Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-24
Corner Stone Laying.
Trinity M.. E. Chnrch-An Interestfn
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4 1Ass Chnrch-Ah Interesting
 Event-A Courteous Act.
 The corner stone of the Trinity M E. church, corner of George and Dwight streets, will be laid Wednesday afternoon at p. m. Bishop Simpson will officiate. He has signi- fled his intention of being present. All the indications point to an occasion of peculiar local interest.
 A large number of clergymen will be pres ent and it is thought the number may reach forty. Among them will be Rev. Dr. Beach, president of Wesleyan University, and Rev. Dr. L. $. Weed, both of whom were formerly
 pastors ln this city. As will be seen by the
 following part of the exercises of the occa-
 sion will be in Dwight Place church:
 COURTEOUS ACT.
 The Dwight Place Congregational church
 has offered the use of their building for such
 services connected with the laying of the
 corner stone of Trinity Methodist Episcopal
 church as need not necessarily be held in the open air. The offer has been gladly accept
 ed and.the addresses will be delivered in the
 Dwight Place church by Bishop Simpson and
 others. This neighborly kindness will long
 be gratefully remembered,
 Fair Haven. The auction sale of seats at St. James church for one year takes place at 7:3C o'clock this evening in the body of the church.
 Mir. Charles H. Livermore, the bass singer in the choir of St. James church. is quite in disposed, and was missed from his accus toned place in church yesterday. The saje of fancy articles by the ladies con nected with Grace church commences this evening in the vacant store opposite the post office.
 The Rev. E. M. Jerome preached in the Baptist church in Wallingford last evening the pastor of that church being very i'll. The schooner William Farren, Captain H
 R. Linsley, arrived Saturday from Chesa peake Bay with oysters for market. Captain Linsley will make one more oyster trip. Business at Captain Wright's marine rail way is lively. There are applications of yes sells ahead all the while to be hauled out, be sides the boats that at the dock for re pairs, and the one on the stocks now build ing. The chamber concert given at the Adelph ! Lodge, F. A. M., room last Wednesda, night will be repeated before long. Ad ! ditional talent will he present, the concer will be fully advertised and a large numbe of the fraternity and friends is expected t. | be present.
 Mir E. A. Jonas, of Meriden, visited her with friends over Sunday He made a cal | on the fire boys on the east side. 1 Mr. B. E. Stannard who had the end o ! two of his fingers taken of last Thursday il
 the machinery at Gov. Bigelow's shop ol l Grapevine Point is able to attend to busi ] ness, although the wounded fingers cause hin ! considerable pain.
 l One of the fishermen who was going owe ! to Lake Saltonstall one morning last weel I for days sport killed one chunkhead anc i five black snakes just east of the old Eas Haven road.
 There will be an entertainment in tn l chapel of the Second church next Wednesda. evening consisting of music; 8 broom drill b. ' ten young ladies, and supper. The majority of vessels coming from Vir ginia this season with oysters to plant twill l arrive during the coming week. More oys ters than ever before have been planted al ready and the oysters are all in pretty goot order.
 Tbs regular monthly assembly of Crawford Council, R. and S. M, will be held this even ing at their Council chamber. The royal ant select masters and super excellence degree! will be worked.
 The views taken of residences by the N. H View company gave pretty good satisfaction but the prices vary so that there was some pretty tall talking, some of them paying a. high as two dollars single picture, while one view was sold as low as ten cents The freight train from New London due here at 3 o'clock a. n1 Saturday did not pass through here until just before o'clock being about six hours late, the delay being occasioned by the pumps getting out of order so that they did not give the boiler suf fcient supply of water. The freight trair yesterday morning was about four hours late the delay occasioned tEis time by the i'm mense quantity of freight carried The selling of seed to oyster planters iron New York and vicinity has commenced. This business promises to be quite lively before the season is over. There will be good de mand, and the supply of oyster seed will be probably sufficient for all that is called for The steamer O. s. Conkling caught and solo twenty-eight hundred bushels in four days last week. The new steamer F. F. Brown o1 Saturday morning last dredged and hauled ol board five hundred and sixty-one bushels O the seed in two hours and fifteen minutes This is the most oysters ever caught in tha time by a good many bushel.