Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-10
L1I,AE. NEVIS.
Brief Mention.


 Attention is called to advertisement of lost opera glasses,
 Work at the Naugatuck Rubber shop vii be resumed to-day. .z....
 The fire marshH' IS busy at the work of re- licensing dep-ers in kerosene oil.
 Mr. S. X Hubbard, business manager of the Cou ant sails soon for trip to Flu rope.
 A small barn in Stratford belonging to kaS. Judson was nearly destroyed by fire yes terday.
 The Peck, Stowe & Wilcox Rolling mill in Birmingham has shut down for a week, owing to slack times
 The Foot Guard, the Sarsfield Guard and Company A., Fifth battalion, have voted to parade on Memorial day.
 The Governors Foot Guard of Hartford acted as escort to the Hartford City Guard on their return home last night.
 The annual meeting of the New York and Boston Air Line Railroad company takes place in Middletown on Tuesday, June 5th.
 General Leonard R. Wells, an old and well known resident of Wethersfeld, died at Nal den-on-Hudson, May 9th, in his sOth year.
 Principal L, L. Camp of Dwight schoe was yesterday considered somewhat improv- ed, and his condition favorable to his recov- ery.s
 The Birmingham M. E. church, and the Seymour M. E. church Sabbath schools, will unite in a picnic at High Rock Grove on the 27th of June.
 The Grays had their spring target practice at the new target yesterday. Excellent scores were made. They returned on the 12 o'clock car from Cedar Hill.
 Mir. Morris Ketchum, a highly esteemed young man of Westport, died Saturday morn ing in New York. He was erecting pala- tial residence at Saugatuck.
 Three new cars are being made for the New Haven and Westville horse railroad A cargo of nearly 200 tons of steel rails for the road will arrive next month.
 T. B. DeForest x Sons, of the Shelton Brass and Iron foundry, Shelton, are about to build machine shop on the lot south of their present location, 130x25 feet.
 Mrs. Smith Abbott, of Birmingham, had cancerous tumor removed from her breast on Thursday by Dr. Bacon of New Haven, as- sisted by Drs. Pinney and Nettleton.
 Rev. G. F. Pentecost was installed pas tor of Brooklyn church Tuesday. He is now a Congregationalist He breaches for Dr. Gage, of Hartford, during August.
 The remains of the late Colonel Josiah N. Bacon, of this city, were removed on Mon- day last from New Haven to the Birmingham cemetery, w'ere they were reinterred in the family lot.
 A son of Daniel Mahoney, living on Broad street, Hartford, was run over by car on the New York and New England road, near Broad street, Tuesday. Ths leg was amputated.
 The St. Joseph's T. A. B. association have adopted and handsomely en crossed resolu tions thanking BartIey Campbell for allow ing them to present the play 'My Geral- dine'' last winter.
 Etheridge, of this city, made the passage from Boston to Georget own, D. C., in four days. She sailed from Georgetown for Poris- mouth, Va, yesterday.
 The West Hartford burglary and outrage are being further investigated, but with no satisfactory developments The authorities believe that the recent burglaries there were all the work of one party.
 The picnic season tsHigh Rock Grove will bs formally opened by the pupils of Hillside Seminary, of Bridgeport, on the sth of June, but the grove will be sthrown open to the public on the. first of the coming month.
 Yesterday afternoo auctioneer B. c. Lake sold at auction ian .eighty-feet front lot on Perkins street to Morris O'Connor, an ad- joining land owner, for $I1.5O foot. Next Tuesday he sells unencumbered real estate on Franklin street, east side, north of Grand street.
 The ordination exercises at the Berkelev Divinity school in Middletown, at which the new assistant at St. Andrews will be ordained. will take place May 2Oth, Bishop Huntington of central New York preaching the sermon The alumni sermon will be given the even. ing before by Rev. E. s. Lines of New Haven