Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-25
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention

Brief Mention.
 Counterfeit ten cent pieces are in circula tion.
 The Schawaben Verein have @ jollifcatiol at Germania Hall on the evening of Octobe 22d
 The Meriden Republican publishes fou page supplement containing its accounts o the State fair.
 There were twenty-one deaths in New Hs ven last week. ssFive were of children unde five years of age.
 There will be a months mind this morn ing at St. Johns R. c. church for the lat MT. James Kelley.
 All of the military traps and stores, tents etc., left at Camp Waller, Mantle, have been removed to the arsenal
 To-day and to morrow the Grand lodge o1 Good Templars of Connecticut will hold it's annual service at Loomis' Temple of Music.
 A meeting was held in Bridgewort at the Board of Trade rooms last evening to further the introduction of the electric light in that city
 Joseph H. Porter, of East Hartford, (Hoc- canum) stepfather of Postmaster Edward, Portland, died Sunday after painful illness of dropsy.
 The monthly meeting of the managers of the New Haven orphan asylum will be held at the asylum on Thursday morning next at 9:45 o'clock.
 On Thursday and Friday of next week the Housatonic railroad will run excursion trains from Bridgeport to Danbury on account oi the Danbury fair.
 chimney on fire at No. 3 Factory street yesterday afternoon about half-past three at. tracted large crowd in spite of the rain. No alarm was sounded.
 Samples of canned meat will be brought to some of the Yale experts to determine what it was that poisoned the Wethersfeld convicts last week.
 Bridgeport is making ready to bountifully feed the visiting firemen who are to take part in the grand fremen's celebration in that city October Il.
 The engrossed copies of the resolutions lately passed on the death of Robert Hawk ins and Leicester Sargent have been neatly framed and placed in the club rooms of the Yacht club.
 Rev. Dr. Tatlock, preached last evening in Trinity church, Bridgeport, discourse on ''The early days of the Episcopal church in Connecticut" before the Fairfield county Clerical association.
 It is expected that about a dozen appli- cants for admission to the signal service corps will be examined at the Signal office to-day. The final examination will be in Washington before the Chief Signal office.
 Ground for the new morgue to be erected in the rear of the Grand street police sta- tion will be broken early in October. The cost of the building will not exceed $1, 200. The interior work has not yet been decided upon.
 Citizens on Ward and Vernon streets com plain that the lights on these streets were not lighted last evening and that similar omissions have been made on other evenings lately. Last night being dark and rainy ag- Rravated the case.
 About POO operators from the local and New Haven, Hartford and Middletown of- fees, gave Superintendent E. B.. Baker 8 surprise visit at his home on Hobart street, Meriden, the other evening, it being the sev- enth anniversary of his marriage.
 The funeral of Thomas H. Clyne was large ly attended yesterday forenoon from St. Francischurch, Fair Haven. The bearers were Peter Clyne, James Clyne, Thomas Ma her, Peter Weber, Thomas Bohan and Thom- as Driscoll There was a number of hand some floral tributes.
 Ex-Governor Stamford's stable of young trotters is at Charter Oak Park and Marvin, their trainer, is getting them in condition for the Breeders meeting on October 2, 8 and f. He expects that several Allies vii, beat the best records of 2:19 forfour.year olds and 2:21 for three-year-olds.
 The Woodbridge and Bethany Agricultural society's twenty-fifth annual exhibition takes place at Woodbridge on the society's grounds on Wednesday and Thursday, October Sd and 4th. The society expects the fair will be one of unusual interest, as this is the "siIver wedding" the society's twenty fifth year of existence.
 The late NIT. George R. Hand, who died in Brooklyn few days ago, leaves 8 wife, the daughter of Captain Darling, of Port Jefferson, l.. l., and widowed mother and a sister, Mrs. Close, of Crawford, N. J. He was for twenty years bookkeeper for the house of NJ. c. Hawley & ECo., of New York and of Francisco, and much respected gen. tlemap.