Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-09
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Exit wild Geese-Ice Harvesting
Zero Weather-Rev. J. III. Twitchell

ALL OVER THE STATE.
Exit wild Geese-Ice Harvesting
Zero Weather-Rev. J. III. Twitche1l
The Button Industry.
HARTFORD, Dec. ga social tea will
be given in the parlors of the Asylum
Hill Congregational church next Friday
evening. The Rev. Mr.. Twitchen and
Mrs. Twitche1 will receive, the occasion
being on the eve of the twenty-ffth ami
versary Of Mr.. TwitchelIs installation as
pastor of the church.
WATERBURY, Dec. 8.-Sporting men of
Waterbury, Naugatuck and Watertown
are arranging for grand cooking main to
take place within two weeks and within
fifteen miles of Waterbury. Over thirty |
birds will be shown and probably fifteen
battles fought. It is expected that much |
money will change hands.
SILVER IN HER TOE.
Miss Annie Hotchkiss of Birmingham |
stubbed her toe on the East Chapel street |
bridge, New Haven, and splinter was
driven into her foot three quarters of an
inch. It was extracted but not without
much difficulty.
CLERGY CoMMENDs THE STAGE.
NORWICH, Conn.,, Dec. Brew. DR..
Leonard Woolsey Bacon of the Second
congregational church spoke last evening
from the text sThe Completion of the New
Theater." He had recently criticised the
management for working on the building
on Sunday and a sharp arraignment with
denunciation of the playhouse was ex-
cd fha
gentleman spoke in high terms of the edi-
fee as erected. He closed with an open
welcome to the new theater if it shall be a
place of wholesome and pure amusement.
IN ROCKVILLE.
The city of Rockville voted at the an
nual meeting Saturday evening to instruct
the council to petition the legislature for
the right to bond the city for $3.50, 900, to
be used for the purpose of obtaining con-
troll of the water department. The Rock
| vile aqueduct company will petition for
an increase of capital to $125, 900, and will
contest the action of the city, claiming
that the notice of the meeting was not
legally given.
TOM LAWLER DEAD.
| Thomas Lawler of Hartford, seventy
| two years of age, who died at his home
| Satul day evening, was at one time an &C
tive democratic politician in Hartford. He
| had been water commissioner and had
served as alderman and councilman from
the Sixth ward. He was q member of the
old volunteer fire department.
NEW ENGLAND ROAD SECURITIES.
The New York Sun says: ''The affairs
of the New York and New England rail
| road are beginning to receive fresh atten-
ton on account of the decline in the
market price of the securities that take
| immediate precedence of the common
! stock. The financial condition of the
| company is causing speculative holders of
the stock some uneasiness, as it is known
that the advances made to the company
have been chiefly upon pledge Of the pre-
| ferred stock, for which there is at present
a very urgent demand"
| The manufacture of buttons will soon be
begun in Shelton by q. & j. Griffin of
Newtown, manufacturers of buttons in
that town, who will remove their business
| to Shelton. George Griffin, the senior
member of the firm, originated and per-
fected about a year ago an elaborate and
intricate machine for the making of horn
buttons which, it is thought, is to revolu-
tionize the manufacture of the article from
that material and which will eventually
give to this firm the monopoly of that in
dustry. By its operation the crude mate
rial is fed in at one end and comes out at
the other in the shape of perfect buttons
by the bushel. The material used for the
button is mostly cattle's horns and hoofs,
but in the further development of the bust
ness as proposed other lines of buttons
may be made in which a greater variety
may be required. Orders for additional
machinery have already been placed with
New Haven parties, which when completed
will be placed in the new factory. It will
hardly be possible for the business to be
got in full working operation before spring
About fifty men will be employed.
KNITTING FACTORY TO BE STARTED UP.
Preparations are being made to start w
: the New Britain Knitting company's fac
tory on Elm street, New Britain, which
has been idle about two years. It will be
run under the old management, and this
action of the directors is regarded with
favor on all sides.
EXIT WILD GEESE.
The wild geese are off. A big flock
passed over Norwich Saturday, all 'honk
ing" energetically. No wonder they are
off, with the thermometer down near zero
every other night
HARVESTING ICE.
No trouble about ice this year. No Ions
pent up agony nor anxiety, no watching
the weather, no call on Name for ice-that
is if the present fierce winter cold keeps uI
little while longer. In Winsted yester
day morning large force of men were al
work on several ponds cutting ice, which
was about seven inches thick. The Win
sted ice men say they intend to make hay
while the sun shines and will cut the ice
this season as fast as it congeals. They
have quite stock in already.
ICE IN FALLS VILLAGE.
Il FALLS VILLAGE, Conn, Dec. S.-Thii
morning the ice on the ponds about here
from which several ice dealers gather theil
annual harvest, was fully six inches thick
| If the cold weather continues another day
the ice men will commence to lay in sup
ply.
IN PUTNAM
PUTNAM, Conn, Dec. SIT was bittel
cold here this morning and last night. A
an early hour to-day the thermometer
registered four above. The ponds are all
covered with ice thick enough to cut, ant
work win be commenced this morning t.
harvest the same.
BAPTIST MINISTER'S MEET.