Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-28
General state News.

years. His pet diversion was pedestrianism. General State News. DIED IN DURHAM. Ezra D. Burke, of Durham, died Friday, | aged forty-nine years. The funeral teek place Saturday afternoon.
 GOES TO NAUaATuoK. Rev. J. W. Ellsworth, rector of Calvary | church of Colchester, has accepted the call to | St. Michael's church. of Naugatuek. BR1sToL's BOARD OF TRADE. At meeting in Bristol with reference to 8 board of trade committee composed of ! George A. Beers, o. S. Treadway, Samuel W. Bradley, A. J. Muzzy and G. A. Gowdy \ was appointed to examine and report on the \ subject.
 AT MoNTREAL's ICE CARNIVAL. Lucius Futile, formerly general passenger | agent of the old Hartford, Providence and | Fishkill road, is now located at Montreal as ! general passenger aud traffic manager of the I Canadian Pacific. He is chairman of the Ice Carnival association this winter. HORTICULTURAL. The Hartford Horticultural society is still \ alive and apparently fourishing. It met Sat- urday afternoon At the State Capitol and heard paper read on Market Gardening. :" ! New Haven's Horticultural society stranded ! and went to pieces years ago. | For several days past Charles E. Nichols | has been troubled with bad smell coming | from somewhere in the house. He endured ! it as long as possible and yesterday iayesti- ! gated and found the dead body of 6 skunk in l the cold air box of his furnaoe.-Soash Nor. walk Sentinel.
 AN OYSTER STEAMER BURIED. | NoRwALK, Jan. 26.-At Five AIils river | early this morning, the oyster steamer Early l. Al e.. R- ! was fired by an incendiary and totally de- ! stroyed. The vessel was in dry dock under going repairs.
 THE PRICE OF COAL. Ex-President Gilbert, of the Connecticut Western railroad, is quoted authority for the statement that the completion of the Poughkeepsie bridge, which was opened New Years day, ought to lessen the price of coal a dollar a ton to consumers on connecting lines east.
 CONNECTICUT CLOTH FOR HARRISON. General Harrison's new dress suit is to be made out of cloth manufactured in Conneeti- cut. While itis good idea to patronize American manufacturers, and while cloth made in Connecticut is doubtless excellent, we hope that the President-elsct is not silly enough to order his nutmegs from the same locality.-Chicago News.
 A DAM REBUILT.
 The stone dam at Mrs. E. 4. Flagg's grist
 mill in West Hartford, which was carried away by the great freshet of December IT
 last, has been replaced by @ very substan- tial timber structure, which was completed last evening. It was built by Mr. John
 Fish, of Parkvills, contains 200 trees and 2, 800 feet of plank, and as Mrs. Flagg tell
 ephoned last evening bids fair to '1ast for- ever."
 SUDDEN DEATH OF J. E. CAswRLL.
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 urday after an illness of thirty hours. On Thursday evening he was in apparently good
 health, but during the night he was stricken
 with rheumatic meningitis, which worked
 from the knee through the body to the head
 and brain. His age was ffty-two years. He
 leaves wife, three daughters and one son,
 one of the daughters being the wife of Eugene
 Billings.
 THE BAsTARDY SUIT AGAINST DEPUTY sHER-
 The Bastardy suit against Deputy Sheriff
 Merwin, of Durham, occupied the attention
 of Justice Calef of Middletown, all day Fri
 day. The testimony offered was to show
 that Merwin could not have been with the
 girl at the time she had sworn to. The wit
 nessss who testified were Mrs. H. s. Ner-
 win, Mrs. A. Fl. Merwin, Henry s. Merwin
 and Sheriff John I. Hutchinson. The case was to be further heard.
 Before Judge Birdsey in Middletown, Fri day at the Probate court, . hearing took place in the case brought by Mrs. Eugene Cole, who desires to secure possession of her two children who are at present living with their grandfather, A. A. Cole, on Hubbard street. Attorney Culver appeared for Mrs. Cole, and c. E. Bacon for the grandfather. Attorney Bacon presented the court with ! telegram from Eugene Cole, the husband, who left his wife some time ago, which l stated that he had procured divorce in | Colorado, and that the two children were awarded to the father. The telegram further l said that copy of the divorce papers had l been sent to Connecticut. AS the papers | had not been received the case was continued I until Tuesday of Next week.
 THAT HAND AND ARM.
 That human hand and arm found in an at | tic in house in Shelton, occupied by the | late George M. Shepard, came, it was ascer- tained, from the dried and mummiGed body of woman found in the rafters of an old | brewery at the Five Points in New York | twenty years ago. Shepherd, then resi- dent of Brooklyn, had hobby for collecting | odd and curious things, and when he heard of the finding of the body secured the hand and arm for consideration of five dollars.