Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-24
CONNECTICUT NEWS.
Points of Interest From All Over the
Nutmeg State.

Nutmeg State.
The pneumatic ball-bearing sulky was
thing of much comment yesterday by the
crowd at Charter Oak park, Hartford.
PAGERS generally seemed to carry these lew
wheeled wonders more steadily than did
the trotters, who produce far more jerky
motion to the vehicle than was quite per-
ceptible in the high-wheeled sulky. No
doubt there will be great improvements
made in this sulky before the advent OF
another season, but the improvement in
obtaining speed has come to stay. The
turns are made on the pneumatics without
the slightest swerving, the wheels of the
sulky seeming to adhere to the ground at
the turns as If they were running in
grooves, paramount consideration in the
matter of speed when it is remembered
how the high-wheeled, steel-tired sulky
slides away from the pole at short turn
and acts like drag on the speed Of
horse. These pneumstics are all ball
bearing, bat some of them are on hickory
spoked wheels, while others are the all
around regulation safety wheel. They are
veritable sneaks, however, as they come up
the stretch at high rate of speed, as was
suggested when the PAGER Dallas turned
off the fastest mile of the morning In
2:14t.
NEW COMPANY.
The Hammond company has been Or
ganized at Bridgeport to deal in dressed
meats; poultry and provisions. The CAPT
tai is SO, 200 in 30 shares of 800 each, 20
per cent. of which is paid in. The stock
holders are George Hotchkiss of New
York, ffty-nine shares; Thomas J. Nc
Mama of Bridgeport, thirty shares, and W.
P. Coffin of Newark, one share.
WATERBURY, RACES.
| Entries for the fall meeting of the Wa
terbury Driving company are coming in
satisfactorily, and the anticipation of a
large field promises to be fully realized.
There are at present four horses exercising
at the track. Happy Home, owned by
Duckworth of Providence, covered a half
mile in Ill very handily yesterday after
noon; Happy, Home, however, seems to
| travel better alone than when in company.
He is entered in the 2:27 class. Allan
Risk of Willimantic has three horses al
the track all eady, one of them being Click.
Clock, who ran at the spring meeting.
An effort is being made to get up a purse
to beat the track record of 2:27i, made al
the spring meeting two years ago by M
Flaherty of Birmingham's Joe s. The fall
meeting promises to be highly success
full one.
A DRAMA, "BLAsrED LIVES" WRITTEN B,
THE B1pwELLs.
George Mcdonald and Edward Noye
Hills, who have been released from tn
English prison, left Glasgow on the ALA,
line of steamers last Wednesday. The.
are expected to land in Quebec sometime
during the week, where they will be me
by relatives and friends. Mcdonald hs
wealthy relatives in New York who will
take care of him, but 1t is unknown wha
Hills will do. Both have been released
through the earnest work of George Bid
we'll of Hartford, and Mr.. Bidwell justl
prides himself upon what he has accom-
plished. When the application for thei
release was forwarded to Home Secretar
Matthews, he positively refused to consid
or the petition. Later, however, mean
were employed whereby he was oblige
, to reconsider the matter and he remarks
to the duke of Norfolk, that "a
long as have let the two worst 60 ma
as we'll release Hill and Mcdonald, espe
cially since McDonald's sister has agreed
pay the passage" This brings to Americ
all who figured in that famous forgery Q
, 1878, the Last two preferring to land Il
. Canada on account of the arrest of Georg
, Bidwell on his arrival at New York fou
years ago. George and Austin Bidwe
have written a drama in five acts entitle
| "Blasted Lives" The play has been o.
amined by A. NJ. Palmer of New York AN
he speaks in high favor of its success
, Frank Dupree, connected with Proctor's i
l al Hot he,
for the play, and without doubt it will b
produced in some of the large cities dul
: ing the coming season. There is consider
able humor running through the dram
! and many exciting situations.
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN GIFTS.
The twenty-ifth anniversary Of the ma
l rage of Seleotman Charles B. Noyes an
> his wife of Lebanon was observed Satul
| day evening at their residence. A grei
! many friends aud guests were there, an
? presents amounting to $500 were receive
by the couple.
( BECAUSE HE WORE ovERALLs.
The Rev. Mr.. Jernegan of the Middl
y town Baptist church has stirred up a Sol
i sation in that quiet little city His Sc
' mon Sunday was on the inspiration of tt
g Holy Ghost, and he cited the instance of
c man being turned away from Holy Trinit
q | church because he wore overalls as q cles
j proof that the church had not been bal
:. tized by the Holy Ghost.
o This accusation is denied with conside
{ able warmth by the Holy Trinity peopl
It They refuse to believe that any strang
v was ever turned away from their churc
a and unless the Rev. Mr.. Jernegan bIinI
It on his proof the relations of the tv
q churches will be strained in earnest.
l. A COURT ON WHEELS.
|, The Norwalk Gazette narrates as follow
sit is not often that Connecticut TOW
turns out its entire populace to mourn, b.
such was the case at Darien last Saturda
On that night there wendell its way throue
that ancient town two-horse truck lade
d with the law until its very axles creake
Not the regular old English law, but No
10 walks justice of the peace law, where 20,
fine amounts to nothing and the costs pa