Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-18
LOCAL N Il w 8.
Brief Mention.
High water to-day at 1905 a. m.

High water to-day at 1O.O6 a. m.
Buy good house-R. E. Baldwin.
Turing and grading-Connectieut Con-
crete company, 40 Church, room A.
The third shoot of the Connecticut State
League of Trapshooters will he held at New
London to dsy.
The Blues had their field day yesterday
at Qainnipisc range. Colonel Doherty was
q visitor at the exercises.
Mr.. and Mrs. William N. Merwin have
returned to Milford. They spent the win
ter at their beautiful home in Rock Ledge,
Indian river, Florida.
Congressman P!gott has accepted an in
vitation to attend tho annual meeting of
democrats of Easton, Pa, which will be
held in that city tomorrow.
Price & Lee company, publishers, have
just issued new Waterbury directory.
The work contains 18, 1854 names, showing
an increase of IA over last year.
Next Tuesday evening the hand polo
teams of Meriden and New Haven will
play off tie in the Hartford Y. N. O. A.
gymnasium. Each team has won game
DR.. Stearns of the Hartford Retreat for
the Insane, delivered an address on estate
Commissions of Insanity" before the Amer
lean Medico- Psychological association,
which is holding four days convention
In Philadelphia.
Mrs. Luman Cowles and Mrs. Willis
Hemingway of this city were elected mem
bers of the executive committee chosen in
Winsted Wednesday at the ninth annual
convention of the Woman's Congregational
Home Missionary union.
The Rev. Mr.. Lewis Of New Haven will
supply the pulpit of Rev. Mr.. Evans in
New Preston and at the church on New
Preston Hill during Mr.. Evans absence
abroad. Mr.. Evans sails in few days for
a visit to his mother in Wales.
Robert E. Wysnt of the Derby Gas COM
pany has been offered and accepted re-
sponsible position with the Gas and Elec
trio Light company of Colorado Springs,
Col. Accompanied by his VITA he will
leave for his new place to morrow.
The quarterly meeting of the Woman's
Baptist Foreign Missionary conference of
southwestern Connecticut will be held In
the Baptist church of Wallingford to- day
friday at II a. m. and 80 p. m. Miss
Emma Cummings of Ramspotsn, India,
will speak.
There Ia talk in Middletown of an effort
to secure the running of train from New
Haven to that city in the evening to ar
rive there about 8 o'clock and return to
New Haven at $50, connecting with late
trains to New York or with the New Ha-
ven boat which leaves for New York at 10
o'clock.
A general court of the Society of Colo
NAL Wars will be held in New Haven on
Saturday, May 26, for the adoption of
constitution and the annual dinner. This
date. old style, is the 18TH anniversary of
the attack on the Pequot Indians at Mystic
fort by Connecticut troops under Captain
John Mason.
Albert Coggshall. who for many years
was in the employ of Professor Salisbury
is in this city visiting his friends, and is
the picture of perfect health. He is now
clerk at the Plattsville house in Greene
county, New York, in the midst of the
Catskill mountains. Dwight Miller, who
has hosts of friends in New Haven, is the
proprietor.
At a meeting Of the leading lawyers of
this city yesterday 1t was voted to call q
meeting Of the County Bar association
with the view of pstitioning the judges of
the supreme and superior courts, who will
hold joint meeting here in June, to es-
tablish q new civil superior court in New
Haven county,