Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-10
Fair Haven.

| Mir. George W. Baldwin, the shipbuilder, ! left yesterday evening for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, going by the way of Boston and St. Johns. New Brunswick He will be away six months and goes to purchase lumber for the New Haven Steam Sawmin company. Some of the best timber we have come here comes from the British Provinces. ] Mrs. Wells Bray, who has been sojourning among our people through the past few months, reached her home in Eufala Ala. safely and in due season, as her many friends will be pleased to learn.
 l Letters have been received from those l loading with oysters in Chesapeake bay for this market that the prices are high and good oysters very scarce.
 1 The meetings conducted by Rev. E. Pay son Hammond continue to be very interest l ing and well attended Bible service at the East Pearl street Methodist church every morning at 10 o'clock; children's service every afternoon at 4 o'clock and service every evening at 7 o'clock are held Mon day, Wednesday and Friday at the First church, and Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- day at the Second church.
 M. Coleman, the oyster dealer, is extend ing out the wharf of the property recently purchased of Dr. Smith as far as the harbor line. This work will, when completed, make this property quite valuable. Four of our sportsmen were out all one day last week hunting poor reynard. They sighted eight of the quadrupeds, but finally the foxes fooled them and they came home without their game.
 John Rurd carrier of the morning JOUR NAL AND COURIER in the Fair Haven district,
 sTa I4-E = gold collar button. It has the Odd Fellows insignia thereon. John prizes it very highly and deplores his loss greatly.
 The tickets for the fourth annual sociable of Polar Star Lodge, I. O. O. F., are out and are selling very rapidly. Central Hall is the place. Wednesday evening is the time, Jan. 24 is the date.
 There will be considerable opposition to the consolidation of town and city lines among the citizens in the Fourteenth ward. They are well enough satisfied as they are, and believe in the old maxim of sletting well enough alone"
 The 'sHemingways''-ow of the big pond on North Quinnipiac street-besides filling their large ice houses at the Iond, have several teams employed in carting the crystal blocks to this city, filling the ice houses of some of the packing houses, who use large quantities of this necessary article through the warm weather.
 
 ward out-voted two to one the Fifteenth ward, but at the present rate the way new buildings are going up and new families moving in, it will not be long before the latter ward will out-number the former ward both in population and voting.
 E. Mansfield s Sons, oyster dealers, have taken their sloop, the George W. Allen," to Graves ship yards where the boat will be overhauled and reftted as an oyster steam dredge boat, to be used by the firm in gath ering the bivalves from their oyster beds in the Sound.
 One of the horses used on the delivery wagons of Bradley Brothers, the market men, while standing in front of their store, started suddenly yesterday morning on run, going down South Front street very rapidly. Before the horse was stopped on his rampage the wagon was pretty well de- molished. Another vehicle was procured and the firm filled all their orders without any trouble.