Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-12
STATE NEWS.

! The Rev. Hugh O. Penteeost and wife are visiting at Dr. Gatling's in Hartford The Waterbury firemen had their annual | inspection and parade on Thursday. The Hartford Menner Chor celebrated | the first anniversary of it's organization last evening.
 Brooklyn's citizens are beginning to call public meetings to consider a proper memo | rial for General Putnam's grave. The articles of association of the Gladden. ! Clothing company of Hartford, with capi- tai of S15,00O, were yesterday filed with the | Secretary of State.
 William Baker, father of Samuel Baker of the New Britain Record, died at his sons res idence on Glen street in that city Thursday afternoon, in his eighty-third year. Herman Spiller, for many years resident of Hartford died on Wednesday evening. He was the proprietor of the hair dressing sa- loon under the State bank for some time and afterwards entered the police force. The premium list of the third annual ex- hibition of the Pennington Valley Agricul- tual corporation at Cherry park September 24-25 is out. There will be races in the BOO, 2:40 and free-fo1-all classes on the sec ond day and 8 bicycle race.
 An unseemly row attended the recent burial at Hartford of young Parry who shot himself in Philadelphia The husband and
 
 ders to take the body from the train to the vault in undertaker's wagon. The wife pleaded for hearse and got it, but was crowded to the rear of the funeral procession. No services were held.
 Mir. Slidell N Porter and Miss Lucy R. Stevens were married in Milford Thursday afternoon at the residence of the bride groom's aunt, Mrs. E. Treat, of 97 Trumbull street. The ceremony was performed in the of ba FniS Rev. MT. Whaley, the bride and groom standing in front of white satin desk trimmed with evergreen.
 The Branford soldiers monument is nearly completed and will be finished before Octo- Der 20. It is built of Westerly granite and will cost $3, 900. The height is thirty feet and the base is seven feet square. Eight battle scenes are depicted on its sides-An- tietam, Fredericksburg, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Newborn, Charlottesville, Vicksburg and Port Hudson. A figure of color sergeant will surmount the monument.
 Judge Stoddard heard at Litchfeld on Wednesday the report of A. T. Roraback, w. w. Smith and Dwight c. Kilbourn, a committee to inquire into the connection of Attorney H. H. Prescott with the escape of James Higgins. The committee, having the statement of Higgins as already printed, found the charges as to furnishing keys not proved. They found immortality and mis conduct ana Judge 0toddafu accepted Ine report and disbarred Prescott.
 At the Bronson family reunion at Quasse-
 paug Lake, Middlebury, Wednesday, Julius
 Bronson, aged eighty, gave an account of the early members of the family. The first male white child born within the limits of the
 town of Middlebury was Isaac Bronson, the great great grandfather of many now living in Middlebury and elsewhere under the names of Bronson, Hine, Stone, Smith, Thompson, Curtiss, Platt, Scott, Tyler, Town send Richardson, Upson, Judd, Atwood, De- Forest, Baldwin, Benham and Wheeler.
 Keeney Bros fruit and grocery store on
 Market street in Rockville was entered by
 burglars through rear window in the cellar Wednesday night. A fire proof safe was blown open and the contents, about $50 in money, were taken. Three holes were drilled in the door, between the handle and combin- ation lock, where the powder was put in, and the heavy four-hange door was blown to the other side of the store 10 feet away. The report of the explosion was heard by persons on Market street, but they thought it 8 Haz-
 ardville powder mill explosion. The N. Y. Medical Times says: "We have
 prescribed Liebig Co.'s Coca Beef Tonic with the most satisfactory results" Invaluable
 in debility, failing eyesight or hearing, mala- ria, biliousness, weak nerves.
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