Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-25
IN CONNECTICUT.

IN CONNECT1CUT. of $5O,OOO Asked-A Bridge port Divorce Suit-Lost, Strayed or Stolen, the Case of Morris vs. Bulke- ley-Death of Martin Dudley-Fine
 Crops Ahead in the State-Law and
 order In Bridgeport.
 BRIDGEPORT, May 24.-Lorenzo B. Sterl- ing, the liveryman, is defendant in divorce suit brought by his wife, Emma J. Sterling, in which $50, 900 alimony is asked for. By the papers served Friday attachments were placed upon seven tracts of real estate owned by the defend ant in this city.
 In the complaint. Lena Bliss of Stan | bridge station, Canada East, Quebec, is named as correspondent. It is understood 1 that the plaintiff proposes to go into court and prove that MT. Sterling formed the &C., quaintance of the woman and established himself in her affections during trip to Canada made for the purchase of horses between July 1, 1891. and August 1, 1891. It is said the plaintiff has endearing letters from Miss Bliss to her husband and other evidence to prove the intimacy of "their relations. Mrs. Sterling is represented by Attorney Howard H. Knapp. The de- fendant's lawyers are Hollister & Kelsey.
 The couple were married on March 31, 1880. and have three children, Florence, Blanche and Grace.
 LOST: NO REWARD OFFERED.
 Yesterdays Hartford Courant says: Where is the great quo warranto case of Morris vs. Bulkeley2 This was so impor- tant matter that the supreme court held a special session to consider it and while dismissing the complaint of MT. Morris as insufficient pointed out way for him to renew the suit forthwith.
 That decision was published in the Cou- rant of January 6, 1899. To-day is May 24. Where is the suit of Morris vs. Bulke- | ley? It hasn't shown any inclination to | reappear in court.
 Meanwhile, following the suggestion of | the Morris decision, as to procedure, the democrats have come into court again, but instead of leading in their ticket head first they are dragging it in by the tail. Apparently they want it to be pointing toward the door when the court turns it out.
 So they made up suit for J. J. Phelan against Secretary of the State Walsh and they are pushing that. In so doing they have in two different ways absolutely and irretrievably abandoned the position on
 which their whole fight was made. They
 have in court abandoned "the face of the
 returns," which they contended was final.
 They said no one could go back of that and
 they resied therein politics. In court
 they go right back and show their own in
 consistency.
 Then, too, in court their counsel offered,
 in the Walsh case, to admit the Bridgeport
 ballots-126 of them rejected because of 8
 speck on the paper. Admit those 126 votes
 and MT. Morris apparent majority is gone
 hook, bob and sinker. They are ready to
 admit the ballots, however.
 That's perhaps the reason why they pre-
 fer to try the Phelan case and why no ef-
 fort has been made to find that treasure,
 lost, strayed or stelen, the suit of Morris
 against Bulkeley.
 II REV. MARTIN DUDLEY DEAD.
 Rev. Martin Dudley, for thirty years
 pastor of the Congregational church at
 Easton, Conn.,, died in Lowell Sunday.
 He was born in Guiiford, Conn.,, and grad
 uated from Yale college in 1889 in the same
 class with Senator Dawes. He studied the.
 ology at Yale and East Windsor seminaries
 Afterward he was engaged in teaching in the vest In 1851 he settled in Easton,
 Conn. In this, his only pastorate, he re-
 mained for nearly thirty years. For the last eight years he had lived in Lowell
 preaching occasionally. Three children
 survive him.
 Il CLINTON GROCERY ROBBED. Henry Wellman's grocery store in Gin ton was broken into Monday night. The burglars blew open the safe and stole z
 quantity of specie, amount not known They also stole cigars and other goods from the store.
 LAW AND ORDER. Bridgeport's Law and Order league hal
 elected these officers: President, w. H
 Lewis; vice president, Rev. H. w. Pink
 ham; treasurer, Francis $. Buckingham A constitution was adopted providing tha , l the name of the organization shall be the
 Citizens Law and Order League of Bridge ' l port.
 3 EXCELLENT CROP PROSPECTS. The weekly weather crop bulletin say , last week was very favorable for New
 England crops. The hay prospect is excel , lent and the grass thick, but the tobacct is very backward and growing slo wly Not enough rain had fallen yet to affec 3 the lumber trade interests favorably. AWARDED $1, 900 DAMAGES. , Frances J. Moir of Norwalk has beer given judgment for $1,OOO against th' 3 Housatonic Railroad company. The plain tiff, a minor, was struck and received per manent injuries at the Mechanic stree crossing in Norwalk last year. , INVITED AND ACCEPTED. q HARTFORD, May 4-Senator Read O , Bridgeport dropped into Executive Com l missioner Woods office to-day and invited : Major Wood to make an address before thu f Bridgeport board of trade on the world : fair. The major accepted and will mak t the address next Friday evening. , OFF TRoUTINa. ..... ... Charles Dudley Warner is off in Ulste s county, N. Y., for few days troutinl : with J. Q. A. Ward, the sculptor, ant
 Robbins, the artist.
 HEUBLEIN AND BROTHERS PURCHASE. |, G. F. Heublein 6 Brothers of Hartfor, n this week bought the fve-story bricl t block with iron front, Nos. 235 and 23
 Asylum street in Hartford, for abou r $25, 900, and will thoroughly renovate an,
 remodel the interior and convert it int d in and the flats will contain every moder1 & improvement.
 l. ! SENT TO THE COUNTY JAIL. a MER1DEN, May 24.-Felix Reynolds, wh
 was found lying in the road two week y ago, bleeding from several wounds in tn @ head, presented badly demoralized ap s pearance when he was arraigned in polic n court this morning. He was arrested las night on complaint of his father, for in 2, toxication, and Judge Coe sentenced hiu 9 to thirty days in New Haven jail. Died at MiddIeheld. Daniel H. Birdsey, one of Middlefeld' ! oldest and best known citizens, died Sun ,. day at the age of eighty-fve. He ha, : served his town as assessor, selectman ant j. member of the legislature.