Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-28
[For Additional Local News See Fourth Page.l
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention


 The Weed works are driven with work. The orders on hand for bicycles already num- Der 2, 800, all of which are to be delivered by midsummer.
 Alexander Le Roy, formerly of this city, and member of Go. of the old Sixth Conn. Vols, died recently in Erie, Penn, leaving widow with three children.
 James GiIlick, the aged switchman in Bridgeport, whose arm was taken off by the cars recently, died from his injuries yesterday noon. He was 73 years old.
 The ladies of the Whitneyville church cleared from $75 to $1OO by their fair held Wednesday and Thursday evenings. There was large attendance from all quarters.
 Counterfeit half-dollars of the dates of 1857, 1875 and 1877 are plenty, and should be especially looked out for. The dies are good, but the weight is noticeably lighter than the genuine coin.
 Mr. William T. Bradley, residing at No. 9 Grown street, is the only agent for New Haven for the new book Around the World with General Grant" It is published in twenty parts at 50 cents each part.
 Twenty-Five new members were added to the Odd Fellows Mutual Aid Association at the monthly meeting Thursday evening. A beneftof $1, 300 on the death of David Potter, of East Haddam, was voted
 A new counterfeit $1o United States legal tender note has just appeared in Chicago, Ill. It is of the series of 1875. The appearance of the note is dark, the paper is heavy and the flores in the paper are initiated by lines.
 Plans and specifications for grain elevator with capacity for 100, ,O00 bushels of grain are under consideration by the New London Northern Railroad Company, which contem- plates the erection of such a building at New London.
 Twenty-three steamers, thirty-six ships, seventy-four barks, forty-three brigs and one hundred and forty -four schooners of this and other nations were lost in the gales of Octo Der 29th, November 9th and December 21st, 1879, and February Sd, 1880.
 A New Haven gentleman, who purchased a house on Madison avenue, New York, corner of Forty ninth street, year ago, has refused SIP, ,OOO more than he paid for it, which is an illustration of the rise of real estate in New York city, especially that portion benefited by the elevated railroad.
  wife of Mir. E. A. Chatfeld, on Wednesday, the only child, about 8 week old, was bap tized. The Rev. Mir. Northrop, pastor of Dwight Place church, offciated. The de- ceased was member of Dwight Place church, and an estimabIe lady, leaving many friends in this city and in Woodbridge.
 The bark StilIman B. Allen, Capt. Taylor, which lately brought cargo of iron to E. s. Wheeler & Co.,, has been chartered to load case oil from New York city to Singapore, and was lowed out of the harbor yesterday afternoon. This bark has been around the world twice in two years, and on the trip be- fore the last carried 293 coolies from China to Oregon. She next took a vessel load of salmon from Oregon to Liverpool. The cap- tain has a rare and beautiful collection of Chinese curiosities which he brought with him from the Celestial empire
 The Purim Ball.
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