Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-20
TINE BRrsror PRESS CHANGES HANDS.

The Bristol Press, which has been coz
Quoted and owned BY c. q. Riggs for the
past II years, has changed ownership:
Messrs. G. S. Haviland and T. Il. Duncan, of
Southington, have purchased the paper and
jobbing department. connected with it and
hereafter VIII have full charge. beginning
with August 10. MIR. Haviland has owned
and conducted the Southington Phoenix for
ten years. and is well and favorably known
Mr.. Duncad is a reporter of several years.
experience. Both are worthy and enterpris-
ing young men.
NOVEL HOUSE MOVING.
The French rooted house hear Peek's mills
at Stratford built several years ago by Minot
Brakeman, and for awhile occupied by him,
is to be moved by water to Cooks Point, as
heretofore announced, and henceforth will
stand over cellar already dug and stoned on
the site once occupied by Yellow MILL Mr.
Burr Curtis has the work in charge, and the
house has been rolled down near the rivers
edge and awaits the final order to start to-
wards this city. Two of q. A. Beardsley's
scoWs will receive the monster, which is 50x
40 feet on the ground, two and half stories
high, with three brick chimneys which will
go with it, the whole estimated to weigh 100
tons. Three lines of piles, extending from
the land into the water, will be driven and
| timbers be laid upon them. The house Will
rest temporarily on these and at low water
| the two soows will be run under. These,
/ rising with the tide, will lift the structure.
Then, probably on Tuesday, August q, the
steam tugs Matt Rowe, Captain George
Beardsley, Annie @. Wood, Captain Nelson
Wakeley. Isis, Captain Joseph Green, and
mate, Captain Charles Stevens,
sers and begin their four hours
towing to destination. Boss Curtis agrees
that not crack in the walls shall occur, a
brick in the chimneys, a timber or board
be displaced. In honor of what promises
prospectively to be a noteworthy event, it is
proposed to have grand clam bake aboard
the house, the clam roasting to be done IN
the kitchen, which is provided with all need
full facilities. Harbor Master McNei1 and
members of the press are to be invited, and
with the tugs crew will form q company cspa-
BILE Of making the novel moving and the
eating a complete suecess.-Bridgeport
Standard.
VETERAN MILITIA ASSOCIATION.
The annual meeting of the National Vet.
eran Militia association was held in the Off
| GERS quarters at the Union armory, Hart
| ford, on Friday afternoon. There were near
1 ly fifty delegates present. The associations
1 represented were the Seventh, Twenty Sec
l ond, TwentY-Third, Forty-Seventh, Sixty
| Ninth and Seventy regiment Veteran
| associations of New York; the Boston Light
| Infantry; Veteran Roxbury artillery of Bos-
| ton; the Boston Light artillery; Boston Fus
| sileers; Montgomery Light Guard Veteran
| association; Charlestown Cadets; Bristol
Train of Artillery; Albany Burgess corps;
| Salem Light Infantry; Amoskeag Veterans;
I Hartford City Guard Veterans.
! The meeting was called for 10 O'Clock, but
i the delegates could not reach the cityaby
| that hour, and the meeting was adjourned
| until o'clock in the afternoon. General D.
| w. Wardrop of the Boston Light Infantry,
presided. Major James G. McMurray, OF
| the Twenty second New York, was chosen
1 temporary secretary.
/ A committee, of which Lieutenant Colonel
l B. f. Blakeslee of Hartford was chairman.
/ was appointed to report a list of officers
They reported the following, who were duly
| elected:
| President, D. w. Wardrop of Boston; vice
| presidents, Colonel Charles F. Homer and
| Colonel s.. Ellis Briggs of New York and Col
| onel q. A. Tyler of Hartford; recording sec.
| rotary, Captain Frank T. Robinson of Charles.
| town, Mass; financial secretary, Major James
/ G. McMurray of New York; treasurer, Cap
| tain James Foley of Boston; corresponding
secretary. to be appointed by the president
| After the adjournment the visitors, as guests
| of the delegates of the Hartford City Guard
veterans partook of lunch at the Hartford
1 club Here, after lunch, speeches were deliv
Ward of the Seventy-frst New York; CoIone
| G. A. Greene of the Bristol, R. l.. artillery
| Colonel W. l. Martin of the Twenty-thirt
Brooklyn, Major J. O. Kinney, Major Rathbui
| and others.