Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-26
ALL OVER THE STATE.

The, Price of Liquor Lfcenses-Im-
 portant Meeting of the County
 sioners-The New England
 Crops-Death of a Young Yale Man,
 Class of 'S6-Colonel Stevenson's
 Liberality. ..s ts
 The county commissioners of the state will hold meeting at Norwich next Thurs day to consider the questions of increasing the price of licenses and of restricting the number of saloons. When the Hartford county commissioners return home they will take definite action on two matters that have been under consideration for some time past. One of these is the propo- sition to reduce the number of saloons in town to 150. There are now 25O saloons in Hartford, and it is understood that the commissioners are unanimous in the belief that this is just 100 too many. The clear ing out will be done mainly on the east side. from Front street to the river. It is the intention of the commissioners not to re-license any saloon on Charles street, Commerce street, or any of the side streets in that part of the city. There are also OCu6E Bd1OOub III tdI1oA6 pd1 oS O4 pA40 OAoy which will be closed up, and the commis- sioners will not lay down the axe until the entire number of places in the town is re- duced to 150. The next step in the direc- tion of restricting the liquor traffic will be to increase the price of licenses to $500. The amount at present is $400. The com- missioners have not yet arrived at any definite conclusion regarding this matter, but it is understood that a majority of the board favor the increase.
 The rain which fell over the greater part of New Englaud on the fifteenth and sixteenth served to check the evil effects of the drouth, although the amount varied considerably in different sections. It was above the normal over the greater part of New Hampshire and Vermont. In the ex- treme western part of Massachusetts, and in the southeastern part of the same state the fall was very light. In Rhode Island the top of the ground was we'll soaked and crops temporarily benefited. Much fruit was shaken off by the high wind of the twenty-frst. The average temperature has been about normal and the sunshine slightly above normal. On the morning of the twentieth the temperature fell to 345 degrees at West Milan, N. H., but no frost has been reported for any section. In southeastern New England the dry weather seems to have seriously af- fected most crops, but throughout the greater part of New England all crops are doing we'll, and the farmer has no cause to complain. Corn is fourishing and with warm weather and sunshine for the next few weeks large crop is assured. The grain harvest is going on in the north cen tral section and is found very full and heavy, as in the south. Considerable hay
 remains to be cut in the back towns,
 especially in the northern states. The
 rowan crop promises well in northern New England, but in central and southern New England it will be very light unless con- siderable rain falls. Potatoes continue to yield abundantly with very few indica tions of rot. Tobacco cutting is at itl height, end of splendid crop is assured
 Pears and plums are generally plenty
 Winter Ths Rsg Rapples Eath yery light; ao for years pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic church, Winsted, preached farewell ser mon to his people Sunday morning. Ht will sail for Europe on Saturday next. Ht has greatly built up his parish.
 Normand G. Spencer died in state prison Wethersfeld, Sunday. In September 1889, he was sentenced to fifteen years i'm prisonment by the Hartford county su perior court, for criminal assault upon { girl in Manchester, where he lived. Spen oer had been in poor health for two years He died of general debility.
 George o. Fellows, whose death occurred Sunday morning, August 23, at Washing | ton, D.C., was the fourth son of Rev. F. E Fellows of Norwich. He was born in Ken | nebunk, Me-, April 21, 1862. He entered | the Norwich free academy in 1878, gradu ating in the class of '82. He graduated from Yale university in 1886. He was faithful and diligent student, as his taking the Greek prize upon his graduation iron | the academy and his taking the Winthrop prize of two hundred dollars in Yale tes tify. Since his graduation he has taugh
 in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Cortez 1 Col. The last place he left some two O.
 three weeks ago, on account of an illness occasioned, as was supposed by the higl altitude of the place. He reached Wash ington, Sunday, August 16, where hi disease was pronounced pleuro-pneumonia
 He was an entertaining writer, severa
 articles from his pen having been publish l ed in The Bulletin. Colonel William H. Stevenson of Bridge port is making arrangements to give tht
 children of the Bridgeport Oryhan asylum
 an outing at his beautiful home, Cedar hurst. While on visit to the shore re gently he found a number of the inmate
 of the asylum taking dinner and enjoying
 days outing. He was so impressed witt the sight that he desired to carry on thu praiseworthy work, and as a result will have all the children at his home for day soon.