Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-03
General state News.

Great was the surprise in Wallingford when it was found that the Republicans had for the first time in 25 years elected town clerk. The lucky man was Captain W. Burr Hall and the defeated candidate o. I. Mar tin, who has held the office for the last six teen years. Halls majority was 28 in vote of 552. Captain Hall is we'll known in this city as one of the most popular officers of the Horse Guard.
 A SUDDEN DEATH.
 A woman of dissipated habits, generally known as Flora Shelton, but who was the wife of George B. Crawford, formerly con- nected with the variety rhester in Hartford, fell on the sidewalk on Trumbull street near Main in that city Sunday morning and died soon after being carried into Shannon's drug store. Relatives in Windsor took charge of the body. She was about forty years old and had been married twice.
 SICKNESS IN A COUNTY HOME.
 There are six cases of typhoid fever at the County Home in East Hartford, all of them of mild form, and Dr. Barstow thinks none of the children are in any serious danger. The summer house for children has been brought over from Hartford and set up in the front yard and the sick children are being cared for in this. The trouble is believed to have originated from the stoppage of drain pipe. This has been taken up and it is believed all sources of further danger have been removed.
 DIED IN MADISON.
 Samuel w Dowd, one of the Dowd "boys' so called, died on Saturday evening, aged 89 years. This was very remarkable family. The four sons and one daughter were child ren of Henry and BetseY Dowd. Henry died in 1843, aged 84 years; Abigail, wife of Henry, in 1e52, aged S6 years; Betsey in 1868, aged 70 years; George died in 1882, aged "A years; Abram A. died in 1888, aged S9; Samuel died in 1888, aged 89 years. Their
 
 left by the three sons will not be less than $100,000.
 SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. The New England Congregational Sunday School association, which has already held successful meetings in Boston and Hartford, meets this year in Lewiston, Maine. This is the first time this association has been held in northern New England and great occasion is expected by the Sunday school workers of Maine, New Hampshire and eastern Massa- chusetts. The officers and speakers, how ever, come from every State in New Eng- land, and the preceding gatherings have been large, though composed of people chief ly from the State in which the convention has been held. The programmes have been issued and embrace variety of interesting topics. Among other distinguished speakers are MT. Burroughs of Amherst college, the Rev. Dr. Blake, and the Hon. D. N. Camp of Connecticut the Rev. Dr. Cunning, Mir. Hazard and MT. Winship of Boston. Con gressman Dingley will also speak if his pub lie duties will permit his absence from Wash ington. The convention will convene the 18th of October and will adjourn the 18th. CONNECTICUT POTATO CROP. Mr. w. F. Andrews of East Hartford, who has exceptional facilities for gathering facts about agricultural matters, writes to the Hart ford Courant: The digging of the late crop ot potatoes has unexpectedly revealed the fact that the crop is far short of the farmers ex pectatiens and estimates. If the results as shown in the section east of the river are an indication of the situation throughout the county there are not so many bushels of po- tatoes to-day in Hartford county as there were last year, when the cry was short crop all over, though this county had fair crop. have been amoug the growers considerably the past week with view of ascertaining the true situation and am very much surprised to find only 60 to 65 per cent of what the crop of last year was among the farmers in East Hartford and South Windsor, though two weeks ago they supposed the late crop was large. One grower who had 1 400 bush ! els last year, has less than TOO on the same 1 land this year. I have met with very few farmers who have the yield of last year even, and the general complaint is 8 very short crop of late potatoes. This is attributed to the drouth in the past, which pinched the late crop at the time of F'setting," also to the blight which swept over many fields damsg- ing them to a large extent wherever the blight was apparent. City people will do we'll to buy their winters stock at present prices-about 60c.-as there will probably be an advance in the price before November. The quality and soundness of the crop is phenomenal, even the poorest sort cook well but the bushels are not here.