Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-09
ITEMS FROM FAIR HAVEN.

A Runaway-A Pool Match Of- The First Church Picn1c-OtheI Interesting Matters. A horse attached to 8 team belonging to Hauff Bros, the bakers, ran away while or Grand street yesterday afternoon, but for tunately did no damage.
 The Baptist church Sunday school will next week decide where they will picnic this year. Glen Island is talked of and many will favor this place.
 Myrtle chapter, O. E. S., will leave Craw, lords store this morning in barges and will
 Tonight the w. c. T. U. will hold a spec ial meeting at Mrs. w. Comstocks on East Grand street.
 Clerk Tyler, at Hillhouse's drug store, who has been threatened with typhoid fever. is out again.
 this place and bookseller for Bradstreet, but who is now book publisher in Syra- cuse, N .,is visiting his mother, Mrs. Han nah Hurd, of North Quinnipiac street.
 Thormiter Johnson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and family are stopping with N. w. Allyn, the meat men, on North Quinnipiac street.
 Mrs. Martha Bray, sister-in-law to ex- here for the season from Eufala, Ala. Mrs. Bray is accompanied by her daughter Minnie. They report that the weather south is warm CT than usual this summer.
 Elizur Goodale, who had the rubber boots clams oysters and wheelbarrow stolen from him Tuesday afternoon, is positive that he knows where the articles were put and thinks he knows the parties that took them. If he finds that his suspicious are correct he will have the guilty person or persons dealt witt according to law.
 The bicycle club take a run to the shore nearly every night.
 Miss Rosa Burwell, teacher in the Ceda street school, and her sister, Miss Rosa O the East Haven school, are stopping in Nev
 Britain They expect to go to Saratoga q attend the teachers convention that is to k held there July 20
 | The raised schooner Henrietta has been re paired at the marine railway and was agail launched yesterday. She was strained t. some extent by her late mishap.
 There is much opposition to the proposet
 scheme to extend the Grand street sewe l from Blatchley avenue to Perkins street, an l Henry R. Barnes has been circulating a pc | tition opposing the movement. He has ob | tained many signers. The connection wit
 the river by way of Grand street is be
 ing rapidly completed and at the presen rate will be finished by next week. Mrs. Gum, wife of George Gum of Nortl | Quinnipiac street, has been ill for some littl | time, but is getting better. Captain J. H. Bowditch, of Lloyd street has received word that his wife, who i | spending the summer with her father a | Shelter Island is quite seriously i'll. Eugene Smith, who has just completed | four years course at Chautauqua, has sub | mitted to an extra examination and sent ol his papers last night.
 There were only four cars required to talk the First church people to High Rock Grov' yesterday, but all who went report a mos enjoyable time. The receipts, though no large, were satisfactory. The selectmen have voted to do something towards the proper repairing of South Quin nipiac street, and many of the residents ot that street who have been complaining for long time are glad in consequence. The Gas companys men have been vainly endeavoring to ascertain the whereabouts o1 the leak in the main on the East side that hal caused much trouble, often causing the light: to go out.
 Much damage has been done to the stree lamps by the boys. Several were broker yesterday, and the lamp in front of the Sec ond Congregational church is completely ruined. Some citizens consider this another evidence of the need that exists on the East side for police protection.
 The pool contest between David Brown of New Britain, and Will Bishop, of this city, which was announced to take place al T. F. Coyne's place last evening, did not come off. Bishop claimed that he never agreed to play at all on the evening in ques- ton.