Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-21

Arcanum Lodge, I. O. O. F., will visit Montowese Lodge of this city this evening
 The annual collection in the parish of the Church of the Sacred Heart amounts to $1,- 700.
 The First Congregational church, Merlden, has arranged to picnic at High Rock Grove on the 2Sth of June.
 The Yale junior promenade takes place next Monday evening, and the Glee club con cert on Tuesday evening.
 Miss Lena Fenn has returned to Bridge port from Hamburg, Germany, where she has been at school for the past six years.
 Major McCrea, in his official report, de- cides that the Second regiment has the first rank in perfection in drill and military eff ciency.
 There will be praise service held at the Second Congregational church, Fair Haven, next Sunday evening The service will be- gin at 7:3O.
 Captain Charles H. Townsend of this city, who has been in Europe for two months past, is on his way home on the steamer Adriatic, which sailed on Thursday last.
 Dr. Powell, one of the leading physicians
 
 his house on Atlantic street is quarantined.
 here is good deal of excitement in Stam- Bdf4 over the matter.
 The Rev. Edward w. Bacon, of New Lon Ndon, preached striking and remarkable ser > mon at Park church, Norwich, Sunday even- ng on the duty of northern Christians to promote education in the South.
 Bishop Foss will preach the baccalau- reate sermon of Wesleyan University in the Methodist church, Middletown, on Sunday next. President Beach's health will not ad- init of his preaching it as he had intended.
 Miss Anna Thompson, soprano of Calvary Baptist church of this city, made success full debut as "'Bethna'' in "Mascotte'', at Bijou Opera House, New York city, last Sat urday evening, and will reappear in same next Saturday.
 MT. Herbert L. Crandall, agent for the schooner L. B. Cowperthwaite, of New Lon don received telegram yesterday stating that the vessel was struck by lightning while un- loading at EIizabethport, Sunday. The mainmast was completely destroyed.
 The social gathering of the Young Women's Christian association will occur Wednesday evening at 7:45, at the rooms of the associa- tion, No. POS Chapel street. The exercises will consist of reading and singing, and all persons interested are cordially invited to at- tend.
 Professor Edward s. Dana, of Yale, has gone to California with Mir. Grinnen and another gentleman from New York, and in- tend to go as far north as Alaska Professor Dana's trip is for health and scientific re- search. The party will travel on soma of the rivers in Alaska by canoes.
 Some mammoth strawberries are raised by Mir. Horace Atwater on his place at Cedar Hill, as two baskets of them which We -ha ye seen and experimented upon attest. They are not only large but of fine quality and are of the Sharpless variety. Twenty of the largest of them weighed one pound.
 Donations of books for the library of the Y. M. c. A: have recently been received from Mrs. Wm. Johnson and Dr. E. H. Bishop be gratefully received also old Bibles and Testaments, with religious and illustrated papers and magazines for distribution.
 Rev. William Mellen, missionary among the Zulus of South Africa for twenty-four years, will speak upon the latest travellers in South Africa and the progress of the natives in civilization and Christianity, this evening at the College Street church. The subject will be illustrated by large map, and MT Mellen's lecture will be we'll worth hearing.
 While Mir. W. H. Green, of Bridgeport, was filling kerosene lamp at his restaurant in Wall street, Saturday evening, the oil took fire, and the lamp being hastily drop ped, blaze resulted that caused an alarm to be sounded from box 63, calling out the de- pertinent. The fire was extinguished before the engines arrived. MT. Green was slightly burned. Weeds band gives a concert on the park at Hartford tomorrow night. 'Citizens' hope that our city fathers will provide band con- certs on our Green this summer, and thus delight thousands of our people. The Hart I ford Post says: ''The first of thessseries of | concerts on Bushnell Park will be given We'd nesday evening by Weeds band. The con cert for the following week will be by Colts l band The two bands will alternate until the | list is completed" Subscriptions in aid of | the project to have band concerts on the | Green will be received at Klocks drug store. I
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