Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-06
FAIR HAVEN.

Visit From Rev. MT. Hovey-SuPer-
 numeraries Popular-An Anxious
 Wife -Sewer Work The Sunken
 Schooner-Horse Car Driver Geer.
 Mrs. Julia Niles, of the Heights, has made an application to adopt the 'colored baby dis covered last week by Officer George Bradley on a doorstep. The child is now in the aims house and his parentage is being looked up.
 Rev. Dr. Hovey, the former pastor of the Second Congregational church, and his fam ily have arrived in town on visit from Min
 neapolis, Minn., where the Rev. MT. Hovey is the pastor of one of the largest churches in that city Dr. Hovey and his family are stopping at the residence of Alexander Fine ry at the corner of Blatchley avenue and Grand street. He will remain in town for short time when he will return West to spend the remainder of his vacation.
 The farmers report the crops as doing well as could be expected for the state of the weather The recent rains helped them won derfully. The greater part of the hay crop
 has been cut and is reported light
 The St. Francis church choir, under the direction of Professor Rohan, the well
 known organist, rendered well selected musical programme at that church yesterday Mrs John McKegg of Haven street, made a complaint at the police office Saturday evening and asked that an officer be detailed | to see that she was not molested by her for mer husband John, who, she claimed, had | sent her telegram from New York threaten l ing to kill her upon his arrival ill New Haven | early yesterday morning, Mrs. McKegg is l about to marry again and she feared her for | mer husband would in some way prevent it. | The police were put on the lookout for the l yrathful husband.
 ] The two supernumeraries recently station d on the East side did some effective work on the Fourth. The citizens are mucl n :l nIaased with the new arrangements and 1t Is ! fbonoht that the town will soon employ abouf four men for regular police duty. The | citizens would then be protected from the l lawlessness which prevails in the vicinity oi ! the Wire mill. I The residents living on Grand street, be- tween James street and Blatchley avenue, are 1 conoratulatino themselves on the quick JoE | done by Contractor Kehoe in the building o1 | the sewer between the above named streets on Grand street. The sewer cost S2,5S4. All | order for another sewer in Grand street, from | James street to Barpesville bridge, passed | last winter, but no appFQprlatlon TOT I!le | work was voted. Councilman Falsey Will l sometime this month introduce resolution 1 into tbe Court of Common Council for spe | cial appropriation to build the sewer this | summer The sewer is urgently needed, as | in one yard there are over four otenslve cess, l pools. It is to be an outlet sewer, will be | of large capacity, thirty-six inches in dlame- I ter, and will cost about st, ,2OO.
 l | the Fourth by 8 royal clambake in the back
 yard of the house. About 100 invitations
 were sent out and good time was enjoyed
 by all. l The schooner Henrietta, owned by Captain l Billiard and recently launched from Captain | Wright's marine railway, where she had re
 ceived an overhauling, sank in the Quinn1p1a at river Saturday afternoon, The vessel was
 heavily loaded with shells and when the tidt
 went out Saturday morning the vessel settled on a sharp rock and stove hole in her bot
 tom. The incoming tide filled her witt
 water and caused her to sink. The yesse
 had been chartered by H. 0. Rowe 6 Co. tf
 plant shells for the coming season and was
 supposed to be a very strong boat She vii
 hays her cargo taken off and raised immedi
 diately. ,
 Frederick Geer, driver on car 36 of th'
 Fair Haven and Westville road, received tW' ! very severe kicks from horse which he wa 1 driving on the Fourth. The animal got
 stone in it's hoof and Geer jumped off tn car to take it of. While doing so the hors
 was suddenly startled by frecracker an'
 kicked Geer in both legs. Fhs injured ma
 was taken home and Dr. Roberts summoned | It was at first thought that one of his leg
 was broken, but he escaped with a badl ' hruised leg