Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-11

delphia and one to New York. Perhaps the Hartford Post had this fact in mind when 1t penned the following on the subject ot ela- phants: "Joel Chandler Harris of the Atlanta Constitution has gathered together thousand dollars with which to buy elephant for the city, in order that the children may have something interesting to play with. Every city, by the way, has its elephant Hart ford's elephant has an unusually long trunk, and it is full of the dirty water of Park river"
 Cornelius Donahue and Dennis Dunn drove over to Middletown from Rock fall in adouble team last Saturday, and started for home late in the afternoon. While on the way home the horses ran away, and as both men were under the influence of liquor they could not hold the animals. Donahue attempted to jump from the carriage, but his foot caught in the wheel and he was dragged two miles, during which the horses crossed two railroad tracks and bridge. When the animals finally stopped at the barn where they be- long, it was necessary to take eff a wheel of
 the carriage in order to release Denahue.
 His back and thigh were horribly bruised,
 but he may recover.
 Senator Hawley's reply to Bishop Potter's
 Harvard address awakens great deal of fa-
 vorable comment throughout the country, 2 and Connecticut's Joe Hawley comes in for
 much laudation for sailing in so vigorously
 and pointedly on the subject. The New
 York Tribune makes the subject the basis of
 column editorial. The Boston Journal says: "Senator Hawley's reply to Bishop
 Potter's Harvard address is wholesome and
 good tempered. It is more than likely that
 the worthy bishop had not read the text of
 the pension bill which he criticised. The
 tenor of his remarks certainly indicates, as
 Senator Hawley suggests, that he had cons
 founded the bill which was passed with sev-
 eral other more extreme measures to which
 congress had not given it's sanction"
 The following is a partial program of the
 Sunday school institute to be held in Sufield
 on Saturday, July 12. in connection with the
 summer school: In the Baptist church at 4
 p. m., Professor c. s. Beardsley will oon-
 duct Bible class for the following Sunday.
 On Sunday morning, July 13, there will be a
 union service iu the Congregational church.
 On Sunday evening union service will be
 held in the Baptist church. These exercises
 will be under the direction of Secretary Hall of the State Sunday School association. The course of evening lectures, so far as now ar- ranged, includes an address Friday evening by Charles Hopkins Clark of the Courant, ,ad- dress by Dr. Henry Barnard on the 18th, by Miss o. W. Mergins of the New Britain Normal school on the 17th, lecture by Rev. Dr. Chapin of Meriden on the 10sh, the usual reception the 18th and the annual concert on the 2Oth. There may be some slight varia- tions.
 A Hartford man freshly returned from an outing in old Windham brought back for l his Hartford friends the following story: If
 there is any one thing for which Windhsm is celebrated for above another it is frogs, and | this story has to do with one of the latter l day frogs, veritable descendant of those | warlike greenbaekers that scared Colonel Dyer and "Elderkin, too," in the time of the French and Indian war. A gentleman whose | dairy adjoins the famous frog pond-not for convenient purposes, however-made the | acquaintance of g frog who came up from the pond every morning at milking time and opened his carpet-sack mouth for stream | of milk to be poured in right from the pure | bred Jersey COW, preferring to add the | water later on. This habit continued | for go long a time that his frogness be-
 came very lusty and well kept speoi- | men, was elected president of the board of aldermen in his native drink, and | was consequently much esteemed. In short
 ''he grew and grew until he coald scarcely grow any taller" but his appetite did not de l crease and he became @ veritable glutton and an epicure, to boot. One morning the gen. 1 tleman in question came to his milking lit tie late and found that the frog, disappointed at not getting his milk breakfast on time was trudging back toward the pond with the best turkey on the farm between his teeth
 that is, if frogs have teeth. This is the story but it is nowhere chronicled whether tho frog was carrying the turkey away for roast 1 or whether the yarn is one kept on hand il the quiet shades of old Windham for the purpose of roasting" innocent visitors from Hartford.