The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-20
STATE PARAGRAPHS,
Items of Interest From Various Parts of
 Connecticut.


 Henry Hart. q house and sign pain fer in Stamford for twenty-five years. died Saturday of apoplexy.
 The odd Fellows clambake at Han over Park. Meriden. Saturday. was great success.
 The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Tenth Connecticut Volunteers association will be held at the Win throp hotel. Meriden. on Thursday. September 6. The business meeting will begin at l2 o'clock and dinner will be served at 1:3o o'clock.
 Major John B. Morehouse. a retired farmer and an old resident of Fairfield, died Friday. aged sIxty-elght. He was a major in one of the old military reg iments and had been blind for eight years.
 Mrs. Ella Hobbie. wife of c. Osmond Miller of Norwalk. died at her home on Union Place Saturday morning In the thirty-second year of her age. The deceased was a member of the Bap- tist church and a teacher in the Sun day school. and at one time a member of the choir in that church.
 The road bridge that crosses the Danbury division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, between Wilton and South Wilton. was burned Saturday morning at 2 o'clock.
 Martin S. Craw. an old and esteemed citizen of Norwalk, aged eighty-seven. died Saturday. He left an only child, Mrs. Warren of this city. He had filled various local offices of trust and re- sponsibility and was vice president of the Fairfield County Savings bank at the time of his death. He has al ways been proverbially honest, of ex- tremely frugal and saving habits of life and Is estimated to have left prop erty valued at from thirty to fifty thousand dollars. He had been three times married; his first wife was sister of the late George G. Bishop and Mrs. Robert Els, his second wife, the widow Gorham. who died some two years since. In January last, he was married to the widow of the late Isaac Church. who survives him.
 The funeral of Mrs. Ransom Upson, 75, of Waterbury, widow of the late Harvey W. Upson, who died Friday evening.to place yesterday at the resi- dence of her son, Dr. Charles R. Upson of PIP North Main street. Mrs. Upson was born in Oxford March 6, 1919, and was the daughter of Charles and Maria Morris Ransom. One other son besides the doctor survives her. He is George Harvey Upson.
 A New York colored woman, twenty two years old, named Mrs. Grace Field ing. who had been visiting her mother, Mrs. Peter Young of Norwich, was drowned at Mantle Friday night while attempting to board the steamer Sum- mer Girl. Her husband lives in New London.
 The Weekly Record of this city shows for the week just past: Real estate sales-New Haven and West Haven, 39; Bridgeport, g; Hartford, IA; Water bury, IS; Meriden, 7; New Britain, 5; Middletown, 2; Norwich, 4; New Lon don, 8; Danbury, 5. Real estate mort gages-New Haven and West Haven, s111,445; Bridgeport $25,7OO; Hartford, 334i05O; Waterbury, $17O25; Meriden, s9,S25; New Britain, $s,9O6; Middletown, $2,00O; Norwich. $5,5oO; New London, $33,200; Danbury. $4,200.
 j The Springville company of Rockville are very much elated over a spring, which has been discovered just back of their mill. A well has been dug and the supply of water seems to be nearly in- exhaustible.
 A Springfield dispatch Saturday, says of the two conductors whose arrest was announced in Sundays Courier" Con- ductors George w. Parker and George R. Dunbar were arranged in the police court this morning on the charge of Chrles H. Mesick of this | city was arraigned on the charge of re- ceiving stolen goods. They all pleaded l not guilty, and their cases were con- tinued to August 2S for a hearing, ball | being required in the sum of $500 for l the appearance of each. The Bridgeport Boating association is l making arrangements for it's | annual Labor day regatta. The regat- l ta Is open to all boats owned along Long l Island, twenty-seven feet and under. Among the cracks which it is expected t~> h0 D0y dow, Zephyr, Tern and the Clytie, form l erly owned in Bridgeport, but now owned in Westport. It Is not improba- ble also that Commodore Francis Bur- l ritt's unbeaten twenty-seven-foot sloop 1 will be specially put in com mission for the regatta.
 Mrs Rose Kimpton of Norfolk lies in a critical condition, the result of bad acident Saturday evening. MT. Alden Green in company with Mrs. Rose Nmpton and Miss Ann Beach, left Winsted in a two-seated team for l Dwight Robbins residence in the northern part of Norwich Saturday 1 By an accident the carriage upset. The two ladies were both ren- dered unconscious for time. MT. l Beach was only slightly hurt.
 The annual firemen's parade in Wa .srbury, which will be held September La, will be equal, if not superior, to the l efforts of former years. The latch strings of the various hose houses will 1 ,e hung out, and the proverbial hos oitality' of the department will in no wise be alessened. ., ...
 The Plainyille assembly closed Satur-