The Press., 1886-01-07

The Hartford Courant offers to send it's daily paper to any address during the ses sion of the legislature for one dollar and fifty cents. This Is an extraordinarily good offer, as it's reports of the doings of that body are complete, and 1t Is able to publish to much better advantage than the Hartford afternoon daiies. Take the Courant during the coming session if for no longer time Address Hawley, Good rich x Go.
 Rev. Hugh Montgomery having severed his connection with the Norwich reform club as city missionary, there is some curi- Osity to know whether he will continue to agitate the temperance business in Nor wich or remove to new fields. It is not likely that he will receive an appointment to become the state agent for the mission ary society whose headquarters are at Hartford 1t IS more probable that he will return to the pulpit, accepting a place either at Rockville or Fall River. Nor 'Uich letter.
 Rev. John J. Quinn, assistant to Rev. Florimond Debruycker of the Willimantic Catholic parish for three years past, is ap- pointed by Bishop McMahon of the Hart ford diocese to be pastor of the South Coventry church, and the missions located at Hop River, Andover and Eagleville. These places, heretofore cared for by the Willimantic and Stafford Springs parishes, have now established or regular pastor ates, the pastors residence being at South Coventry. Father Quinn is young man of about 30, native of Hartford and well liked in Willimantic. This is his first pastorate.
 Jan. 4th, on nearing Q trestle bridge on the Wilmington and Weldon railroad, near Petersburgh, Va, the engineer dis covered that 1t was on fire and that DOT tiOn of it had been burned. Seeing the danger, and knowing that it would be impossible for him to stop the train before reaching the trestle, he bravely remained in the cab although conscious that if the train went through the trestle he would either be killed or seriously hurt as we'll as all the passengers. As quick as flash the thought occurred to him that the best way to avert the inn pending accident was for the entire train to pass over that portion of the bridge which had been burned as rapidly as pos sible. He pulled wide open the throttle valve of the locomotive and passed over the bridge at the rate of sixty miles an hour, but so great was the concussion that followed, that one of the cars broke from the coupling and all the lights in the coaches were extinguished. The pas sengers were all badly shaken up and frightened.
 4 dispatch from Cincinnati says that c. P. Huntington will consolidate all his property east of the Mississippi River at an early date. The Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railroad is to be the title of the new company, which embraces the Chesapeake and Ohio, extending from Newport News to Huntington, W. Va., 551 miles Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy, Huntington to Lexington, Ky, 139 miles; Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern, Louisville to Memphis, 392 miles Louisville, New Orleans and Texas, Memphis to New Orleans, 533 miles and the Kentucky Central with 254 miles. These roads, with an aggregate mileage of 1928 miles, are to be under one general management. The Maysville and Big Sandy road will be extended from Ash land, Ky, to Cincinnati this year. This will shorten the distance about sixty miles. The missing link in this through system, between Lexington and Louisville, will be built unless the existing road be- tween these points can be bought at sat isfactory price. It is said that Mr. Hunt ington has his eye on the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis road, which would give him inAninto St. Louis with the aid of the L.a He and Nashville.
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