Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-08
LOCAL NE w 8.
Brief Mention.


Rockville's fair and horse races begin to-
day.
Four Meriden prisoners were brought to
the county Jail yesterday.
Nearly four inches of rain fell during the
late prolonged unpleasantness.
The new schooner George E. Dudley will
make its initial trip about October 1.
Concrete sidewalks laid by Connecticut
Concrete company, 40 Church st., Room 2.
The New Haven Clock company's shop
starts up in nearly all the departments to-
day.
About twenty-five of the men at Munson
& Co. had a clambake yesterday at East
Haven river.
Tom Hamilton (2:21D, the $4,000 trotter
recently purchased by William Nicely, ar
rived safely in this city yesterday after
noon.
Buyers of furniture should attend the
special discount sale this week only at the
Bowditch & Prudden Co.'s, 104 Orange
street.
John A. Brewer of Bridgeport, aged
y
ago the deceased suffered stroke of par
alysis.
Mr.. Ferguson, the rich Pittsburger who
owns most of Fishers island, has purchas-
ed Lyle beach of S. E. Mort of Norwich for
$4,000.
The new Royal shoes are now ready for
inspection. Call and examine; 90 Church
street, near Chapel. Harry N. Hughes
proprietor.
George E. Robertson, late of this city,
secretary to President Harper of Chicago
university, is located at 391 Fifty-ffth
street, Chicago.
The Sons of Veterans annual conven-
ton and field day came off at Naugatuck
yesterday. Nearly six hundred took part,
including ten drum corps.
The keepers of the houses of ill-fame in
Milford have all now been found guilty.
The case of Della Brown was decided at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Hundreds more of the Acme cash rail-
way for stores, ETC., are being put in all
over the Union. In New Haven Mr.. Swe-
10Y WILL pun Ill lhOAo
The four days trotting meeting is to
open at Waterbury this afternoon, when
the $50 and $50 classes are to be decided.
Both of these classes are we'll filled.
The old covered bridge at Whitneyville
will soon be no more. But little of it re-
mains in place. The new iron bridge will
be handsome and much appreciated i'm
provement.
Burr Curtis, a Bridgeport builder, was
savagely attacked by large dog belonging
to William Miller on East Main street in
that city Sunday and was bitten in the calf
of his right leg. The wound was cauter-
lied
Two of the old well known and respect
ed citizens of Winsted, Mr.. Philo e. Shell
don and Mr.. William G. Phelps, have just
reached their eighty-fourth birthday, and
they and their respective families celebrat-
ed the event.
The elegant home and grounds, two hun
dred acres in extent, of the late John B.
Cough, which cost 5000, 900, together with
all the tools and utensils of the place, has
been sold to a wealthy citizen of Boylston,
Mass, named Hogg.
Tue West Haven Jail was overcrowded
last evening in consequence of brawls and
overindulgence at the bars at the Labor
day celebration at Savin Rock. The pris-
oners were numerous enough to pick up
the jail building and carry it off.
Controller Staub is in quandary. He
BE- 10 %ha for &ho of
our soldiers who were at Camp Watson,
but cannot see his way clear to do SO from
a democratic point of view. So he is con-
sidering and smoking more cigars than
usual.
The public schools reopen to-day. The
long vacation has been long enough to sat-
isfy large majority of the scholars and
they will continue loyal to school until
chestnutting time arrives. The chestnut
trees around New Haven are heavily laden
with the burrs.
The Wilmington Del.) Every Evening
announces that Edward F. James of that
city and Thomas F. Dunn of Dover have
accepted respectively the positions of bust
ness manager and assistant business man
ager of the New Haven Palladium and will
enter on their duties on October 1.
Andrew Moorhead, of the Centennial
American Tea company, and John Conboy,
the merchant tailor of Church street, are
about to erect the highest if not the largest
sign in the United States on the property
corner of Hill and Prince streets. The d.
mensions of the sign will be 100 feet long
and 40 feet high, of brickwork surmounted
by 20 feet of woodwork-height in all, go
feet. The sign is to be elegantly decorated
and lettered and is to advertise theiy re-
speotiye lines Of business,