Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-21
FAIR HAVEN.
A New SGeamer-Marfne News-Per-
 sonal and Other Notes of Interest.

\ A New Steamer-Marfne News-Per. sOnal and Other Notes of Interest. 1 William Wiser of Woolsey street. who has | been confined to the house with malarial fe \ yer, is able to be out again. | Postmaster Moore has sold many tickets ! for the G. A. R. benefit at Bunnell's to- night.
 Hon. Edward Carswell had a large audi ence at the rink last night Laughing was his subject.
 An Easter concert will be given at the | East Pearl street M. E. church next Sunday | evening"
 Wm. Bigelow of Clinton avenue, who has been ill with an attack of pneumonia, is get ting better rapidly.
 There is a loud demand for 8 watering cart by citizens on both sides of the river. Captain Merriman, of this place, has ar rived in the harbor with his vessel the Sarah Doe. He has cargo of coffee aboard from Rio.
 The funeral services over the remains of | the late Emily N. Goodale took place yester- day afternoon from her late residence, 195 James street.
 Captain w H. Pierpont, of East Pearl street, will assist at the instituting of new G. A. R. post in New Hartford next week Tuesday.
 Ex-Councilman Goodsell recently caught a large string of shad in the Quinnipiac river. The fence in front of the Warehouse prop erty on Grand avenue has been removed. The schooner Jacob Reed, of this place, is on the way to Boston with a cargo of coal. George Davtons new oyster steamer, Cleo, was successfully launched from Graves ship
 yard Monday at flood tide. The vessel has
 all the new oyster dredging appliances and is expected to develop more than ordinary speed. She is as pretty and graceful as her
 name, which is that of MT. Daytons little
 granddaughter.
 Inc taaIr,c RIofi io
 being built at Hanscomb'sF sFshipyard by John
 Doyle cost SC New York in the rough about
 $1 ,00o.
 Miss Hattie Plant, of Plantsville, is on a
 visit to relatives here.
 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
 The Programme for the Fifteenth
 Annual Convention of the Women's
 Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
 to Commence To-Day.
 At the Calvary Baptist church this morn ing will begin the fftee nth annual conven- tion of the Womens Baptist Foreign Mis- sionary society, which will also be continued to- morrow. The programme will be as fol lows:
 Wednesday morning, 10 8. m.-Singing. Scripture Prayer Address of welcome. Mrs: S. M. Whiting Singing. Response by the president, Mrs. Gardner Colby. Sec FetdF 5 report 1redSuroFS Tep0rG. OlnS- ing. Appointment of committees Address by Mrs. J. A. Freddy, Upper Burmah.
 Wednesday afternoon, 2:30-Singing. Prayer. Address by Miss Barrows, Maui main, Burmah. Address, "Missions in France" by Mrs. Marine J. Chase, Philadel- phia. Collection. Singing. Paper, "A True Story of Madras by Mrs. G. Ander- son, Salem, Mass, read by Miss Anderson, Prayer.
 Thursday morning, 1O:30 8. m.-Singing. Prayer. Report of State secreta- ries. Poem, "How-Non-M Meet Yea found the way" by Miss Maud Lincoln, Newton Cen Ire, Mass. Greetings from other boards Singing. Address by Miss McAllister, Ran goon, Burmah.
 Thursday afternoon, a:sO p. m.-singing. Election of officers. Paper, Africa and it's | Relation to Missions" by Miss Josephine | Tyler, Brooklyn, N. Y. Address by Mrs. | w. H. Roberts of Upper Burmah. Collec- | tion. Paper, "Dol Dressing" by Miss Elm ma J. Cummings, Maplewood, Mass. Clos l ing business. Prayer. Doxology
 This evening at the Wooster Place Baptist | church reception will be rendered the dele gates, of whom it is expected there will be | about 600 present. A large number of dele | gates arrived in town yesterday afternoon | and evening.