Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-26
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LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

MerlQen' s pOpulaI1On IS ZU,OOU. Have the army worms dried up?
 The First church in New London will build a $1O,OOO chapel.
 The Army and Navy Club of Connecticut held their annual meeting at Fenwick Hall last evening.
 Emory Judson, of Stratford, picked 100 quarts of strawberries recently in five hours in that place.
 Fourteen vassar College girls are stopping with their college chum, Miss Atwater, daugh ter of Henry J. Atwater, at the Cove.
 The Broadway band, Edward Marsden leader, will give a concert on Broadway Park this evening. An elaborate programme is promised.
 Capt. William G. Dickinson will speak on temperance at Belle dock on Sunday evening at o'clock under the auspices of the Good Samaritan society.
 General Garfield, our candidate for Presi- dent, recently ordered carriage of Henry Hooker & Co.,, in this city. He gave his note for $2OO for the same.
 William Kennedy, jewelry peddler, of No. 40 Chestnut street, Newark, expired in his bed at the Dooley House, Hartford, Thursday night The cause was consumption.
 North Haven mineral spring water is now for sale by E. A. Gessner & Co.,, Apothecaries' Hall, 3O1 Chapel street Also orders received at the dental rooms of I. W. Stiles, 23O Chapel street, room 4. ..-
 Yesterday noon the fifty or more women and girls employed at Forsyth's Dye Works, near Neck bridge, went in bathing at the bath house in that vicinity, and there were lively times for half an hour
 Sparks scattered by the locomotives set fire to the grass in some of the parched fields along the line of the Consolidated road be- tween Bridgeport and Norwalk Thursday afternoon, burning over many acres.
 We saw yesterday number of old pota- toes which had cracked open and in the seam young potatoes were growing. They came from Mir. Henry Bushnell, in Ferry street, Fair Haven, and excited general curiosity.
 Hartford and vicinity had heavy shower night before last, at midnight, while the moon was shining clear in the east. The thermom- eter hereabouts ranged from 920 to 98o in the shade, according to location. It was hot.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Board 
 day, July ,, has been postponed on account of the day being a legal holiday The meet ing will be held on the following Wednesday.
 The Center church crypt will be open to- day and every day next week from 10 a. m. to p. m. President Hayes will probably pay visit to the crypt during his visit next week to see the tomb of one of his ancestors there.
 ''The State Compared to the Individual will form the subject of an essay by MT. John Murphy, of this city, at the hall of the Labor Lyceum, No. Il Insurance building, on Sun- day afternoon at o'clock free discussion to follow.
 In all about 5000 car loads of gravel, equal to between thirty and forty thousand tons, have been dumped into the bog-hole on the Hartford road above Meriden. The tests ap- piled this week indicate that solid bottom has been struck.
 A correspondent says The Socialistic party of Connecticut will send delegates to the Greenback State convention, which is to be held in this city on the 9th of July. They will prosecute the coming campaign in be- half of Weaver and Chambers with vigor.
 A small boy named Footlidge fell out of a cherry tree at Long Hill, Trumbull, dis tance of fourteen feet. He fell upon picket fence, but it was his good fortune that the picket which he struck was a rotten one and let him to the ground without severe injury.
 The committee of arrangements of the Commercial Travellers Association of this State have decided that the annual reunion ,I,o11 1,a ha1l ok Cove, July 3Oth. The party will meet at the Elliott House, New Haven, and go to the Cove in carriages.
 ~ The Harvard University eight and the freshmen eight arrived at New London yes- terday, bringing their boats with them The Third regiment band has been engaged to play on the grand stand on the day of the Yale-Harvard race, and on the evening be- fore the race it will give concert on Hamil- ton Park.
 F. S. Bradley, trustee, who is located at the Yale National Bank, offers for sale one of the finest brewing and malting establishments in the State. The property is offered at price far below it's value and a part only will be required in cash. It is a rare opportunity foR purchasers.
 The Connecticut delegation to the Cincin- nati convention were expected home at 3 o'clock this morning. They were en route yesterday At Columbus nothing would do but that Hon. James Gallagher should speak to the crowd, which he did, appearing, as the Register says, in his robe de nuit and making an eloquent address. The firm of Brown, Bolton & Go. have |
 
 in their fine show windows, in honor of the l coming of the President today. Each of the | windows presents an elegant appearance. | Most of the flags are very choice and belong | to the Twenty second regiment, New York, | of which Mir. Brown is a member.
 Serious Injury.
 A little girl named Mary Flood fell from |