Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-09
CONNECTICUT NEWS
Gleanings From All Quarters of the
Little State.

From All Quarters OF the | ,
Little State.
A report on the Sponssl gun has been
ordered by the department and Lieutenant
Games, inspector of the Hotohkiss gnn,
was instructed to prepare such report. 1t
was highly satisfactory to the owners. The
gun is the invention of Hartford man
and it is intended to build it at Pratt &
Whitney's, where the Hotchkiss gun is
made. The gun itself is on exhibition at
the rooms of the board of trade. Mechanics
the cost of construction 20 per
cent lower than that of the Hotchkiss gun,
and the report of Lieutenant Eames, above
mentioned, describes in detail the advan-
tages it is found by an expert in guns to
possess.
TEE DEMOCRATIC LOVE FEAST.
The Hartford people present at the dem
ocratic love feast in that city Wednesday |
night were: The Hon. A. P. Hyde, h~,cr
W. W. Hyde, General John P. HARRISON,
Colonel L. F. Heublein. Everett L. Morse,
Police Commissioner George Ellis, Alder |
man Frank P. Furlong, Judge D. A Mark |
ham, Charles E. Gross, Major E. Il. Hyde, |
Col. G. NJ. Joslyn, Frank E. Hyde, Col.
E. M. Graves, Frank O. Sumner, George
W. Fowler, Harry E. Hastings, Colonel
William N. Woodruff, Alderman P. B.
Smith, Cornelius J. Lyons, Alderman 2.
r. Pagan, Councilman Joseph P. futile, |
Noah Cressey, F. W. Warner, Leopold |
LeLseuw, Louis B. Hubbard and John P.
Healy of Hartford and Windsor Locks.
WAC corsoI1DATrD Roam DIREcToR
Wilson g. Hunt died at the Clarendon
hotel, New York, Wednesday, was direc-
tor of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad. He WAS also a member
of the Union club, had held various city
and state offices and was director in
numerous New York corporations and
several railroads. Mr.. Hunt was born in
New Jersey and was eighty-seven years
old.
HARTFoRD's POLICIES.
Hartford companies had policies on the
Philadelphia Ledger building, which was
burned Tuesday night, as follows: Etna,
0,000, with an estimated loss of $4,000;
Continental, $4,000; National, $4,000;
Phoenix, $4,000; Hartford, $4,000. The
National estimates its loss at 40 per cent
The Connecticut had So, 500 and the Hart
ord SIS 900 on the contents of the build
ing.
CROSSED THU ANDES TWICE.
Miss Minnie Pierce of Plainville left
yesterday for New York to zee her sister,
Paris with her husband, who is commits
sion merchant trading in foreign ports.
Mrs. Peck is good traveller, having been
| to South America twice. When living in
Valparaiso she crossed the Andes twice in
the saddle. The little daughter Margery
will be with her grandmother, Mrs. E. N:
Pierce, during the two months absence of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Peck.
| VERY VALUABLE HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS
The Hartford Courant reporting the De-
cember meeting of the Connecticut Histor-
ical society, Wednesday morning, said:
Among the manuscripts in the Connecticut
historcaily, are the papers relating to the case
| of Silas Deane. The society three or four years
Of the New York Historical society, to make use
| of the papers in a work on Deane. The society
has recently received two volumes containing
l the Deane papers from IVA to 1778, published by
| the New York society. Mrs. Thomas, Deanes
granddaughter, at Norwich, has q large collec-
ring 10 Deane's time, and it has been suggested
that some effort should be made to place them
Deane died as an outcast and his body lies in a
forgotten grave in England. Now that efforts
| low and others, members of the society are con-
sidering whether Deane's remains should not be
| recovered and brought back to Connecticut.
In a recent letter to Professor Samuel Hart,
corresponding secretary of the Connecticut So
society, says that the third and fourth Volumes
Of the Deane papers now in process Of compile:
M he s
Unpublished .Defenses'' wherein Deane gives his
conception Of the character and motives of sew
eral eminent patriots, together with strange
| political incidents at Philadelphia during the
| years 1775 $50.
wATERBURY's BURNS CLUB.
The Waterbury Burns club will hold 6
grand concert and ball at jacques audito
; rum on the evening of January 25 in cele
, | bration of the birthday of the great Scot
| fish bard. The club will put on fare.
gram will consist of musical and vocal &c
: lections in the clubs best vein. The dane
ing of the Highland fling will be feature
{ President Lawson and the committee prom
Use most interesting event.
IT NEEDS ATTENTION.
The Bridgeport Farmer Gays: The rumo
t that the Bridgeport custom house will soo1
4 be consolidated with the New Haven offic
r probably grows out of Secretary Foster
l recommendation that the smaller custom
:. districts be consolidated. Doubtless Rep
. resentative DeForest will give his attention
6 to the matter, but he may need active sup
port from the board of trade and the cit,
, government.
NEW DYNAMO FACTORY.
8 J.R. Tomlinson of Syracuse, N. Y, wa
in Bridgeport yesterday looking for ia
vorable site on which to locate new dy
namo factory. His process is said to be
new one.
BRIDGEPORT PEOPLE.
Sherman q. Hubbard, the patent law
yer, of Bridgeport, is very ill with pneu
monia at his home at Seaside park. Thi
/ morning his chances of recovery were re
ported as almost hopeless.
, Mrs. q. B. Midd1ebrook of Bridgeport il
quite seriously ill at her home on west Lib
3 erty street, with heart trouble.
WONG LEE AND CHARLIE WONG.
HARTFORD, Dec Sin the trial O.
D Wong Lee for smuggling opium, in thu
8 United States district court yesterday
:. Charlie Wong, another Chinaman, testified
that he secretly struggled opium in Wong
y Lees laundry, for which he was paid b,
one Wong Git To day Charlie Wong wa
8 arrested and Wong Git has left. Git is tn,
d Chinaman who runs an opium joint Oh
State street, where much trouble has beef
made by Cinnamon.
ANOTHER ELECTRIC ROAD.
Another syndicate will petition the legis
Q lature for power to build and operate al
electric line east to Manchester Center
: through auckland, Oakland, North Man
chester and Talcottville to Rockville /
4 branch from South to North Manchester
n also included in the project. Among tn
l. hackers of the scheme are ex-senator NJ.
a Chapman and N. T. Pulsifer of Msnches
> ter; A. D. Claflin of Boston, who is Target
4 interested in the Mather electric works O
o Manchester; II. ]. Wickham and E.
billiard of Manchester, and William b
r Prescott, F. F. Maxwell and State Treas
n urer E. s. Henry of Rockville.
HOME MISSION woRK-EPIsCoPAL CHURCHE
IL Bishop John Williams of the diocese Q
80 Connecticut has appointed meeting G
" the Connecticut branch of the woman
!. auxiliary to the board of missions to b
IN held in st. Johns Episcopal church, Ware
y house Point, to-day. The first session wi
10 begin at $50 p. m. land reports of the wor
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