Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-17
RouGHT STOCK

' with those of Bridgeport and Stratford of \ the depredations of oyster pirates on their beds.
 BOUGHT STOCK. Horace C. Wilcox, of Meriden, has bought | all of the stock in the NJ. W. & O. railroad ! held by the Hon. Charles Parker. MT. Will COX Is rapidly obtaining possession of all the \ stock in the road.
 1o1 YEARS OLD. Doubtless the oldest citizen to cast a vote \ in the recent election was Judge Zephaniah W. Bunce, born at Hartford November 14, 17S7. He voted at Port Huron township, St.
 Clair county, Mich
 THE TWO SURVIVORS. The death of Hon. Lorenzo Blackstone, president of the Chelsea Savings bank, leaves Hon. John T. Wait and Hon. Henry Bill as the only two survivors of the parties who in- corporated that bank.
 TOOK $1e. 900 CHECK. A Wilton farmer named Cunning has gone taking $12, 900 check belonging to his wife, l with whom he had quarreled and who has
 now brought $100, 900 suit against him. IN THEATERs.
 Gustave Scholle, the engineer of the Aeri- den and Waterbury road which Is now in process of construction, is now one of the ex- eeutive officers of the company which has been formed in New York for the manufac- ture of patent opera glass holder. The l in theater.
 FIRST TIME IN SIXTY YEARS. For the first time in sixty years New Ca- naan will have @ representative in the Senate at Hartford. Mir. Benjamin P. Mead is the honored gentleman, & Republican, who re- joices in having got there with more than @ hundred majority to spare. Mir. Mead has already served in this town in several offices, and represented it ably in the Assembly. RocKv1LLE's MEMORIAL HALL. The Rockville building committee awarded the contract Wednesday afternoon to build the town and memorial hall building to Dar- ling Brothers of Worcester, the lowest bid dsrs, for $65, ,150. This is for the building above the foundation, ,and they agree to com plete it in one year from the time they are given the ground. There were six bids re- ceived showing 6 difference of about $15, 900. D. J. Curtis, of this city, bid $70,995, and Patrick Boston, S69, 900.
 HYMENIAL.
 Miss Emma Hannigan, formerly of Nor walk, was married in Brooklyn on Wednes- day, at the residence of Mir. c. O. Luokey, 3e7 Flatbush avenue, to Mir. Joseph Rutter, of that city. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. George Adams of the Sands street NJ. E.. church. The bridesmaid was Mics Annie c. Collins, formerly of Norwalk, now of Danbury; groomsman, Charles O. Lucky. The affair was attended by a num- Der of Norwalk friends, who report 1t @ fe- licitous event.-Norwalk Gazette.
 STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
 The State Sunday school convention will begin it's sessions at Willimantic Tuesday and remain in session till Thursday. The man. agers have engaged some the ablest Sunday school workers in the country, including Rev. Dr. J. L. Hurlbut, Dr. J. H. Vincent's suo- csssor; Rev. Dr. Frank Russell of the evan gelical alliance; William Reynolds of Illinois and w. A. Duncan of the Congregational Publishing company. Rev. Dr. Russell, who has been associated with Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong, the author of "Our Country" will deliver an address Thursday morning on 'sInterdenominational house to house visita- tien." Cheap rates have been procured at all the hotels and on all railroads entering Willimantic. SUNDAY CLOSING oF MARKETS IN BRIDGEPORT.
 The Bridgeport News says: Associations have been formed already in this city in op- position to the Sunday closing movement of the meat markets. In East Bridgeport there are three such clubs and in West Stratford there is also another. Their membership ranges from 50 to over 100. It is their in- tention to hire man to buy their meat from some wholesale house in New York and have it sent to this city twice week, where it is 1 to be cut up and sold only to members of 1 the club, thereby they claim to be enabled | to procure their meat whenever they need 1t, 1 regardless of the butchers. If this scheme l is fully carried out, and those who are at the | head of 1t are determined it shall be there is no doubt but what in short time there will l be change in the meat business of the city. | One man rises up in wrath to exclaim that l he don't propose to have the butchers die- l tate to him when or where he shall buy his | neat There is evidently war ahead.