Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-21
TFor Additional Local News see Fourth Pago.l
LOCAL NEWS.
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Mrs. Casey, a Birmingham woman, on Mon- day gave birth to triplets, all boys.
 The Misses Harris have their spring open ing Thursday, from B. m. to p. m.
 Bishop Williams confirmed four persons at Christ church, East Haven, Monday evening.
 It is expected that Southington's soldiers monument will be ready to dedicate about the first of June.
 Nothing has been heard yet at Bridgeport of any reprieye for Hoyt. His friends think there is a chance for one yet.
 The Committee on Buildings will recon mend that property owners be allowed to erect frame additions at 145 Temple street, 103 Wall street, and 12 High street.
 The pews of the First M. E. church, Bridge port, Rev. c. E. Harris pastor, rented Mon day evening at an advance of several hundred dollars over any previous year.
 MT. o. H. Easton, of Hartford, has prepared the plans for a new school house at Talcott- ville, which is being built by the Talcott Brothers, of that place, at their own expense.
 The committee of the Chamber of Com merce having the matter in charge have ar ranged for the annual banquet of the Cham Der, the same to take place next week We'd nesday evening at the New Haven House.
 Mir. D. A. Tucker, editor of the Evening Post is dangerously i'll, from the effects of confinement and close work-his disorder being quick consumption. His friends have but little hope of his recovery.-Hartford Times.
 As will be seen by advertisement in another column, the business recently carried on by the late Lyman Treadway, on State street, is offered for sale. It has been continuously conducted at the present stand since 1632 and is raro chance for an investment.
 The annual session of the Presbytery of Westchester began in the Presbyterian church on State street, Bridgeport, yesterday after noon, with seventy ministers in attendance. Rev. J. Ritcher Smith, of Peekskill, N. Y., preached before the Presbytery last evening.
 The Buchholz trial was resumed yesterday. Wm. E. Allen, young lad, who never testi- fled in the case before, was on the stand. He was found in Danbury, and was in the Waring house the night of the tragedy and saw Buch- holz when he rushed in saying that Schults had been murdered.
 A refusal to give the census enumsrators the information required by law renders the offending party liable to a fine of $1OO, and refusal on the part of presidents, trsasurers, secretaries and agents of corporations, entails penalty of 8 fine of from $500 to $10, 900, with imprisonment for one year.
 A Bridgeport man has been kept busy this spring in battle with pair of English spar rows. The sparrows have seven times built ,Jarf fbo oEI Io oio;Io times he has pulled it down and torn it to pieces The sparrows began their eighth nest on his premises apparently as fresh as ever yesterday.
 The New Haven County Horticultural Soci- ety meet on the evening of May 5, when a proposition will be talked over to hold ire quent meetings for the testing of fruits and exhibition of novel plants, as was tho custom and very popular one, too-of the old Po- mological Society years ago, of which society this is the successor.
 The entries for the colt stakes at the New Haven County Agricultural Society fair, which will be held in this city on October 6, and 8, will close on May 15. For foals of 1876 the stake is $10O, and the entries are confined to the State. For foaIs of 1877 the stake is $25O, and competition unlimited. For foals of 1878 the stake is $2O0, and the competition also unlimited. See advertisement.
 The semi. annual session of the Grand Divi- sion Sons of Temperance of Connecticut takes place Thursday in Temperance Hall, IS Beach street, East Bridgeport. The morning session will open at 10 o'clock, and there will be a dinner at Riverside Hotel. The Grand Divi- sion will be the guests of Living Spring Divi- sion No. g, of East Bridgeport