Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-28
LOCAL NEWS.
Rrief Mention,

Brief Mention. The Fakir of Ava has been seriously bitten by pet raccoon.
 Hon. James M. Hill, Secretary of State of Mississippi, is in Hartford.
 sociable takes place at the East church. Humphrey street, on Thursday evening. The Garfield calendar, issued by John Endres x Co., of St. Louis, meets with great demand.
 There is talk of building union armory in Waterbury for the use of the Chatfeld and sedgwick Guards.
 The uniformed members of Sassacus En- campment l. o. o. F., will elect officers Thursday evening.
 Yams from Florida ana spring chickens from Philadelphia are among the delicacies offered in tho markets.
 The steamer City of New York, which has been recently put in frst-clas condition, took her place on the line last night.
 The Lewis $ Beecher company stockhold- CTS have decided to wind up the business of the company during the present year.
 The pupils of the Bridgeport High school celebrated the birthday of the poet Longfel- low in an appropriate manner yesterday.
 Mir. o. D. Woodruff and wife, of Hartford, will leave for New Orleans to day, intending to be absent from six weeks to two months,
 The propeller Delaware has oeen thorough ly overhauled and will take her place on the line between Norwich and New York to day.
 5o so11 +I,o billiard tables should be seized and burned --ef tf-e~public square was not repealed until 1862
 It should be stated, in justice to people liv- ing on Factory street, that sHell's Kitchen, :" so-called, is not located there, but on Oak street
 James Redpath visits Norwich in March, and the Norwich branch of the Land League and the Hibernian societies propose to ten der him reception.
 The usual meeting of the Second church association (annex) will not be held tomorrow evening, being postponed on account of nu- merous other meetings.
 A house and lot in Meriden owned by L. |. Camp, adjoining the St. Laurent's church, Tas been bought By Rev. Father Van Oppen for parsonage for $6,000.
 Mrs. Foster, the woman lawyer, will lec- ture on temperance Thursday evening at the North church, taking the legal phase of the temperance question for her subject.
 The Bridgeport Board of Trade have their seventh annual banquet this evening. A large number of tickets have been sold. The Wheeler & Wilson band is engaged for the affair."
 The next monthly meeting of the mana gers of the Home for the Friendless will be held at the house of Mrs. Charles D. Graves, 61 Grove street, tomorrow afternoon, March l, at 3 o'clock ...,-,
 The auditing committee held their first meeting in the Mayors office last evening and laid out their work for the year. In the absence of Alderman Mix, Alderman Earns worth presided.
 The 1045 a. m. express from this city for New York struck the rear end of a milk wagon at crossing near the Bridgeport depot yesterday. The wagon had two men in it. The men escaped injury and the wagon lost it's hind wheels.
 The next entertainment of the Young Women's Christian association will take place on Wednesday evening, March l, at POS Chapel street The exercises will be varied and interesting, and will commence promptly at 7:30 o'clock. .s..
 Mir. and Mrs. T. I. Driggs, of Waterbury, accompanied by their son, started for Wash ington, D. O., yesterday morning, where they will remain for three or four weeks Mir. Driggs hopes to escape his usual spring at- tack of rheumatism.
 The New England Transportation company have new tug, sister tug to the Reliance, at New York receiving her engines and boil CTS. The boat was built at Eddyville, N. r., and will cost about $25, 1000. It is expected --Bhe will take her place on the line between here and New York in a month or six weeks
 The Connecticut Telephone company has bought $75,oO0 worth of stock of the Inter State company, and they will work for the advancement of each others interests The latter company has reorganized, with Gov ernor Jewell president. A line will be built from Waterbury to Bridgeport before long,
 Miss Fannie Wendell Pratt, daughter of General James T. Pratt, of Wethersfeld, died at the home of her father in that town at about o'clock Sunday evening, of consump- tion. She was an admirable young lady. Everything was done to save her life. Her case was laid before distinguished physicians of other States, but nothing could avail to save her During Der illness she has been patient and accomplishing, and the sweet. ness of her disposition shone out through her bodily suffering all the more brightly.