Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-20
ALL AROUND THE STATE.

26th c. V.-Ffrebugs at Work-Tor- l rfngtOn,s Prosperity-A Sad and Fatal Mfstake-Spiritualis Elect Omcers-A New York MtlIiOnaire,s Magnificent Dwelling. To-day the senators and representatives of Fairfield county will meet in the county commissioners office in Bridgeport to hear the report of the committee appointed to obtain estimates of the cost of construct ing new bridge across the Housa- tonic river between Birmingham and Shel- ton.
 The ninth annual tournament of Ma tional Croquet association began in Nor wich yesterday. Professor Jacobus of New Brunswick, N. J., Messrs. Greensiitt, Billbrough, Adamson and Lincoln of Phil adelphia, and many other well-known players have arrived.
 Ex-Congressman Carlos French has sub scribed to place handsome memorial win dow in the Seymour Trinity church in memory of his daughter Carlotta.
 The Twenty sixth Regiment association union at Lyle's Beach to-day. For the ac- commodation of members living on the line of the New London railroad the steamer Ella will wait at New London for the train reaching there at $40 am.
 Emory F. Strong of Bridgeport has qual- flied as United States marshal before Judge Shipman.
 A Preston dispatch yesterday says: A gang of firebugs is at work here, and the town is excited ill consequence. Half dozen small fires have been kindled in a short time, but there appears to be no clue to the incendiaries. John G. Rossmark and family occupy the old Fox homestead at the corner of Main and Palmer streets and early yesterday morning discovered that the house was afire. The dis covery was accidental and the inmates certainly had narrow escapes from suffo- cation. About 12 o'clock last night his wife reused him and requested him to shut the blinds and windows to prevent the rain that was falling at the time from beating into their rooms. While doing so he discovered sparks rising from the southwest corner of their house and i'm mediately reused his family. After hard work, which included much chopping, the flames were extinguished. Upon investi- gation it was discovered that an attempt had been made to burn the house on the opposite end, as. part of the stoop there had
 
 was about twenty burned matches on the oil. The attempt at the other end was more successful. MT. Rosemark's family all slept in the end of the house where the fire was started, and if it had not been discovered all the inmates of the house might have been suffocated. His wife, who is in poor health, was prostrated by the excitement. Mr. Rosemark is we'll liked by his neighbors, and he cannot imagine who should want to burn his house. The census shows fifty per cent. in crease in the population of Torrington, something over 5000. Many extensive manufacturing plants have been established there with the past decade. Among these | are the. Coe brass works, which give em- ployment to between 800 and 600 hands. They have nearly completed new build ing worth $150, ,0O0 to be used exclusively for the manufacture of brass tubing The Excelsior needle works are another i'm portant industry, and is the largest of its kind in the country.
 | At the Pot Island house, Thimble Isl and, Monday, Mrs. Charles Judd of Hol yoke, Mass, died in consequence of dose of morphine administered by her husband who supposed that he had given her bro mide. Charles Judd and wife went te Pot Island to inhale salt air and eat fresf sea food. A few days after her arriva Mrs. Judd cracked the bone of her Jeff | hip by falling down stairs. Dr. Reynold. of Guilford pronounced the injury serious MT. Judd then summoned Dr. Badis ot Holyoke to attend the case. Since hel injury Mrs. Judd's physician ha, administered morphine. Yesterday af ternoon Mrs Judd expressed a desire fol powder of bromide and her husband gay, her paper containing what he supposed | 4I,.l T,,lI ,1~o t tasted more like morphine than bro mide. Almost distracted with fright MT Judd summoned Dr. Baldis from the ad joining room. The physician admins tered antidotes and used his stomacl pump, but in forty minutes Mrs. Judd be came unconscious and in eighty-five min utes after taking the morphine was dead From the moment Mrs. Judd realized tha she had swallowed about eight grains O morphine she had no hope of recovery She endeavored to comfort her husband and with self-control truly wonderful en dured the awful strain upon her menta faculties. Her last word was an expres sion of love for her husband and hope o complete happiness in the world wher sorrow is unknown. The last act of he will was manifested by a pressure upol the hand that had unwittingly conveye' the deadly drug to her. After the deat Medical Examiner Gaylord of Branfor viewed the remains, and to-day he vii render a report in accordance with tn facts. The body was taken to Holyok yesterday
 At the annual meeting of the stockhold CTS of the Connecticut Spiritualists Cam Meeting association of Windham, was hel at the pavilion at Mantle, at which tim the following officers were elected for tn ensuing year: President, E. R. Whitney New Haven; first vice president, s. Harrington, Bridgeport; second vice president, Mrs. E. R. Davis, Put nam; secretary, Robert F. Stanton South Windham; treasurer, Jonatha Hotch, South Windham; board of mar agement, E. R. Whitney, New Haver Charles Belknap, Bridgeport; E. M. Ly man, Springfield, Mass; Orrin Morse Putnam, Conn.,; s. o. Harrington, Bridge port; Nj. G. Puffer, Stafford, Conn.,; N. H Fogg, Southington; Nehemiah Smith, Nol wich; auditors, E. R. Whitney and Orri
 Moore. It was voted to engage speaker for eight Sundays for the season of 1891 and tax of $1 for each lot leased wa levied to defray current and other ea penses. Several clauses in the warnin
 were left with the board to use their di. cretion in the matter
 Among the hills of upper Fairfield cour ty nestles the pretty little village of New ton, on the Housatonic railroad, ninetee miles from Bridgeport. Newtown ha something new to boast of now in a hous being built for New York millionaire which will undoubtedly be the finest res dence in the state when completed. Ror aids peak, which is one of the highest hill in the country, lies half mile to the wes of Newtown. It is named after Lorillar Konald's of New York, who bought it
 couple of years ago and commenced tn erection of residence there. The hous isn't finished yet, but it is one of the sights C the country. The plans are by MT. Ronald himself, who followed out line of stril ing originality. The structure is to be il feet on the front, two stories high-no counting the sloping roof The mai
 building, which is forty-four feet deep, to have two wings, 60 by IS feet. Tn There is no cellar, but the ground floor devoted in part to the uses of cellar. N part of it is underground except bi tank or reservoir. Above the tank is a arched passageway running the width ( the house. One room has been made int an armory and there are already gathere dozen figures clad in armor and collet
 tion of weapons.
 On the upper floor are the bedrooms (on at each corner), dressing rooms, parlor' private rooms and kitchen. There are fiv balconies on the south side of the house , two on the opposite side and one at eac end over the passageway. There is a bat in the floor of every bedroom. By liftin up trap door the bath is disclosed. I one of the parlors there is fountain fe , from pipes On the floor above is bi
 room running from one end of the build
 ing to the other. This is the conservator and half the surface of the roof is of glasl
 In the center of the roof rises square ol servatory, from which charming views (