Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-19

NOb1Ges During the summer THE JOURNAL AND COURIER will be sent to any address, and changed as often as desired, at the regular l subscription rates, postage paid.
 LOCAL NEWS.
 Brief Mention. E.P. Hoadley will rent or sell you house. The St. Roee T. A. B. society of Meriden visit Pawson Park to-day. Fred N. Kinney, ,who has heen i'll for about a week, is able to be about again. Miss Myrtle Cargill of New Haven is visis- ing Mrs. A. X. Lathhury in Shelton.
 Pierce Ward is building twostory frame house on Clay street to contain ten rooms
 Walter Armstrong of Birmingham has been appointed gate tender at the New Haven and Derby depot.
 The Birmingham Athletic clubs ball team will go to Naugatuck to-day to play ball with nine in that place.
 The Ladies' Aid society of Woodmont chapel are preparing to give lawn party next Wednesday evening.
 A party of sixteen men from New Haven and the towns in this vicinity had clam bake at Indian We'll yesterday.
 The Old Colony Distilleriss company is erecting bonded warehouse 75x50 on Haven street, Fair Haven, to be two stories high.
 Young Ernest Walters, who has suffered much from Fourth of July wound, was said to be in a more unfavorable condition last evening.
 Rev. c. W. DeLyon Nichols of Staten Island, formerly assistant at St. Thomas church, this city, has been in Bridgeport for Q few days.
 Mr. A. F. Danks and wife of New Haven, with their daughters Mabel and Buddy, are stopping at the Winsted house, Winsted, for the summer.
 Lowe Bros, builders, are about complet- ing fine. large, first-olass tenement house on Clay street to contain twenty rooms and all modern improvements.
 Thomas Welch, one of the oldest Irishmen of Birmingham, and generally esteemed, died yesterday. The funeral will take place on Sunday at St. Mary 8 church in that place.
 Blakeslee & Sons of this city have been awarded contract by the Derby selectmen for paving with Belgian block the approach to the Naugatuck bridge on the Derby side. The new two dollar silver certificates are well calculated to deceive, but the counter. felt is about quarter of an inch shorter than the genuine and one-sixteenth nar- rower.
 P.J. Kelley, the Collis street grocer whose store was raided by officers and liquor found in it on Thursday, was arrested yesterday on e warrant charging him with selling liquor without license.
 P. McKenna and family have gone to Woodbridge hills, where they have sum- mer residence, to spend the summer. It Is only a short drive into the city behind MT. McKenna's steppers.
 Ex-Posi master General Thomas L. James ot New York has been visiting Mrs. Julia A. Billings at Park Place, Bridgeport, for the past few days. Yesterday morning he re. turned to New York.
 E. F. Schmidt of Birmingham was in New Haven Thursday and completed arrangements with the railroad company for an excursion train to run to New Haven on the day of the R. M. BAssett's excursion to Glen Island.
 Levi Hodge of Torrington received $30C worth of trout for spawning purposes a few days since and placed them in small pond. During the night in some way all the water was drawn off the pond and the fish died.
 Edgar 5. Shaw, travelling salesman for N. Palmer & Go. of Hartford, has been bound oyer to the superior court in $500 bonds for alleged embezzlemsnt of about $50, funds furnished by the firm for travelling expenses.
 Snipes, tue colored man charged with bigamy, was bound over to the superior court at Meriden yesterday. His first wife. West Haven woman, whom he married when he lived in this city, was the principal witness.
 The Echo hose, hook and ladder company of Shelton have decided to make an excur- sion to the Hudson river by the Housatonic and New England railroads on Thursday, August 2. The excursion will run from New Haven.
 Rev. L. H. Squires will preach in Meriden Sunday and Rev. W. 8. Perkins of Msriden will preach at the Church of the Messiah. There will be only one service, the evening service having been suspended until the first of September.
 A new postal card has been ordered by the government sHd Alfred Dsggett has fur nished samples. They are to be larger than ordinary and will be used by advertisers ex- tensively. A smaller card for ladies will soon be ordered.
 MT. Will Walling, the popular tenor bal. lsdisr of Bridgeport, leaves next Monday to join the George Wilson minstrel company at Elmira, N. Y. The company will appear in Bridgeport in August, prior to their tour through the south.
 Misses Willistine Goodsell, Grace Little john, Clara White, Minnie Tillou, Emily Tillotson, Gertrude Sanford, Lyla Wells, Eunioe Barney, Fannie Barney and Pauline Latham have taken cottage at Morris Cove. The chaperone is Miss Tillou.
 The petition to congress emanating from Admiral Foote post. G. A. R., asking con- gress to cause to be erected in the city of Washington monument in honor of Andrew Hall Foote, is now being circulated amono our citizens for signatures. It is headed by Lieutenant Governor Merwin's name.
 Eugene Schuyler, scholar, author and diplomat and American consul general at ] Cairo, whose death at Cairo is announced in our telegraphic columns this morning, was ono of Yale's most noted sons. He was one of the lions of Yale commencement day in 1885, on which occasion Yale conferred upon him the degree of LID.
 many Improve Their Vacation By taking course of lessons in psnman- ship and bookkeeping 1t the Hcgarsh Busi- nsss university. It opens every morning at 2 o'clock, corner Chapel and Church streets. Tha attendance is large and daily increasing. We arc bound to clear ont our summer 1tock at any prics. Brooks G O., Chapel, SoruaR 9kafe Txnnkn aakchaIn ntc