Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-25
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Ink, mucilsge and pencils at Dorman's.
 Tomorrow night Wooster lodge of this city will work the third degree.
 The man killed at Stiles brickyard, North Haven, Sunday, was Polander named John Mejwack.
 The New York Yale Alumni association has unanimously indorsed the election of Prof. Dwight.
 Three years ago yesterday the Brooklyn bridge was formally opened to the public by President Arthur.
 A journal to be an organ of the 8, 900 Knights of Columbus in Connecticut will be issued about month hence.
 The eighth annual meeting of the Army and Navy club of Connecticut will be held at Fenwick hall Friday evening, June 25.
 The railroad commissioners will examine the Naugatuck road to-day, the Norwalk road tomorrow and the Connecticut Western on Thursday.
 The Veteran Grays meet this evening to make further arrangements regarding the re- ception of the Twenty-second New York in this city June IS.
 Suit will soon be begun in the Superior court at Hartford to recover $100,000 of tax es claimed by the State to be due from the Consolidated road.
 The Young Mems Guild of Trinity church will give their closing reception of the year at the residence of the Rev. MT. Nichols, Elm street. Friday evening.
 The twenty-seventh annual session of the Grand Temple of Honor will be held at Mid dletown on the first Wednesday in June, lasting probably two days.
 Five old ladies, each over eighty years of age, have died in Hadlyme in five weeks past. The last was a lady named Loper, daughter of Rev. S. A. Loper.
 Miss Mary Lynch is the new superintend- ent of the Sunday school of St. Mary's church. Father Kent will assume general direction of the Sunday school.
 Robbins circus, with which is Dale Arm strong, formerly at Bunnells, shows in Bir- mingham to-day. It has made a very satis- factory record in the different towns.
 Albert Mattoon and Henry Redfeld, of this city, rode on their bicycles to Hartford and return Sunday. They expressed themselves as having delightful ride, but poor roads.
 On Saturday a single blast was set off in Mine Hill stone quarry ,owhich resulted in throwing out stone 100 feet long, twenty feet wide and six feet thick I. contains 12,- 900 cubic feet.
 Nine fat men in Thomaston, supposed to weigh at least 200 pounds each, anxious to play game of base ball with any other nine equally fat men in the country for a risk of eighteen dinners.
 The anti-oleomargarine law has scored it's first victim in Grocer O'Hearn of Norwich, who refused to give the dairy commissioner a sample of his butter and who was fined $100 and costs by Judge Kellogg. The case was appealed.
 Judge Andrews has issued an order of fore closure on the Connecticut Central railroad, at the suit of the State treasurer, for default ed interest. Coupons overdue and unpaid amount to $136, 500. The time for redemp- tion expires on June 21. MT. Edwin Marble, president of Henry Hooker 6 Co.,, carriage manufacturers, is with his wife in Santa Barbara, California. Mrs. Marble has been i'll in California; but is nearly restored. They have been in the Golden State for several months and do not return East for month or two. At the Knights of Labor picnic, to be held at Hamilton Park June IA, hines from the Winchester and rubber shops will contest in base ball, and among other athletic events will be tug-of-war for prize of $25, sack race, 8 three-legged race, 100 yards handi l cap foot race and four bicycle races. A platform twelve feet wide, running the l entire length of the Union depot, between | the two tracks nearest the building, is to be | built. The second track is to be shifted | more towards the harbor, and the improve ment will decrease the danger of boarding | trains the outer track. The work will be | completed in July. The New London correspondent of the New | Haven Sunday Union verges on the profane l when he says: "John G. Stanton, NJ. D., of | this city, is to deliver address the sub- ject o Tempore! Mosesl' before the Con necticut Medical institute, which meets in l New Haven next Wednesday and Thursday" l Waterbury American. l Rubber Hose Cheap, 7s Church St., |