Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-02
LOCAL NEWS.
RrfRf Mention


 The Board of Aldermen meets this even ing.
 The Tax committee meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 James Redpath lectures at Carlls Opera House April 9.
 The Memorial day committee meet at G. A. R. Hall tonight.
 A cat owned by family on Grove street died recently at the age of IS years.
 Rockville is to have new lodge of Odd Fellows. It will be instituted this week. McAIister & Warren remove to the former office of the Adams Express company on Orange street in a few weeks.
 The fire at about o'clock Saturday even- ing was in small hoisting engine house on Canal wharf. Damage very slight.
 Engineer Close takes the 6:3O m- train to New York because his position as train dispatcher has been dispensed with.
 Frisbie & Go. have broken ground for their new iron foundry and machine shop, corner of Ashmun and Gregory streets. The steamer City of Springfield arrived at Hartford from New York Saturday, the first passenger boat of the season up the river The bridge on Chapel street over Mill river will be closed to public travel April 2d, Sd and 4th in order to make necessary re- pairs.
 The work of fitting up the new lodge rooms in the Glebe building is in progress. The addition for a banquet room is already made.
 Miss Emma Hendricks and the Fifth Ave UI-ao oE DooE'G Gron1 Opera House next Saturday afternoon and evening.
 A considerable addition of new members was made yesterday at the Trinity M. E. church, a part of the fruits of the recent re- vival at that church. . The repairs of a bad spot in the State street railroad bridge opposite the Folding Chair shop will interest members of the Board of Public Works.
 Mr. Ray, the superintendent of the water ing cart business, is again on duty, the dry weather calling the carts out of winter quar- ters into requisition again.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies Seamen's Friend society will be held in the North church chapel this afternoon at three o'clock. All the managers are requested to be present.
 There were thirty-six deaths reported to Registrar Doherty last week. Of these thir- ty.four were white and two colored. Nine were of white children under five years, and one of a colored child.
 The new fire engine joint stock corpora ton in this city, in which Charles Kimberly, Chief Hendrick and other leading citizens are interested, is for the sale of the engines which will be made in Iion, N. Y,
 On Saturday Senator Plunkett, as one of the trustees of the lodge of Knights of Honor to which the late City Engineer Fow- Ter belonged, paid the widow $2,OoO. Last week he paid the same amount from the same order to a daughter of the late Merritt Bun nell
 A post-mortem examination made in the case of Henry BattersoN, of Hartford shows that his skull was terribly fractured and the brain lacerated. Notwithstanding he walked some distance after the accident and retained his consciousness till two hours before his death.
 Saturday morning the county commission CTS heard Officers Rice and Bixby testify con-
  liquor law by George Hellinger, corner of Congress avenue and Commerce street. The case went over, after the officers were heard, until Monday, April 9.
 Miss Manning, domestic for Mrs Buck, residing in Whittelsey's building, got wedged in between that aud the next building Satur- day in endeavoring to reach some finger rings that had been ennptied from wash bowl, and police officers let down ladder, by means of which she was rescued in 8 faint ing condition.
 Very HI.
 Mir. Mooney of F. M. Brown & Co.'S dry goods establishment, who was taken down with a severe cold which worked into pneu monia, was worse yesterday. Last evening he was no better and his case had assumed a quite critical character.
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