Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-10
STATE NEWS.

No toboggan slide at High Rock Grove this
 season.
 The Smith Memorial Home at New Lon
 don will be occupied in about ten days.
 The Connecticut river is closed by ice, but
 the warm weather bids fair to reopen it.
 The fire at the East Hartford depot Sun
 day was caused by tramps, and the hands on
 a passing train put it out.
 At the dedication of the soldiers monu-
 ment in Thompsonville there were several
 cases of pocket picking.
 The first of series of fellowship meetings,
 consisting of the Congregational churches of
 Somers Ellington and Vernon, is to be held l to-day at Talcottville.
 1 A Sunday school convention for primary | teachers will be held at Thompsonville Friday
 in the First Presbyterian church. Miss Liz
 zie C.. Roath of Lynn, Mass, addresses the
 meeting
 were appointed on Monday: South Norfolk,
 Emily J. Humphrey; Harwinton, Charles T. l Russell; Warehouse Point, Aaron Smith; l Pine Meadow, William Caul. l Miss Nellie Hobson, of Wallingford, has I been offered an appointment to teach oil | painting in a college in northern India. The offer includes salary of $4, 1000 for five years, board, outfit and expenses paid. Miss Hobson will probably decline. The schooner Nirvana is at New London, being thoroughly overhauled for her trip to the West Indies. The yacht will be newly alf .ste ster% gM trysals M bs ads and with Captain Henney in command.
 Litchfeld's new Methodist church was ded- icated Tuesday by Bishop Harris. The church with ground cost about S8, 800. The bell was the gift of Hon. F. R. Starr and he also gave the chandelier and valuable furni- ture. The debt is now $1 400. The new | church is very pretty one and will seat | four hundred.
 The Young Mems Christian association of l New Britain Monday evening lecture course was opened last evening by lecture "First Things of New Britain delivered by Professor D. N. Camp, which was very inter esting, showing in an entertaining way many | facts connected with the early history of the place, it's Indian history, the geological form | ation of the region, the origin of some of it's | industries, etc.
 | MT. T. s. Gold, secretary of the State Agri- cultural society, was one of those who exper- l imented this season by sending apples to England. He shipped 124 barrels, which | sold for $256. 90. The expenses were SITS 45, | leaving net receipts of $78. .45, or 69 cents a barrel At this figuring no deduction has been made for the barrels. They were estl- | mated at fl 1-2 cents each, which would leave the net proceeds at 26 ? cents bar rel.
 The Hartford county educational associa- tion met at Hartford Saturday and elected these officers: President, w. I. Twiche1 of Hartford; secretary and treasurer, s. P. Williams of Plainri lille; vice-presidents, J. A. Graves of Hartford, A. B. Morrill, of New Britain, Frederick Williams of Meriden, Miss A. D. Clark of Hartford; directors, W. F. Gordy of Hartford, Miss w. B. Tyler, H. R. Monteith of Unionville, Miss Helen F. Page of Meriden, Clarence Bingham of Bristol.
 The New Britain Knights of Labor waxed tha nfh mir &, horr colt few things. Since the proprietor of the Evening Herald in that city gave the con- tract for building the Herald block to out of town parties and since the Knights recently resolved against any such procedure of free trade, therefore they have ordered all Kn1gts and all affiliated with them to boy cott the Herald by not buying it, by not trading with those who advertise in it or buy it, and by refusing to patronize any connect ed with the sheet. The Knights also re- solved to sit square down on all Chinese laun- dries that prevent any New Britain women from earning decent livelihood l