Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-29
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention

Brief Mention.
 In Milford harbor wild ducks are numer- ous.
 Vennor promises snow falls and cold weather for the beginning of April.
 Milford has town meeting Saturday after noon to see about buying fire engine.
 Mrs. Sarah Ann Lyman died in Milford Tuesday after long and painful illness.
 Albert Stevens, of Northford promising young citizen, died of consumption March 24.
 Henry Patterson, of Hartford, who was thrown from his carriage, was very low yes terday.
 Rev. Frederick Gardiner, D. D., has re- signed his position as director in the Indus trial school.
 A grand ball will be given by the Progress sive society Thursday evening, April 5, at Germania Hall.
 The seats in the Asylum Hill Congrega- tional church, Hartford, sold for 1000 Tuesday evening.
 Henry B. Fowler, prominent man of Branford died yesterday noon of Bright's disease, aged 40.
 The Chapel street drawbridge is to be closed thres days for repairs commencing next Monday morning.
 Surgeon LindsIey, of this city, examined the new recruits for the Mansfield Guard, Middletown, Tuesday evening.
 The Thespian club will inaugurate their festival at the Atheneum this evening A policeman's club and chair will be voted for.
 The George W. Miles company, Milford, are having their fishing steamers repaired and got in readiness for the coming fishing season.
 Rev. Jared Avery, of Groton Heights, be- came unconscious while out walking on the street in that place recently, but is now re- covering.
 The remains of Gideon S. Allen, who died at the almshouse Tuesday of paralysis, aged 55 years, were taken to Bridgeport yesterday by the relatives.
 The new steel boiler engine number 12O built by the New York, New Haven and Hartford road, is finished and goes into ser. vice to-day in place of 97.
 MT. H. D. Simonds, principal of the grad ed school in Milford, will move to New Ha- ven the first of May. He will, however, still preside over the school in Milford.
 Rev. and Mrs. William B. Buckingham, Rev. and Mrs. Frank L. Norton, and Mrs. 0. W. Norton, all of New London, sailed from New York for Savannah yesterday.
 Michael Coughlin died at his residence, 13O l Wolcott street. yesterday morning, of apo- plexy, which succeeded an attack of acute | rheumatism. He was 50 years of age.
 H0bh 1aEa of kho ne Hohh F. Hull, is now located in the clothing business | at 261 Chapel street, where he would be hap | py to see his friends and the public in gen. | aral Dr. John W. Beach, president of Wesleyan | University, has bought the house and land | on High street, Middletown, formerly the | residence of Samuel c. Hubbard. Price re- ported at $12,O O0O
 Owing to the continued illness of MT. A. D. Goodyear, the broker, the hearing in the Probate court on the will of Albert Good year, of North Haven, was postponed for one week yesterday.
 It was James and not Thomas Ridge who applied for town aid at the meeting of tte Board of Selectmen on Tuesday evening, to 1 aid him in paying his wife's board at the AAIuuIeLOWu aSylum.
 Prof. Lounsbury, of Sheffield Scientific school, whose valuable and interesting Life of Fenimore Cooper has added to his liter ary reputation, is engaged upon another work of brilliant literary promise.
 Tuesdays Hartford Times said: '''The envoys from Madagascar, having got to this country, are bound to see how it looks To- day they are in New Haven. If they will come to Hartford they can see Hog river" Ex-Speaker Harrison, Col. A. Heaton Rob- ertson and Sheriff Byxbee were present at the dinner given by Mayor Bulkeley to his friends Tuesday evening, the most elegant dinner in every respect ever given in Hart ford
 The Bridgeport Standard says: Joe Wayman, of Milford, has setter pup, the progenitors of which are the most valuable in the State. They were imported, the fath- CT costing $2,0OO and the mother $4, ,OOO. The pup was bought of ". F. Smith, of Larchmont, N. Y."
 Mary E. Dyer, aged eighty four. died at the hospital Tuesday evening of pneumonia, after weeks illness The old lady had been at the hospital about nine weeks. She was at first suffering with rheumatism. The remains were taken to Birmingham, where her son, Engineer Dyer, resides, for burial.