Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-15
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 John c. Elmer the confectioner is con fined to his house with severe cold The annual dance of Polar Star Lodge, I. o. O. F., takes place at Central Hall We'd nesday evening, Jan. r. The blecksmiths were full of business all day yesterday ct shoeing horses. Mr. Lucius Rowe, dry goods dealer, left on Tuesday for San Antonio, Texas, where he will spend the winter for the benefit of his health.
 MT. H. c. Rowe, the oyster merchant, last Wednesday while down at Savin Rock, came near being shot by pistol which accidental ly went off when he taking it from his pocket to shoot at duck which was off on tho water few rods away. As it was it made a slight flesh wound and gave the party 8 pretty good scare.
 Mrs. Captain Charles l.. Munsell and son and Mrs. Alvin Ames arrived on Tuesday from Westfeld, Mass, where they have been visiting for some weeks among their friends. George W. Linsley, jr., is quite ill with pneumonia at his fathers residence on South Quinnpiac street.
 Will Horton and Fred Rowe have gone into making mast hoops for sharpies in their shop on Prospect street. Tho boatmen speak very highly of these hoops
 Frostfsh are being caught in large mum bers in pike nets set along the wharves on the river. One of our fishermen hauled his net (the meshes to the net are one inch and half) yesterday and found he had captured in one haul eight hundred and forty-six of these fish. This is called pretty good haul and our people think it has not heen beaten Miss Dodo Ives, of Mt. Carmel, is visiting for short time with her aunt, Mrs. Joseph Amss.
 David Henderson killed very large red fox on Tuesday near the upper end of Pond Rock. Several other parties were out foxing that day, but nary a reynard did they get.
 Quite a number of our boatmen pulled their sharpies out of tho water to the docks yesterday, where they will keep them until the winter season is over. A few of the hunters use ferrets in hunt ing rabbits. Now there is a very stringent law against using ferrets for catching these l animals, and some of our sportsmen say if this business is not stopped they propose to put the law into force and arrest every of fender.
 The question for debate on Wednesday night before the young peoples associati on was, ''Is lie justifable at any time ?'' The subject was we'll handled by both sides of the house, but the decision was reserved for two weeks.
 The funeral of Miss Mary A. Parker will
 
 her late residence, No. 10 Clinton avenue, at II o'clock &. m. The remains will be taken to Wallingford for interment the burial services held in the cemetery in that place at o'clpck this afternoon. One of the questions argued in the stores over on the east side on Wednesday evening was, "Would man who saw team passing along mile away be willing to swear posi- lively whether it horse or m OK that was hitched to the wagon ?'' The affirmative side in the minority. WyIlis Hemingway, John F. Hemingway and others have had very fine robes stolen from their barns within the past few nights. Robes and whips have also been stolen from teams which were standing on some of our streets one evening in the first part of the week. It is hoped that these thieves will be caught
 l. N. Bradley, of the Village market, found horse attached to sleigh coming down without driver on North Quinnipiac street Tuesday night between nine and ten o'clock. He took the team to Moody & Smiths livery stable to keep until the owner should cali for it. The owner proved to be MT. Rus sell of Branford, who calling on some friends. When coming out to go home he found his team gone and started for Bran- ford on foot. He found no trace of his horse and sleigh until the morning, when he came to the stable, paid for the keeping over night and started home with his team.