Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-24
For Additional Local News see Sd and 4th Pagesl
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Br1e1 NuenCAoh"
 Waterbury contributed four prisoners to the county jail Monday.
 The Cornfield Point ightship was restored to its proper position on Saturday.
 Mir. Geo. D. Curtis, city editor of the Hartford C0urunt, sails for Europe to-day to be absent until the Legislature meets in Jan uary.
 The rebuilt steamer Narragansett, of the Providence and Stonington line, took her place in the regular passenger service yester- day
 Mrs Albert w Roberts, of No. 3 Ward street, Hartford, fell from some steps in the rear of her residence Monday evening, and broke her left leg just above the ankle.
 The members of Go. B, 4th regiment, Bridgeport, discussed last night at a meeting for the purpose their proposition to attend the inauguration of President Garfield.
 Rev Mir Kelsey speaks this evening for the third time in the lecture room of the College street church on his recent trip to Europe. Subject, "Pompeii and Vesuvius" :"
 A barn owned by a man named Toy in Farmers Village, Canton, was burned the other night with six or eight tons of hay, one horse, one COW, poultry and farming utensils.
 William Reilly had his hand so badly jammed, Monday evening, at Bridgeport, while coupling cars in the Housatonic yard, that it became necessary to amputate his thumb
 Mr. David Burritt, the oldest person in Stratford, died on Saturday last, after lin gering illness, at the advanced age of ninety six years. His funeral took place from his late residence on Tuesday afternoon last and was largely attended.
 Conrad Throm's shop, 1O7 Congress avenue, was in danger Monday night. Men from No. Is house were notified at about 12 o'clock and extinguished it. Escaping gas in the eel lar had ignited Men had been at work in the cellar fixing the meter.
 horse standing drinking at watering trough in Bridgeport, Monday, suddenly started and ran against a house, and with such force that it broke it's neck. The ami nal belonged to Wm. Patterson, one of the hands at the Housatonic car shops in that city.
 Judge Arthur F. Eggleston and MT. InOnaS M. SnlGn, or harG1Oru, are uALueu among the trustees of the projected Denver, Western and Pacific railroad, whose papers have just been filed with the Secretary of State of Colorado. The capital stock is placed at $7, 800, 900.
 The New Haven Bicycle club and ''wheel- men" generally of this city will celebrate Thanksgiving day by a spin on the shell roads. They start at o'clock in the morn ing from the American Bicycle company's hall on Grown street, and return in time for dinner.
 Four geese which have been in the habit of spending their time, night and day, on the surface of Munson's pond, which is bound ed by Goffe, Orchard, Charles and Foote streets, were frozen into the pond on Mon- day evening, and on Tuesday morning boys broke the ice around them and released them from bondage.
 The Liverpool and London Clothing com pany, who suffered an extensive loss by the large fire in the six-story building on the corner of the Bowery and Hester street in New York on Monday, were insured for $2, 300 in the Phoenix, $2,5 300 in the Hart ford, and $5, GOO in the Connecticut fire in- surance companies of Hartford