Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-05-28
For additional Local News see 4th page.
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
The G. c. 1. nine will play the H. G. S. on
the Howard avenue ground this afternoon.
Excelsior Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star, will hold Lodge of Sorrow on next
Friday evening.
small boy residing on Bradley street,
New London, was severely bitten on the arm
by horse yesterday.
Next Tuesday the alumni association of the
Berkeley Divinity school will hold its annual
meeting at Middletown.
The case against Postmaster Tubbs, of New
London, has been adjourned to the August
term of the United States Court.
Rev. DIR. Sitter breaches sermon to-mor-
row evening appropriate to Decoration day.
The G. A. r. Posts have been invited.
Report has it that eight marriages out of
the ranks of the lady teachers in the public
schools are to occur within few months.
G. b. Willis reports 500 delegates in at
tendance at the National Y. M. G. A. conven-
ton at Cleveland, Ohio, including many of
prominence.
Monday next Memorial day. being a legal
holiday, the banks will be closed. All notes
falling due on that day are payable this day
Saturday.
The Pequot House, New London, has been
leased to Mr.. Gale, formerly of the Lafay
cite House, Philadelphia. He will take pos
session June list.
A temperance meeting will be held in the
Seamen's Bethel on Sunday evening, which
will be conducted by the members of Har-
mony Division, S. of Il.
The approaches to the Blake street bridge,
Westville, are substantially completed. The
bridge will be two feet higher than the old
one, so as to give room for freshets.
The committee on ordinances will meet on
next Monday afternoon at 5 O'Clock to con-
slider revision of the ordinances in conform
ity to the new and changed provisions of the
city charter.
Cheshire society is interested over the fact
that the Rev. o. H. Raftery, rector of the
Episcopal church in Cheshire, will be united
in the holy bonds of matrimony on Thurs
day, June Goth.
The man run over by Naugatuck train
near Ansonia Thursday evening" supposed to
be David s. Sloss, so years of age, proved,
if later reports are correct, to be John David
son, residing in Ansonia.
There being no more cases at the pest
house, and nothing to do, the woman hired
in Meriden as nurse was discharged yester-
day. She was fumigated before departure.
The house will be purified to-day.
Applications for the vacant State scholar
ships in the Sheffield Scientific School should
be made prior to June 2sth, when the vacan-
cies are to be filed. Blank forms for appli-
cation may be had by addressing Professor
George J. Brush, New Haven.
The play which Miss Ingersoll is to give at
Miss Montfort's school will be given Tuesday
evening instead of the following evening, as
was originally intended The reason of the
postponement is the assignment of the Art
School reception for Wednesday evening
In the case of Joseph Abbott, (son of Abb
bolt in the Connecticut State PRISON. SEN
fenced to be hanged June 18th at Elmira, N.
Y, writ of error and stay of execution has
been granted until September This will en-
able Abbott's lawyer to carry his case up to
the Court of Appeals.
Court Elm City, 1898, Ancient Order of
Foresters, held their regular meeting last
evening and elected their secretary, NJ. J.
CLARK, delegate to the national convention to
be held at Providence R. l., during the first
week of August. The court will be well rep
resented by Mr.. Clark.
Twenty eight million feet of logs for the
Connecticut River Lumber company, which
started from the headwaters of the river in
the spring of 1880, and stranded in shoal
water, have been started forward again this
spring and will reach Hartford next month
Another drive of twelve million feet cut last
winter, is also coming.
A pile of lumber in Hartford tumbled
down some boys were running over it
Thursday evening. One of the boys named
Smith had his leg broken, a heavy piece of
lumber falling upon it. At the same place
was an excavation into which Austin Mann
fell the same evening, receiving such severe
injuries that he had to be taken to the hos.
pltal.-
Ten new applicants have been accepted
into the I. o. o. F. Mutual Aid association
aud benefits of 81, 500 each voted the heirs
of Dexter A. Gillette of Oxford and Charles
BOcl mann of Bridgeport, and $500 to the
heirs of Robert Fowler of Meriden, An as
sessment of So has been laid, payable on or
before the 25th of June next by members of
the first class.
The postofice will be open on Monday,
May Both, Decoration day." from a. M
until II noon. All afternoon and evening
mails will close at p. m, except the IL p
m. mail, which viii close as usual The car
riers will only make a morning delivery,
leaving the Office about 8 a. N. The vesti-
bule will be open all day for the sccommoda-
tion of box holders.
Young Mems Institute.
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