Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-04
For Additional Local News see Sd and 4th Pages.l
LOCAL NEWS.
Rriar Mention.

Ann McLaughliM 8 town inmate of the hospital, died of heart disease and dropsy yesterday morning
 A West Haven car bound out was delayed 5 shofe tims yesterday by the slipping and falling of one of the horses.
 The journeymen bricklayers and plasterers have a meeting at Insurance building next Tuesday evening, February 8th.
 The steamer Rosedale was frozen in at her Bridgeport dock yesterday morning, and her trips were abandoned for the present.
 Owing to the cold and the insufficient warmth from the furnace, school was dis missed at Webster school yesterday morning
 remonstrance against Oxford being set of from New Haven county into the proposed new county is being largely signed in that town
 A milk team belonging to J. J. Webb, of Hamden, ran away yesterday in this city. The wagon was completely demoralized and the milk cans were scattered.
 These are nights when the policemen well earn their money. The splendid advantages which the heavens now offer for the study of astronomy cannot be considered as a recom- pense for their services.
 C. H. Noble, so well known in this city in the temperance work, is to lead 8 gospel meeting this evening at the chapel No. 70 Hamilton street, and many old friends are expected to be present.
 From present appearances all the regular members of the Sedgwick Guard, Bridge port intend to go to Washington to witness the inauguration of General Garfield; also number of outsiders go with them.
 Mir. Le Roy Leavenworth, of the firm of Leavenworth Brothers, Bridgeport. was se- vereIy scalded about the face late Wednesday night by the explosion of boiler that he was using to thaw out frozen water pipes The County Commissioners made their regular monthly visit to the county jail yes terday and audited the bills for the month of February One hundred and forty-six pris- oners are at present confined in the institu- tion.
 August A. Bodenschatz, charged with stealing the $4O,OOO and more of Sperry se- curities, has been released from the county jail and is now again at work for Mir. Malley. Bonds of $3,OOO were furnished by Jacob Marzi and William Hayes, of Hudson street.
 
 oysters arrived Wednesday. The Bulletin says: ''She was covered with ice from stem o stern. There was six inches of it on her ,orward gear, anchors and rail, her decks were covered with ice three inches thick, and there was a coating of it half way up the masts."
 The Grays, veterans and actives, held meeting last evening in further reference to their coming grand annual at the Carll Opera House on the 24th Various of the commit tees reported, and the tickets, it was an- nounced, would be ready Monday. Re- marks were made by various prominent mem bers indicating the most favorable prospects for the event.
 The seif-registering thermometer of the signal office at the entrance to the Insurance building registered zero at one time yester- day morning before sunrise. The weather yesterday, though still cold, making the fourth day of severe cold weather, was a marked improvement on the preceding days of the series. In all parts of the city re- ports are heard of water pipes frozen in the houses. It costs from $6 upward-mostly upward-to thaw out the pipes when frozen under the streets.