Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-01


 have been collected. Mir Stewart has taken no other steps regarding the money awarded to him. He has assigned the money, and, in { addition, Tax Collector Futile has put lien on the money for back taxes, amounting to between $40O and $500.
 Gov. BIgelovy.
 Gov. Bigelow returns from Europe to day. 1 His wife and son accompany him. They | came on the White Star line steamer Repub- lie. Col. Frank Bigelow went to New York yesterday to meet them. The following mem- bers of Gov Bigelow's staff will meet him as soon as the boat is sighted near Sandy Hook, they going down on the government boat from New York city: Paymaster- Gen eral Camp. Surgeon General Gregory, Com missary General Ford and the Governor s aids Colonels Barrows and Bigelow, besides the executive secretary, M. Frank Tyler Ptckpocke4s.
 man from New York named c. Kane came to this city yesterday to transact some business with the Wetmore Machine company on Union street. Between Bridgeport and this city stranger took seat with him on the cars, and arriving here MT. Kane found tha; an account book had been ab- stracted from his pocket. In the same pocket was purse with large sum of m oney i'll It which the pickpocket did not get. The ac- count book picked up in the railroad cut opposite the Wetmore shop by fireman, who handed it to the police, who handed 1t to l the owner. Pickpockets have been numerous 1 on the cars owing to the Hartford races. The starin Excursions-The Last Two of the Season.
 Next week closes the Starin excursions to Glen Island for the season of 1882. Agent ! Miller informs us that the two concluding ex- ! cursons next week have been left open ex- 1 clusively to family and other private parties no charter parties having been accepted for
 these last two trips, and that the rule is i'm perative, and positively no charter parties ! will be taken for these last trips. This will l afford chance, which large number of our I citizens will avail themselves of, for ride on I the elegant John H. Starin under the able and reliable Capt. McAlister to the celebrated l and beautiful Glen Island.
 l Yesterday one of the largest parties of the l entire season went to the Island. It included the Congregational church party from Bran ford of 800 or GOO and large party from this city.
 Excursio1is and Picnics.
 ! The Congregational church of Branford
 picnicked at Glen Island yesterday, going by the John H. Starin. They came to the city
 on an extra train. There were five carloads and about 600 in the party.
 The Episcopal parishes of Nichols Farms,
 Long Hill, Huntington, Tashua and Monroe
 will picnic at Parlor Rock today, Septem-
 Der l.
 On Wednesday, September 6, the St.
 Aloysius T. A. L. N. will give picnic at
 Savin Rock. There will be dancing in the
 pavilion, with music by Thomas orchestra 1 A large party are expected, and the society
 have made arrangements to entertain their ] friends handsomely
 The steamer Elm City will make it's last l trip of the season to Osprey Beach next Tuesday, September 5. No large parties are
 booked for that day, so that the trip will be
 an especially good one for citizens and their
 wives.
 A Former George Street Church Pastor. 1 The Rev. w. R. Webster of the New York l East Conference, formerly pastor of the
 George Street M. E church, with the ap-
 proval of Bishop Simpson and of Presid
 ing Elder Rev. G. A. Hubbell, has been ap-
 pointed as the financial agent of-La Teche , Seminary of Louisiana, to labor ln conjunc tion with the Rev. Dr. w. D. Goldman Of the New Orleans University in raising funds sy | appeals to the churches in the Northern F Statess for the erection of additional build ! incs and the endowment of the seminary and
 kindred institutions located at La-Teche, La. and which are the only Christian institutions of learning for colored students west of New 1 Orleans.
 Mir. Webs.er's pastorate at Cheshire will
 close on Sunday next. His family will here |, | after reside in Ward street, New Haven bu his address will be care of Messrs. Phillips X Hunt, SO5 Broadway, New York city. Opening Day at Noted New Haven Es- 1 tablishment.
 September 1st, as usual, the great opening of fall styles begins at the noted house of Ed s lP & B. R. Merwin simultaneously in this a city and New York. This year marks thell
 still further advance all along the lines. Then , l elegant establishments here and in New York are stocked full of unsurpassed goods, anc t our city has in this house one of wide celebri , ty Their trade is more widely extended
 than ever. Garments of their unexceptiona o ble make and material, cut and adapted with F artistic taste, lay in piles awaiting shipment . to individual patrons in the West and South
 ] There were coats for some of the greates money kings in Chicago and St. Louis among f l them, and the wealth and luxurious appoint .- ments represented among their customer |, reach 8 large figure Much money is repre- :. sented in splendid fabrics, which were de if signed in color and texture of fabric by th'
 Merwins and made to their order in the grea s frst-class establishments of the West of Eng n land. noted coat brought back from |. Poole's, England by Mir. B. R. Merwin de |. signed especially for Merwin & Go, by Mir e Dent, was @ driving cape cut whole except tt the back seam. Another green racing l.. coat of the style worn at the Derbys by thu r upper ten The Merwins have won es 5 tablished position for elegant artistic work > and their skill, art and taste embodied ar 8 we'll appreciated by patrons far and near, a e home and in distant States.
 A Body Found-probabIy Foul Play. J. Early yesterday morning two oystermen
 while dredging for oysters near the breakwa p ter at the mouth of the harbor, discovered 8 the body of man floating. They kep l. watch of it and when through their worl sailed up to the object and found It to be th IS remains of 8 man. Coroner Bollman no e tifed and took charge of the remains. Th 'r sight it presented most sickening one
 It was much bloatsd. The face was swollen
 was crossed by streaks of black and greer J. and had gash under one eye. All about thu l. eyes it was mashed and bruised to degre, ia that may prevent Identification. The moutl if was twisted and torn. The body is about fiv a feet six inches in height and appeared to b. 10 that of a man between twenty and thirt, If years of age. The face clean shaven ant