Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-19

ESCAPE. E.. R. Wa1dorf's house in Suffield caught fire at o'clock Wednesday morning. The l fire caught from fire in the stove, which was lighted with light finder and which set | the chimney fire. The people in the house at the time were MT. Waldorf's wife, son and daughter, his father and mother, MT. l and Mrs. Eleazer Rice and an old man named | Ebenezer Pease All escaped unharmed, but hardly any of the furniture was saved. The | loss foots up some &, ,000, the insurance be- | ing but $7O0, placed in the Phoenix Insur- ance company of Hartford. AN OLD PITcHPIPE. The Rev. S. H. Fellows, of Norwich, has an old-fashioned pitchpipe which he inner | tied from his father, the Rev. Linus H. Eel i lows, who used to teach a singing school as | we'll as preach. Where it came from before l that is unknown, but it is at least one hun | dred years old. It is a rectangular box made of eight-inch mahogany, five and one-quarter | inches wide and one and one eighth inches thick At one end is a little mouthpiece. l At the opposite end is a slide the size of the | interior of the box which regulated the pitch. Upon the edge of the slide are the letters of the scale, and by pulling it out to the de- | sired letter, and blowing on the mouthpiece, | mellow, flute-like note is produced. The instrument has a range of over an octave. It l is trimmed with brass bands and is artisti- | cally inlaid with brass wire. IN MILFORD CEMETERY. In Milford cemetery Messrs. Curtis and | Hughes have placed headstones over the graves of daughter of John Smith and MT. and Mrs. Charles Cornwall; also one in Thomas Cornwalls lot. A stone has been placed over the graves of MT. and Mrs. liar vey Ford, and Scotch granite monument 1 is to be erected over the grave of the late William Glenney.
 A PROSPEROUS RAILROAD. The annual report of the Hartford and Connecticut Western road shows net earn ings of $56, ,023 against deficit last year of over $51, ,000 The entire floating debt has been paid. A still better showing is expect ed for next year.
 AN OLD EMPLoYE.
 Thomas Burns of Stepney, an employe of the Housatonic road, has been in service since January 1, 1S45 He remember when the Housatonic had a wooden track, and has been on the Stepney section for twenty-four years.
 BARNUM's LATEST.
 P. T. Barnum is to fill in 34 acres of marsh land near Seaside Park, Bridgeport, at a cost of $80,00 The average fill will be about six feet.
 DEATH OF A LEGISLATOR.
 Wm. H. Beebe, an old resident of the town ot Portland, died at his home Tuesday after noon at the age of 6S years. He was mem Der of the General Assembly of 1872 and a director in in the Middlesex County National bank of Middletown. The funeral will take place at Trinity church, Portland, to-day at 2p.m.
 ONLY THREE YEARS YOUNGER.
 The First City Troop of Philadelphia cele- brated their 112th anniversary on Wednes- day. They are just three years younger than the First company Governors Foot Guard, this State.
 REMARKABLE GROWTH.
 MT. s. w. Cowles, of No. S91 Main street, set out small whitewood or American tulip tree in front of his house about twenty-one years ago. It was cut down last week, and had attained diameter of 29 inches on the stump, or circumference of about seven feet seven inches. The trunk held it's size we'll up, and was very straight and symmet- rica1.-Hartford Courant.
 MARRIED IN LITCHFIELD.
 A brilliant wedding took place at the Catholic church to-day Wednesday,. Cornelius Maloney, editor of the Waterbury Democrat, was married to Miss Mary A., daughter of Mir. Felix Quigley, of this town. -T ,itchfia1d En0uirar