Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-26
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

The best printing done at Do1mAn's.
 This evening Wooster lodge will work thu third degree.
 Hervey Baldwin, of Naugatuck, has re turned from Florida improved in health.
 Peter Conlans nine yesterday defeated James O'Rourke's nine by score of Il to
 A fire in Wells. Hollow, Huntington burned oyer ten acres of woodland on Sun day.
 Mrs. Sylvia E. Futile, of Bethany, died Sunday, aged sixty, and will be buried to. day.
 On Tuesday, June 1, the exercises of tho graduating class of the Yale Art school vii take place.
 The net proceeds of the Grand Army fail in Meriden last week will be between s, 50C and $4,O0O.
 The date of the annual cruise of the New York Yacht club has been fixed for Wednes day. August 4.
 The Housatonic railroad company will put on O new train June to run between Bridge port and Danbury.
 Hon. Carlos Smith is one of the grand jury, United States District court, now in session in Hartford.
 Miss Edith Warren and F. A. Waldron, of this city, have recently joined the League of American Wheelmen.
 The Stratford authorities have taken meas ures to stop ball playing on Sunday within the limits of that town.
 Thomas Crossley of Middletown, aged sev- enty, died Monday. He had worked for w. & B. Douglass fifty years.
 Captain Baldwin, of Stamford, is having a steam yacht built at Peekskill, N. Y. She is to be forty feet in length.
 The schoolship St. Mary, with one Bridge port boy aboard, will depart from New Lon don on her foreign cruise to-day.
 Mr. and Mrs. s. s. Scott and Mir. and Mrs. J. Alvin Scott left yesterday to visit Spring field, Mass. They drive there and back.
 The fast sailing schooner Laura Louise ar rived at Long Wharf yesterday afternoon with a cargo of porgies from Block Island.
 The Yale University nine will play the Hartfords in Hartford this afternoon. A large attendance is assured. Bridgeport plays in Hartford Thursday.
 At 8 session of the Supreme lodge, Knights of Honor, just closed at Providence, R. l., the constitutional prohibition of death claims in cases of suicide was abolished
 Colonel A. H. Fenn, of Winsted, is to crate on Memorial day at Ansonia, while Captain Horne is to speak at Hartland on Saturday and Stafford Springs on Monday.
 On May Dan Canary was presented with gold medal by the Mayor of Leicester, England, in the presence of an audience of 5000 for his proficiency as a trick bicycle rider.
 Superintendent Fenton of the fish hatchery in Birmingham yesterday morning shipped 50O, ,000 shad fry to Warehouse Point, where they will be emptied into the Connecticut river.
 Samuel Spooner, of Black Rock, brought to Middletown Monday thirteen trout of very uniform size, the united weight of which was eight pounds. He caught them all in one hole on the Hammonassett river.
 Yesterday afternoon while Michael J. Sars- field of the Annex was driving down Water street his horse slipped and fell, breaking his right fore leg. Dr. Sullivan was tele- phoned for and took care of the animal.
 Mrs Pember, one of the ladies injured by the runaway accident in Hartford Monday, is the wife of ex-Senator Milo w. Pember, of Vernon. Both Mrs. Beardsley and Mrs. Pernber are doing very well, and will re- cover.
 The ladies of the Howard avenue Congre- gational church are holding a series of ice cream festivals every Wednesday evening" Two have been held and the third takes place tonight. The young people attend in force.
 The following was received last evening: The Columbia base ball club are now ready to receive challenges from any of the "cracked" mines of the city under eighteen years of age. Address Manager Philip Mur- phy, 46 Walnut street, city.
 Chief Engineer George Jessup, of Winsted, has ordered out the entire fire department for inspection and practice Monday fore noon, May 31. The fire department is iA an excellent condition, and much of that honor is due to the worthy and skillful chief.
 A general order for the inspection and re- view of the fire department on May 31 has been issued. The line will form on Temple street at p. m. with the right resting on Elm street. The formation will be fol- lows: Chief, assistant, engines 1, 3, and 4, hook and ladder 1, engines 5, 6, 7 and and hook and ladder 3.