Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-09
ALI OVER THE STATE.

ALI OVER THE STATE. Death of a well.Known Bicycle Man Large Fire in Colltnsville-A Pas tors Change-GrIp Did It-Obituary Notes-Deaths In Greenwich-Tobac. co Crep-General News.
 DEATH OF Kx-coMnssIoNER PERKINS.
 A1DDLErowN, Feb. s.-Lewis D. Per kins, formerly county commissioner for New Haven county, expired at his home here last night of pneumonia He was ffty-seven years of age and leaves wife He was well-known and very popular.
 THROUGH THE ICE.
 Five persons were baptized in the Quin- nipiac river at Packerville, near Plainfeld yesterday afternoon. The ice had to be cut away to make room for the immersion. Three were women.
 TO BECOME AN EPIscoPALIAN.
 MER1DEN, Feb. S.-Rsv. Mr. Phillips, who has been pastor of the South Meriden Methodist church for tho past year, will leave in April and will go into the Episco- pal church. He is an Englishman and was reared under the teaching of the Church of England. The Episcopal church has be- come moro to his liking, and he has de- cided to enter it. He has been preaching only three or four years.
 DEATH OF AN OLD osYTERMAN. Msssrs. B. s. and c. B. Church, of Nor wich, arrived homo Saturday evening from Virginia in response to telegram which announced the critical illness of their father, Elisha R. Church, the we'll known oysterman, who resides near Fort Point. Mr. Church died on Saturday at the age of seventy five years. Messrs. Henry E. and Theodore N. Church, the Market street oystermen, Norwich, are also his sons. MT. Church was one of the best known oystermen in eastern Connecticut twenty five years ago, and brought his five sons up to the business. B. s. and c. B. Church carry on the oyster business on the Chesapeake bay, and have the past season employed one hundred colored men | to open oysters for the market. GRIP DIDIT. John Starkey, jr., clerk in Hartford store, took his first walk yesterday after a | weeks illness with the grip. He went 60 | the store and with @ blacksmith's hammer broke one of the large plate glass windows. He explained there was flaw in the glass. | It was plain that his mind had become af- fected by his illness.
 FIRE IN CoLLINsvILLE. l Dr. J. B. Flint's large steam sawmill in Collinsville was burned at o'clock ysster- day morning. Bob Houston was badly in- jured by falling from ladder. The loss, $2O, 900.
 ! TOBACCO CROP PROSPECTS,. ! kho of fha e supposed that the 1891 tobacco crop would be one of the best ever raised in Conuecti- cut. A white veil has, however, been dis covered in some stock, the extent of which cannot be determined as yet. One dealer, who has invested heavily, says he is not alarmed and thinks that, as a whole, ths l crop will be satisfactory.
 l PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
 MT. Philip Dsignean, who is employed at the steam sawmill of Campbell 6 Go. in Asheville, Conn.,, met with painful acci- dent. A large log rolled down a hill and struck MT. Daignean, breaking one of his legs.
 l DEATH OF PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. PECK OF ] GREENWICH.
 GREENWICH, FeL. 8.-Professor William
 G. Peck, aged seventy years, a veteran oi
 the Mexican war, died at his home here
 last night. Professor Peck had been ailine
 for some time with Bright's disease, but no
 until lately had his death been expected
 He was for many years professor of math
 ematics at Columbia college.
 DIED IN GREENWICH.
 Augustus R. Newman, the oldest ant
 most widely known business man il ) Greenwich, died at his home in Mianu | yesterday morning, aged eighty three years He was in the grocery business sixty -tw,
 years and was postmaster of the town fo ) years, being removed during the admins
 tration of President Lincoln.
 HIGH DEATH RATE IN HARTFORD IN JAN
 UARY.
 HARTFORD, Feb. 9.-Acoording to the re
 port of the board of health 147 residents o Hartford died in the city during January There were also four still births and fv non-residents died. The death rate for tn
 month on basis of 55,0O0 population i 31. .85 per 1,O0O per annum, greatly in ex cess of the usual rate, ,although more favor
 able than in December, 1891. In January '91, the rate was oply 1933. In go th
 grip epidemic ran it'up to 40.30. In 8
 and 'S8 it was 15.23 and 17.88 respectively
 The largest number of deaths from an one disease last month was 29 from tn grip, 21 died of pneumonia, 20 from diph theria, 10 from phthisis pulmonales, l from bronchitis and from typhoid fever DEATH OF DR. TIFFANY. Dr. Russell H. Tiffany, of Hartford, wh , died at his home Saturday was aged SC , He was apparently in good health the da before, and visited his patients as usual He had slight cold, but it was not con sidered serious. During the night COL gestion set in and the lungs rapidly filled , death coming suddenly at 4:45 a. m. Dr l, Tiffany removed to Hartford from Collins f vile about seven years ago. He was l man of robust health and carried his year well. He leaves three sons. IN CHESHIRE. : Seth Calhoun, one of Cheshires oldes 8 citizens, who died suddenly recently, wa eighty eight years of age, and had lived O the Governor Foote place, which he pu, :; chased in 1857, going there from Nc 8 Haven. His birthplace was in Washing ! ton, Conn. His family is connected wit the celebrated statesman, John O. Calhoun
 VETERANS AT DANBURY.
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