Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-12
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LOCAL NEWS.
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The s'Game of Scripture Characters" by Mrs M. T. Gale can be obtained at Jarman's. The third trial of Buchholz, charged with the murder of Schulte, opens in Bridgeport tomorrow forenoon.
 Prof. wayland has been appointed chair man of the Board of Visitors for the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
 Ex-Mayor T. M. Waller and exsenator Ralph Wheeler are delegates from New Lon- don to the Democratic State convention.
 Michael Connors, stevedore, had one arm broken, Saturday, while at work helping un- load the bark Windward. A piece of railroad iron fell on it.
 The steamer 0. H. Northam, lying this winter at the end of Long Wharf, is being re- painted from stem to stern, and completely enovated.
 slight fre started from an open grate was extinguished by Officer Hugh Doherty, Satur- day evening, in the store of the New Haven Paper Company on State street.
 A. Nash, Son & Co., of Norwich, lost 165, 900 feet of spruce lumber on eighteen cars that were burned at the Twin mountains in New Hampshire, but it was insured.
 An entertainment is to be given by the stu dents of the 0. c. l., at the Atheneum, on Wednesday evening, April 28. Reserved seats are to be obtained at Sperry's.
 The monthly meeting of the New Haven branch of thu Woman's Board of Missions will be held ia the Center church chapel on Tuesday, April 13, st quarter before three o'clock.
 The schooner John Mosser, Fair Haven,
 
 arrived yesterday. The schooner Orvetta, Capt. John Hervey, with 4, 500 bushels, arrived Saturday night.
 The State Agricultural Fair will undoubted- Iy be held at Meriden, this year, on Ssptem- Der 2l, 22, 23 and 24-the dates set for the local fair. It will be necessary for Meriden to raise $1, GOO towards the expenses and this sum is already guaranteed
 Picnics for Hamilton Park already booked are as follows: Haymaker Social Club, June fl; CIan-na- Gael July g. Anchor Social Club, July 5; Monitor Social Club, July 26; Haymaker Base Ball Association, August 2 j; St. Patrick's church, August IA.
 The daily noon prayer meeting at the Young Mems Christian Association is one of the features of the religious life ia the city. Every day at 12 o'clock Sundays excepted) it begins. It is we'll attended, and is highly spoken of as an interesting service.
 English Hall was filled last evening. A praise service was given by the Choral or chestra The music was fine and greatly en- ioyed Mr. John o. Collins presided. Messrs E. s. Wheeler and O. P. Armstrong made ad- dresses, which were listened to very atten- lively. A large number stayed to the after meeting.
 The thermometer last night at 12 o'clock stock degrees below the freezing point. The wind, which has been on continuous rampage for the past five or six days, surpass- ing anything experienced in March, was blowing fierceIy from the northwest yesterday. Saturday it was a southwest wind, and the lower harbor was full of vessels taking shel- ter.
 Mir. .Tweedy, of Danbury, delegate to the Republican Convention at Chicago, has MT. A. Homer Byington as his alternate, not his substitute. AS alternate, MT. Byington of the Gazette will have ceat on the floor of the convention. Mir. Tweedy intends to go' and 10 doubt there will be ''chiel taking notes" there also in the person of Mir. Bying ton. MT. Tweedy's present belief is that Washburn is the trump card as to availability, but he goes uncommilted.