Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-01
ALL ARoUND THE STATE.
General News from Every Quarter Q
Our Little Commonwealth.

ALL AROUND THE STATE.
General News from Every Quarter of
Our Little Commonwealth.
Michael Pickett, Bridgeport painter,
fell thirty feet from building Saturday
and broke his leg.
Two derailed freight cars blocked the
main track of the Consolidated road at
Bridgeport, near the elevator, Saturday
morning, delaying travel for time. A
wrecking train from New Haven cleared
the track. No one was hurt by the acct
dent.
Labor day in Hartford to-day will be
celebrated with big parade and picnic at
Union grove. Edward King, labor leader,
will speak,
A fair-sized spotted adder was killed on
Friday in the alleyway leading from the
Congregational church, Ansonia.
The second annual Scottish games in
Middletown under the auspices of Clan
McGregor will be given in Halls grove on
Labor day, September 1.
Colonel Horne and family will sail for
st. Thomas September II by steamer of
the United States and Brazilian line. 1t is
about five days run from New York. Col
onel Horne has the appointment OF several
subordinates.
Henry I. Hazleton of the Derby Evening
Transcript was given farewell supper by
the staff of that paper at the Birmingham
hotel on Friday night.
Rev. Father Leo, the well known Catho-
lie priest Of Winsted, to whom was attrib-
uted miraculous powers of healing, some
time ago, is himself sick and will soon
make voyage to his native Italy for rest
and recuperation.
Winsted is erecting four beautiful drink
ing fountains in the borough limits.
A Bridgeport girls idea of humor is to
send to her lover in Waterbury big piece
of Limburger cheese. It was suggestion
to him to spend less time in beer saloons,
but it ruptured sweet romance.
E. It. Schmidt will change the name of
his hotel now building in Birmingham
from Bridgeport House" to Hoffman
House"
The Derby Congregational church is
making arrangements to produce the can
tata 'Daniel" under the management of
Professor F. E. Howard.
The old Holcomb hotel in CRANKY that
| was taken down last week by Loomis Bros.
| is said to have been built over hundred
years ago by John Wing.
Buckingham street, Hartford, was
| crowded with interested spectators at 10
| o'clock Saturday morning. 1t was the
new double engine steam roller which was
| the center of attraction, an exhibition of
machine in operation being given on that
| street in the presence of the mayor and
street commissioners.
| The death is reported of Charles E.
| Incl Of No,fh hol~ ofo
and formerly of Hartford. He was a
brother of Rev. Robert Much, formerly of
Christ church, Hartford.
A series of meetings has just begun
at the Union Baptist church, Hartford,
which are entitled the Christian birthday
prayer meetings. Great interest is mani
Tested
| The deaf mute convention which has
just closed it's session in New York was
the largest ever held. Delegates were
present from Nova Scotia, Ontario and
| Quebec, and from almost every state in
the Union. There were in all $50 teach
ers present, ten of them being from the
American asylum of Hartford. Alex
ander Graham Bell was the temporary
president.
F. Pierre, the Middletown jeweler,
mourns the loss of valuable dog killed on
the Valley railroad.
! Mr.. Charles Parsons of the firm of Par.
sons & Terry, marketmen in Windsor, is
seriously i'll of typhoid fever. Mr.. Terry
of this firm, who has been ailing for long
time, is still very ill.
The New Haven Steam Heating company
has several men in Windsor putting in new
work. This company has just finished
work on a heater at Grace church rectory
and is now engaged on one at the Tryor
house. The company must consider Wind
sor good customer; as many as twenty
heaters. have been placed in town, ant
have given such good satisfaction that thu
townspeople do not seem to care to try
another make.
Mrs. Maria Ellsworth, wife of Mr.. Ellis
worth, the inventor of the smokeles
powder, has secured possession of hel
child. Mr.. Ellsworth left the child in the
care of Mr. R. O. Bushnell of Hartford, a
which place it was found Saturday by
Home Missionary John F. Simmonds, who
accompanied Mrs. Ellsworth.
The national board of trustees of tn,
Order of Elks will meet in Hartford, Sep
TENDER 8, to discuss a mode of procedure
against the recently expelled New Yorl
Lodge of Elks No. 1.
Mrs Daniel Dunn of New Milford, aget
rs years. was burned to death in New Mil
ford yesterday, while smuggling chicken
Her clothes took fire while alone in thu
house.
Mrs. Mary Fenton, who died in Water
bury Tuesday, was supposed by every ont
to have been in abject poverty. When tn,
undertaken was laying out the body h,
found over $500 in bills concealed among
the clothes.
The indications are that the Putnam
Phalanx excursion along the coast which
starts tomorrow will be one of the pleas
ATTEST ever given by this battalion. A
Newport the Puts will be received by tn,
parade will be made, followed in the even
ing by banquet, and next morning For
Adams will probably be visited and dress
parade of the government troops. Latel
the guests will be taken for a drive abou
the city, going over the ocean drive ant
then escorted to the boat in the afternoon
Over four hundred persons went from
Hartford on the excursion to Poughkeep
sic via the Central New England railroad
Saturday morning.
The American Genealogical association
will hold its annual meeting at Denver
beginning on Tuesday next and continuing
three days. Its president is DIR. Charles
Denison formerly of this city. The asso
citation will make excursions to Idaho
Springs, Colorado Springs and Pixies Peak
In the towns of Barkhamsted and Ca
naan over 1000 bushels of blackberrie
have been harvested. In Litchfield county
hundreds of acres of land are, overgrowI
with blackberry bushes.
The Case Manufacturing company o
Unionville has entered on plan of exten
sive repairs which will keep the mill shu
down for two or three months
The funeral of the late H. G. Wilcox
took place in Meriden, Saturday. All tn,
| III n in, fha off NJ
flags were flying at half-mast on nearly al
of them. About 400 of the employees O
the Britannia shop viewed the remains
The floral tributes were magnificent, tn
Britannia company employees contribut
ing several. Among them was clock
several feet high, marking the time of hi
| death. A Snecial train CANA o1rer From