Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-19
MANUFACTURING NOTES.
Chances Here and There at the State o
 Bus ness-S Signs of Encouragement-

MANUFACTURING NOTES.
 Chances Here and There at the State of
 Bus ness Signs of Encouragement-I |
 Connecticut Railroads.
 Waterbury man writes regarding the dull times in manufacturing there that he never saw business so dull there since the time of the breaking out of the war in 1S61 i All the rubber shops in Naugatuck are closed. Work has been resumed at the W. & E. T. Fitch manufactory in this city, after stoppaee of three weeks, with a reduction of wages in some if not all departments. | At the clock manufactory business csntin- ues good and the large force of hands are working eight hours per day, the usual win ter allowance.
 tory continues very driving. A force of about one thousand hands is at work. Work continues very brisk in many de- partments at the Winchester armory, in gun | making especially.
 There is some talk of the location of new manufacturing interest in this city, but | the parties negotiating in regard to it decline | to give names as yet, fearing the matter will "slip up."
  | opinion that the beginning of B revival of | business will come with the spring, and he 1 sees signs that the revival will be lasting. | He bases his opinion on the ground that the overpfodHctien has been offset by the cessation of partial eessatioii 6f pfoduetidh | for so many months. He thinks there are distinct signs of an approach to healthy re. sumption of bust11ess f1 ths iron business, Which is usually good criterion. He says ooinee'icuI .l IS -~,vreu state as regards it's , ,aIIroads. They show but little if any de- preciation. By slight reduction in expenses they hays held their standard as to dividends. He objects to parallel roads decidedly and points to the fate of the New York Central; paralleled by the West Shore and the Lake Shofe With it's burden the Nickel Plate paral- | lel. Ills also cited the recent voice of the New York. railroad commissioners in dis countsiancihG parallel road building as a ruinous policy.
 Personal.
 Mrs. General Ton Thumb, who exhibits at Bunne1l's this week. arrived in this city Sat urday with her maid, and took quarters at the Tohtine:
 John Kn6x; iats with Stevens snd Brooks. has gone on the road for Moore, Smith & Go. of Boston.
 Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Oviatt, of this city, have returned from Washington, D. c.
 Mir. Justin E. Burgess has returned from Manchester, N. H.
 Captain MeAlister, of the. starin lne has gone to Albany to the bedside ef his wife, i who is seriously i'll. Captain Clark, of the Laura N. Starin, takes his place during his | absence.
 Selden S. Williams, of Bristol, worth S10,- l 900 few years ago, is now in the penthouse | in that town:
 Charles G. He rrison, clerk in the post office, has resig ed to enter clerkship in the office of the treasurer of Yale college, | where he succeeds Edw8+d G. Husted, whos5 | illness has compelled him to retire.
 Hon. c. L. Mitchell has been presented | with three tame deer from Missouri, by CIV. | Coombs, of the national House of Repre- sentatives Mir. Mitchell has thenr at his l place in the Annex.
 The late Timothy T. Merwin, of Brooklyn, | was Yale graduate, class of 1927, and was afterward lawyer in Norwalk and editor of | the Norwalk Gazette. Later in life he was | Wall street broker and was president of the | North American Insurance company. He | leaves three children.
 Mr. Tredwell Ketchum has contributed 1 $100 toward establishing the free library and | A. Thill will contribute number of books. | MT. Thill will also loan framed engravings | and etchings.
 Rev. Dr. Crane, of Boston, preached at l the New Britain Baptist church yesterday.
 Mrs. R. L. Webb, of New Britain, who died last Thursday evening was buried Sat urday afternoon from her residence on High | street. The funeral was largely attended by sorrowing friends.
 Mrs. John c. Kinney, tof Hartford, daugh- ter of the venerable Dr!, Thompson, of Fair Haven, was reelected president of the Con- necticut Indian association at the society's | recent meeting in Hartford. Dr. Thompson has been residing at Mrs. Kinney's for some time past
 Mrs. Alfred Hempsted lies critically i'll at her residence on Main street, New London, from stroke of paralysis. Her advanced age adds to the chances against her recovery.
 Samuel Johnson, formerly of the Austin House, New Haven, has been engaged as clerk at the Hotel Commercial New London.
 J. P. Beckwith and wife, of Willimantic, who went to New Orleans in the interest of the Wil1imant1c Linen company, have re- turned home. Their places will be filled by Henry Vogel and Miss H. Hopkins, who left for New Orleans Thursday evening.
 Captain J. H. Dewell, of the Connecticut House, St. Augustine, Florida, writes to the Winsted Herald that while we are sitting around our fires or brushing the snow from our arctics they are having delightful wealth CT on the Florida coast, the mercury on of the three last days of '84 stand ing at 680. Captain Dewen reports MT. A. T nf os hau | guest for three weeks, just starting at the opening of the new year for a trip up the St. Johns river. Mrs. P. T. Barnum, who has been for ong time seriously i'll, is now improving laily in health and hopes are entertained of Ter speedy recovery. l Henry Copperthwaite was found dead on Friday near his home in Burnside. He has $ brother either in Meriden New Haven. $ He had been Respondent and drinking heav ly.