Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-23
LuUAL NEHa.
Brief Mention

Brief Mention.
 Rev. Dr. Hayes preached at the Cedar Hil msision last evening.
 The body of Patrick McCann, drowned al Hartford March 6, was recovered Saturday.
 There seems to be no immediate prospect of tho starting up of the rubber manufactor' ies.
 Last week Father Walsh cabled $2,500 to Ireland for land league purposes and $1, 34l for famine relief.
 April 18th was the anniversary ofLexirgton and the shedding of the first blood of the civil war at Baltimore.
 Principal Horton, of the Cheshire acade- my, has published Gray's ''Elegy" with an- notations and short sketch of the author.
 MT. William II. Brown, of 45 Dixwell ave- the Remington Standard Type-Writer in New Haven and vicinity.
 The monthly meeting of the managers of the Young Women's Christian association will be held at the Home, 128 Chapel street, at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon.
 A general conference of the Congregational ministers of the State takes place in Thomas ton June 20. About two hundred cIergymen with their wives are expected to be present.
 Wopowage Lodge, of Milford, will cele- brate the introduction of Odd Fellowship in to America on Thursday evening The exer- cises will include supper at George Smith 8 Milford Point House.
 Tho forty hours devotion was begun at St. Mary's church yesterday morning at the high mass. In the evening solemn vespers were celebrated, large congregations being in attendance at both services.
 Mrs. John ". filling, of this city, author of IA mans man for a that" published five or six years ago, is pronounced to be the author of four or five other works which have been published anonymously.
 The St. Vincent de Paul society is on or. gan1zation formed half a century ago Tn Par is. Its object is benevolence. The branch in New Haven will celebrate the semi centen- nial ia St. Mary's church on some Sunday in May.
 The New Haven Turn Verein give an ath- letic exhibition and sociable at Turn Hall this evening. The organization maintains a fourishing condition and the entertainment tonight it is expected will be unusually well attended.
 A delegation of the New Haven Bicycle club will participate in the annual meet of the League of American Wheelmen, to be held in New York, May 2S. There are 2,oOo members, representing twenty two States and five Canadian provinces.
 The Michael Davitt and Central land leagu club have special meeting at Clan ,na-Gael hall this evening for the purpose of electipg delegate to the national convention to be held in Philadelphia April 25, 26 and 27 A full attendance of the members is hoped for. Dr. c. A. Ward, who was, charged with bigamy, was discharged by the court at Wa terbury, decree of divorce from his first wife having been produced The first wife's father, who caused the arrest of Ward, had no knowledge of the divorce.
 number offstudents from the Yale Scien- tifc school, with Professor Mather, will visit the Elm City dye works and laundry to-day to test the new automatic cutoff engine put into the works of Thomas Forsyth lately by F. D. Buttrieks of this city The engine is of forty horse power is the invention of NeI- son w. Twiss, of this city, and is a very fine machine.