroy is now preparing grand treat for the whole town, which is laughing at hin. Adolph Rawitzer, of the firm of Rawitzer Brothers, woolen manufacturers, Stafford Springs, and J. P. Platt, of Meriden, have been appointed trustees of the claims of Connecticut creditors of the Willow Dale Manufacturing company, that aggregate $1OO, 900. This company has gone into bankruptcy in Mass sachusetts, and an at ! tempt is being made to force it into bank ruptcy in Connecticut. The Connecticut assets of the company are about $15 ,00O and
 its liabilities $5O0,O00.
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