Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-03
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Children's note papers at Dormans.
 See advertisement child's clothing found
 The Southport Congregational church ii undergoing extensive repairs.
 The South church people, of Bridgeport picnicked. at High Rock yesterday.
 The Universalist Sunday school of Dan. bury picnic at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, to- day.
 The Board of Education will meet this evening, and an interesting meeting is ex- pected.
 Two New Haven gentlemen shot thirteen snipe on the North Haven meadows early yesterday morning.
 Aaron G. Pease, senior member of the firm of A. G. & R. A. Pease, Middletown, died yesterday, aged seventy.
 Organizations representing five thousand members have accepted inyitaions to take part in Hartford's parade September IF.
 M. B. Hitchcock and c. E. Bristol, attor- ney of Plainville, went fishing on Winsted pond last week and hooked thirty fine bass.
 Colonel H. K. Scott, of Ridgefeld, has been busy for some time past buying up rights of way for the Ridgefeld and Port chester railroad.
 Corporal Wallace H. Bradley of the Grays won the medal offered for the member who brought the most recruits into the company by September 1.
 Prominent citizens said yesterday that action would probably be taken in this city to help the funds which are being raised in the North for stricken Charleston.
 Miss Aggie McCabe will sing at the Good Samaritan temperance meeting next Sunday evening. Miss Mamie Carney will preside at the piano during Miss McCabe's singing.
 Dr. E. L. R. Thompson, while gunning on North Haven meadows Wednesday, caught an Albino swallow. These birds are very rarely caught, and the one captured is valued at $2O0.
 A building 1OOx35 feet and with veran- dah ten feet wide will be completed at Meri- den's driving park before the State fair opens September II. A big grange exhibit is expected.
 Frank x. Byron, the man who was arrest ed day or 50 ago in Boston for forgery and embezzlement, is supposed to have a wife and child in New Haven. whom he deserted some time ago and went West
 Frank Chandler, of the Board of Relief, will represent the St. Boniface German Cath olic church at the coming national conven- tion in Toledo, O., of the various organiza- tions comprising the Central St. Boniface Vereins.
 At meeting of the creditors of Hurd & Hoadley, Ansonia, held owing to the .disap- pearance of MT. Hoadley, Mir. F. c. Lines was appointed trustee and the affairs of the company were placed in his hands for ad- justment.
 Earthquake insurance is nowhere known, and the Hartford fire companies, with all others, pay no losses by fire in buildings that have fallen. There is a special clause in all their policies specifically mentioning this exception.
 The Woman's Board of City Missions will hold their next regular meeting at the Center church chapel at three o'clock this afternoon. The first half horr will be occupied with de votional exercises. All interested are invited to be present.
 Misses Nettie Clark and Leila Holmes, of Meriden, went out sketching Wednesday and got lost in the woods. They suffered terrible anxiety, but finally emerged from the woods and found themselves in Berlin. They re- turned home greatly to the joy of their pa rents, who had searching party out SCOUT ing the woods for them.