Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-18

Jerry Casey, teamster for the Hartford Carpet company at Thompsonville fell from loaded wagon yesterday afternoon and was | fatally injured.
 4 reward of S100 has been offered for the discovery of the persons who committed the l recent assaults in Birmingham on Mrs. flag gerty and Mr. Sanford
 The sum of S10,00O has been pledged towards the building of a Masonic temple
 ill Middletown Work probably will be commenced early in the spring
 The lecture tp be given at Unity Hall, Hartford, on Wednesday evening by Mr John f1Ske Was postponed on account of the illness of the lecturer. It will be given next week Wednesday.
 The Congregational Sunday school in Huntington has elected the following officers TOT the ensuing year: Superintlndent, Will lard l.. Beard; assistant, George D. Nichols: secretary and treasurer, Frank H. Wells: as sistaut, Warren Rowley.
 William L. Gilbert, president of the Con nect1cut Western railroad, will it is said, soon build and endow school or college at Winsted to educate the children of the poor er classes He has already given out $1O0, ,O00 to friend fer this purpose.
 Tie extension of the double railroad track to the Mystic drawbridge was completed be- tore the ground froZe and is great conven- ence to trains approaching the Mystic depot Four men are kept busy attending to the freight and passenger business at this sta- ton.
 This is the way Captain F. L. Whedop. of Madison, celebrated his ninetieth birthday
 4st cssatArflasXi4 llp tba 1aerdpgelb he, took IA daughter, Mrs. w. B. Crampton, where he dIned. Returning In the afternoon he cave q party to forty two of his fifty children, erandchlldren and great-grandchildren leading New York 6 New England director ic
 ture to talk of what sort of an arrangement
 may be made between the New England and
 the New Haven roads, for the receivership is
 nst closed. But I am Of the opinion that
 when it is closed the strong probability is
 that running arrangement will be made
 with the New Haven. 1 do not, however,
 think any lease guaranteeing the stock will
 be effective 1 am large owner of the
 stock, and l think that, for various reasons I
 should be opposed to such lease The mat
 ter Is in the hands of the executive commit
 tee, and this committee expect, understand,
 to meet the New Haven people shortly-how
 soon 1 cannot say
 Harrison Burdiek of Danbury has been
 hunting and fishing in Hotchkissville and
 locality the past week. As hunter, trap
 per and fisherman, Tip has but few equals,
 as this has been his business for the last twenty-five years. He has all the appliances for his favorite occupation, and numbers his steel traps by the barrels full He succeeds every season in catching from one to three otters, very animal in these parts, also several wildcats each year reward his vigilance. Muskrats, mink and foxes are his principal source Of revenue, from the sale of which he has laid by snug little sum- Tips is fa,nil- far face in every isolated farmhouse from Derby to Whaley Pond near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In the latter place he is known as Wildcat Tip. In connection with his broth CT George, they own some of the finest set ter dogs in America. That they are bred from the celebrated stock of R. o. Gates of Derby, is a guarantee of their genuineness. Derby Transcript