Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-17
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.


 On Saturday the employees at the Tariff vile silk mills will have an excursion to Lake Congamond.
 To-day the employees of the Greenwood company's mills at New Hartford will have an excursion to Lakeville.
 Conductor Farnham of the West Haven horse railroad was not as well yesterday and his recovery is still matter of doubt.
 MT. Horace Warner, one of Wetherstield's leading citizens, died yesterday morning, Several of his sons are in business in Hart ford. The concluding arguments in the Hartford and Harlem railroad hearing will be made this afternoon at o'clock in the Superior court room. The steamer Elm City takes Harmony division, Sons ot Temperance, and friends to the number of about 700 on a moonlight ex- cursion this eFering.
 A little over year ago tke lots in the Spiritualist camp ground at Niantic went off slowly at $40 each but now they readily command from $9O to e1OO.
 The almshouse yesterday had the largest number of inmates it ever contained at this season of the year, viz 229, of whom 35 are children, 95 wom9n and 90 men
 Rev. James NJ Hoppin has made present of thirty 1.-two volumes of Littell's Living Age to the Litchfeld Circulating library, including the years from 1850 to 1857 inclusive.
 The Howard avenue church and Sunday school have their annual picnic at High Rock Grove on Monday, August 27th. They go on the following day if the 27th is stormy.
 Connecticut insurance companies get of with light losses by the $15O, 900 fire at Devon Inn, Pa. The Hartford loses $5, 900 and the Connecticut National and Phoenix $2, 800 each.
 Free return passes over the Naugatuck railroad will be furnished veterans of the Eighth c. V. who attend the fourteenth sn- nual reunion of the regiment at Waterbury September 14th.
 MT. Carpenter, of Hartford brakeman on the evening freight train of the Consoli- dated road, was struck by bridge at Nor walk Wednesday evening and badly injured. He was taken to his home.
 Mir. w. w. Roberts, proprietor of the Op- era House at Hartford, received severe bruises by being thrown from his carriage yesterday, owing to his horse shying at 8 bicycle and upsettfng the vehicle.
 The picnic of Company E, Veteran associa. tion, Bridgeport, drew a large crowd to Penn broke Grove in that town on Wednesday afternoon and evening At night the grove was illuminated with Chinese lanterns.
 The twenty first anniversary of the organ iza'ion of the Sixteenth Connecticut regi ment will occur on Friday, August 24th, the event iug observed by the surviving mem- bers of the command by an excursion and dinper at Osprey Beach.
 Two burglars named Hauer who were held for trial in the Holland county jail broke out Wednesday afternoon with another prisoner They were recGptured in about an hour by Frank Ubler, a New York visitor. He GOV cred them with revolver and compelled them to march back to the jail.
 Henry Boucher, ten years old, living on Railroal avenue, was locked up in the Grand street police station yesterday charged with stealing barrel full of bran from g freight car that stood near the Railroad avenue crossing. The bran belonged to S. D. Brad ley s Co No. 12 East Grand street.