Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-05
For Additional Local New. sec Sd and 4th Pages
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
 The Board of Aldermen will meet this evening.
 The Farmers Club monthly meeting takes place at D. m. to-day at room 10, Sheffield Hall
 There will be 8 temperance meeting at the Seamen's Bethel this evening, to which all are invited.
 Judge Carpenter is steadily improving, but will probably not be able to resume his judi cial duties for some time yet.
 Town Agent Reynolds will go to Concord, N H., to-day on the 1920 p. m. train in charge of Edward A. Babcock who will be lodged in the insane retreat at that place.
 Yesterdays recorded transfers of real es- tate were Matthew G. Elliot to Hattie M. Leishman, thirty feet on Ashmun street j; same to same, twenty-five feet on Admiral street.
 The New Haven Juvenile Temperance Union will meet at Y. M. c. A. Hall, 325 Chapel street, every Saturday at 2:3O p. m. All who are interested in the work are kindly invited.
 Nearly eight thousand copies of the JOUR- NAL AND COURIER of the morning after cleo tion were issued, and such was the demand that this very large edition was soon ex- hausted.
 The grocery store of T. w. Potter, New London, was broken into Wednesday night and robbed of $50 in money and goods Edward Kirby, hostler in that city, was ar rested yesterday charged with the crime.
 The burned barn lately occupied by Barker dE Ransom is to be replaced by the Tontine company with fine brick structure. The losses of the firm by the fire have been ad- justed and they have been paid $1, 700 by the insurance companies.
 The municipal committee on lamps held a meeting last evening, and after briefly con- sidering petitions before them proceeded to localities where lamps were asked for. They will make report to the Board of Aldermen, who meet this evening.
 The Bigelow Zouaves, actives and honor ables, go to New London on the 6:15 D. m train to participate in the grand parade in that city tonight, and will be the guests of the Colt Zouaves, who were the Bigelows' guests at the great State parade.
 MT. Philo Brown, Representative elect from East Hampton, had his house robbed of $500 worth of silver-plated ware Tuesday evening. The thieves entered through door that was unlocked for one of the gentlemans boys who was out getting election returns.
 MT. John L. Bacon, formerly of New Lon don, died at his residence in Middletown on Tuesday morning of this week. Mr. Bacon was for many years joint proprietor with his brother William of the old Bacon House, or Steamboat Hotel, on Bank street, New Lon don.
 MT. William H. Coolidge, of the Orphan Asylum collecting committee, will next week call on the manufacturing establishments where he has left blanks and get the "re- turns" of contributions from the employees for the little wards at the New Haven Orphan Asylum.
 Last evening was the time for the regular monthly meeting of the Veteran Firemen's Association. Vice President Crockett was in the chair, but as few members werc present no business was transacted. The next meet ing will be held on the first Thursday even- ing in December.
 We congratulate the P05Iddiuaa on it's won derful success in collecting and publishing the returns of the late election-but it would seem as if the consciousness of its own great superiority in that direction would have pre- vented its attempt to belittle the feeble eff forts of it's poor neighbor, the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
 The National Congregational Council takes place at St. Louis the second week in Novem Der. Excursion tickets from New Haven to St. Louis and return for those attending it are now on sale at the ticket office in the railroad depot, tickets good going from Nov. 5th to the 11th, and to return until December 5th fare $31 for the round trip. The N. D. Sperry Mounted Guard have in vited the Southington Horse Guards to be l their guests on the occasion of the grand l parade in this city next Monday evening l They wish to return compliments received | from the Southington boys on the occasion of | their participation in the Southington parade | the evening before the election