Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-25

in his ways, but was hard working and in- dustrious man. He leaves a wife and several children.
 MORE SLOW DELIVERY.
 An order from a firm in Bristol for goods from a Hartford house dated December IA, was received here on December 21-just one week for eighteen miles. The Hartford firm indulges the hope that after the fourth of March next it may not take quite so long for letter to cover the distance.-Hartford Courant
 TO GO TO WASHINGTON.
 All the companies of the Third regiment except Company 0 of Norwich and A of New London have voted to attend the inaugural parade at Washington on the 4th of March next. Company A has not yet voted on the matter, but Company c has decided that the they care to pay. All the companies will probably go, however.
 SAFE BURGLARY AT ABERDEEN. MER1DEN, Dec. 24.-The Meridsn and Wa terbury railroad depot here was entered by professional burglars at 9 o'clock this morn ing. They drilled hole in the safe and blew the door off by means of powder. Only about S25 was found in the safe, disappointing the burglars, who believed the railroad pay roll money was contained therein. They left no clue.
 
 James H. Kenny of Meriden owns a pair of coons. Their love of beer is so strong that they will drink nothing else. Like many other topers, they are unable to realize when they have had enough. They get boiling I drunk at every opportunity and usually end | their sprees in savage fights. Neither will drink beer brewed in Connecticut They drink New York and Milwaukee beer, but | their greatest delight is in Culmsbacher. DoMEsTIc's NARROW ESCAPE. A few nights since a domestic in the em' ploy of the Rev. Dr. Hartranft of Hartford, awoke to find her bed-closhes on fire, the | flames having already scorehed her hair. l She had the presence of mind to jump out of | bed and extinguish the flames, which had | destroyed the clothing removed before re- ] tiring, and filled the room with smoke. | the family and was properly cared for. Ii | was a narrow escape, probably the result ot carelessness in extinRuishing the light. RAILROAD CONDUCTORS MEETING. 1 About forty Consolidated road conductors | attended the grand union meeting of the l Order of Railway Conductors, held in Provi- | denee Sunday. In the party were: William l Curnow, L. Finch, William Daniels, Robert Lindsley, John Gallagher, Edmund Wilson, Charles Dsnsmore, R. s. Beers, John Car | roll, Charles Cowles, Edward Bradley, Der by; Herbert A. Beers, Derby; Edward Leahy, | A. s. Ostrander, Frank Hsrmance, J. Dyas, | 0. s. Tuck. T. Daley, John Woodruff, Will | A Griffin, G. H. Hardy, Oliver A. Ingalls,, \ A. B. Murphy, Edward Connolly, Charles ! Mel, Barrett Porter.
 CATCHING TWO THOUSAND SEALS. The schooner Sarah Hunt, which left l Stonington October 20, 1887, on 8 sealing | voyage, has returned home. It was Captain | Buddington'B intention to remain away two years, but the crew behame so reduced by \ desertion and death that it became necessary to cut short the voyage. The second mate, Antone Perie, of Stenington, died at Sandy Point, and c. H. Peterson WAS knocked 1 overheard by the boom and lost. While at | Sandy Point Second Mate James E. Potter l took boats crew and left the vessel. l Among the casualties was the loss at the Shetlands of the flying jibboom and fore- topmast. In spite of all these mishaps, however, the voyage was successful, as more ] than two thousand sealskins were secured.