The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-21
CONNECTICUT JOTTINGS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS
 PARTS or THE STATE.

Family Reunion-Connecticut Railroad
 Lighthouse.
 Phon Lee of New York, a high-born Chinese young man, who was educated in the Norwich Free academy and Yale and later married Nutmeg maiden and became a citizen of the United States, is about to undertake in com pany with his brother Henry a novel and important experiment related to the cotton and woolen making business. Together they have leased a part of the lower Sturtevant factory at Bean Hill from Charles Bard, trustee of the Sturtevant estate, and began work in their undertaking this week. It is their design to demonstrate the practical and pre-eminent value of the Chinese ramie plant in the manufacture of silk, cot ton, and woolen fabrics through a pro- cess that Is entirely different from what has heretofore been used
 Although ramie has been employed
 
 making the goods noted for a quarter of a century, nevertheless the Messrs. Lee will apply it in a new way, with new treatment, and have no doubt that the value of the manufactured product will be greatly enhanced there by.
 Ramie is shrubby Chinese and East Indian perennial of the nettle family. It has numerous reed-like stems, from four to six feet high with large, heart shaped leaves, silvery-white under heath It is cultivated more or less ex- tensively in the southern states and West Indies. Its fine fibre is rapidly coming into use for almost every pud- pose hitherto served by cotton If the Messrs. Lees experiments are suc- cessful, it is believed they will prove to be of almost inestimable value
 FAIRCHILD-CAMP FAMILY RE-
 UNION.
 The third annual reunion of the Fair child-Camp family will be held at Han over Park next week Thursday. These are the officers:
 President-Curtiss C. Atwell, Dur ham.
 Vice president-Luzerne M. Camp, Waterbury.
 Secretary and treasurer-Lester M. Camp, Waterbury.
 Historian-Andrew M Camp, Dur ham.
 Poetess-Eva A. Hickox, Durham
 On reminiscences-How A. Camp. Hartford.
 
 Executive ommittee-Curtiss c. At we'll Durham; Charles w. Camp, New Britain; Theron H. Camp, New Britain; Howard A. Camp Hartford; Henry l. Nettleton, Durham Center; Silas w. Fowler, Durham Center; Lester M. Camp, Waterbury.
 HE WAS CONVICT BOY.
 The mystery as to the identity of convict BOT of the state prison, who died Saturday night, bids fair to re- main a mystery Convict 307 was ar rested in Bridgeport November 19, 1884, on complaint made by his wife that her husband had criminally assaulted her i daughter, child of her former husband The man was arrested under the name Of William H. Clark, tried and con- victed of the crime, and sentenced to state prison for fifteen years. There was never any certainty of the mans identity. It is known that he had served term in Sing Sing, that he had escaped and was recaptured. and that he had at different times 8 been known as William H. Reed, Will # liam H. Graham and William H. Clark S He served through the war as an off, ~ of jr~1,+ tery.
 In 1890 Clark lived in New Milford \ where he was known as Reed. While < resident there he married and came # to Bridgeport, the couple taking up \ their abode at Pfau's Lane. While in Bridgeport he was known as Clark.
 The chaplain of the prison was called to the dying mans bedside Sat < urday. The chaplain asked him to re- veal his identity, but the convict re- ( fused, saying: "I have a wife and four children. Let my shame die with s me" Clark desired that all his accumu- < lated pension money should go to John q Hawley fellow convict serving a life sentence. Warden Woodbridge will try to find the wife and give the money N to her.
 & RAILROAD MEN GOING TO CHILL. N P. P. Murphy of Is Williams street, who has been an engineer on the Cen tral New England railroad for the past # three years and who formerly was em- X ployed on the New York and New Eng ~ land road, has made arrangements to ~ go to Chilli to follow the same line of v business He will leave New York, says S the Hartford Post, about the 18th of this month with five Rogers engines that E have been made at Paterson, N. J. His $ family will follow him in a few A months.
 ' The Chilian State Railway company is z an enterprising corporation, with W. R. N Grace & Co. as it's New York agents. k This is the firm to which ex-Mayor Grace belongs. It is proposed to show x the superiority of American locomotives H over those of English make. The Eng { fish locomotives now used in Chilli are not proving satisfactory. Already few American engines are in use and it is be- s lieved that the latest consignment will $ confirm the good opinion of the Chilians for the mechanical skill and the thof- \ ough workmanship of the locomotive manufacturers in this country. AS Mir. Murphy will run the Inter-Conti- tlr1n 1to1 fSnc nd