Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-04

the Mayors office last evening and approved bills as follows:
 Road Department nt................$1 .$10, ,657 91 Police Department. t..................... 6,517.79 EGs,t6 Fire DgPa5tmsnt HsatIadt assa s1 g Sundry Account. .......-............-. Il 320 46 Total .ss1, ,677 41 The amount expended for the first six l months of the fiscal year ending May 31 is as follows:
 Road Department -.-.. $43, sSo S4 Police Department. 38 5l1 19 Fire Department. nt.............-....... 35, 5,829.68 Health Department. 2O208 86 sundry Account 628l428 Total. -$193, 0O6.35 The amount appropriated for the fiscal year. commencing December l, 1879, was as follows:
 noao DepartInent SlO6,oOoOo Police Department- -...-.-----.--...--.. SO 0oO00 Health Department. ....................... 4,71oo0 Hsrbor Department. nt..-...-.....--....... 25000 Tota1.- .s44e.O .O9o.Oo Musical. The first soiree musicale by the pupils of Prof. W. E. Chandler was given at his vocal studio in the Hoadley building last evening. The programme was much enjoyed and was as follows:
 l. ouartette-estudents songn.. .Mende1asohn Messrs. P. w. Bush, C. B. Lewis, H. M Hoys, song-"The Two stars1 Benedict g. Duet-''The Moon has raised her Lamp'. Benedict 4 song-sWhen sparrows Build'; Gabriel B. song-'sIf Doughty Deeds. Sullivan MT. D. S. Knowlton. G. "Gipsy Duet" 6rom ell Trovatore'1 Verdi
 Miss NJ. J. Ward, MT. P W. Bush. L. Song-'PoHy"- -hionoS & song-sLa Primavera' ............... .Torry PART IL l. Quartette- "Farewel". -Mendelssohn Mesars ?. "; Bush, c. H. Lewis, H. NJ. Hoyt. 2 song-"Alon -storch g. cavatna-t'o luce di quest animal. .Donizetti
 Miss Adda Palmerston
 4 s0ns-''Maid of AthePs All " f;,s; .--.--
 Miss Adda palr1erston, Miss Lottie Hughes: song-'Ihe Kerry Daneep -Molloy T. Song-ssThe Postillon". .Molloy MT. H. M. Hoyt. g. Trio-"Protect us through the coming
 Miss Adda palmeEstsh, Miss Nj J. Ward, MT. Personal. -s Clark Marsh, Esq, of Bridgeport is spend ing few weeks in Manitou, Col. Mr. B. Shoninger has declined his appoint ment as director in the Operatives Savings Bank.
 Route Agent A. A. Osborn on the Housa- tonic road has resigned and George M. Han chett, of Falls Village, has been appointed to fill the vacancy.
 Gerrit S. Rice, the artist, has in the win dow of Fairman & Son fine oil painting of Benjamin West, the noted painter and presi- dent of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, London, from 1792 till 1920.
 The wife of MT. Ryder, of the Derby Transcript, died at the residence of Mrs. F. Chillingworth, No. 39 Beers street, in this city. She was much esteemed and her death will be mourned by many friends.
 Messrs. Dennis O'Brien and Michael Wise were in town yesterday, as committee of the Hartford Catholic Institute, making ar engagements for their annual excursion 1 which goes to Coney Island, win New Haven, l on Wednesday, July 2S. E Rev James A. Worden, general superin- | tendent of the Sunday schools of the Presby- terian church of the United States, will spend next Sunday in Bridgeport, and will occupy | the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church | there, speaking in behalf of the Sunday school cause.
 Mr. Philo HubbeIl, life long and much re- spected resident of Huntington, died Tuesday | at his residence after an illness of two or three weeks. He leaves wife, two sons and two daughters to mourn a kind fathers loss, Mir. James HubbeI, of Stratford, Mrs. Theo-