Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-05
General State News.


 The adjutant generals office at the Capitol at Hartford has been connected with the room of the quartermaster general on the third floor by means of Hall short dis tance telephone line.
 DEATH OF A NoRTHFoRD YOUNG MAN.
 Frank Pardee, a clerk at N. 0. Halls gro- cery store, Wallingford, died esterday morn ing of brain fever. His father, Postmaster Par dee, of Northford, has been in Wallingford since the beginning of his sons illness.
 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY STEAMERS.
 The commencement speakers at Wesleyan university were announced yesterday. The appointments are conferred upon ten seniors who have taken the highest rank in writing and speaking during their college course. The speakers are as follows: Frederick Gibbs Ak tell, Milford; Harry Hornby Beattys, Brook 1yn; William Morton Cassidy, East Boston; Roland Wilkins Guss, Phil1ipsburg, Penn; Frederick Hobart Hammond, Ansonia; Fred erick Alexander Hillery, Montpelier, Vt.; Miss Kate Bertha Mitchell Remsen, N. r.; William Barnard Smith, Middlebury; Thos. Dudley Wells, Belmont, N. H., and Marcus White, Farnumsville, Mass.
 A BRILLIANT WEDDING IN BRISTOL.
 The marriage of Mr. Carlos V. Mason and Miss Alice May Dunbar, daughter of W. W. Dunbar, and niece of Senator +. B. Dunbar, was celebrated at the Congregational church in Bristol Thursday evening at o'clock. About 800 persons were in attendance. The Rev. Asher Anderson, assisted by the Rev. Thomas Terry of Southwick, Mass, brother of Mrs Dunbar, performed the ceremony. MT. Frank G. Medes, of this place, was best man, and Miss Florence O. Jennings, of East Orange, N. J., classmate of the bride at the Young Ladies' seminary at Windsor, was bridesmaid. The bride was dressed in white silk, en train, with orange blossoms and q 1f% %1o we'll Iox5 fan~shaped. She wore handsome bracelet of nugget gold. present from the groom. The bridesmaid was dressed in white silk and tulle, tow corsage with garniture of white rosebuds. She carried bouquet of pink rosebuds. The ushers were Messrs. Charles E. Dunbar, brother of the bride, Samuel B. Leland of Danbury, E. A. Tomlinson, ton of New Britain. The service of the Episcopal church was used. After the wedding the invited guests repaired to the residence of the brides parents on South street, where the couple received con- gratulations standing in az ivy trimmed al- cove under floral bell. The reception last ed over an hour. Besse of Hartford was caterer.
 Among the guests who were present from out of town were Dr. and Mrs. N. J. Good win of Wethersfeld, Rev. Mrs. Thomas Ter- " of Southwick, Mass, F. A. Judd and fam fly, Miss Terry, Fred Wheeler, Springfield Miss J. S. Williams of Windsor, Miss Berry of Brooklyn, N. Y., Miss Mattoon of Spring field, Miss Fairfield of Pomfret, Miss Newton of Hartford, Miss Clara Morse ot Forestville, Miss Florence o. Jennings ot East Orange, N.J., Mir. c. L. Mason of New Britain, Miss Flora Mason and Mrs. Mason of Unionville. Mir. and Mrs. Mason left on the S:36 train amid shower of rice and con- gratulations of their friends for tour to Washington. They will return in about g week and occupy apartments at the residence of the brides parents.