Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-06
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Visiting cards, engraved or printed, at Dorman's.
 Rents collected promptly at HIP Hoadley's.
 A large number of school teachers arrived home Saturday.
 The public and parochial schools of the city reopen this morning.
 Rev. Dr. Hammond, of Ansonia, is i'm proved and able to sit up little.
 Judge Phelps, of the Superior court, is homeward bound on the City of Rome.
 The Seventh c. " will enjoy reunion next Wednesday. Many veterans from this city will attend.
 The Hon. Willis R. Austin of Norwich, after an absence abroad of three years, has returned to Norwich.
 A new iron bridge is to be built soon over the Consolidated railroad tracks at the june tion of Howard and Kimberly avenues.
 The Grimley saloon, Custom House Square, is about to be torn down, and kindling wood, blinds, etc., will be sold cheap.
 Mr. E. N. Shelton of Birmingham, who re- turned ill from Saratoga week ago, is much improved, though still confined to the house.
 Captain William G. Dickinson and Major William Lincoln addressed large temper ance meeting yesterday afternoon in Mil ford.
 The Derby race meeting opens tomorrow. The track has been settled under the heavy showers and is in splendid condition. There are over sixty entries.
 Rev. W. D. Mckinney, of the Baptist church of Ansonia, returned from his vaca- tion Saturday. Yesterday he preached a sermon on Earthquakes"
 St. vincient de Paul Mutual Burial asso citation has paid out $39,000 in benefits since it was founded-in 1878. Of this sum $14,- 900 was paid out this year.
 Meditation" is the title of a new and charming pianoforte composition by Profes- BOT Parson, of this city; published by w. A. Pond & Co. of New York city.
 The regular monthly meeting of the board of managers of the Ladies' Seamen's Friend society will take place this afternoon at 8 o'clock at the Seamen's Bethel.
 The annual collection now being taken up at St. Patrick's church, and which continues two Sundays more, promises to be very large one, as $2, 900 was received yesterday. John G. Crump of New London, who will soon take his seat as judge of the Common Pleas court for New London county, will be the youngest judge upon the bench ill Con- necticut.
 Officer Girard has been sick for the past week with poisoning. The officer was badly poisoned about the neck, caused, as is SUD- posed, by some substance used iu washing his shirts. w. P. Smith, superintendent of the fire alarm telegraph in this city, has gone to St. Louis, where he will exhibit the public visual signal, patented by Detective Brewer and himself.
 The eighth annual fair of the New Milford Agricultural association is to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, September 9th and 9th. The usual fine cattle show and local trotting will take place on the first day.
 The ten year old daughter of John Foley, of 451 Congress avenue, was knocked down and seriously injured by an manageable horse near her home Saturday evening. The horse was being driven by Mir. Samuel Halli- we'll and was frightened and running away. The Air Line Sunday newspaper train, which has been running all summer, was discontinued yesterday. Beside the regular l daily trains over the Air Line two or | three extra trains have been running daily | for about two months. These extra trains | carried principally peaches, pears, water l melons and other fruit. The watermeons | change of car or breaking bulk.