Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-25

The sixth number of the Humboldt Lii brary of Popular Science is received and for sale by T. H. Pease & Son. at the Common Council chamber. The so- ciety takes it's annual dinner Thursday after noon at o'clock at Redclifes. The Equestrian Club will have another ''meet' at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the res idence of Henry Farnam, Hillhouse avenue. The Connecticut Medical Association con- venes for it's annual meeting 'tc- morrow after noon at o'clock. The session will be held -The steamer George R. Kelsey commenced running yesterday between New York and Coney Island. She is engaged in that service for the next one hundred days.
 The engagement of a daughter of Jennie June" (Nrs D. G. Croly) to an officer of the United States steamer Minnesota, lately sta tioned at New London, is announced.
 Robert Raikes' centennial exercises will be held at the West Chapel street M. E. church next Sunday. In the evening there will be a praise service, the choral orchestra and Frank Potter assisting
 Surveys have recently been made at Port Jefferson, Long Island, for the extension of
 
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 The quartette are to give apraise service next Sunday evening at English Hall. As MT. Bissell is about to leave the city this will be the last time, probably, that this fine quartette will sing together. very fine programme can be expected.
 The old switch engine Winsted for thirty years in service on the Naugatuck road, was taken to Bridgeport yesterday to be broken up for old iron. Hank Kimba1l, the oldest engineer in the company's service, years ago drove this engine on regular trips over the road
 Robert Gates, of Derby, has just taken a large needle from the neck of his cow It had been taken in with the animals food, caught in her throat and worked it's way to the outside. It made its presence known by a large swelling that appeared on the outside of the cow's neck.
 MT. and Mrs. Stebbins sang at the Baptist church in Waterbury Sunday evening The church was crowded. There were to have been immersions at the close of the service, but the boiler in which the water is heated sprang leak, which caused postponement for two weeks.
 MT. Henry Winkley, of Philadelphia who recently gave the Yale Theological School $2O,0O0 to be applied where it would do the most good, sends check for $2O, 900 to be added to the permanent fund of Dartmouth College. He lately gave 5000 to the Dan- iel Webster professorship in the same college.
 Among the Connecticut Baptists who left yesterday to attend the Baptist anniversaries at Saratoga were Rev. s. Dryden Phelps and James L. Howard, of Hartford Eight hun dred delegates have reported. The table up- on which Judson translated the Bible into the Burmese language was used by the chairman of the convention.
 Willimantic is to have a new opera house. with seating capacity of 1,2OO. It will have two galleries, four private boxes and a fine depth of stage, which will be supplied with all necessary stage properties. The Billings property in New London has been sold, and a rumor prevails that Jarrett tE Co.,, of New York, are the buyers, and intend to convert it into a theatre.