Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-07
LOCAL NEWS.
Brfef Mention.

Brief Mention.
 PIT. Barnum was 74 years old on Satur- day.
 About 800 Milford people were in this city on the Fourth.
 A praise concert was held at the Cedar Hill Union Mission last evening"
 Nathan Hale camp, S. of ", attended the Davenport church last evening.
 MT. William Atwater leaves to-day for the West. He will stop at Chicago.
 The Connecticut Sons of Temperance pie nic at High Rock Grove, July 17th.
 John Bogan's saloon in Milford was robbed of two boxes of cigars and $1.5O on Thurs day night.
 The Board of Aldermen meet this evening and the merchants petition concerning avn ings will come up.
 The claim of the yacht Wild Duck that the yacht Rival broke rule 15 in the regatta, June 24, was disallowed.
 Over 13, ,OOO passengers were carried by the Fair Haven and Westville horse railroad on the glorious Fourth.
 The State street horse railroad carried about GOO more passengers last Fourth of July than on any previous Fourth.
 St. Patrick's Y. M. l.. association gives an excursion to New York and Coney Island Thursday, July 24, on the Elm City.
 Policeman William Waterman, of Bridge port, was set upon and badly beaten by gang of drunken roughs Friday evening.
 The annual spiritual retreat of the pastors of the Catholic churches of the diocese will begin at St. Francis orphan asyIum to-day. Mir. E. D Hendee has taken the business conducted by the late William D. Bryan. MT. Hendse has been connected with the store for several years past
 Mrs. Charles Bradley of Kimberly avenue, and Miss Lucy, daughter of William filling, of Putnam street, leave for the Berkshire Hills tomorrow to be absent few weeks.
 Professor W. D. Whitney, Tracy Peck and T. D. Seymour will read papers at the an- nual session of the American Philologi- cal association at Dartmouth college, July g..
 small cannon exploded in Danbury on the Fourth and one of the pieces struck and killed William Sutton, aged r. None of the other boys who were firing the cannon were hit.
 Henry Mohrbukr, of 5S Union street, died Saturday morning, aged 53 of valVulAr dis ease of the heart. He had been employed for years at the Shoninger Organ manufao~ tory.
 The Rev. Henry A. Adams. rector of Trini- ty church, WsthersfeId, has declined unan inous call to the rectorship of Christ church, New Haven, preferring to continue his pres- ent work.
 1oroa nuD1har of flaw bills ara hainO maid and people seem to be more anxious than usual to pay their taxes at an early date. About $5, ,OOO day is thus coming in to the towns coffers.
 Tomorrow the steamer John H. Starin be. gins her regular trips to Glen Island, running every Tuesday and Thursday during the sea- son. A very large and select Hartford party will make the trip tomorrow.
 Aldridge, the Brooklyn decorator, shipped his large stock of decorations to New York last night. Mr. AIdridge says he hopes to have better luck in Albany where he goes next than he had in New Haven.
 President John O. Gallagher, of the Board of OounciImen, is suffering quite severely from poison received by handling ivy. His hands are badly swollen and quite painful; yet he will be all right again in few days.
 Captain Traynor thinks he will start fl to-day at noon in his new boat to cross the Atlantic unless the wind blows too hard. His dog Jumbo will be his sole companion on the voyage. He intends to make the return trip to this port.
 In Bridgeport on the 4th. Phillip Kall- mann. years old, living on East Main street, was shot in tho calf of his leg while passing in front of cannon. He was taken to 8 drug store in Bars block where the wound was dressed. The arteries were all torn.