Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-16
STATE NEWS.

The IEtna watch companys property at 1 Southington, capital stock of 30,OOO is in | the hands of receiver, who will sell 1t at public auction.
 ! A Salvation army meeting at Willimantie was adjourned the other day by deluge of water being poured upon them from an up- per story,
 The expenses of the Hartford county jail | for the first six months of this year were ! $6, ,595. S7.
 Professor Thompson of the Hartford Theo- logical seminary left Tuesday for Jackson, N H., where he will spend his vacation. Dr. S. B. St. John, of Hartford, has gone to New London to the meeting of the Amer can Eye and Ear society. He will not return until Friday.
 The widow of the late Robert Turnball, for many years pastor of the North Baptist church of Hartford, died in Oshkosh, Wis, last Saturday.
 At the close of business Tuesday $583, 900 of taxes had been paid at the office of the | town and city collector of Hartford. This | sum, with the amount sent by mail and in the postoffice in the evening, makes total | of over $500, ,000. Tuesdays business was \ the heaviest done by the office for long time and amounted to over $160,OO0. | A book to be published on human longevi- | ty places Connecticut in front of the world | in the number of long lived people. Among ! special instances is John Weeks of New Lon | don, who married his tenth wife when 106 ! years old, she being sixteen. He died at the ! age of IA His gray hairs were succeeded | by growth of dark hairs, and several new ' teeth appeared before he died. Hartford added five electric street lamps to ' the service last night, making total of 96 | lamps outside the Capitol grounds. The Church Record is the title of paper l which is published monthly by the Congre- pational church of Kensington. it's princl- ! pal feature is the rep1inting of MT. Edward W. Robbins valuable historical centennial ! address which was first delivered in the Congregational church, July 4th, 1876. This address will appear in instaliments and ! will, ere long, be issued in pamphlet form.
 Elmer Larkin, of New London, took gas recently and had tooth out. Then he was sick from the effects and on Friday night he attacked one of the watchers, claiming he was the man that extracted the tooth. He then escaped from the house, but was brought back after three hours search. He is now closely watched, and it is feared he is hopelessly insane.
 Ex-Presiding Elder Thomas G. Osborn, of Norwalk, formerly of this city, preached at the M E. church, Norwalk, last Sunday. His many friends here will be glad to hear of his continued good health. Bethel matters are gratif1ed over the fact that the hating business in the town is i'm proving.
 A box found floating in the Sound near Greenwich Point recently contained little dead negro baby.
 Hamilton eommandery, K. T., of Bridge port, will make pilgrimage to New Milford,
 Pittsfeld and Hoosac Tunnel, probably starting on the 23d inst.
 Joseph L. Colgrove is South Norwalk's new chief of police, vice M. Pelham resigned.
 Mir Pelham goes to the Noroton soldiers
 home to accept a situation.
 Norwalk will be well represented at the an- nual meeting of the State Firemen's assecia- tl1ssan in New Haven on Tuesday, August 18th.
 Niffliam H. Bsrnum is having a con test M freight rates is Housatonic rail road iyfth the railroad commissioners af- Mas sachN Nsetts. He has politely informed the I com l8issioners that his railroad will fix their own ites without their assistance.