Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-19
FAIR HAVEN,

Launch of the 0. H. VaIentine-Mat.
 rimOntaI-Wedding To-Day at Mt.
 Carmel.
 MT. George w. Linsley sold on Monday to parties from Darien his sharpie, which he has owned for nearly thirty years. The craft is in Al order.
 The town officials have suspended the work of stone crushing for the present, or until spring weather opens. The stone crusher has been removed to winter quarters.
 Quite good many went from here on Monday night to the National armory to the ball given by Court Quinnipiac, A. o. F. It was well into the wee sma hours when they returned home.
 Catarrhal colds are quite prevalent in this locality. son of c. J. Van Name, the sail maker, and a son of A. B. Barnes, the oyster dealer, are severely afflicted with this dis ease
 Captain William A. Wright, the proprietor of the marine railway near the Quinnipiac bridge on the east side, is confined to the house with the pleurisy
 Mir E. Allen Huntley had seventeen stacks of cornstalks stolen from his yard that W ere burned up in the bonfire on the night of the Democratic jollifcation on the east side.
 MT. H. H. Olds, the pie baker, is having 6 large barn built in the of his new and elegant residence on Center street. It is nearly completed and ready to be occupied
 Notwithstanding the cold, chilly air which prevailed yesterday morning there was 2 very large number present to witness the launching of the schooner Charles H. Valen- tine, description of which was given ir yesterdays COURIER. The launch, which was one of the most successful ever seen here, took place about :45 in the morning. The boat sat on the water as nicely as one could wish, and many were the expressions that the craft was a perfect beauty as she lay floating in her native element.
 This afternoon at half-past 3 o'clock at the Congregational church, Mount Carmel, the pastor, the Rev. MT. Higgins, will unite in the holy bonds of matrimony Miss Doda T. Ives, of Mount Carmel, and Frederick W. Foote, of this place. Immediately after the ceremonies the happy couple will take the cars for New York. The next day they will go to Philadelphia, Penn, then to Baltimore Md, and Washington, D. 0. They will be absent about two weeks on their wedding tour. The bride has host of warm friends and is well known in her native place, and has many acquaintances here. The groom is one of the most popular young men in Fair Haven and has large circle of ae- Quaintances abroad as well as at his own home.
 MT. Frank Miller, one of the officers of the Sampson Mining company and just from the mines in Colorado, called on Monday on MT. c. K. Wedmore and others of his companions in youthful days here. In his early years he lived here and afterwards was for number of years resident of Wallingford.
 flor 1ffaTiT1cr with George W. Davis died on Monday at his late residence, 182 North Front street Mrs. Davis found her husband dead in bed. The deceased had been relief conductor on the Fair Haven and Westville road for many years. Before that he had been a member of the New Haven police department.
 The widow of Colonel Drake, who first dis covered oil in Pennsylvania, was visiting her cousin, Mrs. William G. Hunter of Fair Haven, on Monday.
 How Some Connecticut Paupers Fare.
 A Stafford Springs correspondent gives the following description of the way in which the town poor are treated there: "For the past year the paupers have been put out of sight and hearing into an old deserted farm house near the State line and left to shift for themselves. Hudd1ed into this out-of- the-way place, some crazy and vicious, others perfectly helpless, with the hard floor for bed and stray chips and sticks they themselves gather in the vicinity for fuel, ,and raw material only furnished for provisions, which they may cook or not-such is claim ed to be the life of people thrown upon the town for a living" They are kept on the contract system, that is, bids are asked for their keeping and the lowest bidder gets the sol