Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-07
 LOCAL NEWS.
Rrief Mention.


 The best fountain pen at Dorman's.
 Rents collected promptly at H. P. .Hoadley's.
 Reunion of the old 9th 0. v. in Hartford Wednesday.
 The annual town elections take place Mon- day, Oct. q.
 Running races at Elm City Park next week. Musio by Second regiment band.
 Ex-Police Commissioner William Larkin of Bridgeport died Thursday, aged e7.
 Charles Blakesleo of Stratford has three cats, each of which has seven toes on each foot.
 Mir. Charles Dewey will address the tem- persnce meeting at tho Seamen's Bethel to- morrow night.
 Annie Howard was arrested on Meadow street last evening by Officers McGrsth and Taylor for night walking.
 "Natural Gas" was given at Hawes' Opera House, Bridgeport, Thursday evening. The Standard ssys 1t was great hit.
 Donahue, who was SO badly injured at Winchester armory, is better and may re- cover. His eyesight is probably lost.
 Folsom and Gould, Whitney and Able of this city carried off honors at the Connecti- cut association tournament at Hartford.
 Senator Platt will be one of the speakers at tho meeting of the Connecticut Weekly Press association at Highland Lake, Ssptem- Der 10.
 Chief Hsndriok left yesterday for Kansas City to attend the convention of the National association of fire engineers which opens next Tuesday.
 A two years business course has just been adopted in Bridgeport for the High school there, similar to that In operation at the High school here.
 Stamford wants q soldiers' monument to unveil at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the towns settle- ment, in 1891.
 No laundry soap on the market is as high ly perfumed as Brussels soap. As toilet soap. 1t Is far superior to many of the trashy toilet soaps now being sold.
 The Improvements at Burgess & Burgess arc rapidly progressing and will soon Dc completed. The new front will be ono of the hsndsomest on Chapel street.
 The Mohegan Indians have been holding tbeir annual festival on Massapeag Moun- tain, nine miles above New London. Many New Londoners drive out to see the affair.
 Hogarth Business University is one of the most successful commercial institutions in the State. All integested in practical educa- tion will find 1t to their interest to visit 1t. Office open evenings.
 Frederick DeGroot, . resident at East End and employed by the Stratford Land I'm provement Co.,, caught his right hand on a dredging machine Thursday and 1t was crushed to jelly. The greater part of the hand has been amputated.
 E. L. Munson, Yale go, while shooting on the East Haven marshes yesterday afternoon basged a full plumsged male bshbreastsd sand-piper. This is the first specimen of this species ever taken around here on record according to good authorities on the subject hereabouts.
 Mir. and Mrs. Charles Bigelow of 71s Orange street left the oity yesterday for Chicago, III. After short stay in that city they leave on on extended pleasure trip, reaching ss far west as California. Mir. B!ge- low is a member of the firm of Hsaly & Bige- low, Ssgws medicine manufacturers.
 The launch of the large new four mssted schooner, George M. Grant,st Henry sutton'a shipyard, west Haven, takes place at half past 8 this morning. A large throng will witness the launch, despite the early hour. The ceremony of breaking e bottle of wine over the vessels bow will bs performed by Miss Minnie Grant, daughter of George N. Grant.