Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-27
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Mindwell Spencer Sheldon, mother of the Hon. H. s. and Martin J. Sheldon, died at her home on Main street, Sufield, Sunday evening at the ripe age of eighty-eight years and four months.
 Bert J. Barber of Harwinton, aged twelve, was killed by lightning Monday. He was watching the storm from crack in 8 barn when struck.
 Danbury on Monday evening voted $20, 900 for storage reservoir the Padanaram stream. It is proposed to have dam 575 feet long and 39 feet high which will flood IS acres and give storage capacity of 3S7,- 00O,0 ,000 gallons.
 Captain John H. Gillis, of New York, will probably soon relieve Lieutenant T. J. Sal ter as commander of the naval station on the Thames. Lieutenant Salter has been in charge since the death of Commodore Jona- than Young last May.
 MT. Ernest L. Staples, of Stepney, has been appointed principal of the school at Up-Town Derby.
 The contract for planking the Windsor Locks bridge has been given to parties who have O steam sawmill running in the north part of the town. About 240,000 feet of plank will be used.
 Five hundred Waterbury sports gathered in sequestered nook Sunday and saw dog fight and two brutal slugging matches of if  knuckles No one interfered.
 Meriden reports building boom, and the Republican estimates the value of the work in progress at $200,0 900.
 George Williams, Stephen A. Gardiner, Ralph Wheeler and J. R. Hammond are talk ed of among New London Democrats in con- nection with the Democratic nomination for mayor. On the Republican side no names have yet been publicly mentioned. It is ,oi1 hot Mr. md xvi1 ct i'm ha way of MT. Williams.
 The Ballou Manufacturing company at Colts west armory have nearly finished one of their astronomical clocks which has been ordered by Professor c. H. Mcleod for the McGill college observatory, Montreal, Cana da. The clock will be shipped this week to Harvard observatory21o be tested, after which it will be sent to Montreal.
 Captain James M Moore, the venerable ex- sea captain and shipbuilder of East Bridge port, is dangerously i'll with 8 complication of diseases, among which a dropsical affec- tion appears to be the most serious. His ad- vanced age makes his chance of recovery very very slight.
 Mrs. Burnham, a lady over eighty years old, came up on the boat to Bridgeport Monday night to visit Mrs. George Wildman, who lives on Main street above Bulls Head. Finding no car or carriage handy, Mrs. Burnham started out and walked the whole distance from the boat, something over a mile.
 Speaker William E. Simonds and family, accompanied by President William w. Con- verse of the Winchester Arms company of New Haven, will leave for Moosehsad lake on Monday and spend portion of September in that region. President Converse is cous- in of Speaker Simonds and recently married Belle Spencer of this city, the marriage be- ing one of the most touching and charming romances of the day. A number of Hartford people will be at Moosehead lake in Septem- ber.-Hartford Post
 The descendants of Edmund Rice, who settled in Sudbury, Mass, from England, in 1889, hold reunion at Cheshire to-day, August 27.
 The typhoid fever trouble is at Glaston- bury, not at South Glastonbury. The local board of health is at work to eradicate the source of the trouble, a we'll into which flow ed filthy surface water.
 Mrs. Joseph Woodland, of Southington, died at the age of 52 years on Sunday.
 A far1ner of West street, Southington, found horse on Monday tied to tree in a lot near Wolcott Mountain. The bark was gnawed off the tree and the earth about the tree was considerably dug up. The horse appeared to have been without food for seve- ral days The animal is supposed to have been stolen and abandoned
 A day or two ego MT. P. T. Barnum saw some cattle in his grass at Park avenue and Park Place in Bridgeport and ordered them went out that night to milk there were no COWS and then the truth came out. The pas ture had been changed without MT. Barnum's knowledge and he had impounded his own COWS and had to pay several dollars to get them out.