Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-24
General state News.


 The country around Lyme is usually pretty good for quail but this seaaon they are very scarce. The farmers say they have seen very few and lay the blame on the blizzard. There are no birds at all in the open, what few there are being found in the small swamps. JUMPED FROM A TRAIN.
 Charles McFarlsne, of Mansfield, jumped from a New London Northern train 6 few daya ago on learning that his wife, for whom he was in search, was not aboard. The train was going twenty miles an hour and MoFarlane had his shoulder sprained and his scalp badly cut.
 RUINED HER FALSE TEETH. Mrs, Frederick Baker of Colchester was hit in the mouth last Wednesday by a bullet from the pistol of William Otis, of that place, that went wide of its mark. Mrs. Baker was in an outhouss at the time. The bullet ruined fine set of false teeth, but she was moro scared than hurt.
 SUICIDE IN NEW nARTFoRD. Schnitiniski, the Hungarian, who attempt cd to murder his wife in Hartford, Thurs day evening, hung himself in his cell Satur- day morning. His body was discovered about noon hanging from the bars of the door. Schnitiniski had torn the selva2e from his blanket and made @ rope with which he accomplished his purpose. BAPTIsT CENTENNIAL IN NEW LONDON. The Baptist church at New London cele bratad it's centennial yesterday. The exercises included historical address by Rev. Dr. George W. Gardner, the acting pastor, and g poem by Miss Mattie M. Pillsbury, oelebrat- ing the man who has been the peaceful lead CT of the choir for forty years. A collation. was served and the exercises lasted through the afternoon and evening.
 BIG REPUBLICAN PARADE IN ROCKVILLE.
 The Harrison and Morton battalion oi Rockville have everything arranged for big street parade on the evening of the 30th. l. About eight hundred men are expected from Hartford, with companies from New Britain, Middletown, North and South Manchester, WilIimantie, Broad Brook and Stafford Springs. It is expected that there will be nearly three thousand men in line. Commit tees on entertainment, decorations and illu- minations have been appointed. The visit ing companies will be given fine collation. at the opera house. The Rockville battalion will parade in Broad Brook Saturday even- ing. w. E. Simonds and H. T. Griggs spoke to the Rockville Republicans last night.
 A DISPUTE IN WINDSOR LOCKS.
 A dispute is going on in Windsor Looks between the surveyors trying to find the old line of Main street at the juncture of Chest nut street over the survey made by the local surveyor, John E. Egan. .ssfor the town to ma- cadaraize the street. The old line-stones, which in 1872 wers on the bank of the pond, now filled in and covered with branch tracks of the railroad, are hard to locate, and the map of the street made st that time does not clearly locate the boundary lines. The rail- roads surveyor, Edward Gage, of New Ha- ven, and Col. Phelps, of Windsor, for the canal company, and Egan for the town of Windsor Locks, haze been working at the puzzle for four days. The railroad company assert that they are all right and their tracks do not trespass on the towns land, while Col. Phelps claims that they are i2 feet on the tswn highEay.