Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-03-21
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Union Evangelistfc Services-Service
by a Colored Quartette-Found on
the Street-A Voyage Full of Dam
ger-The New BigelOw Council
The Late Miss IemiDgWay-Mtscel-
laneOus Items of News.
Union evangelistic services will be held
in the Grand avenue Baptist church Tues
day afternoon at Ais o'clock by Rev. E.
Payson Hammond, the evangelist. A few
years ago Mr.. Hammond held series of
meetings in the Grand avenue Congrega-
tionai church and many were converted.
Mr.. Hammond will be glad to meet his old
friends at this meeting. All are invited.
The Yale seminary colored quartette
sang in the Grand avenue Congregational
church last evening, according to the pro-
gram given in this paper. There was
large congregation and all were pleased
with the sweet melodies and the interesting
addresses.
A baptism service was held in the Grand
avenue Baptist church last evening.
A bundle, which also contained bank
book, picked up on the sidewalk in town
Saturday evening and addressed to Miss
Jeanette Thompson of Pierpont street, was
y
f. D. Ludington led the meeting at the
Home of the Friendless yesterday after
noon.
Charles E. Ewing of Yale divinity school
| conducted the meeting of the Y. P. s. g. E.
| of the Second church last evening.
A magic lantern exhibition will be given
! in the rooms of the w. G. T. U. this even
ing at 7:45 o'clock. S-venty-fve views
| will be shown by F. L. Kanahan.
Gantuin Rurrin sf fhI, Mamma
E. Waterman, which lays anchored off the
| head of the beach with 2 800 bushels of
Virginia oyster plants for J. E. Bishop &
Co., reports a tempestuous voyage. The
Waterman is q fishing schooner of We'll
| feet, Mass, and on the run down the coast
| the captain was able to take an observation
| of the sun only once in ten
days. The gale was very heavy
and for seven days the schooner was
hove to; The first bearings got was the
the trip north was nearly as severe. In
crossing the mouth of Delaware bay the
boat was swept overheard, but was So
cured with considerable difficulty. The
decks were swept with waves and one of
| the sailors was swept over the rail, but
catching the end of q rope managed to
save himself. It has been too severe
weather to discharge the cargo, but as soon
as the present gale abates and the tempera-
ture will admit the cargo of oysters will
be planted. This is the first arrival of
plants this year. It is earlier than the first
boat last March, but at this time last year
| it was good weather for oyster planting.
The officers of the new lodge, Bigelow
council, o. U. A. NJ, are as follows:
| Councillor, M. j. Putney; vice councillor,
J. H. Clounsn; recording secretary, H. P.
r. Baldwin. financial secretary. d. Reich
81; treasurer, L. R. Goodyear; conductor,
H. n. Weston; examiner, William leu
Dor; inside protector, 8. Squires; outside
protector, Paul Goldberg; senior, w. E.
Penfeld; trustees, George Durston, Will
liam Penfeld.
Rev. Horace Hovey, for several years q
pastor of the Second church, recently left
for southern California.
On Tuesday evening of next week
Judge L. P. Deming will lecture in Bing-
bamton, N. Y, before the Y. M. @. A.
Miss Louisa Hemingway, who recently
died in Kansas, was formerly of East
Haven. Two sisters survive: Mrs. Cor
nelia Porter of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Mrs.
Francis Foote Andrews of East Haven.
Her father, Captain Hervey Hemingway,
who died nearly fifty years. ago, was in the
old stage coaching days the manager of q
line Of packets running between New
Haven and New York. Miss Hemingway
was sister in-lsw Of the late Rev. DR.. D.
William Ravens, pastor of the Old Stone
church of East Haven from 1S47 to 1877.
Many Fair Haveners went over to view
the Union depot fire Saturday evening.
The Oldest weather prophet has little to
protractsd gale of wind.