Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-25

preached at the Congregational church yes terday.
 Miss Mamie Cowles and Miss May Thomp- son have gone to Pine Orchard to spend week. Aug. A.
 STATE NEWS.
 An attempt by General Wilcox, of Middle town to make an attachment of 8 horse owned by man named Ross is thus de scribed: Not anticipating any trouble, the officer drove to Ross domicile alone ana made known his business. He had no sooner told Ross about what he was after, when the latter went for him with torrent of oaths, and "was - if Wilcox or any other sucker from Middletown could take the horse ex- cept over his own dead body" The recep- tion did not prevent the general from going into the field where the animal was grazing, but he had been there not more than two seconds when Ross rushed out of the house and pelted him with rocks. The angry far mer was soon reinforced by his wife, and between the two they made It so warm for Wilcox that he was finally sat isfied to beat nasty retreat, leaving the horse and it's owners in und1sputed posses sion of the premises. The general had no weapon He has sworn out warrants against his assailant and he will be tried in the City court on Monday. Some years ago when General Wilcox was chief of police he was called upon to arrest Ross, the complalnt  gers home about midnight and before he could get his man he was obliged to burst Tn the door and to face the muzzle of a heavily loaded gun. He grappled with Ross before he could pull the trigger of the hrearm ana knocking him senseless with one blow piled l him into the police wagon and landed h1m in the lookup before he recovered conscious ness.
 Lieutenant George La Barnes made the | remarkable score of 211 at the 800 yards | range at Wallingford on Saturday out of possible 250, in 50 shots, 20 of which count ! ed as bulls eyes and 21 next to it as four. | This is believed to be the best score ever re- | corded.
 Wing Lees laundry in Hartford was brok- | en into and robbed Of $74. 60 Saturday nlSnI. Riches have wings.
 The police had very clever trap laid for | the man who entered MT. s. s. Chamber \ lin's house on Capital avenue few weeks ago. but the man did not walk into it. He | was captured on Front street Saturday aftef- noon bv Officers Noonan and Lyman Smith ! He had pair of trousers belonging to MT. | hamberlin.-Hartford Courant. | Willis J. Bailey, sentenced to State prison | for life for assaulting Mrs. Eben Evarts, of ! Guilford, aged TO years, in her room at night and robbing her of $50 in money, in l 1875, died at Wethersfeld Saturday last of l softening of the brain. The man was only 1 g years of age, was married and respectable | at the time of the brutal assault. | Senator Joseph Hawley and wife and Miss Kate Fields, who spent Saturday at the In ! dian Point House, Stony Creek, as the ! guests of z. T. Carpenter and wife, returned ! Saturday evening to Guilford, where they ! are stopping.
 l. Messrs J. H. Higgins, G. A. Bauer and L.. L. Sawyer called on Collector Byxbee yester- | day at his residence and spent an hour l socially. Collector Byxbee is gaining daily The bearers at the funeral of J. P. Gibney, | of Meriden, yesterday, were George c. Geer, William Hagadon, J. Lawrence, George W :. | Bentley, G. F. Neale and William Cochrane. | The officiating clergymen were Revs. J. ". Carton and B. O. True.
 The sexton of the Norwich cemetery will | be tried before the City court and probably
 removed. The croquet grounds used in the | national tournament adjoined the bury1ng- ground wall that was utilized for seats by ! the spectators. Sexton Meade Friday smeared l the wall with tar, which made the players | mad, and Professor Jacobus drove the sexton
 from his work in the cemetery.
 No Connecticut horses got dollar in the Hartford races last week, and only one ap- I peared on the turf. Western horses took first moneys in seven of the eleven races and
 won altogether ,000 out of the $22, 300. Dates of some of the most important fairs | AS w weeks: State fair, Meriden, September 15- IS; Fairfield County Agricultural society, | Norwalk, September 15-18; New Milford, September S-10 Union fair, Huntington,
 September 24-25; Watertown, September
 22-A.
 The suit of H. B. Gates of Colchester, ! against the New York and Boston Air Line
 railroad company, which has been decided against the plaintiff ill all the State courts has been appealed to the United States Su l preme court. MT. Gates owns some of the first mortgage bonds of the old Air Line railroad. He did not enter the reorganizeo | company, and claims that neither courts o1
 legislature had any right to prevent hin
 from recovering the full value of his bonds
 with interest.
 1 Commissioner Hadley, of the State labor
 bureau, is making thorough canvass fol | labor statistics. Circulars have been distrib
 uted among workingmen asking for views or ! labor troubles and remedies; to the assessors | of the various towns asking after the pro | portions of real estate held by workingmer | and if such proportion is increasing; and tc
 the manufacturers to gather figures of tht
 hands employed, wages paid and attitude o
 the help toward the concerns.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made las ! week in the United States court at Trenton
 N J., to reopen the suit whereby the Will
 limantic Thread company, plaintiffs, hav' | been awarded $lOU,UOU QaLudSSS 1fOM LII l Clark Thread company, defendants, for in
 fringement of patent. The defendants . claimed to have suddenly discovered testi l mony favorable to their side, but the judg'
 decided that with ordinary diligence thu testimony might have been discovered ter ! years ago.
 Michael Nugent, James Nugent and Ste | phen Da1y, slate roofers of Waterbury, fel
 with scaffold on which they were working
 in New York Saturday. Daly received in
 ternal injuries, James Nugent broke an ankl and an elbow, and Michael Nugent wa
 bruised and his elbow dislocated.
 MT. Smith, of Bridgeport, is to feed nc
 more live frogs to his snakes until he ha further legal advice. The Humane societ, interfered with the practice. Meanwhile thu
 snakes are said to be crawling around in
 state of uneasiness, equalled- only by the un
 easiness of the frogs fed to the snakes whel 1 expecting to be devoured.
 Joseph Dennis, a Swede on the tramp, ha been employed some weeks by John Hubbard
 who has large farm in Guilford. On Fri
 day night he disappeared, taking with hin ! | large bay horse and has not yet beel , found.
 The Phillips Venetian Blind company o ! Willimantic have recently increased thei capital stock from $6, 900 to $10,O00, whicl has been taken by Jerome B. Baldwin ant ) Frank F. Webb. A new engine and boile l with additional new machinery have beel l placed in the factory.
 Mrs Chauncey O. Holmes, of New Britain died suddenly of heart disease Saturda , morning while sitting in her chair at he $ home on Greenwood street. The Hon. G. M Landers, of New Britain , | is on a committee of citizens at Cottage City Mass, to supervise and protect it's interest i public parks and avenues. ! The N. Y. Medical Times says: 'sWe hay
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