Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-23
General State News.

A Sabbath school concert will be held next Sun day evening. General State News. MYSTIC RIVER. buried last eek. lis widow takes the ofce tenn, porariy. AFTER TwENTY-Two YEARS SERVICE. Hon. A. B. Mygatt will terminate his official life as bank examiner for Connecticut and Rhode Island with the close of the year. He goes after twenty-five years of highly faithful and Honorable service. WATERBURY LIGHT AND HAPPY. Extending the hours of lighting to o'clock in the morning is also step in the the right direction; @ a very excellent and reliable service.-Waterbury American. THIRTY YEARS. MT. s. H. Willard, vice president of Holmes, Booth Hayden at Waterbury and with them for thirty years, withdraw from active connection management of the wesseIl Metal company Of New York. TWICE BEFORE.
 George Huver, of Bridgeport, who committed suicide Sunday, had taken arsenic twice before, causing only illness, and this time managed to get a fatal dose. The Hon. Charles O. Hubbard, collector of the port of Middietown is legal resident there and national House of Representatives reaGires the collector reside in Hartford it is supposed that itol City. The oldest Mason in Connecticut has died again of Hamilton lodge in 1sls died in sharon last week the age of 94 years. We believe that at present without an oldest Mason in the state-Norwaik Gazette.
 HEALTH BENEFITED. MT. John Palmer, of Westport, has returned in improved health from his Texas trip. MT. James R. Root, of New Canaan, is recovering from dangerous illness.
 VIRTUES REWARD.
  her husband found full blown dandelion blossom. Exchange.
 NoKwALK PEOPLE GOING WEST. husband in Colorado She was accempaSied by Miss Alice ouise Earle and Mrs. McCracken. MT. and Mrs. wm. G. Glines ask letter of dis to the Congregational church of Atchison, Kansas NoRwALK GIRLS NEARLY sUFFocATED. Last Saturday night Miss Kate Haulenbeck and Miss Nellie Rice were nearly asphy yxiated by escap ing coal gas from stove on the same floor with strength enough to call for help. They have not yet entirely recovered.
 Mr. Davis S. Hurlbutt of Wilton, is kept in doors by an attack of that juvenile eomplant.the humps.
 TO HIS NAMEsAKE.
 Wm. Seymour, of Ridgefeld, was married to his namesake, Miss Elizabeth Seymour of Wilton, on Wednesday last.
 DREDGING TO WIPE OUT THE sTARF1sH PEST. Congressman E. ". seymour will introduce bill in Congress providing for the dredging of oyS- ter beds in Long Island Sound and at other points along the coast by the national government for the purpose of wiping out that pest of the oystermen, the starfish.
 TRANSFERRED TO THE ERIE Mir. L. P. Farmer, brother of R. W. Farmer of Hartford and New England passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad has been appointed general passenger agent of the Erie road taking the place of John N Abbott. LEW WALLACE
 General Lew Wallace announced to lecture last evening in Norwich on Turkey and the Turks.''
 A MERCHANTS DEATH. Ex-Councilman Albert H. Pitcher senior member of the firm of A. H. & H. A. Pitcher, merchants of Greenvile (Norwich), died Tuesday afternoon after long illness at the age of fOrty-nine. He was an ex-city officer and an exemplary citizen.
 THE CUTTER DEXTER. New London harbor will be the western termi- nus of the cruising course of the revenue cutter Dexter this winter.
 AID-DE-CAMP.
 John M. Brewer. of Norwich, has been appointed aid-de camp the staff of Lucius Fairchild, com mander-in chief of the national encanpment, G. A. R.
 Three members of the Nathan Hale statue com mission Tuesday viewed Carl Gerhardt's model of his figure of Nathan Hale They liked it.