Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-05
ALL AROUND THE STATE.

ALL AROUND THE STATE.
sanity-Many Cottages Occupied-A
i Veterans Funeral-A Case OF suffer-
Ing Humanity-School Boys, Fine
| Out1ng-No Longer n Mystery-Of I'm
terest to Sound Nav1gatOrs-Gsenera
| News.
The Rev. E. N. Hardy of Wrapping acs
cepts the call as assistant pastor of Phil
lips church, Boston, commencing his la
bors September 1.
Nearly six cottages are now occupied on
the camp ground at Wi1limantic. Lizzie
o. Smith, the well-known lifelong invalid,
has arrived at her cottage. Mrs. J. K.
| Barney Of Providence will address the
state W. G. T. U. on Tuesday, August 20.
The WaIlingford brass band will give
| the next concert on the New Britain park
| this evening under the auspices of the
Young Mems Temperance society.
The Hon Samuel Fessenden has accept
ted the invita- ion to deliver the address at
| the dedication of the soldiers monument
| in Winsted September II.
| Leonard FL. Bacon of Hartford, one of
the oldest cottagers there died at Cottage
City Sunday morning, aged about &c.
John Lane, aged nineteen, was drowned
in the Connecticut river Saturday after
noon He had swan across the river and
| was returning when he was seized with u
fit and sank His body has not yet been
! recovered.
Cyrus Hurd of Middle Haddam, a we'll
known character throughout Middlesex
county, left his home Sunday to drive to
Glen Grove. Not having returned during
the night a search was instituted yester-
day morning, when his horse was found
grazing near the grove and Hurd,s body
was discovered lying on rock. His head
] was bent under his neck which was
| broken. He had fallen from his wagon
and struck upon his head, death probably
having been instantaneous He was sixty
five years of age and weighed 300 pounds.
William Sheldon, a weIl-known Norwalk
contractor, became suddenly and violently
insane Sunday afternoon and assaulted his
wife, beating her almost to insensibiiity.
The neighborss overpowered him after
| terrible fight and he was placed under ar
rest Sheldon has been considered dan
gerous for long time. Two years ago
he was thrown from his carriage, striking
| on his head, and for several weeks he lay
| in a critical condition. When he recovered
from his injuries his reason had fled and
he was confined in an asylum at Middle
town. Through careful treatment he re-
covered, but has since been subject to fits
of arrangement.
The discovery of a genuine Russian
prince in the guise of a barber in one of
the shops at Bridgeport caused much ex-
| element last week. He is Prince War
chofsky, representative of one of the
noblest families in Russia, and he fled for
fear of becoming political exile in Siberia.
His father was arrested for being compi-
Gated in one Of the attempts to assassinate
the czar; his estates were confiscated and
he was sent to Siberian prison. The son
arrived in this country several years ago,
| has served five years in the United States
| navy and is now naturalized citizen of
the United States. He intends to return
to Russia some day, he says, to avenge the
! wrongs of his countrymen.
The following veteran members of the
| Hartford City Guard, all well known to
veteran military men in New Haven were
bearers at the funeral of j.. J. Mitchell in
Hartford Saturday: Generar%C. H. Prem
) tice, Majors J. g. Rathbun, w: w. Jacobs,
, | S. M. Gladwin, Captains j. r. Stevens and
!, II. P. Hitchcock. Mr.. Mitchell joined the
City Guard in July, 1862, and was dis
charged in August, 1868.
3 A poor Swede suffering from typhoid
| fever was carried from Portland to the
Hartford hospital in Saturdays intense
:; heat in wagon. He died soon after ar
f irving. No doubt his death was hastenec
; by the suffering he endured from the hea
!; on the way.
III Principal Edwin B. smead of the Wat
y kinson Farm school on Park street, Hart
y ford, has planned very pleasant vacation
e for the boys under his charge. To-da.
r they will start for Westbrook to camp on
n on the shore, at the foot of Spencer's lane
!. for two weeks A large tent, recently
l. | purchased, will be pitched on the Spence
( farm and the vacation will be spent il
y sailing, boating, fishing and swimming
J. Mr. and Mrs Smead will remain with tn
IS boys to look after their welfare. Tn
J. 1 boys were to have gone from here on tn
steamer Sunshine, but the loss on tina
k vessel will change the plans somewhat
h Last year they had q similar outing, whicl
1t / proved delightful occasion.
The disappearance of Major N. G. Den
s. nison of Union City is no longer amystery
1T | The fact that his wife did not receiv
| daily letters from him as usual gave rise t
l. query as to his whereabouts. He says
r met friends at the Hoffman house, wher
he was last heard from, July 81, and Wen
/ on yachting trip.with them in such
). hurry that he did not have time to writ
- home. He has returned to his anxiou
family and solicitous friends.
.Carmi Hubbell has taken possession O
:, / the Norwalk postoffice. No changes @
~ subordinate officials are known.
O. O'Donovan Rosa is guest of Peter Dol
= / sey at the Hotel Winthrop, New London.
y Twenty-seven dogs were killed in Me-
u London during the month of July.
9, Johann Gottfried Reiffert, the oldes
u German in Hartford, died on Saturday 8
~ ~ the age of ninety-three years and tie
=. months.
70 Calvin r. Dunning, aged eighty years,
Oh wealthy retired merchant of Danbury, die
n suddenly Saturday of heart disease.
=. Marvin G.. Sanford, for many years st,
ton agent at Danbury and well known
81 that section of the state, died suddenl
9, Saturday of apoplexy.
ne N. H. Creelman, who met With an acc
- ! dent at the Manchester depot last Monda
., morning by having his foot crushed b.
~ ! tween two freight cars, died from tt
ce effects of his injuries Saturday At Il
es time of the accident it was thought /
n n woulorecover, possibly with the loss
20 % 1 his foot. =
;s The Norwich Bulletin says: For Ion
X time masters of vessels going up and dow
81 the sound have realized the necessity
az some more thorough signal at Bartlett
:. ~ reef than the bell and light. The bell in
~ fog is deceptive in it's sound, as was see
10 in the case of the steamer City of Worce
~ ter. The tide runs very strong over tt
=, - reef, and when vessels are running ne'
!. | there in heavy weather there is a great Ii
~ bility of their being carried on to the rec
nf To obviate this difficulty fog whistle hi
y been called for Captain William R. Smii
~ Of the propeller Delaware has taken hol
~ of the matter and lately forwarded to Il
~, light house board at Washington a pet
~ ton from the masters of all the steam
ID lines which run through the sound.
nf answer to the petition the board say that
~ consideration of the increasing CONNER
M at New London they think the New Lo
~ don light and steam whistle is too far i
=, side, and advise the establishment of
w. light on Southwest ledge to be known
Black Ledge light, which will greatly be
eft vessels coming from the EASTMAN
This does not alter the Bartlett's Reef 81
nal, and Captain Smith will continue
or | agitate the matter, and do all he can
is | further the accomplishment of the need
1 improvement 1t is matter of great il
portance to vessels going up and down t
1t sound, and sailing masters are strong
m their desire that the government will pla
'Oo the whistle on the reef.
l While A1frad Rlivap of Grisuo1d W