Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-14

Eel Fishing on the Lower Connects
 cut River.

One industry in Essex the hard times has not affected is ceiling. The principal ceiling grounds sre the Middle and South Cove bays, and the ship canal along the river front The Hartford Courant says:
 The open winter has prevented the latter place from being fshed to any extent until the late cold snap frozs 1t over and many of the old time eelers took advantage and secured large quantities of the slippery
 fish from their wintry homes in the mud.
 The chief tool necessary Is a spear at
 tached to handle from fifteen to forty
 five fee: long. The long handled spears
 are used for fishing along the river front,
 where the water is twenty-five to thirty
 feet in depth. Watrous bay or
 reach, just below this place, is
 good ceiling ground in severe winters on account of the swift cur rent and brackish water. Some very and three pounds each. It is not an un- usual thing for sn experienced fisherman to catch from forty to sixty pounds of eels day. Eels have been unususlly numer- ous this winter and also the eelers. There is always 8 good demand for fresh eels, ana many HOW I6OIulL6 nave 6QIeI6Q 1QlO the business this winter. The supply of the fish seems to be inexhaustible and there is no need of any law for protection, for
 each succeeding year they seem to be more plentiful"
 NEW PASTOR RKCEIvED. Reception to Rev. pr. Lamson, Hartford.
 HARTFORD, Feb. 13.-Center church, this city, was thronged last evening des- pite the blizzard weathar. The occasion was the reception given to the church's new pastor, Rev. Dr. Lamson, successor in ! the pastorste to Rev. Dr. Walker, formerly of New Haven. The reception was held l in the lecture room, which had been ar- l ranged for the occasion. A slightly raised platform stood in the center of the room covered with rugs, upon which palms and potted plants were placed. At one side was table where chocolate and coffee were served by Mrs. Williston Walker and Mrs. Cornwall T. Willard. Besides the electric lights several low lamps stood in convenient places, and theee, with the many rugs and plants, gave the large room a very attractive appearance.
 Dr. Lsmson and Mrs. Lamson stood at the south side of the room and the mem bers of the congregation were presented to them by Dr. George Leon Walker, the pastor emeritus of the church. Mrs. Walker assisted Mrs. Lsmson in receiving, l and the Rev. Charles H. Williams, former ly of New Haven, who has filled SO accept ably the position of acting pastor since Dr. Walkers retirement from active work, was
 also present.
 Sons Of the American Revolution. HARTFORD, Feb. 13.-At meeting of
 the managers of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held at the office of Secretary Lucius F. Robinson yester- day afternoon, the following new members were elected:
 Frederick Benjamin Rice, Waterbury; James Dudley Dswell, New Haven; James Walker, New Haven; Joseph A. Graves, Hartford; James Fl. Stivsrs, Ssonington;
 Edwin B. Hotchkiss, Bridgeport; David Calhoun, Hartford; Paul H. Billiard,
 stonington; Nathan s: Fish, Groton;
 Joseph Dwight Chaffse, Willimantic; Sam
 H. Getmsn. Stamford; Edgar Thomas, New Haven; Charles Wilson Hawley,
 Bridgeport; Charles Wesley. Brown, Bris-
 toI; Abial W. Nelson, New London;
 Charles P. Cooley, Hartford; John New
 ton Merwin, New Haven; Herbert 0. War.
 ren, New Haven; Nellie A. W. Fsxon,
 Hartford; Thomas L. Moore, Bridgeport;
 Ira Bsebe Wooster, Bridgeport; Lewis B.
 Siilimsn, Bridgeport; Joseph Gilbert Cal
 houn, Hartford; Charles J. Parker, New ! Britain.
 FIX PRISONERs or WAR.
 The twelfth annual reunion of the Con-
 necticut association of Union Ex Prisoners
 of War will be held ct Grand Army hall,
 Cheney building, Thursday, February 22.
 The business meeting will be called to or ! der at 10:3O @. m.