Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-30
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 Improvements Being Made at This
 Well Known Hostelry-The Work- shop Being Enlarged. The workshop at the county jail is being enlarged and in consequence no work is
 being done at present by the inmates of that institution. The alterations will prob ably not be completed for the next ten days. The improvements include the rais- ing of the roof of the workshop, thus mak- ing an additional floor. The increase in | room is necessary that the contractors for the jail labor, D. Henry Martin & Son,
 may add wood working department for l making chairs. The new engine for driv- l ing the wood working machines will be | placed in the basement and the machines | will be on the first floor Probably the canning of seats will be on the second floor, part of which will also be utilized | for chapel purposes.
 The contractors will pay $500 per year more than heretofore on account of the in | creased room thus obtained. The total cost to the county for the irn- | provements will amount to about $S,5OO. | The mason work is being done by L. B. Treat & Sons and the joiner work by Kin ney & Phelps.
 The population at the jail is consider | ably less than usual at this season of the
 year, there being but about 200 inmates
 within it's walls at the present time. State News Jottings. Attorney James E. Walsh of Danbury is l visiting friends in this city. Bryan c. Porter, an undertaken in New
 Britain and successful business man fo,. ofxyr ic@ R. c. Porter, an old and well known citi
 a long illn sss. He was prominent in lodge
 circles.
 | Out of 155 discharges from the state
 prison last year, 149 placed themselves in
 care of the agent of the Connecticut Prison
 association. The old officers were re-elect-
 ed, with Francis Wayland of this city as
 president.
 l William B. Turbush, 8 well-to-do deaf
 mute, returned to his home in Danbury on | Tuesday night about midnight and found
 his front piazza on fire. Some fend had
 saturated it with kerosene oil Turbush's
 wife and three children were in bed
 asleep at the time. A reward of $500 has
 been offered for the arrest of the incendi-
 ary.
 Fourteen secretaries of Veteran Associa-
 tions of Connecticut Volunteers met in
 Hartford Wednesday and organized with
 D. 0. Kilbourn of Litchfield president.
 The object of organization is to keep rec
 ord of veteran organizations, to perfect
 war records and report promptly death of
 comrades. George N. Moses of this city,
 secretary of the Twenty fourth c. V., is a
 member.
 After Saturday night the Washington l express, leaving Hartford at 10:55 D. m.
 will cease carrying a mail pouch from
 Hartford for New York, the mail being
 held for the ''Owl' train. A double crew
 will be assigned to the postal car on this
 train, who will 'twork" all mail for New
 York, so that on the arrival of the train at
 6 a. m., the entire eastern mail will be sent at once to the branch offices ready fo1
 the carriers.
 Dr. Charles L. Blakeslee of Windsor Hill
 lies at the Hartford hospital suffering
 from disease of one of the bones of the leg. The disease is the result of an in
 jury received years ago, when the doctor was 8 boy. In some boyiah sport he was kicked by 8 companion, who wore copper toed shoes. The wound inflicted has troubled the doctor more or less evel :, since, until now 8 surgical operation is nee essary The operation will be performed as soon as the patient is strong enough tc undergo it.
 : Personal. Miss May Leverich of Orange street vii 5 give tea this afternoon. Ticket Agent States is confined to hil
 home with 8 severe cold. q William J. Sheehan, the wholesale liquo a dealer at 96 State street, will soon remove I to N. .Merwin's store at atGeorge and Stat . l streets.
 s R. V. Beach and F. G. Beach will hay, !; tennis courts marked off in the Meadoy t street armory. Ladies will be invited t. e play there.
 Miss Mabel Winona Perry, daughter o
 Dr. Perry, prominent physician of Bos ;, ton, is paying visit at Mrs. A. J. War }, ren's, 170 Whalley avenue. 2 Henry Cook, the young runaway who's o tale of woe worked upon Agent Preston O feelings, is probably at his Ivoryton home He was sent there by Agent Preston. : Town Clerk Brethauer has discovered i, l. little unused closet of the vault in hi a office some valuable old statute and recor ,t books which nobody knew to be in tn l. towns possession.
 Thomas Dinnan, young man residin o on Rose street, died yesterday morning c }, pneumonia. He was about twenty year ! l. Dinnan, the Congress avenue meat deale, g and John Dinnan, the locksmith on Orang 1 street. The funeral will be held Saturda IS morning from St. Johns church. 4 At the BigelowG Georger wedding in Ne, N N York Wednesday night Miss Kitty Pric Y was maid of honor and Misses Mary Harr ID son, Edna Johnson, Josie Day, Susie Pit .ss cairn and Laura Lockwood were brides :. 1, maids. E. Frederick Georger, the bride Z brother, was best man, and the usher 't were Ernest Rudolph Gunther, J.P. Trow 'U bridge, Augustus H. Day, Russell Sargent II L. H. Cooper and H. P. Hall. Governo T and Mrs. M. G. Bulkeley, ex-Governor an |. Mrs. H. B. Harrison and others from Cor 70 neeticut were among the guests. !. A. w. Mattoon, son of one of our ol residents, ex-Street Inspector Henry Maj t toon, has embarked in business in Ne' IT Haven and opened wholesale cigar bus e ness on State street with partner, bot @ of whom have been connected with tn e large wholesale grocery house of E. I = Smith & Go. of Worcester, Mass. Nil }. Mattoon has been for several years trave t ing representative of the Smith store i 7. Worcester, and he and his partner, Mi pIee Walworth, have, it is reported, bought ou n the cigar branch of business of the Wo1 n cester concern
 o) or for Chicago. q Professor William R. Harper left thi rt city on an early train yesterday mornin g for Chicago. A few moments before h;