Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-20
CONNECTICUT NEWS.


 Home-Double Tracking-An Aged Pedestrian-GrocersO Of to Boston.
 NEW. LONDON, July 19.-Secretary of the Navy Herbert on the despatch boat Dolphin arrived here this morning on a tour of inspection and paid an extended visit to the Thames Naval Station. He spent about two hours looking over the yard and expressed himself as highly pleased with it's capabilities as headquar- ters for the naval cruisers. There is a vast quantity of fresh water in close proximity to the station which it is pro- posed to utilize in very short time for an anchorage ground for the white cruisers when laid up or out of commission. The Dolphin steamed away for Newport this afternoon with the secretary on board. F NEW STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
 HARTFORD, July 19.-The new State Board of Charities to day elected Dr. An drew W. Tracy of Meriden president and adjourned to next Wednesday when sec- retarv will be elected. There was a full nesting of the board present They were: Miss Mary Hall of Hartford, Miss Rebeksh G. Bacon of New Haven, Hemsn c. Whit tlesey of Middletown, Dr. Andrew w. Tracy of Meriden and George A. Spencer of Saybrook.
 TERRIBLY INJURED.
 HARTFORD, July 19.-Patrick Johnson of Windsor Locks slipped and fell into some gearing at tEe works of the Windsor Locks Water company, while oiling the machinery, at noon to day. His left arm was badly crushed and mangled above the elbow.
 CONNECTICUT ELECTRIC COMPANY. At the annual meeting of the Connecti- cut Electric company held in Waterbury this week, directors were elected as fol- lows: D. s. Plume, George W. Beach, 0. M. Platt, D. B. Hamilton, J. R. Smith, A. | M. Young and Edmund Day. The direc- | tors elected the following officers: David s. Plume, president; George W. Beach, vice-president; J. R. Smith, treasurer; | Alden M. Young, secretary; A. o. Shep- 1 ardson, manager.
 | PREPARING FOR ANNUAL PEACE MEETING.
 The Connecticut Peace society will meet this afternoon at its hall in Ledyard to ap- point committees and make preparations for the annual peace meeting, the date of | which will also be set at this meeting. As many of the leading peace advocates will will be at Chicago this year, 1t is expected that many new speakers will be drawn | upon.
 | PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY.
 John Conrad Markert, sixty-fve, an old and respected German citizen of Water bury, died suddenly of apoplsxy Tuesday evening at his home. MT. Msrkert retired from business about a year ago and hal since lived with his son and daughter, ab staining from active work. His health hac been good and his death was wholly unex pected. The deceased was a member O. of the Concordia and Lyra Singing socie ties. For some years he conducted ciga manufacturing business in company witl his son at 1S9 South Main street. About 1 year ago he retired. He leaves besides hi
 widow three daughters, Mrs. William
 Snow, Mrs. John Meyer and Miss Laur
 Markert, and son, Daniel J. Msrkert
 TO MEET TO DAY IN NoRoToN.
 The Soldiers hospital board will have meeting st Noroton to-day, when a nun
 Der of interests relating to the Soldiers home will be considered. A new lavator is to be erected for the use of the men ,sn . the hospital itself is to be considerably i'm : proved. The nature of these improve ments will not be decided on until th I meeting. The legislature made @ specis
 appropriation for the benefit of the home a : it's last session.
 DOUBLE TRACKING. PLA1Nv1LLE, July 19.-The work of lay
 ing the double track on the New Englan , road between Plainville and Forestville 1 expected to begin on or before August It The end of the double track is now Plair vile, the continuance from Black Rock ,o
 the outskirts of Now Britain having beel
 laid last fall. The contracts for the worl
 between Plainville and Forestville sr
 about ready to be given out. It is the in tention of the company to continue th double tracking on to Bristol and have tn work completed to that point before win
 ter. The old wooden railroad bridge ove
 the stream at Plainville is to be replace' by handsome double tracked iron bridge and the small iron bridge over the stresn
 mile west of Forestville will be replaced by double-tracked bridge.
 HOW TO FIND THE COMET.
 A very good way to find the comet is t
 first locate the big dipper. Then draw , line through the two stars which make tn handle. Let that line run down througl the stars at the lower and outer corner o the body of the dipper. Then when tn line has extended about as far from thi
 star at the lower corner as the star men
 toned Is distant from the starting point
 the observer ought to be able to find tn
 comet, which is very close to the tw' f bright stars on the right forefoot of tn
 greater bear, and not far from the hip bone of the lynx. If 1t continues to trave in the direction it is now going 1t ought ], comet for several days to come. The come is large and bright, with strong centra
 condensation and 8 nucleus which appear
 to be about the size of star of the secont magnitude.
 FISHERS ISLAND CATHOLICS HAPPY. The Norwich Record says: "The Catholic residing on Fishers Island are rejoicin
 over the fact that the celebration of tn mass took place Sunday on that island fo the first time. The officiating priest wa
 Rev. Father Sheehy of Brookly, N. Y. Tn
 service took place in the presence of 16
 members of the faith. Yesterday Fsthe
 Sheehy, who has been visiting Fathe
 Joynt for few days, went over to Fisher
 Island and received from the Messrs. Fer guson deed to nice plot of land, ol
 which it is proposed to erect neat an, substantial church edi6ce in the nea future. Fishers Island being an adjunc
 of the state of New York, the new parisl will be attached to the archdiocese of Ney } York. now presided over by Archbishop Corrigan."
 | NORWICH GRoCERs Go Yn RosroN ToDAy To-day the Norwich grocers and friend make trip to Boston. They are said t
 be all men of weight, of good avoirdupois
 men who believe in good measure and hay 8 standard reputation for good fellowship They go in body by special train. PEDESTRIAN NINETY FIVE YEARS oLp Bartholomew Mccarthy, we'll knowl
 farmer of Baltic, did very neat bit 0 pedestrianism last week from Conrad
 Wulf's house on Jail hill to his own hom,
 in Baltic. He covered the distance in si: hours, which is quite remarkable when i
 is said that he is ninety five years old Mir Mccarthy bears his years very lightly
 His vitality and strong constitution vii probably carry him through many nor
 years to come.
 AT THE wILLIMANTIC CAMP GROUNDS. l Several cottages are still for sale or tt
 rent on the Willimantic camp grounds