Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-13

Attorney Asher briefly cross-examined some of the witnesses, but nothing of i'm portanee was brought out thereby.
 As the state had no more witnesses to call the case was adjourned until this morning at 10:S0 o'clock. It is said that present, among them Nrs. Schloss, the l mother of the unfortunate girl. FUNERAL OF MRS. ATwATER. For Nearly sixty-four Years a Mem
 Der of the First M. E. Church.
 Founded the First Sunday School in Middletown, Conn.
 The funeral services of Mrs. Mary Miller Atwster took place yesterday afternoon. After prayers at the home services were held at the First M. E. church, where the deceased had for 80 many years been 8 worshipper, the pastor, Rev. Dr. Williams, officiating. pr. Williams offered prayer and the choir sang finely number of very appropriate selections, be6tting the hour and occasion. A sketch of the deceased was read by the pastor, which is given be- low in full, at the desire of many friends who were present, who have long been as sociated in church fellowship with the de- | ceased. The pail bearers were the follow ing: Messrs. Sylvester Smith, Lewis E. Herrick, Noah A. Fullerton, o. 0. Shep ard, Levi c. Gilbert, Charles A. Baldwin. The interment was in the old cemetery.
 Mary Miller. Bern at Middletown, Conn.,, Jan
 Married John 8. Atwater of New Haven, octo- | Der 2, 1899.
 | United with the First Methodist church Of New | Haven, November, 1899.
 Her father, gallant young seaman, was lost at sea with his ship and crew Gin his l twenty ninth year, before Mary, his oldest
 child, had completed her sixth year. Her
 mother died fourteen years later, her
 health having gradually failed after her
 husbands loss. This mother was
 devoted Christian, as became the de- One of them, Rev. Thomas Gouge,
 resigned the living of St. Sepulchre, Lon don, t1671) and went to Wales where he founded between three and four hundred
 schools, and printed eight thousand Bibles | in the Welsh language. When he died Q681) Archbishop Tillottson preached his funeral sermon, and Dr. Isaac Watts wrote
 a memorial ode.
 Harriet Gouge Miller founded the first
 Sunday school in Middletown, Conn.,, Q826) and sustained 1t in spite of deter | ! in a school house, and it was the sight of
 this delicate woman, standing with little flock of crying children ankle deep in snow
 before the door of the school house | which had been closed against them, that
 aroused the indignation of an influential
 man and led to their being provided with
 better quarters in the Old South church I(Con2rsg gstionaD. This mother often rose from her sick bed and went to the school, har tad toh hor had he Uya an intellectual woman, and from her sick
 room kept up large correspondence, the
 principal theme of which was the love of
 Christ and the need of 8 higher spiritual life. Her loving, daring young father was
 of sterling New England stock, and from
 these two the daughter inherited courage,
 patience, lofty and refined ideas of right,
 of justice and duty, love of books, a quaint and quiet wit, and what is known in
 New England as 'faculty"-a capsbility
 for planning and executing that in some | instances seemed almost marvellous. She
 came to New Haven QS29 bride of less
 than twenty years, and at once found her church home in the old Methodist church upon the green. Through youth and mid de life she was an active church worker,
 and one of the promoters of the German
 Mission" now the German Methodist
 church. The Missionary society and the Aid society of her church knew her as an interested, if not active, member in these |, later years.
 All the services of the church were de.
 and prayers, the sermon, the flowers , about the altar, the prayer meet ing and the Sunday school were al , | so dear to her. Her last communion al
 the Lords Table wae on the first Sunday , | of July. It was an oft-repested remarl l with her-"When I stop going to ohurei l it will be because I cannot 80 anywhere. Many, many grievous trials fell to he lot, but she bore them bravely, and hit her pain from those whom she feared might suffer through their sympathy. Sh l ! was always patient, and brave and sweet :. sHANNAHAN GETS THE OFFICE r | The Alderman From the Ninth Ware
 Elected AssisIa mt Superintendent a Springside - Clerk Naher Clos
 Second-Want the Gibson Hall Trac = Put in Sanitary ConditiOn-Petftton Received From Two Street Railroad , Other Business.
 At the meeting of the board of selectmel last evening an assistant superintendent a Springside farm was appointed to fill th , vacancy caused by the death of James J ! Coogan, late assistant superintendent c
 ! the institution. But two candidates wer
 in the field, Alderman John F. Shannsha of the Ninth ward and John F. Maher, th ; present clerk ct Springside. Selectma , Pohlnan placed MT. Shannahan in nomins
 ! tionjand the nomination was seconded Town Agent Garrity. Selectman Beeche | | nominated MT. Maher and this nominatio was seconded by Sslectman Sternberg. .
 ballot was taken, resulting in Shannaha e l receiving four votes, the united strengt
 of the democratic members of the board a | while Maher received the three votes of tn
 republican contingent Subsequently th election of MT. Shannahan was made unar a imous and it was decided that the appoint . ment should take effect immediately. f A petition signed by Joel A. Sperry, B , F. Peck, W. A. Ensign, E. A. Chatfiel T and forty eight others asking that tn z selectmen put some of the town laborer 5 to work putting the Gibson Hall tract il e Beaver pond district in sanitary condition a was received. The petition designated th a place as filthy swamp, and dumpin . stated that the peculiar condition of tn . ground formed a natural watershed wit ! no outlet and rendered it dangerous, un r healthy and disease-breeding locality. At t tached to the petition were certificate s from Drs. G. F. Converse, W. D. Ande1 \. son, and G. I. Hemingway to the efec :. that they had treated 8 number of patient o in that locality all suffering from malsri Q which was in their opinion directly at }, tributable to the condition of the swamp Selectman Pohlman moved that the mat . ter be referred to the committee on outsid [, poor with power to act. Selectman Beeche
 objected to this and wanted that cemmitte to report back to the board. Finally Se f lectman Cunningham suggested that tn V committee on outside poor should confe e with the park commission in reference t
 the matter and ascertain whether or no < the commission would furnish foreman a and tools and report back to the board n This action was finally decided upon. oI A communication was also received iron s the committee on West Rock park of tn l. park commission asking that the selectmel
 devise some suitable regulations relative t. f blasting at West rock quarries. The com - munication claims that the blasting as a f present conducted was dangerous to visit :. ors at the rock and suggested that th , blasting be done in the forenoon. Tn e communication, which was signed by H. T
 Blake, E. E. Bradley and H. s. Pack, wa 8 referred to the committee on roads snt
 bridges.
 A petition was received from the Lak :, Saltonstsll Railroad company through it i secretary, George A. W. Dodge, for per l. mission to lay single track, with prope . turnouts and switches, beginning at thu ;. junction of Farren avenue, Forbes avenu,
 and Main street in the town of New Ha n l ven, thence through Main street in said = | town to the line diyidfno the town of New