Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-31
Tbe orpha,,., 1a1cursion.

The free excursion for the orphans of tho St. Francis Asylum, given by Mr.. Edward Malley, takes place to-day. They go to South f End, weather permitting, by Barker x Ran som's barge Nightingale and Haedley Bros. I omnibus, which will be at the asylum at 3 a. 1 m. to take the children and those in charge | of them. MT. Broschart, with whom the sup l plies for the tables has been contracted for, | has kindly agreed to get everything ready for them and have it on the grounds by his team in ample season.
 Rev. Dr. Harwood is expected home this week.
 MT. J. G. Griswold, jeweler, of Meriden' is dangerously sick.
 Rev. Mir. Moves, of this city, preacneo a' the First church, Waterbury, Sunday
 Rev. Mr. Pratt, of North Cornwall, accepts call to the Congregational church at Hlgga- mum.
 Rev. H. M Penney, of Wallingford, has returned and preached to his people Sunday evening.
 Rev. Dr. Thomas S. Childs, of Hartford | has accepted professorship in the Presoyte- rian University at Wooster, O. Rev. Mir. True, the Baptist minister, gave an account of his travels in Palestine Sunday evening, at the Broad street Baptist church, | Meriden. General Hawley has declined, because of other engagements, the invitation to deliver an address at the unyeiling of the soldiers monument at Antietam September IT. E. S. Porter, of this city, has brought east the remains of his classmate, R. w. Forbes, | ir., of Yale 's1, nephew of Professor Slll- man, and who recently died at Leadville. l John B. Cough lectures in Bridgeport Oc- tober Il. The engagement is with Rev Mr.
 Wilson and the object is to raise funds toward paying off the debt of the Ohvet church. ''-'
 MT. Hiram Smith, one of the oldest citi- zens of New Britain died there Saturday morning August 2Sth, after illness of
 only few days, aged s5. He was worthy, industrious citizen, and leaves about 10000.
 Mir. Albert Lyon, a worthy citizen of Weth- ersfeld, has been afflicted by the sudden death of his wife She left her homo in that
 town on Friday last for 8 short visit in Wind
 sor, and Sunday was brought home corpse.
 She died in fit.
 John E. Lowell has returned from the sev-
 enth annual reunion of the alumni of the Mt.
 Pleasant Classical Institute at Amherst, Mass,
 last Thursday. MT. Lowell left Amherst fifty
 years ago, after serving three years there as teacher of elocution.
 William L. Howard, son of President Mark , Howard, of Hartford, returned to Hartford Friday after visit to Iceland. While there MT. Howard joined Danish exploring expe : dition and was with this party forty days 1T the interior of the island. : A manuscript on the Trinity, by that spec : ulative old Connecticut theologian, Jonathan
 Edwards, has been saved and will be pub lished next month by Charles Scribner' Sons, New York Queerly enough, it is re ported to be trif1e heterodox-thoughE Ed . wards wrote it.
 : The death of Esther Furious Ensign widov
 of the late Thomas Ensign, took place yester : day morning She was eighty three years o . l age, and of her five surviving sons Thoma . W. Ensign, Edwin W. Ensign, and Wooste : A. Ensign are residents of this city, Howar l. B. Ensign is in business in Baltimore an | Willard Ensign resides in Chicago.