Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-23
Pef9OnAls

Frederick W. Pratt, Southington mer-
 chant, meditates removing to Dakota.
 Billy Williams is playing at Bunnells Mu- ! scum with the Gray Stephens company. c. G. R. Vinal of Middletown, clerk of the Superior court, has arrived home from Eu- | rope.
 President Beach of Wesleyan has heavily fined half dozen sophomores for hazing freshmen.
 Michael Mullaney, a 1aborer of Southing- ton, sails soon with his family for Ireland to live there.
 A. L. Chandler was called to his home in
 Vermont yesterday, owing to the serious ill., ness of his father.
 Rev. Robert Collyer, who has been stop ping at the Penfield place in Black Rock during the summer, returned to New York yesterday.
 Jack Parker, the notorious Moodus rough,
 made a vigorous assault upon his family on Sunday and succeeded in turning them all cut of doors.
 The will of the late ex-Councilman Bywa-
 ter of Meriden was probated yesterday. All l his real estate, valued at $4, 900, and about q, 900 in society insurance is left to his wife.
 Henry F. Behrens, of Meriden, arrived home from Europe Monday evening. He sailed from Havre on the Hamonia of the Hamburg line and had very rough voy- age.
 The Rev. A. Douglas Miller, formerly of
 Hartford, but lately pastor of church in San Francisco, has accepted 8 call to the rectorship of St. James, Episcopal church of New London.
 Dr. F. M. Wilson, of Bridgeport, on Mon- day removed piece of wood threerfourths
 of an inch in diameter from the eye of George W. Lovejoy, of Bridgeport, where it had
 been lodged for over twenty years. Charles Pitt of New Haven and Miss Az 1 nes Chstterton of Birmingham, England, l who were married in Meriden Saturday even
 ing, will live at 99 Henry street, New Haven, | upon their return from bridal trip to the | West. ...a-I .---- ,- George w. Finn is the first of the boys ap- pointed by Postmaster Knowlton, of Bridge port, as carrier under the immediate delivery | system, which goes into effect October 1st He took the necessary oath before City Clerk | Mooney yesterday.
 At reunion of the Pettibone family held
 recently at the residence of Deacon Giles
 Pettibone near Attica, N. Y., the oldest per
 son present was Colonel Jarvis Pettibone of | Elba, N. Y., who was born in Simshury, Ct. | September 30, 1799. Edward F. Mansfield of the firm of Strong,
 Barnes, Hart & Co. has purchased the equi- | ty of redemption in the residence of E. E.
 Hall, No. 12 Academy street. The equity was sold by s. E. Merwin, trustee of the in solvent estate of E. Hall & Son Report has it in New Britain that the con- testants of the Erwin will have secured able counsel from New York and the testimony
 of Dr. Salisbury and another physician and one of MT. Erwin's nurses to prove mental in capacity and the reasons for it. But as yet
 no notice of appeal has been lodged with the judge of probate nor any definite action whatever taken.
 Leigh in the grocery business at gro Chapel ] street, firm of Leigh & Messick, has long been head bookkeeper for E. G. Stoddard & O., ,and Mir Leigh having been twenty years | in the grocery business, they will make a strong team MT. Messick came here from Norfolk, Conn.,, and has a brother in the
 same kind of business in that town.
 There are prospects of a petition being
 brought before the next legislature praying
 that Southington be incorporated borough.
 The town has arrived at that stage of its
 growth when it is really necessary if the
 town is to prosper to have 8 borough charter.
 The area of the town is about thirty-six
 square miles, and improvements are being
 made only within radius of mile or so of
 the town center. About nine square miles
 would be included in the proposed borough
 limits.