Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-11-14

December 10. This will be the third in the |
series, and will be Of unusual merit.
southinEton.
Nov. 13.-The various societies about town
are growing in q most satisfactory manner.
ders in Southington and nearly all of them
are in good financial condition. At the last
meeting of Union Grange seven candidates
were initiated, and last evening the first de-
gree was conferred upon new members at
Eureka Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Rev. Father Hunt of Sc. Thomas R. @.
church Is spending the week in Baltimore
and Washington.
Mrs. VIM. Southmaid and Mrs. Maria
Wilcox of Westfeld, Conn.,, are visiting in
tewn.
General state News.
CAUGHT FOX.
Mr.. Baldwin, who lives near the Catholic
cemetery, Birmingham, caught q gray fox
Tuesday that weighed % pounds.
THE NEwTowN PHILOSOPHER.
William Platt, known as Nswtown's PHI
losopher. was on Tuesday taken to the insane
asylum hopelessly insane on the subject of
religion. He abhors olergymen.
IN OLD MADISON.
The town Of Madison, this State, has dis
ChIu8u LIS ulhtLlOb bybtom VI puUAC bCuCOlb,
and the twelve districts that formerly existed
have been merged into one OF the 1853 towns
In Connecticut Madison Is the twenty. third
to give up the old system. :.
SHARING PARTRIpGEs.
Charles and George Walker of Woodbury.
were arrested by Game Warden Wood on
Monday for sharing partridgss In Woodbury..
They were each fined $25 and costs in the
police court on Tuesday. The complaint was
made by the Waterbury Game association.
REPUBLICAN.
Unusual interest was shown in the borough
election at Willimantic on Tuesday by both
parties, and the Democrats seemed quite con-
fdent. When the votes were counted, how-
ever, it appeared that the entire Republican
ticket had bsen elected by 100 to 1875 plu-
rality.
q. f. Heublein & Brother, of Hartford,
have appealed to the Court of Common
Pleas from tho decision of the street board
on Their application for new building line
on Capitol avenue, near Main street, or
rather from the award of damages made by
the board.
An engagement has boon made with Rev.
DR.. Seward to fill the pulpit of the First
Congregational church in Norwalk until such
time as Rev. DR.. Noble, of Washington, can
enter upon an active acceptance of the call
extended him to become permanent pastor of
the church.
HIS REPORT.
Insurance Commissioner Fyler has finished
his report upon the Phoenix Mutual Life In
suranee company of Hartford. He finds its
net assets Dec. 81, 1888, 10,507, 1877, and
total liabilities 50, 653, 973 leaving a surplus
to policy holders of 1858, 1854, which has
since become over 1926, 600.
BADLY WOUNDED.
John O. Toole, middle aged man, father
of four children, was found unconscious on
| the steps of mill tenement house in Will
Evansville, Conn, Tuesday morning with sew
eral knife wounds about the head and neck
and dangerous wound In the back, the re-
suit of drunken brawl with a number of
companions Monday night.
STEPHEN H. H1pGKs.
stephen Il. Ridges died on Tuesday after
noon of Brights disease, after long Illness,
at his home in Saugatuok, aged about fifty
years. He was a member of the Fourteenth
Reoiment,a prominent local politician, was
at one time chief of police In South Norwalk,
| and was one Of the best known sporting men
| in western Connecticut. The funeral will be
held to-day.
DANCING IN THE BARN.
Miss Judd of Highland street, has issued
Invitations for Monday evening, November
IS. The mystic legend, "Dancing in the
Barn" hlls each lucky recipient of a card
with lively anticipations, for the barn par-
ties inaugurated the past season at Newport
and Lsnox are pleasing innovation upon the
menotonous elegance of conventional dane
ipg parties.-Hartford Post.
PROTECTION OF GAME.
The Hartford Telsgram-Record says:
president A. @. Collins of the Connecticut
Association of Farmers and Sportsmen for
the Protection of Game and Fish, who has
created such terror to game law violators in
this section, finds an effective helper In Mr..
Robbins, who is an energetic and influential
citizen of Norwich. The Telegram-Record
extends congratulations to Mr.. Robbins"
IF THEY COULD.
/ DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton of New York
makes the entirely reasonable, Though not
very original, suggestion that In order to
keep well and be happy men should rise
early in the morning, eat good breakfast,
finish their work for the day by or
O'Clock, eat good dinner, take things easy
| afterwards, 60 to bed early and get a good
nights rest From the fact that most people
who can follow this advice won't do 1t, we
presume that Doctor Hamilton intends his
remarks for the benefit of editors of newspa-
pers, who would if they could.-Norwah
| Gazette.
DIED IN PLAINvILLE.
Mr.. Elisda Sanford, one of the Oldest and
most respected citizens of Plainville, died at
midnight on Sunday, aged IS years and B
months. Mr.. Sanford had lived in Plain.
| Vile about forty years, having removed there
from North Haven. and during that time has
been an active member of the Congregational
church until age and inarmity laid him aside.
His wife, aged SO, survives him, also three
ohildren-Mrs. e. n. Moody, with whom
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford have lived for many
years, w. 8. Sanford of New Haven and DR..
| o. z. Sanford of Bridgeport. The funeral
was held Tuesday afternoon at the house of
Mrs. Moody, the Rev. Mr.. Beach of the Meth
odist church conducting the services, In the
absence of the Congregational pastor.
TIE LATE DIR. GILBERT OF wEsrBRooK.
DR.. q. G. Gilbert of Wsstbrook, who died
recently, aged %, was born in Mansfield in
| 1917, graduated from Yale college In 1871.
and three years laterfrom the Yale Medical
school, He practioed his profession for q
number of years in Portland, where he mar
ried a daughter of Rev. Hervey Talcott, for
fifty years pastor of the First church there.
| He afterward resided for time in Water
bury, also In Hartford, but for the last IF
Westbreok. He might we'll be called "the
beloved physician" OF = devout Christian
spirit; In manner gentle, quiet, sympathetic,
he gained first the confidence, and then the
sincere affection of ALL wise and kind
physician for both the soul and body. He
was for many years deacon of the First
church in Portland, and aftsrward held the
same honorable Office in the First church in
Waterbury. He possessed the apostolic
| qualifications for that office, for he was
'nan of honest report, full of the Holy
Ghost and of wisdom" His only son, q