Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-22
STATE NEWS.

Commander John G. Pelton of Mansfield post will be maIshal of tie a @ 9I day in monument in Indian Hill cemetery has been un- yelled the address will be delivered in the North church.
 Mir and Mrs A. P. Hyde and Mrs George Sexton of Hartford, sail for Europe early next month, in tending to spend four months on the continent.
 Mr. J. B. Burr and wife. of Hartford, sail for Flu rope in the City of Berlin Thursday the 28th instant, intending to be absent from home about a year.
 April ie, was captured near Gales Ferry on Wed nesday by Depndy SherT me s carroll or NeT London; m the sherf. After desperate struggle in the water the sheriff snceeeded in landing lai h,s prisoner who Norwich jail.
 Chief Justice J. D. Park is holding court in Hart ford this week.
 George w. Fish has accepted clerkship at the wauregan House, Norwich.
 The Fishers Island Brick company are contem- plating considerable increase of their works on Fisher's Island New machinery will be added and New London hopes now to have brick enough. es- pecally as that city contemplates having building boom in the next ten years
 The Memorial sermon in Mystic will be preached by the Rev G. H. Miner, in the Baptist church at Mystic River, next Sunday morning. by request of Williams post The procession will form at g o'clock.
 May 1Sth the last of thelsecond generation of the oldest and most respected families in all that region
 There are at present 1ss prisoners at the Hartford ja the most of whom are awaiting trial in the Su- perior court.
 young Hartford sculptor, Karl Gerhardt, has made most accurate and excellent bust of General Grant. On a certain day recently, when General Grant was in exceedingly good spirits, and on this day the bust was completed the general himself be- ing in the room and making suggestions as to the model
 W. H. Crow, of Raleigh, N. C., one of the leading insurance men of the South, committed suicide Wednesday night by shooting. He represented sev eral of Hartford's s companies for North Carolina, among others the 4Etna Fire.
 A Bridgeport paper says that member of the Faith mission, who worked in one of the Bridge. told bookkeeper that the Lord had told him that he ought to work for fifty cents less They took it off and wish the Lord would make some more such revelations.
 Some herlooms recently received by lady in Massachusetts were devised about 100 years ago by Mrs. Sally Blagge, of New London, and for some fifty years have been stored in that city. Among embroidered in roses, forgetme-nots and vines, in which Mrs Blagge danced before her marriage, her partner being Prince Harry, duke of Clarence, son of George III of England.
 The following architects have submitted plans for the South district school house in Hartford to the building committee: Jacob Bachmeyer, John 0. Mead, W. c. Brocklesby, s. W. Lincoln, Melvin P Hapgood George H. Gilbert and Messrs. Brock lesby & Luce of New York. The committee has de- cided that the building shall be fire proof and capa ble of accommodating 1900 scholars. The hall will be designed to seat not less than six hundred people.
 By the will of the late Mrs. Hannah Foote, of intrrsted to their aunts Mrs. Joseph R. Hawley and Misses Kate and Elizabeth Foote- The eldest son, Robert, will continue his musical studies and go to Leipsic late in the summer.