Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-18
For Additional Local News see Third Page.
LOCAL NEWS.
Rrief Mention.


 The annual session of the Grand Lodge, I. O.. O. F., takes place in this city to-day.
 Rev. MT. Staats, of Bristol, has been preach ing series of discourses to his people upon Buddhism, contrasting it's doctrines with those of Christianity.
 The friends of Rev. G. B. Day, of Bridge port, have paid the note of $25O which that gentleman gave the First National Bank of that city on account of the S6OO forgery perpetrated upon the bank by R. H. Hineman.
 A colored man, George Freeman, of Plain vile, is in Hartford jail charged with an assault on one Benny of Southington. Benny is not likely to recover. Freeman charges Benny with insulting the wife of a friend.
 The Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society will hold it's sixteenth annual meeting for the election of officers, appointment of committees, and reading and discussion of papers in this city at the Elliott House to-day, beginning at II a. m.
 We are officially informed that MT. Judson w. Ewing, who was formerly the secretary of the Society for the Prevention of crime, and more recently detective in its service, was yesterday discharged. A successor will be appointed as soon as practlcable.
 Hamlin, who has twelve more days to live, in conversation with the assistant taller Saturday, talked about his funeral and argued that the county ought to furnish him with a good coffin, one worth eighteen dollars, and as good as one the jailer furnished for an aunt not long ago.
 Mir. Joseph Gaugell, 62 years of age, living at No. 141 Grand street, long employed at Hooker & Co.'s died yesterday afternoon of pneumonia after six days illness He leaves wife and three children, the youngest 19 He was member of St. Boniface church on George street and esteemed by many friends.
 The late Cornelia E. Boardman, of New Milford, was sister of the late Hon. w. w. Boardman of this city She leaves an estate estimated to amount to about one million dollars. She was lady of benefcent charac- ter and large wealth, and will be greatly missed by large circle of friends and the whole community in which she lived.
 Only single carriage followed the hearse that conveyed the remains of Edwin Hoyt from the New Milford station to the burying ground in Sherman. In the carriage were Mir. Vanderbergh Joyce, his wife-Hoyt's sister-and Mrs. Reed of New Haven, the other sister. No services were held except the usual services at the grave.-Bridgepor Farmer.
 The following additional donations (se- cured yesterday to the hospital fund.- H. T. Blake, fifty dollars A. L. Kidston fifty dol lars Additions to the guarantee fund are Mrs E. w. Davenport, twenty-five dollars Theodore s. Woolsey, twenty-five dollars i; Prof. J. M. Hoppinl twenty-fv dollars Prof. B. Silliman, twenty-five dollars; Prof. J. D. Dana, twenty-five dollars
 The commencement of Dr. LighthilIs practice here was inaugurated yesterday with every prospect of proving brilliant success. The popularity of his reputation was sufi- ciently attested by the large number of patients who called to obtain the benefits of his skill and experience in their behalf To prevent disappointment we advise those who desire to consult him to observe his office hours as published in his advertisement