Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-03
LOCAL NE w g.
Brief Mention.

The Century for June is received and for sale by T. H. Pease & Son.
 A delegation of Harugari members spent Sunday yesterday in Ansonia.
 The clock factory resumes work to-day' after a shutdown of three days.
 The Ansonis Sentinel's new dress of type is very becoming and handsome.
 What is rosin used for? To adulterate soap. What soap contains no adulterations Brussels soap.
 We guarantee the purity of all our goods price is entirely governed by age.-G. F. Heublein & Bro.
 Robert Burgess, of Birmingham, has gone to Savin Rock to take charge of a branch fish business for his father.
 Strawberries arrived in the market in big quantities on Saturday and were sold at correspondingly low prices.
 Assistant Clerk of the City Court E. L.. Lindaley was taken i'll Saturday and is threatened with mslarial fever.
 The fund for the erection of a new chapel for St. Paul's church amounts to about s27,- 900. About $3, 900 more is required.
 Vice President E. M. Reed of the Consoli- dated road is now able to devote considerable time each week to business at his office.
 Mr. Moulthrop, the new postmaster of Nau- gatuck, took charge of the office Saturday. His wife will be his assistant in the office.
 The reappearanoe of sunshine yesterday afternoon brought general satisfaction, and travel to East Rock Park was quite lively.
 The annual meeting and banquet of the Army and Navy club of Connecticut will be held at Fenwick Hall on Monday evening, June 24.
 Sergeant Driscoll of the police force has been off duty for a couple of weeks, owing to an injury to his knee received while making an arrest.
 The vessel now building at Hanscomb's shipyard, Fair Haven, will carry about 400 tons. She will not be finished before late next fall.
 The Ladies' Benevolent society of the Cal- vary Baptist church will hold sociab1e in the church parlors Wednesday evening, June 9th.
 The Rev. MT. Sawyer assistant minister of St. Faul's church, is sick at his home at Tar rytown Heights, New York, with nervous prostration.
  Harry Nj. Loomis of the Waterbury Repub- lican staff and Miss Hattie Mclean, of Rock vile, June 11th.
 Rev. MT. McNeill's people in Bridgeport were not over anxious to let him go ss by vote of 195 to 56 they have declined to &C., cept his resignation.
 Henry G. Dearth, the artist, of Water- bury, will sail for France next Wednesday: to be gone about a year, to pursue his studies and get new subjects.
 Thirteen new houses have been erected on Cedar Hill avenue in the last eighteen months. All are two story frame dwellings with from eight to twelve rooms each.
 Business at the Candee rubber works is again quite driving. The long spell of wet weather and heavy rains have given a new boom to the rubber boot and shoe trade.
 Elder J. A. Wheeler, of New Haven, will deliver the address at the dedication of Tor- rington's new Advent church next Wednes- day. Elder Davis, of Bridgeport, breaches in the evening.
 MT. John Ruff, for many years one of the leading contractors at Sargent & Co.'s man. ufactory, is having a very pleasant time JouHHoJibS III huIoPe, HIS hIsI iOnB Nacaslou and rest from labor in many years
 The damage by the smashup on the New EuRland railroad at East Hartford on Satur- day between to freight trains amounts to $5,OOO. MT. Hall, the fireman who was killed, had his back broken. He was caught in the wreck.
 Mrs. Mary L. Dikeman of 178 Brewery street died quite suddenly yesterday. No disease, but simply old age, was the cause of her death. Mrs. Diksman belonged an old and respected family. She was nearly eighty years of age.
 There is some prospect that Barnum's cir GUS will be exhibited on the big lot in Fair Haven corner of Grand avenue and James street. The location is moro central than the old one and the change would be satisfactory to large number of people. Chapel street wore lonesome look Satur- day night after 10 o'clock. The trade done Saturday evening by the merchants was chiefly in umbrellas, rubber shoes and waterproofs. Rain was most plentiful and even the farmers are well content.
 The work of excavating the biz cellar for the new school edi6ce to be erected on the corner of Lawrence and Nash streets is well started. Scores of loads of stones for con- crete pavement purposes are being sifted out of the earth taken from the cellar.