Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-10
REMEMBERED HERE,

REMEMBERED HERE.
The Rev. O. P. Clifford, of Boston, a bril-
| liant preacher, we'll remembered by many in
New Haven, opened the service of the sea-
son at Chautauqua, N. Y, yesterday, by
! lecture on "Christian Science, or the Alleged
Mind Cure" The Hartford Times says: ''He
has made a close study of the subject, and
gave fair statement of the claims and phi
| losophy of the Eddy system. He says that
Christian cience teaches that God is exter-
nal, infinite and omnipresent in spirit and
mind; that he has created a spiritual uni
verse; that the present visible sensible uni
verse has no existence to him; it is the crea-
| ton of a mortal mind; the human body is
an expression of mortal mind, and has no
existence to God; sickness is an expression
of thought in and through the body; it has
no reality in God; he knows nothing about
| it; cures wrought by denying the body
and realizing or coming into comp lete COM
munication with God"
CooNs AND LIGHTNING.
In one of the recent thunder showers a
| large oak tree standing in Brookfeld close
upon the banks of the Housatonic river just
| below Rabbits bridge was struck by light
ming. The current first took large limb on
| the east side of the tree and followed it down
| to the trunk, which it split almost entirely
into two pieces. About twenty feet above
| the ground was large crotch in which was
a hole. In this an old coon had her nest and
young ones. 1u0y were I'LL killed. by GD6
| lightning except one of the young ones. The
| mother had streak of her fur entirely sing
| ed off on one side. One young one had its
| nose and head badly singed. The one living
| still, when found, was partially paralyzed,
and could not use its hind legs. 1t has
since died. Death came to this family sud
denly, and, possibly, while asleep.-Dan-
bury News.
NATIONAL CRooUET ASSOCIATION.
oe he
citation at Norwich will open with a business
meeting on Monday next and continue
through the week. The business meeting
will be held on Tuesday and sometime dur
ing the week Professor Jacobus will deliver
his lecture on ''Log cabin life in the Maine
woods"
5000 INSURANCE.
The funeral of Wilson II. Robbins, who
was killed on the railroad at Meriden Friday,
was held at the Congregational church in
Rocky Hill on Sunday. Some twenty-five of
the Brotherhood of Brakemen from Hartford
attended and furnished the pallbearers. The
deceased was member of Charter Oak lodge
of Odd Fellows and an insurance of 5000 will
be paid to his mother.
THE DANBURY FAIR RACES.
The seventeenth annual fair of the Dan
bury Agricultural society will be held Octo-
Der 4th to 9th, inclusive. The trotting
purses for Thursday and Friday are as fol-
lows: Thursday-2:29 class, purse $500; pac-
ing, freefo r-all, purse $500; 2:45 class, purse
$500. Friday-2:36 class, purse 5000; free
for-all class, purse $500; $3.50 class, purse
$500. Saturdays trotting programme will
be advertised during the fair. Entries close
September Both and must be addressed to B.
g. Lynes, secretary.
NO UNCERTAIN SOUND.
The Putnam Standard is not disposed to
stand trifing. It says in its current issue:
"Quite a number of so-called reliable and
high-toned citizens of the county have been
indebted to the Standard several months or
more, and unless .they settle before many
weeks we shall take pleasure in publishing
their names in order that other establish
ments will not be taken in. A man who will
not settle his honest bills, if he can, ought to
be hanged"