Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-04
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief IGNITION.

The best printing done at Dorman's.
Mr.. Louis Buckner of Baltimore, Nd, is
in town visiting relatives.
A large rattlesnake was killed at Com
pounce lake one evening last week.
The Parnell fund committee will hold its
last meeting tomorrow, Thursday, night.
One of l.. Englehardt's carriage horses
which was highly valued died of collie yes
terday.
The Century for August, the splendid mid
summer number, is for sale by T. Fl. Pease
& Son.
H. B. Perry and family have removed to
their summer home on Chestnut Tree Hill in
Oxford
Collector John c. Byxbee has resigned as
a member of the Democratic State central
committee.
Mary Osborne, daughter of w. N. Os-
borne of Naugatuck, is very sick with ty-
phoid fever.
j. Lewis, of Southington, has resigned
his membership on the Republican State cen
trail committee.
A. E. Platts, who is dangerously i'll, was
resting quite comfortably last night, but was
still in very low condition.
The four camps of this city and the one
in Meriden of the P. o. S. Of A. go to Glen
Island, Thursday, August 10Th.
Mrs A. D. Perkins of Blatchley avenue,
wife of the Center street stamp manufac-
turer, is ill with malarial fever.
Mrs. Redcliffe, the caterer, who has been
confined 70 her home by illness for two or
three weeks, is nearly recovered.
Marcus E. Baldwin, of Woodbridge, has
been appointed administrator on the estate
of the late John NJ. O'Brien, of Ansonia.
Charles Tucker, former resident of An
sonia, but who has resided in Del Norte, Cal,
Diego, Cal.
New boilers are being placed underground
for the steam heating apparatus for the new
college buildings at the corner of High and
Elm streets.
The o. U. A NJ. and the P. o. S. of A.
are contemplating basket picnic at Cold
Spring Grove, in East Rock Park, to be held
within a few weeks.
The emancipation ball of Company G,
armory in Bridgeport Monday evening, was a
very successful affair.
The contemplated improvements of the
Naugatuck Hotel property, Naugatuck, will
be carried out soon nnder the personal super
vision of Landlord futile.
Tomorrow a party from the Sunday
schools of Trinity church, Bridgeport. and
the Congregational churches of Seymour
will go to High Rock Grove.
Tba mil IF fho 1o+o ohn of
Waterbury, has been opened, In it he be-
queaths everything to his wife and only
daughter, Mrs E. NJ. Burial.
At the sharpe races off Savin Rock Thurs
day, the occasion of the G. A. R. picnic, the
Ivernia and the Yale launch will follow the
racers. The best view will be from the liver
MIA.
Miss Sarah Leavenworth, of Seymour, is
visiting for while in Cheshire and New
Haven, and in October will go TO Great
Falls, New Hampshire, where she will here
after reside.
The Second regiment heavy artillery
formerly the Nineteenth Infantry, of which
Adjutant Coe, of this city, was member
will hold its annual reunion in Bridgeport
September II.
Postmaster Wood and E. E. Hotchkiss, of
Naugatuck, started yesterday for a drive
through parts of Litchfeld county. They
will visit Goshen, West Cornwall and other
places and particularly Norfolk.
At Edinburgh on Monday last e1-Presi-
dent Porter and Prof George P. Fisher, of
Yale college, received the degree of LII. D.
and D. D. respectively, from the University
of Edinburgh. These degrees were voted to
them in 1884, but neither were able to go to
England last year to receive them.
The Harmony division, Sons of Temper
ance, excursion to Pawson Park takes place
to-day. The barge Juno leaves Belle dock
at 9 a. m. and the Park at 5 p. m. The
transportation company guarantees to bring
the excursionists back on time though it
takes two tugs. A large party and fine
time for all who go is on the programme