The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-11
FAIR HAVEN GLEANTNGS
DOINGS IN ONE OF NEW HATEN2S
 MOST TELOURLSHING SECTIONS.

The Ice Embargo Still Holds-PossibI,
 Oyster Famine-Fair Haven Vessels No
 Heard From-Trip by MT. and Mrs
 MitcheII-Temperance Mass Meeting
 Old Homestead Quartet.
 The last of the peoples course of en
 tertainments at Grand avenue Congre' | gational church occurs tomorrow even
 ing. The course has been a splendid
 success and one of the brilliant social
 affairs of the winter, Tomorrow night
 the original Denman Thompson "Old
 Homestead quartet will sing, and 8 big
 audience will be present to hear and en-
 joy the fine program.
 H. Konold & Son have five barges
 loaded with coal at Amboy, which will
 proceed as soon as the weather will ad-
 init. Another empty barge is frozen
 up at their dock here. Mir Konold says
 they will not suffer for lack of coal, as
 they have a two months supply. | If the ice embargo continues there
 will soon be an oyster famine. One boat
 with three hundred bushels is tied up
 at Belle dock
 The special evangelical meetings con ducted at the Grand avenue Baptist church last week with great spiritual profit will be continued every evening
 this week but Saturday evening. Rev w. G. Fennell of Meriden, who assisted
 Dr. Sage in these meetings, will be here this week. He preached yesterday morn- ing and evening.
 Rev. and Mrs. J. Lee Mitchell leave to-day for the south to remain two weeks. They will visit Washington, Philadelphia and Old Point Comfort and MT. Mitchell will also visit the Glouces- ter Agricultural and Industrial school at Cappahosic,7 Va, which the Grand avenue Congregational church has aid- ed ffnancially MT and Mrs, Mitchell will stop several days at Amelia Court house, where MT. Mitchell owns plan tation.
 The New Haven Congregational club will hold a meeting in the Grand ave nue Congregational church this eyen- ing. The ladies of the church will serve supper at 6;30, and at 8 p. m. there will be an address in the audience room by Rev. Dr. Clark of the Central Congre- gational church, Boston, at which ser vice the public are invited. Music will be furnished by the choir of the church.
 A temperance mass meeting was held in the Grand avenue Baptist church yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the w. c. T. U., the Young Peoples and the Junior Christian Endeavor so- cieties of the church uniting The church was filled and an enthusiastic service was held. After the preliminary praise service prayer was offered by Miss Hull andsthe scripture reading wa by Charles Manwaring. The address was delivered, by Rev. w. G. Fennell of Meriden. It was an enthusiastic plea for temperahce and abounded in inter- | esting illustrations. The service | was deeply interesting and | in fact was. one of the best that has been held by the union in long time.
 The l.. Candee rubber works will close iTha company Issued an order to the employees that the works should | be closed Saturday night, but the heavy snow storm which set in afterwards brought d slight boom in the business and the company received a few heavy orders that had to be filled at once, and he hands were notified that the opera ions at the shop would be continued intil MondaN night Many Fair Maven people are employed at the shop and it $ hoped the shutdown will not be pro- .racted.
 The three-masted schooner James Da- yidson has been detained from sailing or several days by the ice. She is tied ID at one of the Quinnipiac river docks, where she arrived about ten days ago rom Virginia with a load of oyster hells, A tugboat captain offered to ,reak out the channel and take the chooner to sea for $200, but the schoon- 1T skipper decided to wait little long 1T rather than incur the expense. Thej Davidson is bound for Norfolk to load bling for Brooklyn N Y.
 Nothing has been heard from the chooners Bonita and Thomas Thomas ince they left here about three weeks go. They were to load oysters at once nd return, but it is expected they are rozen in the ice at Chinconteague Miss Caulfeld, a sister of James Caul- eld of POT Poplar street and of Mrs Iichael Eagan, died at the Roman Cath lie convent at Flushing, L. l., last week nd the funeral, which took place on friday, was attended by several Fair Taven relatives. She was known in re- zion as Sister Mary Catherineand had ed a convent life twenty-seyen years, he was about fifty years of age. On the East Haven roads the drifts re in some places five feet high and ( work has been performed I keeping the highways open.