Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-14
StratfOrd.

Company K are thinking of picnic.
 Most of our farmers have finished having.
 Mrs. Job Peck and sister have been spend ing week at Coney Island.
 Mir Legrand Wells was taken suddenly sick last week and fears have been anxiously entertained of stroke of paralysis. He is triRA better to-day.
 A colored man named John Williams be- came paralyzed in some manner yesterday and fell of the lower dock.
 party of several roughs organized them selves Friday night into a Salvation Army and visited the residences of several of our citizens praying, singing and yelling until late hour.
 Mrs. Imogene Brown sang at the Episco- pal church yesterday morning Next Sun day she will sing at the Congregational church.
 Company K have voted to attend the exer- cises at the unveiling of tho Goodwin monu- ment in Bridgeport, August 20.
 Evening sailing parties are now enjoyed during this moon by our lads and lasses.
 Mr. John J. Park, who recently bought the Anson Ford farm in Milford, is rejoicing over an heir to the estate.
 The horse which was stolen from Mir. Charles B. Curtis Friday night was found on North avenue in Bridgeport Saturday morning, bitched to tree where 1t had been left. MT. Judson's carriage was also stolen from the same place.
 Yesterday afternoon the Salvation Army from Bridgeport arrived in town and held service in front of the Congregational church. In the evening they held fort at the colored Baptist church Have we got to have this nuisance too?
 MT. Charles Goulding found stray team on Main street early this morning and hitch ed 1t in front of his residence for safe keep ing It proved to belong to MT. Frank Rus- sell of Bridgeport, who had been visiting with friend in Bll mingham and the horse had broken loose and started off for home. Yesterday noon directly after morning ser vice in the Methodist church the question was brought up before the congregation of changing the afternoon service to holding of evening service. After very warm and somewhat heated debate in which Brother Baxter strenuously opposed such an action, claiming that two services were not sufficient, the question was lost by few votes. l By typographical error our item of yes- terday read that MT. William Fl. Curtis had received an order for five hundred tomb stones to go to Turkey. The order was for 1 five tombstones.
 | In the lower part of the town near Fresh pond can be found along the highways at this time of the year the beautiful "Althoea oficinalis, " or marsh m&1low, with it's bell shaped pink blossoms in great profusion. It is worth going to see.
 l Stratford this year has been entirely free from mosquitoes, while the charming oity of Bridgeport has been overrun with mosquitoes. in fact they have had fearful s'eyclone of mosquitoes, which has made great havoc in that city. They have all left Stratford and are centeripg in B.
 The Bridgeport Morning News says ''The veritable mosquito cyclone struck this city last evening and the energy which was | put forth to beat off the pests amounted to considerable" The Farmer says: "An 1 immense delegation of mosquitoes struck the 1 city last evening and put in their fine work with alacrity, causing Q very general agitation of the cuticle so to speak"
 Aug. 13. s'MosQUrTo."