Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-20
ALL OVER THE STATE.

ALL OVER THE STATE.
General News From All Sections.
D. G. Hlbourn and wife of Litchfeld
ire visiting Washington, D. G. Before re-
turning Mr.. Kilbourn will visit the site of |
The old fertilization near Alexandria, where
The Second Heavies had their camp for
over year and half
GOLDEN WEDDING.
At the golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Marcus Fox of Washington celebrated
recently there were eleven married chill
dren present, fourteen grandchildren, one
and relatives and friends to
the number Of 102.
IN MDDLEBURY.
Charles S. Yale of Middlebury has quit
claimed to Henry L. Coe all his interest in
certain lands in Goshen and Litchfield,
lately belonging to Samuel K. Coe of Mid
about sixty acres.
VERY ILL.
DR.. George S. Beckwith of Pine Plains,
N. Y, is in a precarious condition from
consumption. He is brother of D. s.
Beckwith of Litchfeld.
RIGHT YOU ARE.
Give the signal service credit mark!
It actually got in its work of prediction
and warning before Wednesdays gale ar
rived. Hartford Courant.
A TRIBUTE
Rose Terry Cooke says of General Terry
in the Hartford Courant: He always said
he would never marry SO long as his wild
his promise. From her he inherited the
sweetness and truth, the patience and
faithfulness, that adorned his manliness
and illuminated his strength and courage
His country mourns him to-day, but there
is for him a deeper, an undying grief, a
more irreparable loss, in the hearts of his
own people, only to be solaced by the con-
seriousness that "the time is short" be-
tween parting and meeting.
ESCAPED WITH THEIR LIVES.
HARTFORD, Dec. 19.-The two-story
house of James Legeyt on NewBritain ave-
nue. was entirely destroyed by fire this
morning at 2 o'clock owing to defective
chimney. Mr.. Legeyt, his wife and six
children, who were all asleep in the attic,
pclO1J CoSdPOd W1Ul4 UAOl1 11VO6.
DIED OF PNEUMONIA.
Mrs. Eunice Webster, wife of Charles
Webster, foreman of the Willimantic Jour
nal composing room, died Wednesday of
typhoid pneumonia. She leaves three small
children.
IN HARTFORD.
At the Hartford Republican club ban
quet speeches will be made by Governo,
Buckley, Mayor Dwight, Judge Shipman,
A. E. Burr and others.
H.K. Hammond of Brooklyn, NY, died
on Tuesday. He was born in Hampton
Conn. For many years he was in business
in Norwich.
Nine-inch ice is being cut in Suffeld.
A MLKMAN FINED.
Halsey j. Wright, a milk peddler from
Thompsonville, was fined $50 and costs il
the Springfield police court yesterday fol
| selling milk below the standard.
FATHER sLocUM's HOUSE,
In Norwalk Thursday night the house O.
Rev. Father Slocum, formerly of St
| 1 d1I1CAb CuufCu u NEW haven, wa
robbed by burglars of large lot of silver
ware, an overcoat and valuable papers.
| 100000 BUSHELS.
The Bridgeport Standard says: On tn
great Stratford and Bridgeport natura
bed, since last August, there has BEEF
taken about eight hundred thousan,
bushels of stock by the sailing vessel
which have been at work upon it. At al
| average of thirty cents per bushel, thi
would amount to $3.50, 900, but it is but
fraction of what the same stock will b
north three or four years hence.
| A MILFORD DOCK.
A. J. Beardsley & Son have just signe
a contract to tear down and rebuild doc
belonging to w. A. Merwin & Son @
Milford. They will begin work in fe.
days.
RANG THE ALARM.
The high wind in New Britain Thursda
night set the fire alarms ringing and fo
several minutes the different alarms we1
sent out and left the fire department in
state of dire confusion.