Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-05
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 STATE NEWS.

Dwight E. Potter, of Willimantic, has | gone to Ocala, Florida
 Habenstein will open the restaurant at the State Capitol, tomorrow.
 | East Granby recorded four marriages, thir-
 teen births and twenty deaths in 1885.
 A fourteen year old boy orator named Ralph l Bingham will ''orate' in Henry Hall, Rock
 vile, next Monday evening.
 The Wilbur Opera company gave two per | formances of the Mikado at Roberts Opera
 House, Hartford, on Saturday.
 The Young German American association
 of Hartford has been presented with hand | some walnut clock by their brethren in 1 Waterbury.
 The New Milford Gazette wants wise
 board of trade established in that thriving l town. This evening a big meeting IS to De | held on the subject.
 The Meriden police broke up gambling den Saturday night and captured a lot of | money, layout and several gamblers, includ- | ing t Wo Meriden business men.
 At meeting of the directors of the Hart l ford Ball Park company on Saturday John l E. Higgins was elected secretary and treas urer, vice Henry Osborne declined. Editor A. E. Burr of the Hartford Times | is the oldest editor in the State. He left | the Courant forty-seven years ago and has 1 been at the head of the Times ever since. Judge Shipman Saturday issued the for nal decree discharging the receiver of the 1 New York and New England road and for mally turning the property over to the hands of the company.
 E. A Lawrence, secretary of the Young Mems Christian association of Connecticut, gave an address Sunday evening before the Higganum Bible society. He will conduct evangelistic services during the week of prayer.
 Dan O'Neil, manager of last seasons Waterbury base ball team, says he is out of base ball, having decided to remain at his post in the paper mill at Holyoke. He has a cigar store there, with an assistant to man. age it during the daytime.
 The young women of a town near Hartford have formed a club called ''1'he Tongue Guard' Each member drops penny into the treasury every time she says word against another person, and this money is distributed quarterly among charitable insti- tutions
 Miss E. R. Hyde of this city received on New Years eve by mail from Seattle, on Puget Sound, Washington Territory, wild strawberry plant in blossom, which was plucked in an open field of that city on De- cember 17th. It was enclosed in potato and had borne the journey well.-Hartford Courant.
 The Valley Hotel, a house of ill-fame in New Britain, on the Plainville road just east of Cooks, was raided by the police Friday night and five women and one man, the proprietor were brought before the police court Saturday morning. They pleaded guilty to the charges made against them and were fined, aggregating with costs S29474
 The home barn of the McNeil's at Elm Ridge, Litchield, half 0 mile west of the village, was totally destroyed by fire Saturday morning. A young man overturned the lantern whilc foddering the cattle about 7 o'clock and in q moment the whole haymow WAS on fire He immediately got out all the cattle and horses md all light movables were removed. It was a large, nearly new barn and was in sured for S1 600. There were about twenty five tons of hay in it. Total loss about S3,000.
 A special town meeting held at Rockville Saturday afternoon decided to instruct the seleetmen 10 nsk the legislature for authority to issue non-taxable town bonds to run for 20 years, for the purpose of refundiug the $60, 900, per cent. bonds due in July. at n lower rate of interest, probably 31a per cent, The matter of establishing n new line between the east and west school districts was indefinitely postponed, as the proposed line would take about 50 families out of the west, into the east district, and many per sons opposed it. The sslectmen were in structed to view and survey new road from Park street north to the Ellington line to meet q road built in the town of Ellington.
 Some of the State weeklies manage to work in some things of decidedly unique description. The Woodbury Reporter an nounces that GA Webster's Unabridged Die tionary can be had at this office ill exchange for irewood." Now this can be construed in various ways, viz: that the sanctum con tains more dictionary than kindling wood; or that the dictionary is valued at price sufficient to cover the cost of writer's supply of fuel, or that the new proprietor of the Reporter, being disciple of Worcester, has taken mean advantage of the New England Noah. The same paper also con tains this terrible warning to paint-eating owners of oxen: "By eating paint MT. Julius Galpin of Minortown, lost a valuable o1 re- gently. y."-Waterbury Republican.