Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-10
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
To-day it is expected will be warmer
than yesterday.
The Norwalk opera house opens for the
season this evening.
The Baptist Sunday school of southing-
ton picnic at Savin Rock today. :.
Washington commandery. Knights Tenn
plar, of Hartford, arrived in Denver, Col :,
yesterday.
A union excursion of the Methodists and
Congregationalists of Torrington at High
Rock grove to-day.
Rev. j. S. Haugh, the pastor of the
Methodist church, Essex, will preach in
this city next Sunday.
Mr.. q. A. Morrison has nearly completed
his plans for erecting the new hotel at
Bunnells pond in Trumbull.
Timothy O'Brien was arrested last even
ing by Officer W. G. Doherty charged with
breach of the peace on his wife: s-
Eel lodge, Knights of Ply thias, conferred
the first degree on one candidate last even
ing, and the third degree on one. ..
The moonlight excursion party on the
steamer Margaret last evening were caught
in the shower which began soon after the
boat started. ,A..
Town Agent Clarity reports that there
are at the present time $50 inmates at
springsids farm, as against az at the same
time last year. ri
Mr.. Hermance, well known Eighth
orIa 60 ho~ h,ioI all
ing on his land on State street just above
Trumbull street.
Judge John w. Fowler, town clerk Of
Milford. celebrated his eighty fifth birth
day Saturday. The judge is more spright-
ly than many at fifty.
The Echo Hose company of Shelton will
give an excursion to ROTOR Point on Au-
gust 10, starting from Belle dock. The
boat will return about $50 p. m.
Congressman Wilcox has returned from
Washington and is stopping at his cottage
at West Beach, Westbrook, where he will
spend the remainder of the summer.
Willis E. Miller of Ives & Miller, of the
Mount Carmel axle works, is interested in
organizing a company for tho manufacture
of ice in the axle shop on State street, this
city.
B. j.. Keegan ofNew Haven has brought
suit against Thomas Butler. proprietor of
the candy kitchen at Pleasure Beach, near
Bridgeport, to recover $40 for back wages
which he claims to be due him.
Yesterdays intense heat was mitigated
occasionally by slight breeze, and in the
evening during the thunder storm the
breezes that blew were refreshing. But
after the shower came a renewal of the
heat
Professor Totten, late of Yale university,
will speak at the Tylerville camp meeting
next Sunday forenoon on prophetic topics,
and Elder William N. Pile, pastor of the
"Household of Faith" of Brooklyn, N. Y,
will preach in the afternoon.
The Second regiment band gavea concert
in Trowbridge square last evening. There
was big crowd present, md all were en-
Toying the. music uatil ths,thuader shower
came up. Then there was great scamper-
ing. About 500 people getta d1snshing.
= The employees Of the Middletown Silver
Plate company and their friends. wiz come
on an excursion to Savin. Rock Saturday.
Theprofts of tho excursion arctic be given
to the Middlctown Plate Company Mutual
Aid society, to which most of the employees
belong. -.
The Dessauer Opera company will prob
ably reorganize this fall for the presenta
ton of some light comic opera, probably
one of Ohenbach's productions which Her,
Dessauer is having translated. Miss Jus.
tine Ingerson will be At the head of the
management as formerly.
Humane Agent Middlebrook of Bridge,
port will institute another Investigation
into the case of the Small woman, who has
on two occasions attempted to take he1
children from the Fairfield County home.
Mrs. Small now has two of the children
who were sent to the home, and claims
that they ran away from the instint Ton.
Ono of tho most fashionable weddings
that ever occurred at st. ROSES church,
Meriden, took place thera ,yessersn when
Miss Mary Lewis, daughter pfaown and
City Treasurer Lewis wAss Nlaffied to
Joseph P Dorsey Of Atddistwn. There
were many elegant presents, including a
check for 81, 900 from Mr.. Iaswisss Mr.. and
Mrs. Dorsey went to Caps May on their
wedding journey.
The friends of Driver Jackson Of No. s's
engine resent the idea that he came near
oolliding his engine with a horse car on
Grand avenue last Saturday night while
going to the fire. The horse car was $50
feet away, and the horses were only sIop-
ing" anyway. Mr.. jackson, the driver of
No. 8, is a most careful and conscientious
driver, never having met with an accident
in the long time during which he has &C.
cupied that position.
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