Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-01

Brief Mention.
 Branford has 8 fair on Tuesday of next week.
 It is reported that General Grant will pre- side at the political meeting at Stamford, Conn, Oct. 21.
 A meeting of the Southern Connecticut Poultry association will be held in Bridge port this evening
 Lyman Brace, of 129 Cedar street, had his hand badly injured by buzz-saw at the car repair shops on Wednesday.
 Greene Kendrick was in town yesterday. He will be one of the speakers at the Demo- cratic rally in Ansonia Saturday evening.
 The annual excursion of the Fourth church, Hartford, will take place Saturday, the trip being to High Rock Grove, on the Naugatuck road.
 Joseph H. Sprague has been reelected president of the Atlas Fire Insu1 ance compa- ny, Hartford, and George s. Merritt secre- tary.
 The Waterbury Farmers and Mechanics association will have cattle show this fall, but will have an indoor exhibition at the City Hall, Waterbury.
 horse belonging to Warren Hotchkiss the marketman, Westville, broke leg in stepping off the curb of sidewalk on We'd nesday and had to be killed
 Elder Lutz is very low in hospital in Phila- delphia. The difficulty is cancerous affec- tion. He submitted to an operation for its removal, and erysipelas set in.
 The New Haven County National bank has declared dividend of three and one-half per cent. on the earnings of the last six months, payable on and after October 9.
 The one hundred and seventy-frst annual meeting of the New Haven East conversation will be held with the Congregational church in East Haven, on Wednesday, Oct 6.
 Sixty of Preston's coal barges have been built at the yard of East street, at the foot of Wooster. One was launched Wednesday, and another is approaching completion.
 Edwin Godfrey, a well-known resident of Sport Hill, Easton, was seriously injured Wednesday afternoon by being thrown from his carriage in Bridgeport, by the sudden starting of the horse.
 Rev. D. W. Teller, of Ridgefeld, com mences his labors with the Howard avenue church as acting pastor next Sunday. He has been in the ministry about eighteen years, serving with much acceptance.
 New Haven county will be represented at the meeting of the American Board of Com missioners for Foreign Missions, to be held at Lowell, Mass, next week. Half-fare tickets are issued for the gathering at all the princi- pal stations of the Consolidated railroad.
 w. w. Bidwell, of Collinsville, had his annual husking at his barn on High street on Saturday evening, Sept 25. Nearly score of neighbors and friends came in and husked sixty bushels of corn. They were then fur nished with frst-class oyster supper.
 The passenger. business on the Housatonic railroad this year has been largely in excess of the business of any previous year in the company's history Next season new passen- ger coaches will be put on and heavier en- zines procured to accommodate the increasing travel
 Bicyclists in Stamford, Norwalk, Bethel, Danbury, Brookfeld and other towns in the county have been invited by the Pequonnock Wheel club to meet in Bridgeport Thanksgiv- ing day for run to some place fifteen or twenty miles distant. From thirty to forty are expected to participate.