Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-11
LOCAL NEWS.
RrAef Mention.


 The best in stationery at Dormanis-
 Rents collected promptly at n. F. Hoadley'a. MT. Willard Lucas, of Norwich, is visiting friends in this city.
 The Fifteenth c. V. has it's annual reunion in Meriden Aug. 18th.
 Rev. Mr. Reynolds and wife, of North Ha- ven, are at Ashfeld, Mass.
 The First church Sunday school, of Mil ford, will picnic at High Rock to-day.
 A nine year old horse belonging to Ralph l. Lindsley, of Branford, has strsyed away from home.
 Attorney Sawyer, of Meriden, was.in New Haven yesterday to make settlement of the Hurlbut estate case.
 MT. George M. Gum, of Milford, is to erect beautiful cottage on his lot on Lafsy- cite street this fall.
 Cigarmakers' union, ot New Haven, will engage the Wheeler & Wilson band for the Labor day parade, Sept. 3.
 Dr. J. s. Carroll and family, of Milford, have gone to Camden, N. J., where they will rusticate for several weeks.
 Meriden's Britannia shop platers are to have big elambake at Compounce today, with base ball and other games.
 The New Haven Yacht club will rendez- vous at the Thimble Islands this evening, preparatory to their annual cruise.
 The new locomotive on the Derby road is 60 large that it has to be uncoupled from it's tender when it uses the turntables.
 The Plainville grange will hold picnic at .Compounce Lake next Wednesday. Burritt
 -R -l grange will join in.
 The annual meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence union of Connecticut will be held at Rockville on Tuesday, Aug. 2a. A large attendance is expected by delegates from all arts of the State.
 Company sergeants of Meriden, five in number, came to New Haven last evening in accordance with request from Adjutant Welles, who wished to instruct them previous to the encampment.
 An excursion to Glen Island, via New Ha- ven and the Sound, has been arranged for by Charter Oak council, Order of United American Mechanics of Hartford. The dase is Tuesday, Sept. 4.
 William H. Byxbee, eldest brother of Col lector Byxbee, died at his home in Norwalk Thursday afternoon, aged 67 years. The in- terment will be in Cyprus Hills cemetery, Brooklyn, on Monday.
 The estate of Seth H. Clark, who died in Hartford in April, has been inventoried at 5,396. 16. The property will go to the widow, Mrs. Harmony E. Clark and son, Frederick s. Clark, of New Haven.
 MT. o. Howes, the Florida hotel keeper, made flying visit to friends in this city yes- terday and left to join his wife in Massa- chusetts. He returns in three weeks to spend several days in this city and at West Haven shore. Rev. Gottfried Schadewell, a Catholic clergyman, is visiting his old home, New Ha- ven. He is professor in the Catholic col lege st Macon, Ga., and 1S years ago was one of the COURIER carrier boys. He is visiting his mother here.
 MT. J.. N. Barnes, master of Cheshire grange, is one of the Connecticut farmers with good prospect in his peach orchards. Last year he had something like 1 zoo bas- kets, we believe, and this year counts on 2,O00 at least.-Conneoticut Farmer.
 MT. H. E. Peck, formerly 8 Chapel street photographer, this city, for the last fifteen years resident of Brooklyn and engaged in the bonded warehouse business, has sold his Brooklyn residence for SIS, 900 to the presi- dent of fire association of New York and returned to New Haven to reside, having rented handsome place on West Chapel street.
 Mrs. William F. Ford, whose husband is . .G c. New York, while on her way from the Elliott House to the depot in this city yesterday af- ternoon, was severely stunned by falling to the pavement. In getting out of the carriage on Chapel street her feet caught in her dress. She was in short time able to take the train for Mantle with her husband. s>