Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-22
IFOr Additional Local News see Sd and 4th Pages.I
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.


 Capt. Mott, of the steamer Rhode Island, on the route next week.
 Mrs. Blinn, of this city, is announced to sing at the Church of the Redeemer, Bridge port, tomorrow evening.
 service for deaf mutes takes place at St. Johns Episcopal church, Rev. MT. Tremaine pastor, tomorrow evening.
 St. Joseph's R. c. church in Bridgeport was dedicated yesterday by Bishop McMa- hon. The land and building cost $6,OOO.
 Rev. Father Fitzpatrick, of St. Patrick church, has much improved in the last few days
 The funeral of Andrew J. Warner will be attended by Pioneer Council No. 1, O. U. A. M, this afternoon. A notice appears in another column.
 The churches of Fair Haven will unite and hold service in the Baptist church Thanks giving morning. Preaching by the pastor of that church.
 Rev. William Smith, of Groton, commenced delivering green corn about the middle of July and proposes to keep right on until after Thanksgiving.
 MT. Lucius Hotchkiss, we regret to learn, is critically i'll at his residence on Chapel street. A council of physicians has been in attendance.
 The annual inventory at the almshouse was completed on Saturday by Selectmen Cooper and Hart The result will be presented to the Board tomorrow evening.
 An old building opposite the Second Bap- tist church on Union street, New London, adjoining the entrance to Wilson's foundry, was once the school house of Nathan Hale
 A new palace car is being built at the shops of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road in this city, with an improvement in- tended to remove the dust and cinder nui- sance.
 Messrs. Sweeney, Callahan and O'Connor are a committee to draft 8 series of resolu- tions and appeal to the public, setting forth the objects and aims of the land league or ganization.
 Charles Carson alias Hayward, held in New York charged with complicity in the Middletown robbery, was discharged at New York Saturday, and was immediately arrested in another case.
 On Thanksgiving day, if pleasant, the Hartford Post, G. A. R., will perform the work of setting the headstones Furnished by the government to the unmarked soldiers graves in that city.
 Of the United States Senators from this State wh' have served full terms, only one, the Hon. Truman Smith, of Stamford, aged 80, and still active, survives. He is one of the few men who have resigned seats in the Senate
 Rev. Thomas Rutherford Bacon has for mally accepted the pastorate of the Dwight Place Congregational church. MT. Bacon formerly preached at Terre Haute, and is a graduate of Yale, class of 1872, and of the Yale Theological school, class of 1877. large number of friends will regret to learn of the serious illness of Capt. M. F. Brennan, commander of the Sarsfield Guard and for number of years past clerk in the office of Judge of Probate The disease is a lung trouble.
 George Muller, whose large orphanaee at Bristol, England, with a daily expense of $1,OoO, he founded and maintains, as he says, in answer to prayer, relying upon pray ing for contributions, spoke at the First Methodist church, Hartford, last evening. Yard Master Allen Ostrander of the Con solidated road passenger yard, is taking a months vacation. He starts this morning on a visit to his old home Hudson, N. Y. His son Allen s. takes his place during his absence. Councilman Jacobs, of Saltonstall avenue, Fair Haven, takes the place temporarily of night yard master. Rev. Dr. E. 0. Bissen has accepted the He- brew professorship at the Hartford TheoloR- ical Seminary, and will enter upon his duties next year. Dr. Bissell is at Leipsic at pres. ent, and has just published an important work on the Old Testament Apocrypha, the volume appearing as supplementary one in Lange's commentary.