Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-06
Fair Haven,

Mir. Ii. M. Rowe, MT. William Rowe and family, of Baltimore, arrived on Monday af ternoon. They will sojourn here through the warm weather.
 Mir. and Mrs. William L. Futile, of Water bury, visited here among their many friends over the Fourth of July.
 At the Fourth of July service held at St.. James, church at o'clock 8. n., Miss Meta Futile presided at the organ, playing finely.
 George Graves has just put on lead keel on his clipper yacht, which he is overhauling. It will be ready for launching in few days and it is expected that this boat will prove one of the fastest sailing crafts in this vicin- ity.
 The game of base ball between the engine and hose companies the morning of the Fourth was, as it was anticipated, close and
 exciting game. It took tenth inning to de-
 eide the game, and each man went in to do
 his best or die in the battle with all the ear-
 last the struggle was ended and the hose boys
 came out of the battle triumphant, winning
 by single tally, the score to ,. Mr. John
 Parker umpired the game very finely and
 gave perfect satisfaction to both sides. Quite
 number were present and witnessed the contest, and as the game progressed the spec
 tators became as interested, excited and as
 anxious on the result as the players were. The cornice of the building over Lester Smiths market caught fire from fireworks on
 Tuesday evening. Dexter Bradley very quickly climbed up the side of the building to the cornice and extinguished the flames The festivities for the celebration of the
 national holiday commenced on the evening of the 3rd by the firing of crackers, blazing bonfires and the horn footing which was kept up by the small boys until daybreak, when the church bells were rung for an hour Through the day everything was very quiet, great many of the people going out of the place-some to Osprey Beach, some to Go. ! lumbia Grove, some on the excursion around Stratford lishtship, and some to Hartford tc ! witness the celebration In that city. Several small parties went down the river and pic nicked at South End. number of families l held gathering at Mir. John Bradleys sum l mer residence at the Cove and had one o1 ! their famous family dinners A social time ] followed. The occasion will long be remem
 bered. Friends from Troy, Albany, Spring ! field and other places were present.
 l Some four or five couples went to Stony Greek on the Fourth and took dinner al Frinks. The main streets pretty lively all day with teams going to and fro. All the public conveyances were decorated more ol less with flags. At sunset the church. bells l were rung. Again in the evening the streets around the centre were ivelier than usua with the parties returning from the seashore The firing of frecrackers, Roman candles
 rockets, chasers, etc., kept everybody on the
 lookout. At quiet reigned and at clever 1 o'clock one or two fisticuff jubilees occurred ! Quite number of our families are camp l ing at Short Beach. Among them are War ren Crawford and family William King ant ! family, Zebulon Rowe and family. They ! cordially welcome all friends who call or 1 them at their summer residences.
 ! The arrest of the fighters, Corcoran ani Cummings, on the wharf in the rear of the postoffce on Tuesday noon drew a crowd o1 over two hundred together in short time. ! The clerk in Hunters drug store unfor ! tunately overturned a bottle of nitric aciG yesterday ab ut one o'clock burning most o1 l his clothing off from him, but luckily only l burning his hands and face little.
 Frank Bradley, son of s. D. Bradley, the grain merchant, was badly burned about the face and hands on Tuesday night by the ex- plosion of fireworks he was setting off. MT. Jared Wedmore and family spent ! Fourth of July in Glastonbury, and was pres | ent at the family gathering of the Haydsns