Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-16
General State News

General State News. l MISS PARLoA.
 Miss Parloa opens a cooking school in Litchfeld in May.
 | IN WATERBURY.
 Steuben lodge No. 391, D. o. H., com- memorated it's thirteenth anniversary Thurs day night.
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 Excelsior council, QUA. M, of Waterbury has extended an invitation to Nathan Hale council of Bristol to visit them. DIED SUDDENLY.
 Mrs. Sarah A. Weaver died very suddenly at her residence at the Oaks, Willimantic, Wednesday night, aged ssventy-six.
 DIED IN sUFFIELD.
 Mir. John U. Bell, citizen we'll known in Suffield from @ residence of thirty-seven I years, died from pneumonia on Wednesday after short illness, aged sixty-ssven.
 CONSOLIDATED STOCK. Formal quotations for stock of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road have ] dropped of late, without transaction, but at auction in New York this week 100 shares sold at 250.
 ] SAFE BURGLARS IN wKTHKRsFIELD.
 HARTFORD, Conn, March 15.-Burglars last night blew open the safe of Comstock, Ferre 6 Co.,, seed dealers at Wethers6eld, and secured $50 in cash. They also broke into the railroad depot, but got nothing. 1 HARTFORD SHOE DEALERS ORGANIZE.
 Hartford shoe dealers met last night and l were addressed by MT. J. Samue1s of that ! city, president of the National Association of shoe dealers. They propose to organize as l branch of the National association or as an independent society, and to unite for early closing.
 MUSIC IN HARTFORD. Jacob L. Greene, president of the Hosmer | Hall Choral union of Hartford, has issued ford. He presents plan to secure the lead | ing artists in the country for three concerts, 1 Friday evening, May 8, and Saturday after noon and evening, May 4. l DIED IN ORANGE, N. J.
 Mrs. Baldwin, widow of the late Rev. The- | ron Baldwin, D. D., and 8 most estimable and cultivated lady, died on Wednesday at A daughter, Mrs. 0. s. Fellows, lives in Hartford. HerIhusband, Dr. Baldwin, was 1 widely known throughout the Congrega- tional churches of this State as the promoter os collegiate and theological education in the West.
 TUNxIs TRIBES DoINGs. ! At the meeting of Tunxis tribe of Water 1 bury Thursday evening the address of Major | F. A. Spencer was very graphic and enter \ IalnlnS. 6ls suDJ6ct QWelG upon nl6 personal experience in bushwhacking on the frontier ! in the late war. The amendment to the by laws regarding an increase of funeral benefits was indefinitely postponed. The present funeral benefit is $50, paid from the treas | ury.
 GEN. DAVID YOUNG. Gen. David Young, seventy, of Norwich, l who died Tuesday, was one of the most prominent lawyers in the city and for sev- eral years the partner of Judge Lafayette S. Foster. He held many of the city offices and l WAS registrar for twenty-eight years. When l the civil war broke ont he was one of the | first to offer his services to Governor Buck l ingham and was sent to the front as lieuten- ant colonel of the Second regiment. l coNNEcTIcUT's MORTALITY FOR FEBRUARY. The mortality report of the state board of l health for February shows the following death rates Bridgeport BOA, Bristol II, ! Danbury 20.6, Derby 13, Meriden 19.2, Naug- stuck 14, New Haven 15.6 and Waterbury | 13.6.
 ! There were 922 deaths in Connecticut in 1 the month of February; this was 30 more | than in January; it was 175 less than in Feb ruary of 1888, and 27 less than the average number of deaths in February for four years preceding the present. The number of deaths in the first two