Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-01
For additional Local News see 4th paee.l
LOCAL NEWS.
RrKaf Mention.

Brief Mention. P, T. Barnum will build winter cottage in Florida.
 A desirable house and lot is offered for sale at No. 169 Whalley avenue.
 The wife of Professor Kelly, or the Llte- rarv Institute at Suffeld, is dead
 Flatfsh weighing two and three pounds are being caught about the harbor.
 Calvary Baptist Sunday school has engaged High Rock Grove for their picnic next sum mer.
 ssChip'' Smith will be tried in the Superior Court in this city next week for the killing of Chief of Police Hayes of Ansonia.
 A press dispatch says ia young man was shot dead in bagnie in Norwich, Conn., Wednesday night" No particulars.
 This afternoon at o'clock ''The Planting, Cultivating and Marketing of Potatoes" will be discussed by the Farmers club in room 10, Sheffield Hall. -.....
 F. L. Allen. of Waterbury, was among the five passengers injured by the accident on the Savannah, Florida and Western railroad last Saturday morning
 The illness of ex-Chief Justice Origen S. Seymour is caused, it is supposed, by tunor in the stomach. Information from him re- ceived yesterday noon says at that time he was no worse.
 There will be an adj djourned meeting at room II, Insurance building this evening at 8 o'clock to discuss the advanced rates of rent The tenant residents and wives, and the general public, are invited to attend
 Rev. Dr. J. W. Beach, president of Wes-
  leyan University, lost his mother Wednesday. He was formerly pastor of the First M E.. church. The venerable lady was much es- teemed The funeral takes place this after noon from Dr. Beachs residence in Middle town.
 The Howe machine factory, at Bridgeport, shut down yesterday for month to take the annual inventory. The vacation is little longer than usual. MT. E. Parmlys the present assistant secretary and treasurer, has been advanced to the position of general manager of the company's entire business.
 Mrs. F. w. J. Sizer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., formerly of this city, sailed for Charleston Saturday on the steamer City of Columbia, Captain Woodruff. The steamer made the trip in the remarkably quick time of forty seven hours and twenty minutes. New Haven boy MT. Denslow, is purser. Mrs. Sizer goes to Savannah, Ga, where she will make stay of number of weeks for her health.
 A bed in Dr. Tuttle's fine residence in Naugatuck was burned to ashes Wednesday afternoon. smell of smoke appraised the family of the fire in time to save the premis- es. It was boy and lighted cigarette that did the mischief. The boy went up stairs to secure window blind which was banging in the wind, and he had to step upon the bed to reach it, and in so doing dropped some sparks from the cigarette.
 Those who are likely to be best acquainted with the affairs of the late Joel H. Guy esti- mate his estate to be worth about $25O, ,OOO. There is much conjecture as to the disposi- tion made of the money in his will. It is stated that St. Andrews Episcopal church, o1 which he was member, and the pastor, Dr. Deshon, will receive handsome sum. Hia only child, Miss Sarah Guy, will, it is thought, get the Gon's share. By an agree ment made when he married his second wife, she receives $2O, 900 upon his death.