Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-04-04
s GATE NEWS.

Thompsonville's palatial poor farm sports
a spanking 81 900 span of new horses
Mrs. Lauren T. Campbell, of Southington,
died on Thursday, aged 65.
Dr. NJ NJ Main, of South Manchester, has
| just patented very unique invention for
use in dental laboratories called "spring
flask clamp" 1t is pronounced great inn
provement.
| John Fourine, Frenchman, twenty-six
years old, was killed at Van Deusenville on
| the Housatonic road Thursday morning. He
was crossing the track in wagon and did
/ not get over soon enough. A companion who
was with him was slightly hurt
| Bishop Williams will confirm number of
children at the Episcopal church at o'clock
| Sunday morning.
Chief of Police Ford, of Meriden, is at
| tackled with pneumonia.
The Stamford Herald reports some wonder
full mirages on Long Island Sound the past
| week. The mirages appear very early in the
morning and few people rise early enough to
| get glimpse of them.
The sale of the blooded horses belonging to
the estate of the late Judge Harris F. Mum
son, of Seymour, Melted about 81 200.
The Rev. G. L. Thompson, former pastor
of the Asylum street church, Hartford, gave
his charming lecture in Windsor Locks last
evening on ''Sights and Experiences Among
the Wonders of Egypt"
Tuesday night two men made an entrance
| into the carpenter shop of the Southlngton
Lumber and Feed company. They were
frightened away before obtaining anything of
| value.
The Senate voted George L. Deming his
pension of $50 month Thursday. The sight
of the poor man with both arms gone is arg
| ument enough in his case, and when it IS
| considered that he waited twenty-five years
before asking for aid and, indeed, did not
ask until his age, his losses and his needs
! drove him to do so, it would take a pretty
| cold hearted State to turn him away. Had
| he applied at the time of his injury he would
have got it fast enough and would have
drawn over $1,000 on it already.-Hartford
Courant.
The Saybrook National bank, located at
Essex, has reorganized as a State bank. Sam
uel G. Ely, who resides opposite Essex, in
the town of Lyme, has been elected presi-
dent. He has been director of the bank
for number of years. Mr.. Lewis P Parker,
for ten years teller of the Deep River Nation
al bank, has been elected cashier of the bank
in Essex, and entered upon the duties Of his
Office April 1st The directors will elect
teller in few days. The old officers were
as follows: President, Jared E. Redfeld;
cashier, Charles Hough; teller, L. L. Woos-
ter.
The clothespin fair at the Congregational
church Wednesday night attracted a large
crowd The novelty of the entertainment
seemed to please everyone. There were about
1000 clothespins used to decorate the
rooms. Mr.. R. P. Paine, their late organist,
was presented with full orchestral series of
Haydns Creation" Handel's messiah"
and Bucks "Passion" (St. john and his
Christmas Oratorio, and also several other
popular selections. By request Mr.. Paine
gave an organ recital after the fair.
The Bridgeport News relates a singular
coincidence about the Cromwell family of
North Bridgeport, in which the mother and
three children have died within wesk. The
deceased woman had never lost a child until
she and three of her children died within
week Her mother never lost child until
she and three of her children passed away
within about week of each other. The
three Cromwell children all died within less
than a week of their birthdays, and the birth
day of the mother was only a month
distant.
An enthusiastic and successful fisherman
who has never allowed the list of April to
pass without a raid on the speckled beauties
since the days when "hookey" was a necessa-
ny requisite to fishing trip, made as usual
all the preparations for his annual excursion
to the streams on Tuesday night. The boots
were creased the fishing tackle inspected,
the alarm clock set for a. m, and with his
mind full of rosy anticipations he sandwiched
him self between the sheets. The alarm did
it's duty promptly on the hour and our fish
erman awoke to find he had caught-the
mumps.-New London Day.