Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-17
Fair Raven.

Mrs. BroadweIl, an elderly lady living on South Front street, fell on the ice on Sunday while coming home from the Methodist
 Mrs. Mansfield, residing on North Front street, also fell on the ice on Monday near her home, badly bruising her whole body so that she will be laid up for some time.
 Fred. Potter. in the employ of J. Bishop $ Co.,, oyster dealers, fell on the ice as he came out the door of the packing house yes- terday, striking on his back and hurting him pretty badly.
 paper was in circulation yesterday after places of business in the evening so that all can attend the meetings that are being held nightly.
 The ice on the big pond that was cut yes terday measured about fourteen inches in thickness. Harvey Hemingway is manager of the affairs at the pond, keeping business very lively. Besides filling the large houses at the pond he has nearly fifty teams em- ployed in carting ice away to the city, help ing to fill the large packing houses of differ ent firms. Some of the teams are at the pond as early as five o'clock in the morning so as to get the first load and a good start for the day.
 The tugboats Williams and Boyd on Monday broke up passage through the ice in the river from Tomlinson's bridge up above the Quinnipiac drawbridge so that the oyster vessels could come up to the dock to unload their cargoes.
 TLo .oI,1o.o- HU;11;a,,o AFoAka.eo,, master, sailed yesterday for Virginia waters after a cargo of bivalves for this market.
 MT. George Hill " ho was clerk in the Phoe- nix House in it's most prosperous day, and had many friends here and acquaintances at that time, is now head bookkeeper in the of fee of the Adams Express office at Hartford
 Quite number of sleighs are out on the streets each day, but everybody says it is poor sleighing, and after trying it once they want no more of it until we get more snow
 Three weeks from to-day is the first day of Lent, known as Ash Wednesday.
 One week from tonight, annual dance of Polar Star Lodge. Don't forget it.
 Spearing for cells in the holes cut through the ice on the river above the Lewis bridge is indulged in through the cold snap, but as yet the wigglers are not caught to any great ex- tent.
 The new road called for on Fair Haven heights was laid out some years ago by the selectmen of the old town of East Haven.
 An adjourned meeting of Quinnipiac En- zine company will be held to morrow night Every member is requested to be present.
 Miss Meta Futile is spending few weeks at Deep River, visiting with Mir. and Mrs. Richard Hayden's people.
 MT. E. A. Street, of New York city, visited on Monday with Mir. and Mrs. E. M Jerome on Ferry street.
 Mir. Charles Higgins, formerly in company with Lucius Rowe in the dry goods trade, now located in the city of Hartford, made a short visit here yesterday. MT. Edward W. Easter has been confined to the house for a short time with severe cold. Yesterday afternoon he was much better and able to get out of doors once more.
 Quite 8 number of our people talk very strongly of going to Florida and engaging in raising oranges. The glowing and brilliant accounts of the climate and the success made in the growing of the orange groves is re- ceived with much favor by those who gre so enthusiastic on this fruit growing in the South.