Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-13
General State News,

General State News. VISITORS AT CHURCH.
 Several persons who are only occasional visitors were among the church attendants at Nichols Sunday morning. MT. Horace Ly- on and wife of Huntington, MT. Will Bald win and a friend from New Haven, MT. Wal ter Lewis of West Stratford.-Bridgepor Standard.
 DIED IN BRIDGEPORT.
 Mrs. Harriet L. Acker, widow of the late O, J. Acker, who carried on extensive | trucking business in Bridgeport several years | ago, died yesterday morning at 7:45 o'clock at her residence, No. S3 Beach street. Her decease was very sudden, as she was out walking in the yard the day before. For about a month she has suffered from purpu- ra, but has been much better this week till l the relapse that ended with her death. Her l loss is mourned by two children, Mrs. W. s. | Cornwall and Miss Louisa Aeker.
 AT SOUTHPORT.
 The Consolidated road is making an im- provement near Southport depot which will prove of advantage to the people of that place. For many years the approach to the | depot there at the north has been anything | but an easy one. A temporary track has | been laid, and gravel is now being deposited, | the object being to raise the grade and leave l broad highway for vehicles. Taxpayer will not only have free use of the new road, but secure it without the outlay of dollar. Further east in the same town the company 1 have improved crossing by filling in with earth, thereby lessening the danger that | heretofore existed there.-Bridgepor Stand ard.
 THE DEATHS IN THE STATE. The sanitary report for July, 1886, by c. A. Lindsley, M. D., secretary of the State Board of Health, is an interesting document. The total deaths from all causes in the cities during the month were: New Haven, 145, Hartford 92, Bridgeport 78, Waterbury s4, Norwich 46, Meriden 33, New Britain 31, Norwalk IS, Middletown 29, New London 2S. In public institutions there were IS deaths in New Haven, 15 in Hartford and 6 in Middletown. Deducting these from the total number reported gives the following as the annual death rate in the cities: New Ha- ven 19. Hartford 17.5, Bridgeport 28, Water bury 21.9, Norwich 24, Meriden 1e, New London 29. In this city there was much less sickness than in July, 1883, 'S4, or 'S5. For the six months of the present year the total mortality was but 446 against 519 for the corresponding time last year. The prevail ing diseases in June affected children and were diarrhma, dysentery, diphtheria and scarlet fever. There was one case of ma lignant form of scarlet fever proving fatal within twenty four hours. The small num- Der of deaths from consumption (6) was no- ticeable.
 James F.. Graham, 8 brother-in-law of Mrs. Henry s. White of Middletown, died Mary Graham of the class of '89, Wesleyan 1 university. The interment was at Mont 1 gomery, N. Y. l
 ARRIVED HOME. Mrs. Lucy H. Washington of Essex, who l has been featuring six months in Pennsylva- | mia under the auspices of the Women's | Christian Temperance union of that State, | arrived home on Tuesday and delivered a | temperance address last evening in the Con | gregational church of Middle Haddam. THE PUTNAM PHALANx WILL GO TO PORTLAND. l
 At special meeting of the Putnam Phal- | anx Wednesday evening the command recon | sidered the vote to go to Gettysburg and Lu- | ray caverns and voted to go to Portland and | Old Orchard beach, making four days | trip. The time will be the last of August, | and the precise date will be set by the com mittee
 WoMENS DAY AT wILLIMANTIC.
 The Connecticut Temperance union will | hold meeting on the Willimantic camp | ground, August 15th the Sunday preceding | camp meeting. Public services will be held | on Saturday evening (14th), and Sunday, l morning, afternoon and evening, with ad- l dresses by Mrs. c. B. Buell., secretary Ma | tional Womens Christian Temperance union, | and Mrs. J. K. Barney of Rhode Island. It | is expected also that Mrs. H. D. Walker of | Rhode Island and the Rev. Hugh Montgom cry will take part in the exercises. A chil- | drens meeting will be held in the early af | ternoon. Board and lodging will be furnish ed on reasonable terms, and the usual rail- | road excursion ticket will be on sale in sea- son for that date.
 AN OLD CLOCK.
 There is at Norwich an old clock belong ing to Mrs. William s. Dearden. which has been handed down in the family for five | | IL T1ro1,t and was originally brought into the family by Mrs. Deardens great-great- grandfather, about 150 years ago. He bought it when twenty years of age in Holliston, N. H., giv- ing COW for it. How much older it is can not now be ascertained, although the family tradition of it says it was old second hand clock when the COW paid for it.
 GERMAN SOCIETIES.
 George J. Faulhaber, grand master of the Grand lodge, D. O., Harugari, of Connecti cut, has appointed these district deputy ! grand masters: For Meriden, August Masch- meyer; New Britain, Gottlieb Lorch; Hart ford, Louis H. Zacher; New Haven, Conrad Lohse; Southington, Frank Rochor; Bridge port, John Walter; Waterbury, John Ramp; Ansonia, Joseph Dickisser; Collinsville, Fred erich Schmitt; Rockville, Albert Weller; Torrington, O. W. Volkmann; Broad Brook, Ernest Geisler; Union City, John Messnerr; Stafford Springs. John Menge.
 SEVEN THOUSAND PUNcTUREs.
 A Bridgeport dispatch says: "For the last twelve years Otto H. Bowman, who died at l the hospital Sunday, had been kept alive by | injections of morphia. For the months he had been at the hospital ! it is estimated that his skin had been punc- tured over s,0OO times, in order to perform the operation, and five ounces of sulphate of morphia was the quantity used. In ad- dition to this he was given daily two ounces of whisky until recently when he was allowed a bottle of beer daily. Before entering the Bridgeport hospital he was in Bellevue, where he was under the same sort of treat ment. It Is estimated that in the last twelve years his skin has been punctured over 1000 times, and there was scarcely spot on his whole body where the marks of the hypoder- mic needle could not be seen.'
 POLITICAL.
 ReDublfcau State Couyeution.