Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-23
LOCAL NEWS.
RrfefMentiOn,

One of the horses at As house died on Thursday of lung trouble.
 MT. Carl Sehurz is stopping at the Indian Harbor Hotel, Greenwich, Ct.
 Rev Dr. Anderson, of Waterbury, will preach at Center church tomorrow.
 There will be service of song Sunday af- ternoon at o'clock at the Seamens Bethel. A fine crayon portrait of the late Dr. P. A. Jewett is on exhibition in Armstrong's win dow
 The men at steamer No. Is house have voted to join the State fremen's organiza- tion
 Free delivery of mail matter is to be estab- lished in Waterbury October 1st with five carriers.
 Butler is to speak in Waterbury, Bridge port, New Britain and Hartford during the campaign.
 MT. Harry Lacey and wife, nee Crutten- den, occupied box at Carll's Opera House last evening
 Blaine and Logan club will be formed by the Republican young men of Milford on next Tuesday evening.
 Owing to repairs that are now being made in the interior of the First Methodist church there will be no services there tomorrow.
 A large audience will doubtless hear the eloquent temperance orator Carswen at = Peck's Grand Opera House tomorrow even ing.
 Senator Platt started for Maine Thursday, where he will make several speeches for Blaine and Logan, Snd on his return he will beheard in Connecticut.
 It is expected that the Bigelow Zouaves' membership will be largely increased at the next meeting. The organization bids fair to excel that of 1880.
 Branford is to have a council of the Knights of Columbus. It will be instituted next Sunday, the officers of the supreme council going from this city.
 The engagement of Mayor Bulkeley, oi Hartford, to Miss Houghton, of California, was announced in Paris August 5. Mayor Bulkeley is now in Switzerland.
 Captain Henry Lockwood, of Bayport, Ct. is having an oyster steamer built by Richard & Weed, of Norwalk. It is to be seventy feet long, six feet deep and fifteen feet beam.
 To-day is Grand Army day at High Rock Grove. The Bridgeport post will attend in force, also the Williams post, Waterbury, and members from other towns will be present.
 The Judd family of ,,Southington held 9heir annual picnic at Stephen Judd's place in the northern part of the town. The fam fly was well represented by parties from all over the State.
 The Blaine and Logan clnb of Naugatuck had spirited meeting on Thursday evening Speeches were made by F. w. Tolles, presi- dent of the club, and MT. Ward, who had just returned from the convention in New Haven.
 Within the past few days the city has paid and taken up nine notes representing in the aggregate $144, 900 of indebtedness. A single remaining note of $3O,OOO will be paid next week, thereby removing for the present all of the city's floating indebtedness
 At meeting of the Arctic Engine com pany of Milford on Thursday evening last Mr. Charles E. Roder in behalf of the com pany presented the foreman, Dr. w. H. An drews, with an elegant silver gold-lined trumpet as token of their appreciation of his services.
 Those who desire to- spend next Sunday out of town can find no pleasanter way of doing so than by the trip to the Lake Pleas ant camp meeting at Montague, Mass, where the Spiritualists' camp meeting is being held. A very attractive list of speakers has been ar ranged. The fare is low, and the time of the arrival and departure of trains convenient.
 Benfort's circular for 1882, high authori- ty on the subject, endorses the fact that the New York branch of the house of A. Heller & Brother imports yearly more Hungarian wines, liquors and crown champagne by 52,- sos gallons than any other. Attention is also called to the statements in another col ump relative to these wines.