Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-22
STATE NEWS.

l James Donovan, Hartford newsboy, Tues | day rescued Mrs. Harper of that city, whC | fell in front of a switch engine while cross ! ing the track near the depot. l Bridgeport is to have new weekly society paper.
 | Three woodpeckers have taken up winter | quarters in the Norwich reservoir tool-house drilling an entrance through plank to ge | in.
 l Dr. Parsons mansion on ''Fifth avenue, | Thompsonville, is completed, and will be
 occupied by him this weeks. It is among the 1 finest residences in town
 | The case of John F. Kennedy, who mur | dered his wife with an ax in New London ! last June, came up in the Superior court | there on Tuesday and motion of Ken nedy's counsel was continued to the March 1 term to await the arrival of dispositions from | Stockton, Cal, showing that Kennedy's l mother is insane and that he is afflicted with hereditary insanity. If Kennedy is insane there is much method in his madness, and it will require considerable testimony to con- vince a New London county jury his in innate acquaintances that he is insane. The day after the murder Kennedy conceived the idea that he must be insane and announced that his mother had been in an insane asy- luln for four years.
 In the census of A. D. 1900, Connecticut had 251 000 inhabitants In the apportion-
 ment on Q basis of B, 900 to representative in Congress, she had seven members of Con- gress, which continued to be her number for three censuses. So she gave 9 votes each for John Adams for President and Charles PickneJ for Vice President in the electoral vote. As we all know, Jefferson and Burr had each 43, while John Adams had 65 votes, John Jay 1 vote fors President, and Charles Pickney GA votes for Vice President. The one vote for John Jay was cast by a Rhode Island elector. Sixteen States then composed the Union. Tennessee and Della ware each had but one member of Congress and three electoral votes
 Ex-Aldermau H. D. Carroll, who has been connected with the Connecticut River rail road for thirty-six years, severed his connec- tion with that corporation about a month ago. MT. Carroll for some thirty three years was conductor of one of the most important trains.
 The body of Dwight W. Chapman, who was drowned in Nevada some six months ago. was buried from the Episcopal church at Windsor Locks, Ct., Monday afternoon.
 R. J. Blackman, of New Britain, has ac- cepted position as commercial traveller for Henry Brooks & Co.,, of Boston.
 The quarterly statement of Receiver Clark of the N. Y. 6 N. E. R. R. to the court for the three months ended December 31, 1884, shows that the cash receipts were S1 ,573, S29. For the twelve months ended December 31 the receipts were $6,393, ,999; payments, $6, ,339, ,335; balance on hand, $54, ,654
 Mrs. Wilbur S. Studwell, of Stamford, was struck by the cars at the station in that place on Monday and had foot crushed so that it had to be amputated besides sustaining ether injuries. She had been about to enter a carriage when the horses started and she stepped back on the track just as an express train came by.
 At the annual meeting of the Meriden Agricultural society on Tuesday it was voted to invite the State Agriculturial society to hold it's fair in Meriden The election of officers was postponed for three weeks.
 Stratford people have new industry in catching mummychugs which are shipped inland for live bait for pickerel and perch fishermen.