Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-31
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LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
 The welcome rain at last.
 On account of it's being Decoration day, She Institute closes to-day at 1 o'clock.
 The annual meeting of the Air Line road takes place at Middletown tomorrow.
 The town farms hose carriage and hose are expected to arrive in two or three days.
 Dr E B Lighthi1l visits this city again to- day. See his announcements in another col umn.
 Shelton has it's great Robert Raikes anni- versary to-day. The Choral orchestra of this city will assist.
 Another gang of about twenty Italians arrived Saturday at Newtown, where they go to work on the New York and New England road.
 The city bath houses will be opened to the public on Wednesday of this week. To-day and tomorrow both houses will be put in shape for summer business
 piece of sheet iron fell on the hand of Charles Coot, employed at Starin dock stor- ing cargoes, Saturday morning, and one of the knuckles on one hand was crushed.
 Rev. MT. Noble, the evangelist, preached an excellent sermon at the M E church, West Haven, yesterday. During the sermon a correspondent says The gave Bob Ingerson good many hard hits.'
 Blue fish and suckermaugs have been plenty in our harbor the past few days. Numbers of blue fish weighing from half to three-quarters of pound were caught, beside large quantities of fine suckermaugs.
 To-day there will be a special shoot at Willowbrook range for special prizes open to members of the Connecticut Rife Associa- tion. The competition will be at the 800, 900 and 1000 yards ranges, fifteen shots each.
 The estate of the late Rev D l. Louns- bury, the Stratford clergyman who was shot by his wife, was settled in the Probate Court last week. The estate, which consisted solely of personal effects, paid fifteen cents on the dollar.
 Next Wednesday the twenty-frst annual session of the Grand Temple and Grand Council of Honor will be held in New Lon don, commencing at 10 o'clock m. At Sp m the second annual session of the Grand Council will be held
 The benefits of advertising in the JOURNAL. AND COURIER were forcibly brought home to several persons last week. Over $500 worth of lost property restored to it's owners during the week through the medium of ad- vertisements in this paper
 A picked nine from different classes in Yale played practice game with c c I nine, at the Howard avenue grounds, Satur- day afternoon. The Yalensians rolled up in seven innings score of r to l. Eleven of Yale's runs were made in the last inning. Tomorrow the census takers begin their work. Citizens will no doubt cheerfully yield few moments time to them when visited, and we do not anticipate that any one will be called upon to suffer either fine or imprisonment, which is the penalty for refusal to answer.
 The postofice will be open to-day Oecora- tion day) from 8 a m until 12 noon. All af- ternoon and evening mails will close at p m, except the Il m mail, which will close as usual. The carriers will only make morning delivery. The vestibule will be open all day for box holders.
 E A Babcock, who was sent to the Insane Retreat at Middletown, is wild and demon strative at times when he is troublesome, but has long lucid intervals He complains of being denied tobacco and cigars, and says it is enough to drive anybody mad to be placed in sucha situation and among lunatics.