Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-20
STATE CORRESPONDENCE.
SOuth1ngtOm.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE MEN DECIDE
 TO WORK AND NOT sTRIKE-HEARING TO
 REAsoN-oTHER NEWS.
 SoUTH1NGToN, Sept. 19.-Henry- Anthony for an assault on Patrick Foley at the rolling mill Saturday was fined s and costs. An thony and Foley had a fight over politics in a saloon the previous night end were not quite satisfied with the result.
 John Collins, who has been ill with fever, was improved Saturday. He is prominent merchant of Huntsville.
 The Knights of Labor had dance Friday evening. There is now prospect that the shop girls will form an assembly.
 Postmaster Hemingway is somewhat of a farmer. He raised this season eighty bushels of excellent potatoes.
 Colonel R. s. Cheves, of the Voice, will lecture at the Town hall Tuesday evening. Subject, ''The Prohibition Situation"
 The one hundred and twenty-five men em- ployed in the Southington Cutlery company's E knife shop have decided that it will be better to work at ten per cent. reduction than go on strike. They came to this decision Friday. The company has not been paying any dividends and the reduction wss neces- sary.
 Mrs. Mary Godfrey, who jumped off the Nickel Plate bridge at Girard, Penn. last Wednesday night, was an aunt of Ernest Godfrey of this place. He says that she has been deranged for some time.
 The Peck, Stow & Wilcox company has shut down it's monkey wrench department.
 The Rev. Dr. Phelps, of Hartford, will preach at the Baptist church Sunday. North Haven.
 THE CHANGERS W ENT-A YOUNG LADY's RE TURN-YoUNG PEOPLE ENJOYING THEM SELVES.
 NORTH HAVEN, Sept. 19.-Several mem har. of fI1aT aI1I 1ar hon. ai other people went from here to the fair al Meriden. Some were caught in the rair while driving and thought it anything but agreeable, but speak highly of all connected with the fair.
 A meeting was held at Linsley's Hall or Friday evening with J. B. Goodsell chairman and Luzerne Crockett secretary. J. B. Bishop and H. F. Potter were appointed delegates te the Democratic State convention. Delegates were also chosen for the other special fal gatherings.
 Miss Anna Goodyear, daughter of Dr. Goodyear, who for the last three years has been absent in Detroit, Mich, is now home and is to attend private school in New Haven the ensuing year, commencing next week. Miss Anna is to go and return by cars every day.
 On Friday evening class No. IS of the Congregational Sabbath school were invited to the home of R. O. Eaton, a member of the class living at Montowese, and were treated to different varieties of melons, all pro nounced very fine. A very pleesant, merry time was enjoyed. The teacher of the class was greatly interested in the proceedings furnishing two teams to transport large number of the class to the gathering.
 Mrs. Lucy Hicks, formerly of this place but for some years past resident of Syra cuse, N. Y., is now on visit to friends in this place and Wallingford. Mrs. Hicks is the mother of Captain A. J. Bassett, of New Haven.
 In looking over old furniture and relies fol exhibition at the coming centennial celebra tion one lady discovered on the back of an ancient bureau the date 17S2, evidently placed there by the hand of the maker. The article is in a good state of preservation and is an exceedingly nice looking piece of furni. fnra