Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-04
Fair Haven Itoms.


 Yesterday being Ascension day, St. James church commemorated the event by holding service in the forenoon.
 goodly number of our people were pres ent each evening at the Grand Opera House during the Odd Fellows fair.
 Mir. James Smith Hemingway is sojourn- ing for short time in Baltimore, Md |, amidst his large circle of friends and ac quaintances in the Monumental city As tbe team of Oscar J. Hull was unload ing some grain at S. NJ. Tuttle's barn on South Quinnipiac street yesterday forenoon, | the horse became frightened at the steam cars that were passing and started on run, going down the driveway across the lawn | over off the stone wall and up the street at a rapid rate. The horse was soon stopped. | One spring and the seat were broken. Mrs Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass l arrived here yesterday. She will visit for q | season with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Dea- | con Wyllis Hemingway, while her husband, Rev. MT. Cook, is in the West on featuring tour.
 There were several cargoes of oysters due in the harbor yesterday, but up to five l o'clock in the afternoon there were no arriv- | als It is thought the delay was occasioned by the head and light winds and the fog that prevailed in the Sound yesterday morning. l Some of the youths hereabouts, aged about l fifteen years, have had hare and hounds run. The hares had eight minutes start and came in eighteen minutes ahead of the hounds. They ran about five miles. | The Young Peoples association held their l last meeting in the chapel of the Second church on Wednesday evening, As there were so few present the exercises arranged | for the occasion were not carried out. The l books of the society were transferred to Mir. 1 Charles Steele, the balance of money in the l treasury was voted to the sexton of the church, Sherman Russell jr. It was then | unanimously voted to adjourn sine 6te- | l. E. Brown has sold out his half interest l in the round clam business to his brother. F. | F. Brown, and Fred will assume the whole | control of the business of the former l firm of I. E. & F. F. Brown.
 | The Rev. s. M. Hammond united in the bonds of wedlock yesterday afternoon Miss | Mary Thomson, of the Annex, and Mir. | Frederick Prout of East Haven. May pros l perity and success go with the happy couple. Mrs. Elizabeth Fralich, aged fifty years, died yesterday morning at nine o'clock at hel residence, on North Quinnipiac street, oi consumption. The deceased was mother of
 Jacob Fralich, the cigar manufacturer on Grand street, No. 275 in the city.
 l Two unloaded ice teams collided on North | Quinnipiac street yesterday morning. One l of the drivers was thrown into the bottom | of the wagon, and both pairs of horses start ed on run up the street and went some
 distance before either driver regained con. trol of the steeds. Most fortunately there | was no further damage.
 B. S. Bradley, the meat peddler, came on
 his route yesterday with the fanciest turn
 out ever seen in these parts, regular meal | market on wheels The wagon was made
 especially for Mir. Bradley and is fitted uI 1 with all the latest Improvements and 1s l most perfect in all it's arrangements fol
 practical use. There are windows or AI,ok l in the wagon can see what is going or
 around s.s we'll as being seen from the out
 side. The wagon is painted in colors and de
 signs very neatly and tastefully and shows tc
 great advantage, and is large enough to al l low two to wait on customers at time. The
 team is three black horses, which are al l driven abreast All wish Burt success. Int
 body was built by the Barnes Brothers. oi l North Haven, and the running gear by Bur 1 roughs, of East Haven. The whole weighs
 seventeen hundred and ninety pounds.
 Loomis & Co.,, the printers and publishers
 in the Quinnipiac block, added yesterday one
 of the largest Campbell cylinder presses tc the establishment It was a considerable task to get it all transplanted to the premises
 The concert at the First Congregations
 church on Wednesday evening was very largely attended and gave much satisfaction The programme was fine and successfully
 carried out. The selections by the New l Haven orchestra club, who generously gave | their services, were beautifully played. Th' | singing, selection by Miss Cady, the solC
 ''l Bacio" by Miss Hattie Bradley, and tht solo t'Esmeralda'' by Miss Lillie White
 more, were excellent, and the artists received
 hearty applause. The piano solo by Mis- Eleanor M. How'd was the event of the even ing, and is claimed by many present to bt
 the finest piano playing ever given in Fail
 Haven. Miss How'd was also enthusiastically encored.