Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-12
STATE NEWS.

The Norwalk Gazette has entered upon it's eighty-seventh year.
 Dandelions still bloom on Madisens frozen
 highways.
 Councilman John H. McCann of the Third | ward, Hartford, is seriously i'll. The Connecticut Western railroad refuses 1 to give more free passes to members of tke legislature.
 About twenty persons were admitted to full membership in the Higganum Meth | odist church on Sunday. The Schuyler Electric Light company of Hartford has declared 8 dividend of two per l cent, payable on the 10th inst. Edward Dickerson, clerk in the office of I Wilcox, Crittenden & Co.,, Middletown, 1 broke his leg Friday while skating. The Rev. Mir Nichols preached special sermon to the Sons of St. George of Hartford at Christ church in that city Sunday even | ing.
 A Wallingford girl, only fifteen years old, l has complained to the court that her eight l een-year- old husband neglects to support l her.
 Ezra White, who died in New York last week aged eighty -three was brother in law l of A. G. and R. A. Pease, of Middletown. He was buried in Indian Hill cemetery on Sat
 urday.
 Stafford farmers have recently lost mum Der Ot hogs by a disease WHICH IS SuppOSeu to be hog cholera, though the symptoms are said to differ somewhat from those looked for in that disease.
 Considerable religious interest exists in Middlefeld, where about fifteen persons ! have risen for prayers in the union meetings Hezekiah L. Read of Jewett City, an evan gelist, is expected to assist ill these services this week.
 The Hartford Courant types, usually un- nf Sunday at New Haven and gave the loss by the burning of the property-a house and barn-at ten dollars. But typographical CT
 TOTS will occur even in the best journals. There was a cock fight Hartford Sunday afternoon which attended by several of the sporting men i'll the city. The birds were all owned by Hartford par ties, and seven battles were fought during which good deal of money changed hands. The affair was carried on very quietly, and there was no interference on the part of the authorities.
 l A quit claim deed was entered for record at the town clerks office Friday afternoon | transferring the Smithville cotton mill plant | in Willimantic, together with 162 shares in 1 the Bolton Reservoir and Water Power conl- | pany Git being noted, however, that theso | shares are now pledged to the Chelsea Saw | ings bank to Oliver A. Washburne, jr., of | Providence.
 l The Providence Journal says: "James | Wallace, a New Haven tramp, WIS found on Huntington wharf yesterday .4eD'ning. sleep 1 ing comfortably in a big snow drift; He l had for a companion a plether1c bottle | and about foot and half of bologna sall-
 sape When. pulled ont by the watchman 1 he said he felt quite comfortable, and actu- | ally walked off if he had slept in the best l bed in the best hotel in town. 1 The first four months report of the Mid 1 dletown horse railroad presents a very en-
 couraging showing. The road was opened | September F and between that time and l December 31 it transported 94, 535 passengers | and took fares amounting to $4, 100, which l is about $1 ,000 more than the current run ming expenses. These directors have been elected: J. NJ. Douglass, s. R. Allison, G. NJ. Southmayd, c. R. Woodward, A. c. Allison, E. B. Chaffee, E. Denling, L. Bailey, J. K. Guy and F. B. Chaffee. The Newtown Bee says: "A singular
 thing about the golden wedding of MT. and
 Mrs. Ebenezer Blackman of Botsford is that
 there has been no death in the family in all
 their married life They have three chil-
 dren, Messrs. James NJ. and I. Percy Black
 man, and Mrs. Charles Hurlbut. Mr
 James NJ. Blackman has two children; Mrs.
 Charles Hurlbut six; Mrs. Hurlbut's daugh-
 ter, Mrs. Adella Northrop, three, and Mrs
 Jennie Brown another daughter, one. This
 makes three children, eight grandchildren
 and four great grandchildren, with no death
 in the number yet.