Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-15

Brief Mention.

nKhoh HAcnshVns
School pads at Dorman's.
Brussels soap stands unrivalled.
St. Marys church, Bridgeport, Is to have o
1000 bell In Its tower.
wallingford 10 to have q new ioe company,
and new houses are to DO built st once.
The wolcott fair takes place tomorrow,
and is the last agricultural fair Of the season.
Middletown is talking up electricity for q
street railroad and 4 committee has been sp-
pointed to investigate.
The Army and Navy journal has very
complimentary account of the recent visit Of
the First regiment to Montreal.
In Wsllingford business Is booming in
every factory In town, and In many departs
ments the hands are working evenings.
ColonelJ. B. Doherty, his STAFF and all the
other new officers of the @. N. g., will APP
per before the examining board at Hartford
on October Goth.
A collection will be taken at the Roman
Catholic churches In this city next Sunday
to help In meeting the expenses of building
the Hartford cathedral.
The celebration of the tenth anniversary of
the rectorship of the Rev. Mr.. Lines at st.
Pauls church will be held at the church par
lors tomorrow evening.
the late David Nathan, died at her home on
Elizabeth street, Birmingham. yesterday Of
pneumonia. aged eighty.
Robert o. Tyler post, @. A. R., 4 Hart.
ford, makes an excursion next Thursday to
Poughkeepsis to see the wonderful oantilsver
bridge aud the vsssar girls.
The case of estate of II. 8. Sawyer &
Sons W. the Birmingham and Anaonia horse
railroad Is set down for Thursday next In
the Superior court In this city.
Mrs. Bartlett Bent, of Middleton, received
$1,000 Friday last from the Travellers Insur-
anos company on the life of her husband,
the late Postmaster Bartlett Bent.
The girls In the winding department of A.
Fl. & O. B. Allings' mill in Birmingham
went out yesterday morning, owing 10 . re-
duction of per cent. In the prices paid In
that department.
% The services of e. A. Walker, the New
York editor of the Horseman, published at
Chicago, have been secured as starter at the
fall meeting of the Derby Driving assoOia-
ton, commencing to-day.
Cider Is higher at the mills In Litohaeld
county. and II brings at the big mill In VIM
sted $3.50 per barrel. The customer has to
furnish his own barrel even al that price.
That IL dollar barrel moro than II was
last year.
The abandonment of the dining room car
service on the Consolidated road appears to
be Anal, and the reason given-dangsr
from ire-meets with general appreciation,
although the service was great acoommods-
tion and will be much missed.
The engineers report that 1000 feet Of the
jstty in New Haven harbor IL now finished.
The jetty is to be, whom completed. $500
feet long, or considerably over half . mile In
length. The east brsakwater of New Haven
harbor Ia partially flushed and balance of
$15, 900 remains to be used In the oonstruc-
ton of the west breakwater.
The new secret ballot law applies to -city
elections. Some people have thought that
II did not. Their error grows out of the
fact that In amending the Henney- Hotchkiss
bill, which was eventually killed, II was pro-
vided that city elections should be exempt.
But when the bill died its amendments died
too. The law finally enacted specifically
names "oity elections" a. part of its Geld.