Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-23
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention,

Full line mourning paper at Dorman's.
Druggist ]. Il. Klock was much improved
yesterday.
from Eastport, Ne.
Harper's for September is received and
for sale by 7. q. Pease & Son.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Dickerman, of West
vile, have returned from Saratoga.
Miss Lizzie Southworth of the Orchard
street school is at New Braintree, Massachu-
sets.
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Maycock, of Win
sted, has gone to Merwin's Point to stay un-
til September 1st.
The Yalesville NJ. E. church picnicked at
Savin Rock yesterday. About two hundred
and fifty attended.
Tuesday nights rainfall was SGT inches,
the heaviest since September 5, 1878, when
the rainfall was 60 inches
DR.. G. G. E. Jacobs of Hartford, who has
been very i'll, his life being despaired of on
Sunday, is somewhat improved.
Miss Louise Southworth of Whslley ave-
nue., soprano of the First N. e. church, is
spending week or two in Philadelphia.
Mr.. John Preston, q veteran Freemason
well known to all Bridgeport's older citizens,
is lying Frustrated at his home by paralysis.
Mr.. Mehan, a contractor at Sargent's fac
tory, has just erected a nice two-story and
half frame house on Kimberly avenue, south
side.
While at work at Sargent's yesterday An
gelo Batillo, an italian, had the top of the in
dex finger of his right hand cut off by drop
press.
Miss Alice Barley of Lafayette street and
Miss Annie Gilbert Of Sylvan avenue are
spending five or six weeks at Stockbridge,
Mass.
Several men wore overcoats last evening,
owing to the~Sauge of atmosphere in the
past twenty-tour hours: Truly this is vari-
able weather.
Mr.. Remington, the Crown street saloon
keeper who tried to commit suicide last
Monday, is improving at the hospital and
wilt probably recover.
Miss Grace A. King, formerly of Hartford,
will sail for Europe on Saturday, September
period studying music.
The superintendent of parks yesterday had
his men at work cutting down several of the
pine trees on Wooster square green, as the
shade from them killed the grass.
The bridge across the Pennington river in
Collinsville, built over forty years ago, was
recently pronounced to be unsafe by experts
and new one is now being built.
Mrs. Sarah Hamilton and Miss Louisa
Gilbert of Derby, together with their lady
friend, went to Merwin's Point yesterday to
spend few days at the cottage of Rev. Mr..
Lee.
The Hon. Marvin Il. Sanger, of Canter-
bury, has been chosen president of the
Brooklyn Savings bank to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of DIR. William Wood
bridge.
Without any doubt the body found near
North Haven last Thursday was that of
Charles johnson, who had been in the ems
ploy of Matthews & Howard, the Grove
street shoemakers, Meriden.
The following from Waterbury are occu-
pying cottages on Waterbury avenue, Madi-
son: L. P. Mitchell and wife, Fred Tate and
wife, R. Sanford and family, S. A. Watrous
and wife, Miss Clara Boyd, Miss Alice
Schwaeble, Miss Mary Rodman, Miss Corne-
liza Rodman and Ben Rodman are guests of
MI. and Mrs. Watrous. W. Cotter's cottage
is unoccupied:
Now Haven peach dealers say peaches viii
not be any cheaper this season and that the
peach crop though good one is not enor-
nous, and Is distributed more systematical-
" from the r1eaeh growing centers than for
merly, SO that no market is glutted; also
that the demand for the crop is this season
larger than ever berore. About 1900 baskets
a week are now sold in this city, 5000 of
which come from the peach trains. One or
two peach trains pass through this city
daily averaging tYentY-fiYe cars to q train