Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-14
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention

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 Maurice Marks, the boy who ran away from HoIyoke and was caught here, was tak7 en home by his father yesterday.
 The latest improvement in ventilating closets and drain pipes is being applied to the Common Pleas court premises.
 The Meriden Agricultural society has voted $125 of the $2, ,S25.s3 which they have on hand to improve their park. W. J. Ives is president.
 Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock Professor Ladd delivered at Marquand chapel the first of course of six lectures on ''The inspira- tion of the scriptures"
 The litigation between H. c. Rowe and the Smith Brothers concerning the proprietor ship of oyster lots occupied the time yester- day in the Court of Commo Pleas.
 There will bs a social entertainment at Grand Army Hall Thursday evening, given by Harmony division, Sons of Temperance, for the benefit of the Good Samaritan so ciety.
 Business is very dull at the office of the tax collector. MT. Futile jestiugly remarked yesterday that there were 80 few people call ng to pay taxes that perhaps it would pay to shut up shop.
 sawmill belonging to Daniel c. Wood, situated in that part of Stratford known as Long Brook, was totally destroyed by fire about II o'clock Monday night. It is sup posed that it ignited from the fire under the boiler. Loss $2,O ,OOO, uninsured.
 The Mayor has been into the county build ing looking around, and in his endeavor to find a way to make more room in the City Hall for city uses undertook to learn wheth- CT the projected enlargement of the county building would not be such as to favor the removal thither of the Probate court.
 Liquor licenses were granted yesterday to William O'Keefe, 210 Grand street. Philip Gesswein, 50 Kimberly; James Kane, 97 Adeline Jacob Rosinus % George c. H. Redfeld, 1OS Church. Leverett c. Lindsley, S2 Grown; John Will jams. 81 Jacksen i; George H. Corbin, 30 East Grand (druggist); Henry E. Bishop, 892 State (druggist) L. J. Coffee 237 Wallace.
 At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Register Publishing company the fol- lowing directors were chosen William Par sons M. F. Osborn, Samuel A. York, G. E. Osborn, c. H. Ste!son, N. G. Osborn, George W. Osborn. At the meeting of the directors William Parsons was reelected president and G. E Osborn secretary and treasurer of the company for the ensuing year.
 There some cases of scarlet fever in town, but not of malignant character, as Dr. Lindsley thinks. In 1877 the number of deaths from it was seventy-two, in. 1878 thirty-two, in 1879 three and the same num- Ell S,1 were only nine fatal cases, and in 1882 this number was increased two. There are a good many cases of measles and whooping cough.
 A city engineer, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Engineer Charles E. Fowler, will probably be chosen by the, Board of Public Works at their next meeting, the last Wednesday of the month. Eugene c. Hill, the gentleman who has been for long time assistant engineer, and Sylvanus Butler are candidates for the position, and it is likely that there will be others from outside of New Haven.
 Jerome F. Manning, esq, of this city, who has for a few years been more or less en- gagged in work on the Alabama claims, has filed in the office at Washington about seven hundred cases, representing three millions of dollars and over. Mir. Manning has had offices in Boston, New York and Washington, and his clients are scattered all over this country and across the water. He has been an unceasing toiler in be half of his numer. ous clients, and his knowle ledge of the intrica ciss of the claims is such that on all technical points he is quoted authority Loscegl (Ndss.) Duly Citizen.