Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-09
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

There were no patients at the hospital yesterday.
 - It was pay day in the police and fire de- partments yesterday.
 The library of the Young Mems Institute was reopened yesterday.
 Steamer S's concrete walk in front of the engine house has been replaced by Belgian pavement.
 The many friends of MT. and Mvs. Fred erick l.. Converse will regret to learn of the serious illness of Mrs. Converse with ma Iarial fever.
 The propeller Daisy Smith took private excursion party from New Haven to Bridge port yesterday afternoon. They were to re- turn last night.
 During the month of September the Rev. c. H. Buck, Of the First M. E. church, will preach in the morning at 1o:3O and in the evening at 7:3O.
 Mrs. Helen Rennings, who sold her prop erty in Bridgeport and left for Germany some time ago, died on the steamer the day before it landed at Bremen.
 The Twenty third Connecticut Volunteers will hold their annual reunion at Seaside Park, Bridgeport next Tuesday, and will have dinner at the Sea View Hotel.
 A man moving beside the railroad track between New Haven and stratford Monday found one of the checks stolen from Mrs. Hall at the depot in Bridgeport 8 few even ings before.
 Chief Carrier, of the Norwich fire depart Raent, was in town yesterday. He received attentions from Acting Chief Kennedy and Assistant Engineer Disbrow. He starts for Cincinnati to-day.
 MT. George Fields, former well known resident of Milford, who has been living in Yonkers for several years past, died last Sat- urday, and the remains were brought to Mil ford last Wednesday for intsrment.
 A singular freak of cat nature has just come to light in the northern part of Bridge port. It is a kitten born without front legs, but has two fin like propellers behind. It stands like 8 kangaroo and hops like a toad
 The employes of the brass room at Eaton, Cole $ Burnham's factory, Bridgeport, have contributed $sO for present to John Schwemin shopmate, who fell through ar elevator recently and received severe in juries.
 A gentleman called at BlackmAns drug store on Grand street yesterday and asked tc have a twenty dollar note changed. Mir 5Blacknnan changed the note and afterward found that the note the stranger had left was 8 fifty dollar nose instead of a twenty.
 The board of railroad commissioners had g hearing at Wallingford Thursday on the ap plication of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road for increased track facilities al their depot there. The company intend add ing to their freight tracks, so as to accom- nodate their business better.
 Those who have in charge the procuring of funds for poor children's excursion next summer are considering the feasibility of "a foliage excursion" to High Rock Grove when the leaves are handsomest. It is believed that with the attractions of the woods, fine be success.
 Hon. Gideon H. Hollistsr, of Litchfeld, whose death occurred year and half ago, left the manuscript of novel illustrating society in some of it's special features as il existed in Connecticut 100 years ago, and the work has just been published under the title of "Kinley Hollow" MT. Hollister was best known in literature as the author of g careful and elaborate history of Connecticut and of a poetical drama on the subject o, Thomas Becket.
 At Hamilton Park yesterday afternoon in the race between William Siebert's b. g. Brinie. the Westville horse, which was at. tached to a road wagon, and A. Hopkins Snowdrift, of Derby, for $125 per side, the latter in sulky. Brinie won two straight heats in 2:464 and 2:55. In the third heat, however, Snowdrift distanced Brinie, but distancins by agreement WAS not counted. -Brinie, however, did not appear for tue fourth heat and the old white horse trotted two more heats alone, doing the fourth heat in PAP and the fifth in 4:159. Considerable fo6