The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-16


 Buy new house-R. B. Baldwin.
 Strawberry Ice Cream Soda with fresh berries atlHauff Bros.
 Manure specially composted for fer tilizing lawns. Connecticut concrete company, 49 Church street.
 Montowese lodge, I. o. o. F., gives a dance at Masonic hall, corner of Chapel and Union streets, next Monday night.
 The St. Agnes Ladies' T. A. B. Aux iliary society will hold their annual banquet in Warner hall on Thursday April 25.
 They are here-those straw hats of the world famous Knox make. To be found only at the Burgess Fur Ss Hat company's.
 Miss Louise Warren, daughter of Col onel and Mrs. Tracy B. Warren of Bridgeport, returned from college to spend her Easter vacation with her parents Bridgeport.
 The membership committee of the Monticello club, Attorney Harry Asher chairman, held a meeting at the club house last evening and admitted twen- ty-five new members.
 Peter McIugh, a saloon keeper at 6O York street, was arrested last night on a warrant charging him with violation of the liquor law and subsequently re- leased under bonds of $2OO.
 ergennes, Vt, April 15.-Otter river is +he highest ever know and still rising. Fences and trees rae giving away on farm lands and filling the stream be- low. The first stories of a factory below the falls is flooded.
 Hugh Conway, who has been connect ed with the Monticello club since its organization as waiter, has accepted a position with Thomas McCafrey in the Insurance building and will enter upon his new duties to-day.
 A calico sociable will be given next Monday evening in Schadee & Pohl- mans hall on Dixwell avenue by Messrs. Hagua and Dunn. The affair 7oromises to be a very enjoyable one as the gentlemen have made extensive preparations.
 suncook, N. H., April 15.-On account of high water in the Merrimac the Hooksett Mills have shut down, water coming into the weave rooms. The Suncook river has risen four feet and is still rising. The damage will amount ito hundreds of dollars.
 Haverhill, Mass, April 15,-The river fs rising at the rate of six inches an hour. The hat factory of E. w. Thorn has been compelled to shut down, the water entering the engine room The electric light plant is not expected to rim after midnight. The water has en- tered the works and 8 fire engine is humping so that the lights can run, hut it is not thought that this will be accomplished.
 Norwalk, Me, April 15-The greatest flood since 1869 is now in full sway and there will be no mails from the west for several days as all the bridges between the Crooked river iron bridge and North Lowell, some ten or twelve miles, are swept away. The dam at the outlet of Stone Pond, East Stoneham and Spear Mill, half mile below, is swept away. The streams are falling and the damage will be repaired in a few days.
 Rev. Richard B. Thurston, also for mel. preacher at the Second Congrega- tional church. Fair Haven, died at his home on Clinto avenue, Stamford, short ly after midnight Easter morning in his seventy-sixth year. He supplied the pulpit of the Fair Haven church for two years, 1S74-6 He graduated at Bowdoin college and the Theological seminary at Bangor. He had filled pas torates in Waterville, Chicopee Falls, Waltham, Mass, Stamford, North Greenwich and Old Saybrook.