Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-13

have good acreage set, and it appears to be doing we'll. Potatoes are looking we'll and growing fast. Oats and rye are also .looking finely, and the grass crop promises to be large one.
 Fire broke out Wednesday night in . tene. ment owned by the Neriden Silver Plate company on George street, and the upper part Of the building was gutted The 6 inmates insuranee of 5000.
 Target practice at Fort Trunbull has been commenced and will be continued through the present month. A range 100 yards has been measured of, and by the use of reduced targets the men are able to get practice shooting at 200 and 300 yards
 The corner atone of the new Methodist church at East Norwalk was laid Wednesday afternoon, by Bishop D. A. Geodsell of Fort Worth, Tex. Addresses were made by Pre- siding Elder Cheney, Dr. George Van As tyne and others. The estimated cost of the church is 5000.
 Real estate transfers in Wallis9ford: A. J. Smith to s. D. and Emily H. Hall, 81x100 feet on Beaumont avenue; Patrick and Mar garrett OCennell to James A. Curtis, S6x146 feet on High street; Frank 4. Wallace to Thomas E. McGuire, 6ax67 feet, corner of Cherry and Clifton streets.
 Lightning struok the chimney of the cast- ing shop at Simpson, Hall, Miller 6 Co.'S in Wsllingferd Wednesday evening; damage slight. It also struck the residence of Cap tain Samuel Granniss on Bristol street. doing considerable damage to the veranda and striking an outhouse several feet away, ,almest demolishing 1t.
 The graduating exercises of the class of 1890 of St. MarRaret's school, Waterbury, will take place June 16, 16 and 17. The members of the class are Miss Janet Wells Caswell, Miss Josephine Deming Frisbie, Miss Jessie Ella Nicholson and Miss Mary Welton Phelan of Waterbury, and Miss Grace Dalrymple Clarke of Bridgeport, Their class motto is: 'Doe Ye Nexts Thynge." John Smith of Birmingham, forty years old, while tipsy Wednesday night, fell over the canal railing in Birmingham. He struck bottom thirty feet below. He was seen to fall by two men. They got lantern and found him at last standing in two feet of water little dazsd, but talking to himself about the tariff question. He was found to be uninjured. One of the rescuing party de- declared that had the man been sober he would have been killed.
 Lightning Wednesday night struck the house of William Cahill in the upper portion of East Hampton, tearing the house badly. There wore in the house Hr. and Mrs Cahill and their four children. All were shocked by the lightning, but sustained no serious damage. One side of the house wss torn out. James Daley, farmer, lives not very far from the Cahills. Twelve of his cows wore huddled together under a tree. A bolt of lightning struck the tree, felling 1t and kill- ing all of the cattle. Several other trses on Dailey's farm were uprooted.
 Hartford Theological seminary issues as No. 13 in it's series of publications the able reports of 1.-the board of instruction, pru- dential committee and treasurer. The new Case library building will be erected az soon as suitable plans can be detsrmined upon. MT. Newton Case is . member of the Asylum Hill Congregational church, and is now Europe and at homo, and lives in Q fine style in @ large house on Hawthorn street and Farmington avenue. His gifts aggregate many hundred thousand dollars