Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-18
Fair Haven Items.


 Beautiful weather and crowded horse cars yesterday and plenty Of country people in town. Almost everybody here went to see the circus parade.
 H. A. Stevens has fine pair of bay horses, good drivers and pretty stylish. Fourteen hours and thirty five minutes to- I day between sunrise and setting of the sun. Spcrtsmen fishing at the lake report plen | ty of bullheads, but of other fish not many are caught. Mrs. Rodney Bradley returned last even- ing from Harbor Island, West Indies, where she has been visiting with her people for sev- eral months past.
 The boatmen are all busy either transplant ing oysters, selling seed or getting their boats and tools ready for the summer season. Miss Minnie Bradley is tarrying for 8 few weeks in the Monumental city among her friends.
 The oyster seed trade continues very brisk, plenty of buyers aud good stock sells at good prices.
 The Fair Haveners that have been visiting in Baltimore for some weeks past reached home again yesterday.
 The Republican caucus to nominate ward officers is called at the engine house on Mon day evening next.
 special meeting of Engine Company No 1 will be held at their house this evening at o'clock.
 The brass gun for the east side is named the 'sMischief'' The piece was tried on Wednesday night and gave perfect satisfac- ton.
 The oyster dredge steamer Emily Mans -TI from Graves shipyard last week, was duly inspected by the government officials on Tuesday and on Wednesday the boat made the trial trip, going down the harbor out in theSound to the oyster grounds of the owners F. Mansfield & Sons. The trip was very sat isfactorv to the owners and those on board. The machinery worked to a charm and the craft went through the water at faster speed than would be expected on the first working of new boat.
 Improvements on North Quinnipiac street continue, but they progress so slowly that the residents get vexed at the snail like pace at which the work goes on. Some of the thing until they are forced to do so by the town officials.
 WEDDING AT GRACE CHURCH.
 At Grace church, Blatchley avenue yester- day afternoon at half past three o'clock, there was pleasant gathering of friends and rela- tives to witness the marriage ceremonies be- tween Miss Rebecca F. Knerringer and MT. Arthur D. Perkins. The silken knot was tied by the rector of the church, the Rev. Mir. Sanford. After the marriage a short reception was held at the resi- dence of the bride's parents, MT. and Mrs. NJ Knerringer, No. PIP East Chapel street. The bridal presents were very beautiful.
  goodly sum in each purse. Among the relatives and friends from New York city were Mrs. Rev. Rebecca Cox, aunt to the bride, and family, and Mrs. Thomas Macklin and family. The bridal couple left in the afternoon for wedding tour, visiting Montreal, Quebec and other places of note on tho trip going and coming. MT. and Mrs. Perkins will make New Haven their residence, and their legion of friends extend to them their best wishes for their future prosperity and happiness. MT. Perkins is prominent ex-veterRn Gray and formerly contributed much to the life of the dramatic association. He is engaged in business on FAIR HAVEN MANS EXPERIENCE WITH THE
 CYCLONE.
 MT. Charles H. Mansfield, the architect, and member of the firm of Lancraft & Mansfield builders, Fair Haven, until his re- moval to Kansas City, where he now re- sides, writes to his friends here and tells of the fearful cyclone which passed through that section. He writes I've have lived through the first cyclone and all of us un- harmed. The roof of our residence was strip ped clean from the house and the front wall torn of down to the chamber windows. The wrecks, right alongside of us, are terri hle. A new church few rods away lies in ruins. Dwellings are leveled to the ground. The damage is awful and beyond imagins- tion. Heaven knows how many lives are lost or how many hundreds of thousands of dol lars worth of property is destroyed. Had our house stood thirty feet farther it would probably have been leveled to the earth"