Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-08-04
LOCAL NEWS.


Prof. B. Jepson, who is in Europe, is slow
ly regaimng his health.
Tbs<meteoric display is due from the 9th
to<fhe 18th of this month.
By Saturday it is expected the Quinnipiac
drawbridge will be open for travel.
Policeman G. B. Dean, of Waterbury, is
dangerously i'll with typhoid fever.
Mrs. John s. Grifing and daughter sail for
Europe next Tuesday on the steamer Alaska,
to be absent year.
A beautiful lunar rainbow was visible at
about IL O'Clock last night, spanning good
portion of the armament
The Board of Finance met in the Mayors
sffice yesterday afternoon at O'Clock and
approved bills for the month of July.
Judge Eggleston, of the Hartford police
court, and wife left Wednesday for seversa
weeks stay at Lake Winnepesaukee, N. H.
The quartermaster general has forwarded
checks to the amount of ,o3O to parties in
the village of Mantle for land taken for State
purposes.
The annual conclave of the Harugari So
cieties will meet in Bridgeport to-day. The
general business of the session, which in
cludes the election of officers, will be trans
acted.
The annual State convention of the Gath
Ole T. A. B. societies of Connecticut will be
held in this city on the second Tuesday in
September in the hall of the St. Aloysius T.
A. B. society.
The Adelphi Literary association have re-
moved to their new quarters in the Hoadley
building, where they occupy two rooms hand
somely fitted and furnished. The club num-
bsrs about thirty young business men.
The brig Daylight arrived at Long Wharf
from Mayaguez Porto Rico Island, Wednes-
day evening, with full cargo of sugar, which
constituted her only freight. She made the
voyage in eleven days, which is regarded az
an extremely rapid voyage.
During the past six years the steel wheels
on locomotive No. 80 on the Consolidated
road have 1S5,62O miles. They were
made by Krupp, the famous cannon maker,
and cost 300 apiece, while the average
chilled wheel costs $14, and runs but $4,000
miles.
The third week in this month will be camp
meeting week in Connecticut The meetings
4Yinimantic, PIainville and Pine Grove
begin on Monday, the 21st. The great camp
meeting at the vineyard commences Oh i ueS-
day, the 22d, continuing till the following
Tuesday,
Mutual Hook & Ladder Co. No. l., of Wa
terbury, have engaged the American band, of
this city, to play for them in the fremen's
parade in that city. The Weed band and
Colts of Hartford and the Wheeler & Viii
son are also engaged by other companies for
the occasion.
Two new mogul locomotives were received
Wednesday by the New London Northern
railroad. They are six wheel engines, eight
cen inch cylinder and twenty-four inch stroke
of piston. They were built by the Rhode
Island Locomotive works at Providence and
are named the Yantic and Palmer.
The huckleberries in market in this city
sell for only 20 cents quart They will be
cheaper, though the drouth has tackled then
somewhat. Norwich is full of huckleberriet
brought in this week by the good danes OF
the surrounding regions, where sales of the
fruit furnish them with pin money ano
snuff and calico money for the year to come
and life becomes again worth living.