Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.


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 General S. E. Merwin left yesterday for . trip to Chicago.
 Delaware peaches are in market in consid- erable quantities.
 The New Britain Knights of St. Patrick picnic at SAvin Rock to-day.
 The Bridgeport Standards new dress of type is very handsome improvement.
 The annual reunion of the Sixteenth O.. V. will be held ct Compounce lake September 17th.
 John Church, who died in Oxford on Thursday, was buried in that place yesterday afternoon.
 in the ninety third year of his age, is staying at Merwin's Point for the summer.
 Joseph I. Doolittle, of Ansonia, has pur- chased the land upon which the cottage oc- cupied by him at Merwin's Point stands.
 The county commissioners were at the county jail yesterday on their usual monthly investigation. Nothing of importance oe- cured.
 Mrs. Hardin, wife of MT. s. 0. Hardin, of Glastonbury, is spending the month at Short Beach, where the family have 8 cottage for the season.
 The Sons of Veterans, of Birmingham, will have an excursion on Monday, August 20, to Thimble Islands and Stony Creek on the steamer NauRatuck.
 Hugh McNulty, of Birmingham, having purchased the cottage of Edwin Swift, of this city, at Merwins Point, took possession August and is moving in this week.
 The big force of men at work on the Derby railroad extension was increased yesterday by the addition of 200 Italians, who came up from New York Sunday night to Bridgeport.
 The regular weekly prayer and conference meeting of the Dwight Place Congregational church will be held this tTuesday) evening at the residence of Miss Dagget, 1172 Chapel street.
 Mrs. Melissa Hnll, widow of Garry Hull, died at her residence, No. 290 South Main street, Waterbury, Sunday afternoon at 2:30. She was s5 years of age and was born in Wa terbury.
 Fl. c. Baldwin, of Naugatuck, has been in- formed that Dr. McGlynn will be present at the labor convention in New Haven the even AAS OA ooPbCAiOSA 1snJ 0nN "AAA 1N0ASAS AA0 meeting.
 Connecticut young men who are students in Roman Catholic colleges are to have Q re- union in this city next Friday. ball game at Hamilton Park will be followed by ban quet at Hills Homestead
 Adam Rahrig and his son Fred, barbers of Abilene, Kansas, were drowned whila bath ing in the river at that place July 2G Mir. Rahrig formerly lived in Bridgeport, and leaves two brothers who reside there.
 William H. Morris, the chief clerk in the accounting department in the Comptroller's office at the Union depot, this city, has re- signed and returned to Philadelphia. His successor is John Magrille, the travelling aud itor of the road.
 Miss Lillie Miles. daughter of John c. Miles, the merchant tailor of this city, is at- tending the summer school of languages at Burlington, Vt. The school is continued for three weeks. It was formerly held at oswe- go, and Miss Miles attended the two last sum- mer sessions there.
 Mir. John W. Nichols, Jr., of Branford, leaves on Wednesday for an extended Adj roudack trip. He has made arrangements with one of the most noted guides in the great North Woods region, and plans exten - sive deer and bear hunts far in the remote wilds of that rugged country. His former advsnterUus experiences of camp life in va- rious wild regions have made him enthuai- Astic in the pursuit of wild auimaIa