Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-19
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

MT. Eli Burnett, of Norwalk, a much re- spected official there for many years, died Saturday.
 Changes of time on the Canal railroad and on the Derby railroad go into effect to-day. See advertisements.
 The new Fair street bridge is nearly com pleted and will be opened to public travel sometime this week.
 There will be gospel meeting tonight at English Hall at 7:45 o'clock with singing and speaking led by Mir. Irons. All are invited. Seats free. New Haven gentleman, who drove up to Cheshire yesterday, found some :of the boys in Cheshire skating on ice which was two inches thick.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Associated Charities will be held at the Central office. g Church street, this after noon at o'clock.
 Thomas Galigan, aged IA, died at the Re- form school, Meriden. Friday night, of con- sumption. Relatives reside in this city. He was in the school about two years.
 Conductor Loomis' train, which left this city at 5:55 Saturday evening, struck Mrs. Julia Wallace at the Asylum street crossing in Hartford. Her shoulder blade was brok- en and she was otherwise injured.
 John Tracy, a well known delivery clerk for Grocers Spencer & Pierpont, of Water bury, and son of Edward Tracy, of that city, died very suddenly Saturday of heart disease. He was at work as usual in the morning.
 good sized audience witnessed Fatinitza Saturday afternoon. The company will sing the piece in Meridqn Wednesday night and New Britain Thursday night. Miss Maggie Roberts did not take her part in the opera Saturday, having an attack of quinsy.
 The Union Debating club discusses Thursday evening next at it's room in the In- surance building the question "Virtue En- sures Happiness" The affirmative will be taken by George c. Clark and the negative by George Goering, of Division street.
 The city of Waterbury having decided that stone crusher was needed has, through the recommendation of the committee ap- pointed to visit other cities on the subject, ordered $1, 900 Farrell & Marsden crusher and has also ordered $1,OOO engine from the Bigelow works at Grapevine Point, Fair Haven.
 On Wednesday evening next the ladies connected with the Sunday school of Trinity church will give very attractive concert for the purpose of raising funds to provide 8 free child's bed in the hospital. Mrs. Mar tin, Miss Harwood, Messrs Schultze and Brown, of Yale, and Mir. Bushnell will assist. The concert will take place in Trinity chapel.
 The Waterbury American says: Another large attendance and increasing interest were the features of the revival meeting at the Methodist church, Waterbury, Friday even- ing. The Rev. Spencer H. Bray, of New Ha- ven, closed his second week, having preach ed five nights for two consecutive weeks. He will return at no distant time for another season.
 Mr. Henry J. Lewis says the oyster steam- CT Minnie B., during her seven hours dredging operations on the private beds off Bridgeport harbor ono day last week, cap tured 300, 900 starish-the most remarkable catch ever known. The fish were deposited on MT. Lewis farm in Stratford to be used as a fertilizer. The oystermen, it is said, are taking from 50 to 100 bushels of stars daily.
 A very large number of New Haven peo-, pie visited East Rock Park yesterday. In the afternoon there was constant passing of carriages on Farnham drive and of psdestri- ans there were hundreds. One visitor estimated that one -seventieth of the people of New Ha- ven visited the park yesterday, allowing the population of New Haven to be 10000. Re- cent estimates based on the number of ad- ditions to the public schools place New Ha ven at 72, ,OOO. The day was one of the finest of the crop of November fine days. The Good Samar1tans' Temperance Meet
 ing.
 The tarouarapca rneatino of the Gond Sa