Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-10
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.


 St. Johns Episcopal church and Sunda school picnic at Pawson Park to-day.
 Postmaster J. R. Clark, of Milford, has ha his salary increased $1OO within few days.
 The Sunday school and congregation of tn First Baptist church picnic at Pawson Par next Thursday.
 The Nash street mission Sunday schoo hold their annual picnic at Cold Spring Parl week after next.
 MT. Elijah Cran an old and esteemed citi zen of Bridgeport, died yesterday, aged near ly eighty-fiv years.
 The Episcopal societies of Bristol, Plain vile and Southington picnicked at Com bounce Lake yesterday.
 Roundsman Mcbride, who for the past fev days has been seriously i'll with chills, re ported for duty again last evening.
 Assistant Adjutant General White leave on Monday for Washington, D. C., on pen sion business to be absent several days.
 Thirty young ladies from Miss Porter's sem mary in Pennington visited the tower Wed nesday, Miss Porter accompanying them.
 Officer Helget and his son leave to-day fol Providence, R. l., where they will spend sev, eral days with the officers relatives in that place.
 MT. Jolie of Providence, R. l., owner of all orange grove in Florida, was in the city yes terday, the guest of J. Mel Bassett, the real estate dealer.
 General Thomas of Chicago, H., passed through New Haven yesterday afternoon en route for Springfield Mass, to spend few days among old and tried friends.
 The South Congregational church oi Bridgeport and their friends went to Parlo1 Rock yesterday on their annual picnic. The excursion train numbered ten cars.
 Preparations are in progress for the trans portation of the tents, bed racks, tent furni ture, etc., for the coming encampment of the Third and Fourth regiments at Mantle.
 In Seymour Wednesday Mrs, Jane John son while walking along Bank street was overtalnen by dog which bit her severely in the leg. The wound was cauter, ized.
 The county commissioners have refused to grant liquor license to Frank Hugo of the Annex, owing to the objections of E. s. Wheeler, c. c. Blatchley and about sixty others.
 D. J. Canary and wife left for Cottage City, Mass, yesterday morning, where they will remain until September 1st.' MT. Ca nary is to give exhibitions in the skating rink there.
 The barbers' early closing movement goes into effect next Monday evening. All enter ing the agreement will close their shops at o'clock A meeting of the association will be held Monday evening.
 Principal George B. Hurd of Winchester school, New Haven, conducted the State teachers examination yesterday in the Bridge port High school building in the absence of Prof Carroll, of the State Normal school.
 Rose Early, of No. Dow street. a woman well known to the police and on whom Judge Deming suspended judgment last Tuesday, has been drunk and disturbing her neighbors fer the last two days and will soon be rear rested.
 On Monday, in Milford, while Clifford E. Clark was moving grass with machine near his residence he amputated foot of a favor ite Scotch Collie dog, which chanced to run in front of the knives. It was done in short notice.
 In Lyman's show window in Milford a handsome gold badge is to be seen which will be given to the member of the Echo base ball club who makes the most runs and the least outs during the season. Now, boys, go in for good record.
 Professor Dana is busilJ engaged in Berk- shire county and over the mountain in Ca naan, N. Y., in studying the limestone form ations in those localities in order to verify work on his map of the limestone localities in western Massachusetts and eastern New York.
 Representatives of the Standard Oil com pany have had the oil tanks and the oil stor- age building of the company near the stables of the State street horse railroad company taken down, and this repository is now among the things of the past. The storage building was partially destroyed by fire few weeks ago. Small boys will no longer specu- late on the immensity of the blaze which would have followed setting fire to the oil in the tanks