Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-18
LOCAL NEW s.
Brief Mention.

Everything school children want at Dor mans.
 Waterbury is two hundred years old this month.
 The steamboat train commenced running yesterday.
 The Meriden skating rink is offered for sale for half it's cost.
 Governor Harrison opened the G. A. R. fair in Meriden last night.
 There was slight frost in varions sections of this State Sunday night.
 Bishop McMahon confirmed four hundred persons in Danbury Sunday.
 Nine convicts whose time was up were re- leased from the State prison yesterday.
 The United States District court, May session, will be held in Hartford on May 25.
 State Prison Director McManus sent his resignation to Governor Harrison yesterday He has served eight years.
 Company B, Fifth battalion, Hartford, are to be quartered in the Union armory of that city on or about July 1.
 The National Educational association meets in Topeka, Kansas, in July. New Haven will probably be well represented.
 New Haven Lawn club will give on Sat urdays, May 22 and 29, and on Wednesdays, June and 16, teas from to o'clock.
 One of Smedley's heavy wagons broke down in Custom House Square yesterday af- ternoon. A broken axle caused the trouble.
 A horse and carriage runaway made things lively on Howard avenue yesterday afternoon. The team kept on into West Haven
 Some of the c. N G. members in Water bury want the gray to be discarded and are petitioning the officers to hold another meet ing on the subject.
 large and appreciative audience at the Historical society rooms last evening listened to paper by Professor Baldwin on ''The Captiyes of the Amistad."
 Colonel C. B. Foster of New Haven, com mander of the First regiment of Patriarchs Militantp I. O. o. F., has issued orders for 8 State parade in this city June TO-
 The Osbornes of Osborne street defeated the Columbias of Bradley street yesterday by score of to 4. The game took place on Merwin's lot, corner of State and Bradley streets.
 James Conboy of Frank street, saloon keeper, was arrested last night for violation upon a warrant. The alleged violation was last Sunday.
 Franklin Howss' Medical Discovery is one of the best medicines for the stomach, liver, kidneys and blood ever offered to the pub lie. It has performed many wonderful cures in this city and vicinity. See adv.
 The Peck Brothers association, composed of employees and officers of the Peck Brothers company, meet tomorrow ev- ening to partake of banquet at Charlie Downs City Hall restaurant. Covers for about forty will be laid.
 Trumbull lodge, F. and A. M., will go to Birmingham tonight to visit King Hiram lodge of that place. They will go on spe- cial train that leaves the Derby depot at 7 o'clock sharp. There will be work in the third degree, to be followed by banquet.
 B. Ballerstein & Co. have fitted the upper floors of their building 641 and S43 Chapel street as a wholesale department. They will be opened to-day with a large stock of mil linery. The entrance is by staircase from the retail store, the use of the staircase from the street having been discontinued. The marriage of MT. Francis G. Beach of this city, son of John s. Beach, Esq, and Miss Wells of Minneapolis, MinD., will take place at St. Marks church, Minneapolis, Tuesday, June. The Rev. Thomas B. Wells, father of the bride, will perform the cere- mony. The bride is granddaughter of Mrs Dr. W els of Whitney avenue, this city, and her mother is daughter of General William s. Charnley of Chicago, formerly of this city.