Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-20
For additional Local News see 4th page.
LOCAL NEWS.
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Brief Mention.
 MT. Townsend, the florist, has the first trailing arbutus of the season.
 Work is brisk at the Whitneyvilie armory, and gun making is lively theIe.
 The consolidated Yale nine and the Hay makers will play on Hamilton Park this af ternoon.
 The health of the Rev. Father Fitzpatrick, of St. Patrick's church, continues very poor Part of the time he is confined to his bed.
 H. Rowe Shelley, of this city, assists at an organ recital to be given in Middletown at the Methodist church next Monday evening.
 Charles S. Norton, a merchant for years in Winsted, died Monday. He was for twenty years justice of the peace and tried great many cases.
 The Lee Arms company, formerly located in the Sharpe's Rifle factory, Bridgeport, are now engaged in removing to the works of E. Remington & Sons, Ilion, New York.
 The steamboats Corning and Starin of the Starin Line, which were laid up for repairs, are again back on the line, having under gone thorough overhauling, inside and out side.
 Mr. Harrington was reelected superintend- ent of the Bridgeport public schools Monday evening, and an effort to reduce his salary from $2, 200 to $1,SOO failed, it being fixed at the old figure.
 A young German named Mitchell, living in East Meriden, while cleaning his revolver yesterday, accidentally shot himself in the breast. A flesh wound was made, but he had very narrow escape.
 We learn that it is MT. L. E. Osborn, secre- tary of the New Haven Steam Heating Co.,, who has been appointed to succeed Deacon Fitch, who retires from long service in the treasurer's office at Yale College.
 J. Johnson & Co.,, the clothiers, are fitting up their new store in the most thorough manner, and when finished it will be hand some and attractive establishment. It will be ready for occupancy about the 20th inst.
 James Lenahan, who was struck by a loco motive in Bridgeport, Monday, and had his skull fractured and whose recovery was thought impossible, is alive, with fair pros pect of driving truck again His two horses were killed outright.
 Mr. John A. Hendrick, the artist, has painted fine oil painting of Mrs. s. E. Bur- roughs, of No. 145 Temple street. It Is a work of art highly credtable to the young artist. and is at present at the photograph es- tablishment of Mr. F. A. Bowman.
 The directors of the Industrial School for Girls, Middletown, have bought thirty acres of land of Garrett Keefe, east of the Durham reservoir, and will at once construct basin for the reception of water to supply the wants of the school and for sewage and fire purposes
 The Lighthouse Board give notice that a whistling buoy, painted with horizontal stripes and giving blasts of a whistle at short intervals, is now moored southeast of Ger berus Shoal or Middle Ground, eastern en- trance to Long Island Sound, in seven fath- oms of water.
 Hartford's city debt, less the sinking fund, amounts to $S2, ,162, 171.0S. Hartfords new Mayor recommends that the Council take the necessary steps to complete the extension of the city over the town limits, in accordance with the late act of the General Assembly, which extended the city's jurisdiction over the entire town.