Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-08
General state News.

General State NeSEss
 The Roman Catholic fair closed last eyen- ing.
 Two manufacturers give their employees holiday Saturday.
 D. 0. Pavey, who is taking a post graduate course at Yale, will be the orator Memorial day.
 L The Rey e < Lexis Ns baPtded 1es eo4EsIts in
 WORTH THOUSANDS.
 John Sage, the taxidermist, of Portland. has a stock of specimens mounted and unmounted worth many thousands of dollars.
 /Wallingtord has special borough meeting this evening to consider the laying of an sd- ditional water main from the reservoir.
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 Charter Oak council of the Order of United Daughter of Liberty degree, open to all American born women.
 G. A. R. VISIT. Mansfield post No. 53, G. A. R., has accepted an invitation to attend the annual camp fire of Mer- riam post of Meriden, which will be held next Wed nesday evening.
 DIED IN SOUTH WINDSOR. Mrs. Mary E. Spaulding wife of Q. G. Hollister of South Windsor. died on Monday last. Mrs Hol- lister the daughter of the late Nathan Spaud- ing of this place.
 The Winsted Wheel club has elected the following W xbbe; captain. E. H. weiies; first Ieutenant, Frederick Bishop. Arthur H. Dutton post, G. A. R., has voted to attend the bean bake of Merriam post of Meriden Wednesday evening and will go in bus, as the train will not stop. co. I, NEW LONDON. | This evening Company will nominate by ballot successors to Captain A. N: sterry and Lieutenant erson Harris are candidates for the captaincy. ATAGooD OLD AGE.
 MT. Julius Marble, resident of the meadow dis
 mornns aged seeyone eSs years Marble Wa an upright, honest man, and greatly respected by THE DARLING BusTLE. The Darling hustle was before the United
 States court in Hartford the other day motion of
 %Re Gf n q n Wa. ms 0 da o patent. The injunction was granted COLD BATHING.
 Mayor copghIin @ of Bridgeport took bath i9 the the Sound April 29th. He is cold water man, and for eighteen years he kept up the practice of bathing
 early and often It is said he gan pick up and play DIED IN CANAAN. | Ensign W. Peet son of Joseph Peet, who has
 sd rsH n n n fG EnsSn %s
 in business for some tire in I, ,BriSgeRort but re. ! nearly twenty years of age. SUDDEN DEATH IN NEW LONDON. Ellen Costello, woman fifty years of age, was found dead about ?. m. Sunday. She was the wife
 who was from Wexford, Ireland Costello was '
 floor by the bed. The woman died of heart disease MAGNOLIA TREEs. The beautiful magnolia trees with their pure
 white and pink and white blossoms are just now the
 leading attraction in the yards of our citizens
 ean be at the resdence M Hrsm Bs sell on Wadsworth street It presents charming IN wALLINGFoRD. | The drop in the price of tin will benefit | employees as we'll as manufacturers in the sil- ! yer plate ware factories at WalIin0ford. Since tin took such jump in price the man. | ufacturers have not made any effort to sell | their goods and the result has been less work \ for the hands,
 THE BOY WHO STOOD NOT ON THE BURNING A West Morris boy was arrested last week | for shooting an eagle contrary to the law. He was in fair way to be fined or imprisoned, \ when commission composed of a clergyman, a justice of the peace and an editor sat on | the dead body of the bird and declared 1t to | be fish hawk.
 CHIEF ARTHUR ENDORSED. Hartford division No. 5, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, met on Saturday at Hartford Members of New York, New Haven and Springfield divisions were pre- l sent and took part in the proceedings. The I division endorsed the action of Chief Arthur | in prolongiDg the 0. B. and O.. strike. The
 strike is still on and the division was official f ly notified of it.
 ARRESTED IN BRIDGEPORT. l Miss M F. Fitzgerald, who claims to be- 1 long to New Haven, was arrested in Bridge port last Saturday night on two charges | One is that of defrauding Mrs. James Fl. l Carroll out of a board bill The other is a complaint made by boys drum corps Miss Fitzgerald has been conducting tsbazaar'' at Lyceum Hall ostensibly for the Woman's hos ], pital in Boston. The drum corps want $7 per night pay for parading and drumming about the streets with placard, to adYer- 1 tise the firm.
 BODY THE THAlrEs. Captain Samuel Comstoek discovered the body of a man on pier opposite ThamesyiIle, few miles