Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-11


Lewis Lawton, who died Friday in Ansonia,
was one of the oldest residents of the town
and died from q complication OF diseases OF
which Bright's disease was the most proml-
nent. The funeral will be this afternoon. and
his son John, who resides in Omaha, will ar
rive this morning. A wife and four children,
one son and three daughters, survive him.
JUST so IN NEW HAVEN.
A lawyer of Bridgeport who does good
deal in the way of searching real estate titles
saws the proportion of titles which prove to
be more or less cIouded by defects 10 surpris-
| inely large. In some instances 1t requires no
little time, care and skill to stratghten out
the tangles SO as to get matters In shape for
| executing a conveyance free from past blem-
ishes.
FIVE CENTS ON THE DOLLAR.
| Henry T. Shelton, jr., the trustse OF the
| fusolvent estate of Michael 7. Feslsy, who
formerly conducted . grocery store In East
Bridgeport, has returned his report to the
Probate court in that city. The estate will
pay all the preferred claims, the bankruptcy
expenses and 8 per cent. on the general
claims, which amount to between SIC, 600 and
$4,000.
The case of Daniel Davenport against the
city of Bridgeport il assigned for trial to-
| morrow In the Court of Common Pleas. The
plaintiff claims $500 fees for services render
| ed in preparing the consolidation act ubse-
| quently passed by the legislature. The other
| three members of Mr.. Davenports committee
are awaiting the outcome of the case before
] putting in their claims.
FOXES.
A Sprapus spoftenan has killed or CAP
tured upwards Of thirty foxes the present
season. Learning that last years vote OF
the town was illegal, and that he could not
secure the 81 bounty, he returned home and
| Immediately set those foxes that were alive
scampering over the fields. He has declared
| his intention to hunt no more foxes until the
town has legally decided whether there shall
be scarcity of chickens.
| PURE COPPER.
Another rich deposit of copper ore was
found at the mine in Bristol Friday. This
was In the form of pure copper. One OF the
blasts opened 3 rift or seam In the rocks
about TX inches in thickness and this was
| filed with deposit soft and thick like putty
which proved to be pure copper. The shaft
| where the vein is Is $50 feet deep. 1t will be
worked day and night by two gangs OF
miners.
| HE HAS THNow> KEY.
Ambrose Higgins, for many years COM
| positor on the Norwich Bulletin but who now
resides in New London, where he is clerk of
Canton Unity, Patriarchs Militant, 10. OF,
was presented testimonial by several mem-
bers OF Canton Sass8ous OF Now haven our
ing the visit Of twenty of the Now London
brethren to Sassaous last Thursday evening.
The testimonial ia q key of immense size,
which Ambrose intends to have framed and
hung in conspicuous position in the lodge
| room.
| 1877.
| During the past year the Connecticut Sum-
day school association has held 157 conven-
lions, conferences, etc., for the promotion Of
Sunday school work in our State. It has
organized Is new Sunday schools in needy
neighborhoods. The president, Fl. 7. Prud-
den of New haven, and the chairman of the
executive committee, O. B. Foote of North
Haven, have attended nearly all of these con-
ventions. paying their own expenses and CIV
ing much time and labor to the cause.
| SURGICAL.
| HARTFORD, Nov. Crank Davis In the
Hartford hospital has had an artificial epi-
CLOTHS placed In his throat by DR.. Isham 1t Is
put in through. the aperture left when Davis
cut his throat. Davis was exhibited recently
before the Hartford county medical society
and went through an eating and drinking
process to prove to the members of that soci-
ETY. the success OF the ''arti6oial epiglottis."
Davis uses the gstta perohs tube only when
eating and drinking. His voice is not Affect
ed in the least. He had been given up to die,
but Isham pulled him through.