Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-04
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

All hAAoACo3 PShAA p0PSA, DSAAAssAA 5' Eagle Hose company of Ansonia has re- elected it's old board of officers.
 Meriden Universalists are to build a $50, ,OOO edifce on Norwood street.
 There are 119 grangss in Connecticut with membership of over 10000.
 Captain John McNeil has been reap pointed harbor master of Bridgeport
 The Second Methodist church in East Norwalk will be dedicated about March 1. The Kenwick club of Yale Law school students and others will banquet to-mor- row evening.
 Work on the Housatonic dam is pro- gressing with greater activity than was an- ticipated by the owners.
 Samuel M Munson has sold his house on Wall street near Church to the Scroll and Key society of Yale.
 Seven candidates were examined in this city yesterday for positions as postofice clerks and letter carriers. >@ Highway robbers on Cherry street, Mer- iden, last night took $8 from a man and escaped on freight train.
 Work will be immediately commenced on a parochial school and convent in Tor rington. They will cost $35, 900.
 Eight licenses were granted by the coun- ty commissioners yesterday. A few saloon keepers are still on the anxious seat.
 Census Supervisor John McOarthy is going to Washington on March 1 to close up his account with the government.
 James and William Ryan are under ar rest in Portland. They are thought to be guilty of large number of local burg laries.
 Baggage Master schilling of Conductor Perkins train on the Derby road, has re turned from vacation spent in the ole Bay State.
 The Young Peoples guild of Grace P. E church will give musical and dramatic entertainment on tomorrow evening 8 Central hall.
 Daniel McDermott, who was hurt by fall in the Farrel foundry, Monday, lies i, serious condition at his home on Bridg street, Ansonia.
 Frank G. Booth, brother of John ant William Booth, proprietors of the Mill stone quarry, died in Denver, Colorado Saturday night.
 The photograph gallery corner of Lafay cite and Beaver streets, New Britain, ant owned by McInerney, burned to tn ground yesterday.
 The item linking the name of Rev. Dr Hovey with prominent Hartford churcl appeared without his knowledge or author ity and was copied from an exchange.
 The news of granting new trial to Dr and Mrs. Knowles, who were sentenced t state's prison for the killing of John Wal ters, causes much dissatis fation in Nev Milford and vicinity
 The corner stone of the new conven building in Waterbury will be laid nex Sunday. The ceremony will be perform ed by Bishop McMahone, assisted by large number of priests.
 Glover Sanford & Sons of Bridgepol said yesterday that there was no immed ate prospect of the retirement of the firm and that the statement to that effect mad in Bridgeport paper was premature.
 Police Commissioner Beardsley ( Bridgeport, an oil merchant, dropped dea on the street yesterday owing to heart fai ure. He had been, to all appearances, i perfect health. He was born in Ridgefelt He served in the Sixth N. Y. cavalry the war.
 Tonight the annual ball of the Knight of St. Patrick occurs at the Hyperion an brilliant and very enjoyable event is ar ticipated. Attention is called to the orde of the mayor, given in another column, r garding the arrival and departure of ca riages for the ball tonight.
 The board of management of the Ne Haven Building and Loan association ca ' befound at Canpon & Burton every eve, ing, prepared to furnish information reference to tho workings of such asssci tions, and to issue stock in the second g. ries of the organization.
 Seven hundred pounds of pickerel wa taken in Monday from Mill river, near tl foot of the Lake Whitney dam this wee by half dozen men, with net. Thel six or seven bushels of the fish in al About 400 pounds of the catch were sol to fish dealers the rest were for home col sumption. One bushel more of picker was taken out. The supply is now abo, exhausted.