Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-25
Tneading Matter on Every Page.I
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention

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 Conductor Herkins, of the Consolidated road, has resigned.
 Saven hundred dollars was netted by the Ladies' Land League bazaar.
 The Supreme Court of Errors will convene in Bridgeport to-day at o'clock.
 The Knights of St. Patrick have engaged the Sixty-ninth regiment band of New York for their ball, December 28.
 A family of Canal street Portuguese, New London, feasted on crow Sunday, the gift or a leading sportsman of that city.
 Last evening John Fletcher and Jonn Smith were arrested for stealing dime novels from the Downes News company.
 Mrs. S. S. Thompson has been engaged to supply the vacancy afternoons in the Ihlro Congregational church choir until the lst o1 December.
 MT. Henry Beach, son of Superintendent Beach of the Naugatuck Railroad company has left the post of engineer to take another position on the road.
 A silver medal has been awarded 10 the Electric Purifier company, of New Haven, for it's exhibit of purifiers at the electrical exhibition in Paris.
 The engineer of Taylor's saw mill, in Fair field. was waylaid and shot Monday night by an unknown person while going home. Ills injuries are painful but not dangerous.
 An epidemic of malaria in Thompsonv1le has prostrated nearly 100 people Forty girls employed in the Hartford Carpet company inprain department are unable to work.
 William Beverman was the man killed on the New York road near Westport Saturday night He had been at work in Paterson, N. J., and was walking to Birmingham, where his family live.
 The county meeting of the auxiliary socie- tv of the New Haven branch of the Woman's s Board of Missions will be held in the Congre- eational church in Wallingford tomorrow, beginning at 10 a. m.
 At the Suffolk county fair, Long Island, N. Y, the little No. 12 mill made at the liar rison establishment on Howard avenue, ID this city, was awarded the first premium 1n competition with various other makes ot mills.
 Owners of the missing whaling bark Trini- ty of New London, have arranged with the government to send vessel in search of the bark or crew. It is probable that vessel of the South American station will soon leave Montevideo for that purpose.
 large fire was raging in the Ten Mill woods, about 8 mile north of the Hartford line on Sunday, and, famed by a southerly breeze, was rapidly sweeping northward. It is likely that considerable damage was done.
 /I-- 1 V0,s1 oV,l New England roads on Saturday received the order of the Railroad Commissioners to dis continue whistling in the vicinity of the tunnel at Hartford, and also between the depot and Sigourney street in that city.
 The steamer City of Lawrence arrived at AlIyn's Point, Sunday afternoon, some thirty six hours late, with the Ninth regiment of Massachusetts militia on board. They pass ed New London between four and five o'clock on & special train en route for Boston.
 The "punch bowl'' of Hamden Plains, in the center of which grew 8 large tree, and which has been B thing of geological interest to tourists, has been filled up by the change in the layout of the track by the Canal road. The punch bowl measured 15O feet across and was 100 feet deep.
 The elegant residence and property of the late Nathaniel Jocelyn, being the homestead, on York street, has been purchased by c. B. Demarest, of the firm of A. T. $ c. B. Dem arest, carriage manufacturers. The sale was effected through the agency of s. B. Oviatt. This is regarded as an indication of the times in prospect for real estate.
 The Rev. c. W. Hill, of Utah, delivered a lecture Sunday morning in the Second Con- gregational church, Fair Haven, on "Utah and the Mormons." It was highly interest ing. Mir. Hill will be present at the meeting at the Davenport church, Greene street, this (Tuesday) evening, and will speak on the same subject. Mir. Hill graduated at Yale Theological Seminary, class of '78.