Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-29
LOCAL NEVIS.
Brief Mention,


 The Water company resumes next week the laying of mains on Grand street.
 The signal service officers have placed a rain gauge on the Green south of the liberty pole.
 Mir. Joseph Irons, the young English evangelist will preach at English Hall to. morrow evening on ''Lot's Lingering"
 A small sum of money was found at the depot yesterday, and it may be obtained of the ticket agent or Police Officer Kennedy.
 On Tuesday, October 2d, the auctioneer, @ William street It is a house of eleven rooms.
 The schooner Tower, of New York, ran on Nigger Head near Brsnford yesterday morn- ing about ? o'clock Efforts were made last night to get her of
 A farewell sociable will be held at Twitch- elrs Massassoit garden, Savin Rock, Tuesday evening, October 2d. There will be music, dancing and supper.
 Washington camp No. 1, P. s. of A., voted last evening to attend in body the open meeting of Washington camp No. 8, Fair Haven, next Friday evening, October 5th.
 Landlord Freeman, of the Beach House, Savin Rock, is looking for more help as he discharged a number of them, thinking the season had closed, but visitors keep com ing.
 The views of the public executive commit tee of the Young Mems Institute are being prepared for publication and general circula- tion under the direction of MT. T. Atwater Barnes.
 The Goodyear Rubber company are en- larging their engine house on Daggett street to make room for another large boiler. The increase in the company's business necessi- tRtes the change. -s.e...
 B. Rogowski, the milliner, contemplates erecting in some central location some flats on the New York plan. They will have the latest improvements and will be arranged with six rooms upon each floor.
 The First Presbyterian church of Bridge port will celebrate it's thirtieth anniversary Sunday, October 2Sth. A historical sermon by Rev. II. G. Hinsdale, the former pastor, will bs provided in the forenoon.
 The "Guardian," the weekly church paper founded by the late Rev. Dr. N. s. Richard son, of Bridgeport, has been consolidated with ''The Churchman," 7" published by M. H. Mallory & Co, of New York, and will be discontinued as a separate issue.
 On Monday, October 1st, several changes will be made in the trains on the Consolida- ted road. The White Mountain express will be discontinued and the Montreal express will take its place. leaving New Haven at SOS P. m arriving in New York at 1920.
 The College street church people go on a foliage excursion to-day te High Rock Grove. The train leaves at 9:45 a. m. and returning leaves the Grove at 4:30 p. m. The ride through the Naugatuck Valley is one of the pIeasantest trips imaginable at this season. The subject of widening the channel of West river to accommodate Henry o. Rowe and other oyster growers having lots at the river mouth will come before the committee on commercial and manufacturing interests Monday evening, previous to tho meeting of the Aldermen, to which body their report will bs made later on the same evening
 Temperance.
 In re'panse to an invitation from Rev. l.. Fl. Halock, pastor of the Second Congrega- tional church in West Winsted, Capt. Wm. G. Dickinson, of this city, will deliver an address on temperance with special reference to the vote on '1icense" or mo hcense' to- | morrow (Sunday) evening at Music Hall in Winsted. The meeting is under the auspices of the Winsted Temperance Union.
 Diamonds in the Fire.
 4 Hartford lady recently missed some dia- monds worth $4O0. Their loss could not be accounted for until yesterday morning when the cook discovered them in the kitchen stove. They bad been there in the ashes snna tinna nrnhahlR- Ona WAS sli htlu ]