Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-07
Fair Haven Items.

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 is from fifteen to eighteen inches thick.
 F. Howard Hemingway and James s. Hem
 ingway were sojourning yesterday in the
 great metropolis York city.
 Joseph Seymour, of Hartford, spent the
 day here yesterday among his friends. Mir.
 Seymour tells his friends that he has given
 up clerking and will at once enter into minis
 terial duties. At present he has no settled
 church to preside over. but will preach here in answer to engagements until he secures a
 suitable place.
 Silas Benham and George Benham have
 been visiting in Salem and Boston, Mass.
 On Monday little lad in crossing the road
 while sliding on sled down the bank at the Rodgers place on North Quinnipiac street
 was run over by passing team. The par
 ties stopped and were going to pick up the
 boy, thinking he was badly hurt, when the
 little one jumped up saying he was all right
 save the nose bleed.
 On Monday night stranger coming down
 the hill on East Grand street in 8 hurry to
 catch. the horse car fell into the cattle guard
 and hurt himself severely, but was able to
 proceed on his way.
 Deacon Albert Rowe was taken severely ill on Friday last with the sciatic rheumatism
 and has been confined to his bed ever since. His physician yesterday thought he was slow ly improving.
 Mrs. Ebenezer Allen, an elderly lady, aged 78 years, hvingSon Pierpent street, had a paralytic shock on Monday. At first it was thought the attack would prove fatal, but yesterday she was much better and able to talk little.
 Miss Mary Atwater, of Suffield, who visit- ed for short time lately with Mir. and Mrs. Giles Clark, on South Quinnipiac street, re- turned to her home yesterday. Mr. George Crockett, who has been indis- posed for the week past, is much improved and able to be out of doors once more in pleasant weather.
 Captain John Hervey is negotiating with New York parties for a charter for his
 schooner, the Orvetta, to go to the West In dies on fruiting trip.
 A schooner loaded with Virginia oysters for N. A. Luddington, the oyster dealer, ar. rived yesterday. MT. Luddington purchased this cargo in New York of the parties whom the load was consigned to in that city. Oys- | ters in the shell are very scarce here just now.
 Several of our oyster growers went to Hartford yesterday to have an eye upon some of the oyster cases on disputed | grounds and to learn what some of the re- | cent decisions of the court were. At the monthly meeting (held on Monday evening) of Engine company No. 1, the committee reported balance in favor of the company from the 31st annual ball, held Feb. 9th Votes of thanks to the Second Company Governors Horse Guards and the | 1u | the generous loan of their bunting for dec- orating the hall on that occasion. One of our city guardians was arrestlng, | Monday on East Grand street, woman who was drunk and disorderly, when the | clothes of the prisoner nearly all came of. | This policeman admits that 1t put him 1n an I embarrassed position, but he soon rallied, | ra. dressed the woman and took her to the | station house.
 Some of our citizens are interest in mine | located near Leadville, Colorado. The capi | tai stock is about $60, 900, and none of 1t If | on the market for sale
 A very pleasant birthday party was given | on Monday evening to Miss Jennie Magihnesf | at her fathers residence in North Haven bJ | a few of her many friends. Matt Marks 1 guided the happy party through the figures | of the may dance. bountlful banquet | was served at II o'clock, and the gathering | broke up just after midnight with the bes | wishes or all to 11IsS 0ou11o AVE 1ntAny AoPPJ | birthdays in the future. Among those pres ent were Miss Hattie Howe, Miss Jessie Huntley, Harvey Rowe and Street HuntleJ | from this place.
 The firenlen of Fair Haven East send theil | hearty congratulations to James Brainard Il foreman of Hook and Ladder company No 1, of Meriden, on his having taken partner recently for life, and their earnest and bes \ wishes for many long years of prosperity ana happiness to Mir and Mrs. Brainard.
 Owing to the head winds the schooner
 William Farren did not sail yesterday, but l | the weather is right win sail this morning for southern waters after cargo of bivalves