Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-07-26
ALL AROUND THE STATE.

Not Heard From-Seventy.Five Dol
lars Missins-A Dentist In Trouble
Yesterdays Rain Benefats the FARM
ers-POstal Cards-BrldgepOrl's New
Excitement-Preparin for Camp at
NiantIc-The Victims Faneral-Rev.
DR.. y. o. Peck.
Annie Carpenter, Meriden's missing girl,
has not yet been heard from.
DR.. D. J. Curtin of Wallingford is still
critically ill with brain fever.
w. g. White of Derby ia also candidate
for county sheriff.
DR.. George M. Luther, Hartford dentist
and member of the Young Mems Republican
club, is under arrest, charged with using S75
of the clubs money and not accounting
for it.
Hartford and Tolland county farmers feel
easier on account of yesterdays copious rain
fall.
At Gal" Daggett's at Shelton 1870 tons of
postal cards, or 100000 900 cards were made
last June.
Owing to a strong southerly wind there
was no balloon ascension or parachute drop
at Seaside park, Bridgeport, Friday. No
ascension. No pay.
| The Bridgeport horse railroad company
has changed hands and the News says that q
syndicate of English capitalists has bought
the plant and will petition the legislature for
power to make it a cable road.
l Inc men WHO LEuuk6u dUOuU III tu6 Sun
during the hot days of June counting the
| members of Uncle Sans big family, are now
waiting anxiously for their pay. There are
some so, 900 enumerators all told throughout
| the country.
The tents and other camp paraphernalia
have been sent by freight to Mantle and
the men will go down Monday to begin the
work of putting the camp in order. The
parade ground at Mantle is very dry and
| 6ostv apd ia RI ha bonad that there will
be sufficient rain between now and camp
time to put the ground in good condition.
| Rev. Joseph Anderson, DID,, of Water
bury, will preach at the South Congrega-
tional church in Hartford on Sunday morn
ing.
| The fundations of the new Goodwin block
| on the corner of Asylum and Haynes streets,
Hartford, are being laid and it is expected
that the building will be completed by JAN
uary /, 1891.
1t is now officially announced that the Rev.
]. O.. Peck, DID,, secretary of the missionary
society of the Methodist church, and the Rev.
B. P. Raymond, D. D., president of the Wes-
leyan university, will be among the speakers
at the coming camp meeting at Willimantic,
besides other prominent clergymen not yet
|announced. The Rev. Thomas Harrison, the
"boy preacher" will conduct the altar ser
vices.
Not one-half the ice is used in Meriden
this season that there was last.
The first death by electricity in Danislson-
Vile occurred last Wednesday night, attract
ing the attention of quite number OF peo-
Pile. black martin became prisoner in the
electric light on Railroad square, and Its
maneuvers to liberate itself were watched
with considerable interest for some time
when the bird was killed by an electric
shock.
The funeral of Frank Miner, who was muir.
dered by Hazenz Bellware, occurred in East
Hartford Thursday afternoon. The church
was filed with friends of the murdered man
The Rev. George A. Bowman conducted the
funeral services. The bearers were the
brothers of the deceased, Charles, Alfred
Frederick and Walter Miner. The burial
was in East Hartford cemetery.
A gold watch will be the first prize in the
half mile handicap to be run at the East
Hartford bicycle tournament August 2, and
a repeating rife in the one mile handicap.