Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-22

Real estate transfers: F. Coughlfn to
 James A. Coughlin, 75x150 feet on Wallace
 street. James Coughlin will build a house
 on the lot. D. o. Morris to O. H. D. Fow- Ter, administrator, 75x159 feet on East street;
 John Munson to D. E. Norris, 70x150 feet, with buildings, on East street.
 | STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Under the law enacted by the last legisla- | ture, conventions are to be hold next month
 in each county of the State, for the purpose
 of choosing delegates to convention which l will elect members of the State board of agri-
 agricultural societies are entitled to repre-
 ssntation by delegates. One good result l of this arrangement will be, 1t is hoped, to
 cause farmers generally to take greater in-
 terest in the important work of the State
 board of agriculture.
 THE REGENT MURDER TRIAL. In a New Haven murder case the jury stab-
 bornly disagreed and were discharged. They
 stood eight for manslsughter and four for
 murder in the second degree.
 This seems to have been a case where there was not sufficient excuse fer disagreement. If the jury had stood eight for acquittal and four fer murder, a disagreement could | have been understood. But all the twelve in
 this case agreed that e homicide had been committed by tho prisoner. The only ques-
 tion was one of degree, whether his crime I Wd6 pkOpeIly Lo Oo eLhBb0Q a1 uhu1lAQRQLof or as murder in the second degree. The in- terests of justice and society demanded a compromise ny which verdict could have been reached, and, in view of the jurv's agreement upon the main point, there is no apparent excuse for their mulish sbstinaoy volved. If the judge knew how they stood he certainly should not have discharged them.-Norwich Bulletin.
 THE wEsLEYANs AT sPRINayIELp.
 Yesterdays Springfield Republican says: mysteries of football before the contests Sat- urday will have one more opportunity to study the game. Wesleyan and Lehigh will play on Hampden park tomorrow (Friday) afternoon and a the two colleges arc about evenly matched the game promises to be close one. The LehiRh eleven arc the cham. pions of the smaller colleges of the central States and are very anxious to get in the 'big' league in Wssleyans place. On this account, if no other, Wesleyan wishes to show her su- psriority to the Lehigh team. The regular Wesleyan eleven will play, with the possible | exception of Captain Mcdonald, who has not | yet sully recovered from the injuries received
 in the recent Harvard Wesleyan game" Con-
 cerning the Yale Harvard game the same paper says: "Ths Yale aAd Harvard football
 managers have been notified of attempts to | counterfeit their grand stand tickets for Sat-
 urday's game. Taylor's music store is the | authorized place in this city for the sale of | tickets and persons are warned against buy | ing alleged tickets elsewhere"
 IsA CONNECTICUT MAN.
 Chief Commissioner Charles Lyman of the Civil Service commission, was born in Bol-
 ton, Holland county, Conn.,, April 10th, ,1S43, | and was educated in the public schools of his native town, in the Vernon academy,
 Rockville High school, and Bryant & Strat-
 toms Business college. He began teaching
 school at seventeen years of age and taught | for two years. He served in the army dur ing the war in the Fourteenth Connecticut
 volunteers, and in December, 1884, he was appointed to 0erkship in the treasury de- partmsnt, in which department he served as
 clerk, assistant chief of division, and
 chief clerk of the treasurer's office
 until May, 1883, when he was ap-
 pointed chief examiner of the civil
 on the retirement of Commissioner Eaton in
 March, 1886. he was appointed by President Cleveland his successor as civil service com-
 missioner. On recognizing the commission under the present administration by the ap- pointment of Messrs. Roosevelt and Thomp- son, H-. Lyman was made president of the commission. During the administration of examination held for the Treasury depart ment and the New York custom house under the civil service commission of which Nr, Dorman B. Eaton was chairman. Personally Ar. Lyman is respected and liked by public men who do not agree with him on civil ser- vice matters.
 FORMERLY or HARTFORD.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Clensntine Kinney, mother of Edmund Clarence Steadnan, ,died Tuesday night at Summit, N. J., bsing very nearly 79 years old. She was the daughter of David D. Dodge. and was born in New York city December 1S, 1e10. She married in early life Edmund D. Stsdmsn, c merchant of Hartford, Ct., where her son, the poet and critic, was born in 1889. Threagh his mother Mr. Steadman is related to Channing, the Unitarian divine, and to the Cleveland stock from which Grover Cleveland and Bishep Arthur Cleveland Coxe derive. In 1841, six years after the death of her first hus- band, she married William Burnet Kim ney, noted Whig journalist and diplomat, who founded the Nswark (N. J.) Advertiser, and in 1851 was appointed United States minister to Sardinia. Mrs. Kinney accom- panied him to Turin, and after the expira- tion of his important service at the court of vistor Emanuel. they remained in Italy for many years, Mir. Kinney being engaged in historical studies for . work which he was never to write. He died in 1880. Mus. Kim nsy began writing in her girlhood, and her verse became we'll known to the readers of the magazines. She published several vol tunes of verse, among then "Felicita," . Electrical Romance" (1866); "Poems" (1SS9)