Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-23
LOCAL NEWS.


Harper's for August at L. d. Tease q
Sons.
Ladies', $2.6s buys 81 shoe at the Roy
al, 81 Church street.
E. w. Doolitt1e and family of Southing-
ton are at Short Beach.
A large picnic throng of Milforders went
to High Rock Grove yesterday.
The next band concert will be given on
the old green tomorrow evening.
D. G. Easton of Meriden is ill at Stony
Creek with progressive paralysis.
Concrete sidewalks laid by Connecticut
Concrete company, 40 Church st., Room 2.
Senator Hawley will attend the news
paper mems banquet Saturday night in
Meriden.
Joseph II. Deninger, an old resident of
Bridgeport, died yesterday morning, aged
sixty-one.
mering in Torrington at the home of Mrs
E. G. Hotchkiss
The Derby Turner's will be among the
throng who will go to Glen Island to-day
on the Starin.
The annual convention of the Catholic
Total Abstinence union of Connecticut will
be held in Danbury, Tuesday, August 20.
The Acknowledgements Piscatorial club
of Danbury will 60 into camp at Black
Rock for one week, commencing August 81.
Savin Rock travel will be heavy again
this afternoon, if good weather prevails,
owing to the balloon ascension and para
chute drop at o'clock.
Company G of Waterbury has engaged
Lucius w. Fox for camp caterer. Fox
will also cater for Company of Meriden
and Company D of New Haven.
Rev. Mr.. Markwick of Ansonia is in poor
health and has gone away on vacation to
Bartram lake to recuperate. A purse of
money was given him by his people.
Fish Commissioner w. S. Downs is at
tempting to have the Housatonic above the
Derby dam restocked with bass, as all the
gave way.
The union excursion of the Main street
Baptist, First Methodist and First Congre-
gational church Sabbath . schools and
friends of Meriden to Pawson park takes
place Saturday.
Editor Byington writes to the Norwalk
Gazette that Secretary Blaine transacts
large batch Of official business daily,
despite the Worlds story that his health is
in a perilous state.
In Westville yesterday could be seen a
young man selling watermelons with the
following suggestive placard on his stand:
"a bottle of the best Jamaica ginger given
away with each melon"
The funeral of Mrs. William J. Hughes
yesterday was one of the largest ever seen
in Meriden. Francis J. Taylor of this city
was one of the flower bearers and Thomas
Judge of this city one of the bearers.
The steamer Margaret leaves Belle dock
at $50 a. NJ, p. m. and p. M, and not
as erroneously advertised on the fans dis
tributed by St. Georges society, which pic
MICS at Pawson Park to-day.
Fine peaches in New Haven are yet cost
ly. It will crafty our peach lovers to
know that the Delaware peach crop is now
reported unusually large-so plentiful that
many of the trees are breaking down with
their loads of fruit.
Charles S. MacGilvray, newsdealer at
Chapel and Union streets, took all his
newsboys on picnic to the shore yester-
day. In the first place he gave them ride
through the center of the city. They filed
two stages and had great time. e..
The Connecticut Guardsman has ap-
peared for July is. It opens with por-
trait and sketch of Captain, w. J. Fife,
commanding Company o, First regiment,
National Guard of Washington. The
Guardsrnan Is about to be increased in
size.
James McNally, boy about fifteen
years of age, was arrested last night by the
Grand street precinct officers on warrant
charging him with assulting one Bernstein,
Jewish boy about his own age. The
case will come before the court this morn
ing.
Members of the Flower Mission of the
Humphrey street Congregational church
gladdened many of the hospital patients
yesterday by their presence and gifts Of
beautiful fowsrs. A large quantity of the
flowers were the kind gift of Manufacture,
John Adj, and came from the flower beds
on his factory premises.