Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-21
FAIR HAVEN.

A Cat Killed by LightntnS-ProsPect
 of a Good Year for Oysters-Damage
 by the StOrm-The New Train on
 the Shore Line.
 MT. F. w. Brodie, merchant in Chicago, H., is tarrying here for few days.
 MT Frederick Moulthrop visited here with his people over Sunday.
 Several went down to South End yesterday afternoon to attend the great picnic.
 Another fishing party on the steamer Iver- nia is proposed for the last part of the week. Mr. Richard Davis and family are visiting with MT. D.'s people in Guilford. Mr. Edgar Allen visited last week with his friends in the Forest city (Middletown. Quite number of the Northford people ] went through here on Saturday morning to l the seashore on little clamming expedition. During the storm on Saturday afternoon l the lightning struck house on South Front street owned by MT. Dan Smith. Fortunately | not much damage was done. A favorite cat 1 of the family living there was killed by the ! stroke.
 l The oysters planted in the harbor last | spring for the coming fall trade are growing \ rapidly Old oystermen Say they never saw oysters grow as fast as they are growing this season.
 There was another proof that police are ! needed on the east side last Saturday night. ! The night was made hideous by the carousal 1 of the drunken men who were on the street yelling, cursing and fighting.
 The old residents in the borough say they ! never saw Hill street in such bad condition l as at present, and they WISH the oLnclals 1 would take due notice.
 ! ! railroad passed through hele yesterday morn | ing about half-past nine 70 CLOCK, returning I about o'clock in the afternoon as pas senger train. This wes the first trip of the ! train.
 Mrs. Henry Hup of Saltonstall avenue, has | baan troubled y boys trespassing in her
 ward stea1ins fruit, etc Several boys were
 ssTTegted The lads were released on bail. | Mr Ftward M. Bradley arrived home on
 co4-1,tay from his visit to Saratoga Mr. ! R Ieports splendid time. The noted resort 1 yas full of visitors and everything was as Dgay as could be. He met several New Haven l people during his sojourn there. l The heaviest rain and hail storm ever seen l here was on last Saturday afternoon. The ] streets were rivers of water. Trees were blown down and driveways and the roads l were well washed out. Take it all in all 1 there was much damage done. In some ! parts of the Annex the hailstones were as large as butternuts. The thunder was very heavy and the lightning quite sharp. The new steam yacht, c. c. Green, in com 1 ing up the Sound from Noank, had one of 1 the blades of the wheel broken. The steamer ] came up to Captain Wright's marine railway ] where the wheel was repaired and the craft ! went on her way to New York. Mir. C.. F. Terry of Albany, N. Y, and 1 Mr Edward Parmalee of Syracuse, N. Y., are soiourning here for @ short season. These ! gentlemen are members of the firm of Hem l ineway & Co.,, oyster and fruit packers, and have charge of the affairs of the company in l their respective cities. MT. Parmalee brings his family with him on his visit here.
 Mrs. Calvin Kelsey and son Bettie are wis | iting for a few days with friends in Meriden'
 The Rev. O. H. Rafter, rector of St. ! Peter's church, Cheshire, officiated at St. | James church at yesterday mornings and | evenings services, having exchanged pulpits
 with Dr. William Vibbert, the rector of St. James The discourse in the morning of the l Rev. Mr. Rafter was fine one and held the l listeners with the strictest and closest atten-
 tion to the end. The hour of evening service of the church has been changed from 6:30 to
 5:30 p. in.
 | Deacon John Farren's pair of horses, which
 were standing near the barn Center street 1 in the Annex, where the cattle are kept, l were frightened by the rain and hail on Sat l urday, and started on a run up South Quinni- l piac street When crossing the horse rail
 road track at East Grand street one of the
 horses fell, which brought the other horse tc l stop with one horse standing on the other, 1 Horace Barnes and Frank Farren, two young men, bravely went out in the drenchins l storm, unhitched and helped the poor beasts ! out of the trouble and took them under GOV | er Mr. Scott, of the farm, soon came uI I and the wagon and horses were taken home | Not much damage was done. The young
 men should receive much credit for this mer 1 cif11 act