Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-03
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 BIG LUMBER SHED.
 Messrs. Lincoln Brothers mammoth lum- her shed in WiIlimantic was raised Wednes- day afternoon. It is 41x130, with astorage capacity of 50o, GOO feet of lumber and ,000, 900 shingles.
 AFTER TwENrY-ToUR YEARS SERVICE. MT. A. w. Jfllson, for over twenty-four years vice president of the Phoenix insurance company of Hartford, has rendered his resig nrtion of that office owing to long and con- tinued i'll health.
 New London's present base ball nine is the hest that city have had for many years, and the lovers of the game there are mourning
 because the nine cannot get better lot to play in than it now has.
 OVER $27, ,000. The life insurance carried by the late Chas. T. Smith, of Wil1imantic, amounted to $27,- OeO, divided among the Equitable of New
 Yoak, Union Mutual of Maine, Atna and Travellers Accident of Hartford.
 WORSE THAN BRUTEs. Some unknown party adopted most vile
 lainous method for revenge at East Hartford
 
 were invaded and the tongue literally pulled out of the mouth ot one of the horses.
 WEEKLY PRESS OUTINGS. The next meeting of the Connecticut Weekly Press association will be held in Hartford on September IT. The subject for
 discussion will be ttLibel," and paper on the subject will be read by Editor Wiley of the Sunday Globe.
 sEVENTY-Two LAST SUNDAY. Mrs. Grace R. Adams, of Rockville, daugh- ter of the late David Ritter, of New Haven, celebrated her seventy second birthday on Sunday last. She received many presents. Many members of the Adams family were present from; different parts of the State. COLLECTOR BYxBEE's MOTHER DEAD. Mrs. Byxbee, mother of Collector Byxbee of New Haven, died Wednesday night at her home in South Norwalk in her 85th year. Mrs. Byxbee was a widow her husband hay I ing died some years since. She leaves three
 sons and daughter to mourn her loss. The I interment will be in Cypress Hill cemetery, Brooklyn.
 CAGES IT ABOUT RIGHT. The Rev. Dr. Gage ought to start sum- I mer school for instructing clergymen how to capture burglars. Here is the Rev. MT. Delano, of Norwalk, catching sneak thief | in his closet and allowing the rascal to es- cape. Dr. Gage had his fellow sent to Wsth { ers6eld and then went down and preached te him. That's the proper examp1e.-Hartford Courant
 I THE STORES SCHOOL. The trustees of the Storrs Agricultural school held lengthy meeting at Hartford Tuesday and transacted considerable routine business. The course of instruction for the coming year was considered and will be is sued in few days in circular form. The new experiment. station is being built rapidly and the address of the institution is not to be called "Storrsville," 1" but 'tStorrs Agricultural school"
 TRIALS NEVER COME sINGLY. The managers of the Ansonia electric road need good supply of patience to endure the constant succession of accidents that have happened since the road was opened few months ago. A lightning bolt in moderate thunder shower few days ago came in con- tact with the wires in Derby and disabled all motors that-were connected. The armaturee will have to be renewed, and will cost con siderable expense.
 BAND CONCERTS. Norfolk, Conn.,, is full of joy over it's fire. quent band concerts. Nearly three thousand people were on the green Wednesday even. ing, and still larger number would proba- bly, have been present on Friday evening had it not been for the threatening weather SC that the excursion train from Collinsville was postponed. It has been very pleasing to all that MT. Battell has been able to attend every concert, as for two years past he has been quite i'll during concert week. LEFT s5,0OO, ,000. Isaac N. Phelps, the we'll known fnancier died at his cottage in Saratoga Wednesday morning. He was the son of . Connecticut farmer and was born in Windsor in thia State February 27, 1904. At the age of six. { teen he went to Sufield, nsighboring town where he was employed as clerk in & general ! country store. When he was twenty three years old he went to New York and engaged \ in the hardware business. In 1853 he and gressman William Walter Phelps, invested largely in real estate, especially in the down ! town business districts, and he became very wealthy, leaving fortune estimated at $5,- 100000.
 FIREWORKS AT CAMP TERRY THE NOBLE Visitors to Camp Terry during the week the Connecticut militia brigade is encamped there will find the regiments located as last year: The Fourth on the right of the camp, the First next to them, the Second and Third regiments and the Light battery fol- lowing. A year ago, on illumination night, the Friday evening preceding the breaking of
 the camp, the Fourth and First regiments
 made a fine display of pyrotechnics, outdo- ing the other regiments in this respect This will not be the case during the current month, e the Third is understood to have decided to do its full share toward illuminating the grounds the last night they are in camp. The regiment will muster more men than it did at the encampment of 1877, though 1t will have no machine gun platoon tor the several companies have been recruiting during the last few months and are in good shape for going to Eiantie.-Norwich Bulletin.