Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-14
General State Newss CAN HE HAVE IT1

CAN HE HAVE ITa
 An exchange says: It is said that Senator Joseph w. Alsop, of Middletown, can have the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor If he will take it. He would pre- fer Congress.
 AN ALLIGAToR's BREAK FOR LIBERTY.
 An alligator escaped from the yard of Charles Lincoln, of. Portland, few weeks ago. It was found last week on the river bank near Gildersleeve's and again taken into captivity. The young alligator was brought from Florida last winter.
 DIED IN WORCESTER.
 Mrs. Harriet, wife of MT. Lucius Briggs of Glasgo (Griswold), died at the residence of her son, MT. Charles w. Briggs of Worces- ter, Mass, Thursday afternoon, of nervous prostration after short illness. Mir. Lucius Briggs was formerly for many years agent of the large cotton mills at Grosvenordale, and is HOW one Of the firm of the Sea Island Thread company at Glasgo. She leaves a husband, one son and one daughter, both grown up and married.
 LOSING MONEY CAUSES THE CUT DOWN.
 The Southington Cutlery company has for the past year been losing money, and about month ago an expert was hired to find out in which department the deficiency occurred. He discovered that it was in the knife de- pertinent, and accordingly the men were given notice that reduction of ten per cent. in wages was necessary. The men held meeting on Friday, and from what can be learned the work on the benches will be finished up and then the men will go on strike. However, some compromise may yet be accomplished.
 CoNNECTICUT's PLUM TREES.
 The plum trees are once more giving evi- dence of life and old-time vigor. Connecti- cut plums have been quite plentiful this year. The old trees that have been unfruit- ful for many years, and seemed to be just barely alive, have suddenly produced good yield. The Connecticut plum of years ago was plum like the old Connecticut peach it was large and luscious. The old plum trees that have remained barren for the past ten years are fruiting this season. and the delicious yellow and purple plums of long ago are again in our markets. The little brown beetle, curculio, that has played the mischief with the trees and deprived us of the fruit has seemingly disappeared. One who has made a study of the disease says that the black knots should be cut of and burned, and the trees will become healthy. Long life and health to our plum trees.- Greenwich Graphic.
 PLUNKETT AND THE TWO HARTFORD coMPA- The condition of the two companies with which Plunkett were connected is very differ ent and there is one distinction which has not been made as clear it should be. The books of the Hartford Silk company are and always have been all correctly written up and in order. They show perfectly plainly the condition of the concern-its assets and it's liabilities including all it's outstanding paper. Mir. E. A. Freeman, the secretary and treas urer of the company, is correct and skilled accountant and has kept the books. The ! trouble with this concern is not that it's man. agers do not know it's condition; it is that | they do, and know it to be hopeless. On the other hand Plunkett was the treas urer and bookkeeper of the Union Manufac- | turing company. Consequently it isn't pos sible to tell the condition of that concern. It | is found that he hasn't made entry there since the first of June. On that account all | this and all the companys financial transac- | tions must be traced out by an expert and by l the work of the receiver. It is not expected I that the mills will be shut down; they will | probably keep ruDning.-Hartford Courant l LABOR CLUB.
 Delegates from Hartford trades unions met I in that city Sunday evening and organized | the Hartford Labor club and appointed g committee of two from each ward whose f duties will be to promote the labor move 1 ment in politics. The State labor ticket was not mentioned. It WAS decided to ignore it LONG DISTANCE TELEPHoNING. l Officers of the Turnbun Interocean Tele 1 phone company and the United Lines Tele l graph company and the Bennett Mackay | Cable company experimented in long dis tance telephoning from Hartford to New l York and from Hartford to Scranton, Pa. l Sunday They claim to have had great sue cess and to have been bothered by no burrint or rattling.
 DELEGATES.
 Delegates from Unity church of Hartford | to the National Unitarian conference to b. l held in Saratoga, N. Y, next week are: Tn
 Rev. John 0. Kimbali Mrs. Mary E. Spencer l Horace Cornwall as principals, and Mis- Edith Spencer and Mrs E. M. Sellew as al | ternates.
 1 MORE ABOUT THE REGENT CYCLONE.
 The path of the cyclone in Burnside spok
 en of yesterday was from southwest to north
 east A loud roaring sound accompanied
 Only few buildings were in the path of tn ! cyclone. MT. H. J. Wickham and his wifi | were driving in on the middle road in Burn
 side at the time of the cyclone and heard tn
 loud roaring which accompanied 1t. The.
 missed being in it's track by only half min
 ute. Soon after it's passage they found evi | dences of it's fury along the roadside il
 uprooted trees and broken branche 1 scattered about, and at various points tree ! had fallen across the road and the carriag | was only got along by MT. Wickham's lead ing his horse carefully over the Instructions Northward from the Woodlawn mills the cy
 clone struck the barn and dwelling of MT
 Mahlon Forbes, but these buildings seem t 1 have been outside the line of it's greatest en l ergy. The barn had one side crushed in b l the force of the wind and then blow
 into ruin and the house partly un l roofed, lost it's chimneys and badl ! racked. On the lot surrounding the hous | every tree was blown flat. North of MI
 Forbes house the cyclone seems to have lift
 ed and gone clear of the other houses in tn
 line of it's travel.
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