Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-17
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General state News.
 IN NoRTHFoRD. Reuben Augur's barn in Northford was burned Thursday night. He saved his horses. Augur is the father of W. D. .Augur, ,iveryman of Middletown.
 $55, 400.
 An inventory of the property of John M. Sawyer of Hartford has been filed in the Pro- bate court. The property is valued at $55,- 400 by the appraisers.
 5000 FIRE IN wINsrRD.
 The Franklin Fibre Tool company's estsb- lishment in Winsted was partly destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. Loss about $5,0OO. The fire originated in the oil fuel apparatus.
 EXPOSED TO THE GALE.
 Three unknown men who went out from NorwalkThursday to shoot ducks were at last accounts on Cokenen Island, three miles from shore without food or shelter, their boat having gone adrift and efforts to reach them having been futile on account of the gale. Rescue was expected as soon as the gale fell.
 STATE COMMISSION ON ART.
 The State commission on art met at Hart ford Friday. There were present Messrs. E. W. Seymour, Charles Dudley Warner, Henry W. Farnham, and A. E. Burr. Mr. Warner was appointed chairman. and MT. Farnham, secretary. It was voted that the chairman make 8 report to the legislature sn the subject of sculpture on the outside Of the Capitol building, suggesting the group ing of representations of different periods In the history of the state, and recommending that statues of Hooker and Davenport, repre- senting the early settlement of the two colon- ies, be placed on two of the pedestals on the outside of the building.
 THERE IS TOO MUCH OF IT.
 Sensational journalism has reached such stage in Bridgeport that the prudent man who projects days trip ont of town for business or pleasure finds it to his advantage to first step into the newspaper offices, ex- plain his intentions, and ask as special fa- vor that he shall not be punished as having eloped. These elopement stories have be- come so common in the Bridgeport papers in fact and their denials follow so promptly, that exchange editors of the State press are beginning to give them the cold shoulder. We find two denials, for illustration, in Thursdays edition of the Farmer. Miss May Wallace was published last week as having eloped with Edward o. Lines, married dry goods clerk. Miss Wallace now denies the story in statement to the newspaper, in which she explains that she has not seen Lines, and that her absence was due solely to illness in New York. MT. Pease, proprie- tor of Bridgeport ten-cent store, was re- ported to have eloped with one of his lady clerks, but on further investigation was
 
 business, and explained that he had been for several days at his branch store in New York. Such sensational stuff as this is the poorest kind of journalism, and Bridgeport is not the only Connecticut city that has altogether too much of it.-Hartford Times.
 BuLKELEY BATTALION BANQUET-RULKELEY AND MRRw1N SPEAK. The banquet given at the United States Hotel, Hartford. Friday evening by the Bulkeley battalion was complete success and fttingly closes the campaign in which the battalion took such an active and credit able part Soon after 8 o'clock Colonel New ton escorted the invited guests and about one hundred of the members of the battalion into the large dining hall, and they were seated in the following order: To the right of Colonel Newton, who presided, were Gov- ernor-elect Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hon. E. s. Day, chairman of the Republican State een- tral committee, and Congressman elest ". E. Simonds; to the left were General Samuel E. Merwin, lieutenant governor-elect, Mayor John G. Root and other invited guests. MT. Bulkeley spoke of the result in urged that young and old Republicans unite to keep an imposing front before the enemy for the next campaign. General Mer- win of New Haven, who spoke next, said: Any stranger who should come into this room, il he was any judge of human nature, would know it was Republican gathering. There is as much difference between Re publican and 8 Democratic crowd as between the platforms of the two parties. When I glance around at so many young faces I feel like an old man, but I'm just as young in heart as any of you, and I mean to keep young just as long as I can. The Republi- cans have done we'll in electing a man for President of whom they never will have cause to be ashamed. He will give such an administration that if he if not his own successor, whoever the Republicans nominate will be easily nominated in 1892. Remarks were also made by Mayor Root, Ceneressman-elect Simonds, Hon. E. 8. Day and s. A. Hubbard. A letter of regret was read from Joseph L. Barbour. During the evening MT. E. J. Pearson gave spirited song, and the whole affair passed of very pleasantly indeed.