Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-23
ALL OVER THE STATE.
News From All Sections of our Lit
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 Doctors in Hartford say that the grip seems to be decreasing there 0 little. They expect less of it from now on, as the climax of the epidemic is apparently passed. There are still great many cases in the city.
 Mrs. E. A. Flagg has just completed an ice house at the Flagg mill pond, West Hartford, with capacity of 200 tons.
 Mrs. David Clark of Hartford will fur nish the candy for the Christmas enter tainment of the Good Will club on Wed nesday evening, as has been her practice for years.
 Miss Nellie v. Clark, well-known trained nurse in Hartford, died at the residence of James J. Goodwin Sunday night. She had 8 severe attack of the grip.
 Colts shop, Hartford, will be closed from Christmas until January 4 to take inven- tory and make some necessary repairs to the machinery.
 The National Machine company will move into the Hartford Cycle company's building on January 1. They will occupy the entire second floor.
 Invitations have been sent out by MT. and Mrs. Samuel H. Wells of Enfield for the marriage of their daughter, Frances Wells, and John Ernest Leitz of this city, the ceremony to occur on December 23.
 The Harris Gar company, manufacturers of sleeping and palace cars, was incorpor- ated on Saturday and will locate at Put nam. The capital stock IS $1, 1000, 900.
 The Connecticut Dairymen's association will give dairy exhibition in connection with it's annual meeting to be held in Hart ford on January 19, 20 and 21. Over $500 will be distributed in prizes.
 Mrs. Martha A. Hill of Middletown, aged seventy-three, was found dead in bed Mon day at her home in South Farms Her brother, Frank K. Findlay, was being buried in Durham at the same hour her dead body was found.
 Work upon the Point Judith breakwater for the proposed harbor of refuge has been discontinued for the present year, owing to the appropriation having been e1austed. The work is under the direction of the United States engineer department, and it will require several years to complete 1t. B. Palmer Tiffany died at his residence, No. 32 Capitol avenue, Hartford, Monday, | of pneumonia. He was always delicate man, and about a year ago received a paralytic shock MT. Tiffany, who was about ffty-two years of age, was born in Hartford and was the son of the late Ed win D. Tiffany, formerly president of the First National bank there, and Julia Camp Tiffany. His mother died about six years ago and his father in April, 1890. He mar ried about ten years ago Aida Price, who survives him, together with brother, George Tiffany, and sister, who is the sister, Mrs. Charles s. Gillette, died in January, 1887, under peculiarly sad cir cumstances, surviving her husband but three days. MT. Tiffany was at one time associated with his father in the brokerage business.
 Hiram Francis, father of Willis D. Francis of Meriden, died recently at Man darin, on the St. Johns river, Fla. The interment will be at Meriden. Hiram Francis was seventy-eight years old, was born at Wethersfeld. He leaves 8 wife and five children. They are Miss Alice E., Hiram A., Levi, Willis D. and Ralph B. The latter is now in business in Palmer, Mass. The deceased has been in the habit of spending the past eight winters at his orange grove at Mandarin, Fla. He left l for that section December 5, in company with his daughter, and at the time was l suffering with kidney troubles. l Jonah P. Curtis, grain merchant, of Commercial street, New Britain, has broken | ground in that city for building 100x44 feet to be used in the manufacture of arti- | fcial ice.
 The Berlin Bridge company is building the new Iron bridge over the tarmlngton river on the road to Spoonville. The cost will be s5,5S1. The bridge is of 172 feet | inches span.
 l The grip is claiming many victims in Rockville. Among those at present sick and recovering are Judge Dwight Loomis, J. 0. Hammond, jr., Judge of Probate L. | T. Tingier, Thomas s. Pratt of the Journal, E. N. Foote. William S. Thompson, B. A. Ray of The Rockville. The doctors are the busiest persons in town.
 Samuel Stearns," says the Hartford Courant, an old-time merchant of Middle town, aged over ninety-two years, was in town Friday last walking about for the purpose, as he said himself, simply to see the fashions and to look in the show windows of the stores.' He had come up alone, was straieht as an arrow, bright of eye and clear of complexion, and at a dis tance of fifty feet would be taken for a man in the ifties. He is the elder brother of the late Hon. Edwin Stearns, who was state treasurer in 1S53v