Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-25

l Councilman JunuS IW1SS cOnIemplateS spending couple of weeks in Montreal and on the St. Lawrence.
 ! C. M Loomis is at Saratoga. The Excursion season-The Rock and Glen and on the Salt Wave. | The Baptist church Sunday school of New
 Britain makes an excursion to High Rock
 Grove Tuesday, August 2nd. Uncas Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Norwich,
 make their annual excursion to Dinah's Rock,
 Shelter Island, on Friday next, on the City of
 Lawrence.
 The camp meeting of the Spiritualists at Mantle will open August IT, and close Sep l tember 14. The first public meeting will be
 held August 21. Those who have purchased
 lots on the ground can make selections on
 and after August l.
 To-day, if pleasant, thousands of people | will be at West Haven shore. Three large picnic parties are to be there. viz, the Teu- tonia Manner Chor and Columbia Lodge, D.
 of R., I O. O. F., of this city, each with
 many friends, while Ararat Lodge, of Hart ford, will also picnic there. Ararat is large
 and prosperous lodge. These with family
 picnic parties will make matters lively at West Haven shore.
 The City Guard go to Glen Island on the
 starin Thursday. The National Blues go to Glen Island on the Starin Thursday, August | 11th
 The St. Aloysius T. A. B. society go to the
 Congamond Lakes Tuesday, Aug. 2nd. This will make their seventh annual excursion. | On Wednesday next the Sons of Temper ance and Temple of Honor will picnic at High Rock Grove and Glen. It is expected
 that nearly every division and temple in the
 State will be represented and grand social I time is anticipated. Tickets may be obtained
 at $50 State street, at No. Benedict build
 ing, corner of Church and Center streets, and
 at the depot, on Wednesday morning, of the committee.
 To-day the great union picnic by the New l Haven Land League will take place at Hamil- | ton Park That there will be one of the larg- est crowds that has ever assembled in the Park no one will doubt Among the most
 notable attractions will be the presence of
 Mrs. Parnell, mother of the great Land League agitator, and Miss Ford, daughter of Patrick | Ford, editor and proprietor of the IrSsh \
 of these ladies will deliver addresses on the 1 Land League question. A genuine Irish piper will pipe favorite Irish airs, and then there will. be horse races, first and second class, and running race between horses from
 Coney Island and Long Branch for valuable prizes There will be a half mile
 running race, open to all, for | a prize of 30; ball game ! between a nine from Winchester Armory and | a nine from Peck Brothers. The athletic
 sports include running high jump, three | legged race, foot ball match, hurdle race,
 vaulting with pole, ball throwing and sack
 race. The music is to be by Thomas full or
 chestra. The admission is but % cents. A gold ring will be given to the best lady | waltzer. Prominent speakers will be present | from Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Boston.
 The picnic is worthy of the support which it will receive, and will be patronized by all nationalities.
 The Teutonia Menner Chor and their friends will picnic at Savin Rock to-day. The State Temperance society will hold it's
 tenth annual picnic at Fenwick Grove on Tuesday.
 \ New London August 3.
 The steamer John H. Starin will make her regular excursion to Glen Island tomorrow, leaving her wharf, foot of Brewery street, at S:30 8. m. The City Guard will make their annual excursion at that time, and they will be accompanied by hosts of friends.
 The daily excursions to Long Branch on the old line steamers are growing in popular ity and will no doubt so continue to the end of the season. Those who have enjoyed these trips speak in the highest terms of them. Ex- scursionists take the c. H. Northam from this city at 11:30 and take the Long Branch steam CTS from pier North River in the morning, returning by the Continental to this city from New York at night.
 The party that went to Conev Island on