Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-16
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LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Harwinton has a population of 1,016, 30 less than ten years ago. Hebron has 1,243 inhabitants.
 Five hundred tons of ice for the Nauga- tuck Valley Ice Company, of Bridgeport, arrived by schooner from Maine Wednesday.
 The schooner Pilots Bride, of New Lon- don, was recently at Bravo, and had then thirty five barrels of sperm oil and was bound north.
 General Weaver, the Greenback candidate for President, will make speeches in Bridge port, Hartford, and this city during the month of August.
 There are eleven fishing pounds within the limits of Madison, and it is estimated that eight millions of whitefsh have been captured in them this season.
 A committee of the Veteran Firemen's As- sociation met last evening to further perfect arrangements for the annual reunion, which takes place early in August
 A special business meeting of the Ladies' seaman's Friend Society will be held at the house of Mrs. Cowles, 503 Chapel street, this Friday afternoon at , o'clock.
 Lawrence Scannell, 0 well-known man in Hartford, died of heart disease Wednesday. His wife awoke him at 7:3O, and he sat up for a few minutes and fell back dead.
 Rev. George l.. Thompson, pastor of the Asylum street Methodist church, Hartford, has taken cottage for his family at Vest brook and will spend his vacation there.
 The net earnings of the Housatonic Rail road Company for the past nine months of the present fiscal year are upwards of $1OO,- GOO more than they were during the same pe- riod last year.
 Willie Bray, Bridgeport lad, 10 years old, had his leg so badly crushed by being run over by freight train, Wednesday evening, that it had to be amputated. His father is Patrick Bray, living on Railroad avenue.
 Norwich has just increased the pay of it's fire department chief engineer from $1,OO0 to $1,2OO. The New London Telegram says the chief engineer of that city continues to luxuriate on a salary of $2O0 per annum.' J
 Edward La Montain of Bridgeport, died in the hospital in this city, Wednesday, of cancer of the stomach. He has been a sui. ferer for long time and was dependent upon the aid of the charitable for his SUD- port.
 Frederick S. Morrison, recent graduate of Yale, son of MT. Morrison of the school committee of Holyoke, Mass, has been cho- sen assistant teacher in the High School ot that place, to succeed Wm. E. Judd pro- noted.
 A five ton sailboat thirty feet in length, arrived at Stamford recently from Calves. ton, Texas, in charge of Fred Hall, Stam- ford boy. The voyage occupied forty-two days. Halls crew was two men only and many times they thought they never should see land again.
 Arrangements have been made at Wash. ington by the supervisor of marine hospitals for the treatment and maintenance of sick and for the burial of dead seamen. The ar- engagements for New Haven include attend ance to be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon, the General Hospital to furnish board at 95 cents per day and provide for the burial of deceased patients at $S each.
 The Willimantic Thread Company, speci- mems from whose mills illustrative of the process of thread manufacture from the Alpha to the Omega of the process, are on ex. hibition at the Art Museum in the old State House in this city, have decided to put up twenty single cottages at a cost of $1,OOO each, to be sold to their operatives. It is designed 10 give the workmen picturesque and healthful homes and great attention has been paid to drainage and the cottages are to be so situated that all shall have the sun. light. Each will contain from six to eight rooms.