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


 Samuel Beach is erecting new pavilion at Indian Neck, Branford.
 Owing to the want of quorum the Board of Health did not have Q meeting last even ing.
 Tyitchell IE Beers will open their Massa- soft House, near West Haven shore, for busl- ness June 1.
 Justice Me!caif will try the of the al IeQed cornstaIk burners, AlliDgtown, in West Haven tomorrow.
 The Third Congregational Church Ecclesi- astical society held it's annual meeting Mon day evening and reelected the committees. The third social of the New Haven Grays takes place on Friday evening" April 13. There will doubtless be large attendance.
 Elias Pierpont, Dr. Fuller and Minott B. Osborn and wife left here yesterday on the 3:35 train for Wilmington, North Carolina. Mir. J. C.. Stockwell, for the past nineteen years principal of the Arsenal district school, Hartford has gone into the hardware busi- ness in that city.
 Langtry appears in only two places in the State, New Haven and Meriden. Hartford gets the go-by owing to some failure to make satisfactory arrangements.
 miniature steamer cut out by scroll saw is on exhibition in w. B. Fenn & Go. E window on Chapel street. In the place of a paddle is the face of a clock.
 chapel is being built at the Four Cor ners, annex, for the use of the Sunday schoo which has met in the hall over the schoc house, and it will cost over LOGO.
 MT. Daniel s. Dewey, of Hartford, vii sail for Europe on Thursday in the steamer Britannia. He will be accompanied by hi daughter-in-lav and will be absent about two months.
 This (Wednesdsy) evening in tue hall O the Young Mems Christian association at o'clock Prof. w. G. Sumner will give tall on Banks and Banking" this being th' second one of the course.
 T annual sale of garments made by th' Employment bureau of the United Worker will take place in the society's room in tht old State House Tuesday and Wednesday April and 4, from 1O:3O a. m. to p. m.
 The eighteenth select literary and socia entertainment of Excelsior Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will be given at tho Atheneum on Friday evening of this week Literary entertainment at g.; social enter tainment at 10.
 Rev. Howard $. Clapp, of Trinity church at Wethersfield, has resigned to accept the pastorate of the Episcopal church at Nor walk. The resignation will take effect May l. MT Clnpp has been settled at Wethersfeld for eight years.
 Sharon T. Beach's team ran away from the depot in Seymour Monday and dashed into another team, the pole of the wagon pene tratiug the breast of one of MT. Besch's horses with fatal results. The animal was valued at $200.
 Attention is called to the advertisement o1 MT. J. II. Mcdonald, the gardener. MT. Mcdonald is the one who had the contract for grading the Yale athletic grounds out on Derby avenue last summer, and is very skill full in his business.
 Richards New Method for the Pianoforte is received from Saalield's music store, 12 Bible House, N. Y, and 16 Jackson street, Chicago It is claimed that by it's use piano playing can be acquired without teacher. It contains many popular airs.
 The types stated yesterday that rooms were for rent at I3 Trumbull street It aas an error, another house on the same street (No 53) being the place advertised. At No. 13 there were about forty calls yesterday from parties answering the advertisement.
 Rev. Edward Goodridge. of St. Johns church, Warehouse Point, left yesterday for New York; to sail to day for Switzerland. He is called to become the rector of the American Episcopal church at Geneva, po- sition which he expects to fill for at least one year.
 Yesterdays Hartford Times says: The gigantic figure of Mir Fred. Douglass, in Q short cloak and high-erowned slouch hat, was seen on the streets to day. His mass of bushy hair is now white and so is his nous tache. MT. Douglass is the guest Of Mir. T. P. Saunders
 The Howard avenue bridge, corner of Kimberly avenue, is being repaired. In con sequence many teams on the way to West Haven have been obliged to turn back. By going through Washington street they can strike out on the main road and thus reach West Haven.