Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-11
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

All kinds of printing at Dorman's.
 Parlor Rock had it's first picnic of the sea- son yesterday.
 This evening @ pleasant social event takes place at the Church of the Messiah.
 F. F. Brooks with his family is passing the summer season at South Cheshire.
 The Tariff Reform club swung out a Cleye- land banner across Chapel street yesterday.
 The Milford veterans have decided to hold their fair on September 20 in their own hall.
 The United Order of the Golden Cross hold their annual State picnic at High Rock to- day.
 Conductor 0. NJ. Phillips will have charge of one of the Sunday trains on the Derby road
 A dangerous and viciously acting bull dog was shot by police officer on Bridgeport's streets Monday night.
 Frederick Wilhelm lodge No. 47, K. of F., is the name of new lodge instituted in Waterbury this week.
 In Bridgeport last evening big paper bal- loon twenty-five feet high was sent up from the residence of W. F. Green.
 An excursion to Fort Lee on the Hudson will be given by St. Joseph's T. A. and L. society of Bridgeport August IS.
 C. E. Longley with his family left New Haven yesterday morning to enjoy months vacation in the Adirondack mountains.
 The first shoes were made yesterday at the new rubber shop in Naugatuck, five shoe- makers being employed to do the work.
 Mrs. A. Fox and family of Corsicans, Tex, and Celia and Idalia L.. Asher are summering at the Island View House, Stony Creek.
 An excursion to Glen Island on the steam CT Rosedale will be given by the German Re- formed church of Bridgeport next month.
 Mir. and Mrs Sylvester Smith and their son, Dr. Edward s. Smith, will sail for Europe to-day, to be absent about three months.
 Rev. Mr. Poteat has accepted the call ten- dered him by the Calvary Baptist church and will begin his pastorate October l. Mi. Poteat is at present in Germany.
 There will be meetings of the Republican league on Wednesday evenings, July Il and August 15, and every Wednesday evening during September and October.
 The late Mrs. Dudley of Winsted was the widow of George Dudley, who for fifty years was one of the most successful men of Win sted. She was eighty-one years old. Ell. B. Billings, of the committed. on print ing and advertising for Bridgeport's Fourth of July celebration, is prostrated at his resi- dence owing to over-exertion on the Fourth.
 Boys broke into and robbeda Bridgeport grocery store Monday night of $40 in change They abstained from stealing any thing else although fruit, candy end cigats were within reach.
 MT. George W. Cooper of Atwater block raised $272 50 for the Hubbell fund and turned it over to Chief Hendrick yesterday afternoon. John G. Chapman has collected over $10O for the fund.
 Messrs Folsom, Traeger, Gould, Longdsn, Mitchell. Seeley and Savage of New Haven, accompanied by Charles Beers and Harry Nichols of Bridgeport, are attending shoot with the Jersey City team in that city.
 Two printers on the New Haven Union named Johnson and Allabaugh played bil- Hard match at the Converse House last even ing, the former winning by score of 250 to 201. The match was for stake of $10.
 Dr. c. A. Lindsley, secretary of the State board of health, visited South Norwalk Sat urday afternoon to look after the snallpox cases in that city. He found that the proper sanitary precautions had been well attended to.
 Jeremiah Howard of Meriden, twenty two years old, fell from g third story window to the sidewalk at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, sustaining injuries from which he will prob ably die. He fell asleep while sitting on the window sill.
 The Hibernian Rifles of Hartford. Captain P. T. Dwyer, have accepted an invitation from the local military at Norwich, this State, and will visit the latter place on Thursday, July 26, accompanied by the hon. orary corps and Weeds band.