Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-20
LOCAL NEWS.
Rraef Mention.

Brlef Mention.
 Music boand at Dorman's.
 Forepaugh's circus visits Birmingham June 5. s
 Benjamin LIn@ey, of Ansonia, left yeater- day for Merwin's Point for the season.
 Grand Sagamore Hunt of this city visited Poccatuck tribe of Red Men last night.
 William McEvoy, of Birmingham, has just finished table that contains 2,500 pieces of wood.
 Governor Lounsbury has reappointed Dairy Commissioner James B. Tatem for the term of two years from May l..
 Derby is excited over 8 walking match, which commenced last night in the Tin9ue rink with twenty starters.
 Detective Reilly is trying to find out who broke into Butrick's drug store on Meadow street Monday night and taking ten dollars from the till
 W. S. Maltby, of Birmingham, contem- plates making trip to Rio Janeiro. Brazil, where he will give exhibitions in his superb bicycle riding.
 The lecture of MT. James N. Townsend, ,jr., of New York, to the members of the Law school on "The transfer of monetary securi- ty," that was to have taken place yesterday afternoon, has been postponed one week.
 MT. Edward Hemphill, 8 rancho owner in Arizona, who has been visiting old friends in this city, left for home yesterday, taking with him the best wishes of all his old ae- quaintances for his further success and pros- perity.
 The members of the New Haven fire de- pertinent are now on the qui vive owing to the fact that many of them are to be sub jected to e physical examination, such as it is the lot of the policemen to undergo at present.
 The Washington Star says that Miss French. daughter of Representative French of Connecticut, is the best and most fearless horseback rider of all the many Washington ladies who delight in that delightful method of exercise.
 The first grading on the extension to the Derby railroad was done Wednesday when about 100 laborers were set to work upon the section just above the Shelton park; 100 Italians arrived at Derby by boat Wednes- day and still another gang was expected yes- terday.
 The Southern New England Telephone company has just declared quarterly divi-~ dend. This time it is one per cent. less than usual owing to extraordinary expenses in cured by the blizzard and by some changes in the location of the company's plant, chiefly in Hartford.
 Sunday will be notable day in Center church history. Rev. Dr. Smyth will in the morning preach historical discourse appro- priate to the 250th anniversary of Center church, and in the evening a commemorative service will be held with addresses by Prof. Fisher, Prof. Harris and Rev. Dr. McKensie of Boston.
 The funeral services over the remains of the late D. Thurber Salisbury, formerly one of the proprietors of the drug store at No. Grand avenue, Fair Haven, were held at the residence of his father-in- law, s. M. Brown, at No. 249 Quinnipiac street yesterday after noon. The remains were taken to Plymouth for interment.
 Civil Engineer Boiler of the Derby exten- sion said yesterday that the deepest cut on the line would not be more than thirty feet, but that the route was the most uneven for it's length in the country. One of the en- gineers said he had been through the Rocky Mountains and with much less difficulty than from Shelton to Zoar Bridge.