Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-14
LOCAL NEWS.

Brief Mention.
The Southington agricultural fair begins
to-day.
The Police Commissioners meet on Thurs
day night.
General Hawley speaks on the 23d at
Carlls Opera House.
Maud S. will try to lower her record this
afternoon at Charter Oak Park.
Packages of silks and ribbons for crazy
patchwork at the Ruffie store to-day.
The Connecticut Homeopathic society S
semi-annu meeting takes place in Hartford
to-day.
L. B. Plimpton has been chosen chief mar
shall of the Republican campaign clubs of
Hartford.
The Horse Guards will have their fall pa
rade to-day and will drill on a lot on Orange
street near East Rock Park.
The Salvation army corps in this city and
in Bridgeport are running, but with thinner
renks and little enthusiasm.
The Willis escort voted unanimously last
evening to accept the invitation to take part
in the parade at Bridgeport tonight.
There was a large attendance at the funsr-
al of ex- Mayor Goodsen in Bridgeport yester-
day, and also many fine floral tributes.
The Blaine and Logan Glee club will hold
rehearsal at Republican headquarters, AZ
Church street, at o'clock this evening.
Southington has voted to organize a fire
department and to pay its Water company
s., 200 per year for the use of hydrants
The Y. NJ G. A. of Bridgeport, having
completed its first year and prospered, APP
propriately celebrated the event on Sunday.
The Blaine and Logan mounted battalion
of Bridgeport have accepted an invitation to
take part in the Milford parade next Friday
night.
Patrick Henehan, of Oak street, who mys-
teriously disappeared from this city last
March, has returned. He went to South
America.
Exclusive designs in trimmed bonnets and
round hats will be exhibited at Miss NJ. E
]. Byrnes' establishment tomorrow and
Thursday.
Some of the members of the New Haver
Yacht club go to New York tomorrow tc
witness the fall regatta of the Seawanhaks
Yacht club.
The BTanford fair takes place to-day and
promises to be very fine one. Many friends
from neighboring towns and from this CITY
will attend.
The Butler and West men in Naugatuck
held a rousing meeting at the opera house il
that place Saturday evening and will raise q
banner shortly.
The Barnum-London show closes its sea-
son at Akron, Ohio, on the 25th and returns
to its winter quarters in Bridgeport three OF
four days later.
The Forepaugh show paid 81 ,270 for trans
portation on the Consolidated road between
the Naugatuck Junction, New Haven, Bridge
port and Norwalk.
Mr.. Horace P. Shares, of this city, the
brick manufacturer, has the contract to fur
nish the brick for the new State armory in
Bridgeport. 1t will take soc, 600.
Mr.. Leopold Cooper, nephew of the Klein
brothers, of Bridgeport, and an actor of ex-
cellent talent, is member of Rhea's COM
pany which appears in Yvonne tonight
Mr., Alfred Ives, the brick manufacturer,
of North Haven, is quite seriously i'll at his
residence, as the public will regret to learn.
He has now been confined to the house about
four weeks.
The entries for the New Haven Driving as
sociation will close tonight at II O'Clock
Several t-class horses have already been
entered and the prospect is that many more
will enter before the books are closed.
The Sarsfeld Guard have voted to join il
the parade at the Waterbury soldiers moRu
ment celebration and to go to Washington
for the next inaugural if all the other com.
panies of the Second regiment go.
The Hartford Post yesterday issued a sup
plement with portraits and biographical
sketches of the Republican candidates fol
State offices, the Republican candidates fol
Congress in this State and of Blaine and
Logan.
The new East Rock Park (or section tc
Farnam drive) road from the Orange street
bridge to the ferry is nearly completed and
will be opened to the public to-day or to.
morrow 1t will be much preferable to
the present road.
The John II. Tingue Blaine and Logan
company of Milford, numbering 60 men,
marched down to Smiths Hotel, at Burns
Point, to serenade John H. Tingue Saturday
evening. Mr.. Tngue gave the members g
bountiful supper
MI. Lemuel ]. Beardsley, of Stratford
whose services as magnetic healer have sud
denly become so greatly in demand, states
that he has 800 calls which he has found il
impossible to answer, of which 500 are from
Bridgeport people
The schooner T. Benedict, Captain Lams
colt, now aground on the mud near Tono
Wharf, ran into the wreck of the Teaser off
Pardee's buoy Saturday night and was some
what damaged. Captain Scott, the wrecker
will soon raise the Teaser, which is a danger
GUS obstruction to navigation.
A fine display of fall millinery was opene,
yesterday at the fashionable millinery en-
porium of Miss R. R. Harris, Ill Orang
street, including felt hats and bonnets in tn
approved new shades and shapes, fame
feathers and ostrich tips. Due announce
ment of the opening of trimmings, hats an
bonnets will be made.
General Democratic Parade.
The Democratic campaign companies of tn
city parade tomorrow evening. They vii
form on the Green and have a short stree
parade before attending two flag raisings il
the Fourth ward-one at the corner of Wash
ington and Daggett streets and the other a
Howard and Columbus avenues. Colone
Healey is grand marshal
Patti, it is said, guards herself CAREFUL,
against cold. She evidently does not believt
in free concerts, but does believe in the FIRE.