Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-03
For additional Local News see 4th pago.l
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention

Brief Mention.
 Barkhamstead arbutus has arrived ln Bridgeport.
 w. and R. Foote have a lot of Vermont horses for sale.
 The estate of the late Joel H. Guy, of Meriden, inventories about $19O,OOO.
 The 11th annual reunion of the Veteran Masons of Connecticut will be held in Bir- mingham on Wednesday, June 22nd.
 The Misses Harris have their spring open ing of summer millinery today from till D. m at their rooms, No. III Orange street. Rev. George Curtiss, formerly of Harwin- ton, has accepted the pastorate of the Weth- ersfeld Avenue Congregational church in Hartford.
 Bishop McMahon confirmed 25O children in St. Mary's Star of the Sea church, New London, Sunday morning. A special train was run from Montville.
 Yesterday was not the first of May, but it was moving day all the same, and scores of families changed residences. All the teams suitable for moving furniture were busy.
 Rev. c. P Crofts, of Watertown, left yes- terday on a six weeks vacation trip to the
 
 Congregational church at Terre Haute, h. diana.
 James ODonnell, Greenville young man and a gymnast, died Sunday night after a brief illness from injuries caused, it. is thought, by overstraining himself in practis- ing his feats.
 Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost closed his labors as pastor of the South Baptist church, Hart ford, Sunday evening with specially inter esting services. The right hand of fellow ship was extended to twenty one persons.
 The New Haven County Temperance Union will hold convention at Cheshire on Wednesday the 4th, commencing at 11:3O a. m. Several noted advocates. of temperance will speak, and the public are cordially in- vited.
 The annual meeting of the New Haven East Association of Ministers takes place at Prof Davis lecture room in East Divinity Hall this morning, May 3rd, at 10 o'clock, when candidates for the ministry will be ex- amined.
 Mir. William Church, of West Haven, re- turned last week from an extended business tour through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland He reports business good but impeded great deal by the bad condition of the roads.
 Bishop Paddock, who WAS in Norwalk March 23rd preaching and left there with his family to assume his duties as bishop of Washington Territory, met with sad afiic- tion whilo en route in the death of his esti- mable wife.
 At the request of Governor Bigelow, Gen. eral Sherman has detailed Major McCrea, of the First Artillery stationed at Fort Trum- bull, to inspect the Connecticut National Guard. He will commence this week with the Fourth regiment.
 Mir. Charles T. Russ, of Hartford, died yesterday morning of pneumonia, aged 28. He graduated from the Hartford High School, class of TO, and from Yale in 1874 He leaves a wife, daughter Of Rev. Mr. Camp, and two sons.
 The Selectmen's committee to consider the Bessie Winslow case will meet at the Town Agents office this evening at o'clock to hear statements regarding the case. One side will be represented by Edmund Zacher, the other by Judge Sheldon
 Transfers of real estate recorded in the town clerks office yesterday are: Sarah J. Deehan to Treadwell Ketcham, thirty-nine feet on Newhall street, known as No. 39 James H. Clerkin to Michael Hickey, fifty feet on Clay street, with Improvements