The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-11
OF LoC4L EST.

Quite a drop in the thermometer yes- terday. The mercury was 10 degrees lower In the tube last evening than 1t was the night before. Conservative people going to the shore last evening
 took light overcoats along. The change in the atmosphere is a great relief. The
 maximum temperature yesterday af- ternoon was II degrees cooler than that of Tuesday afternoon. More rain for to-day Is the weather prophecy. Dr. John F. Barnett has resigned as town health officer of Orange and
 County Health Officer Hoadley has ap- pointed Dr. c. Fl. Bevans of West Ha- ven in his place. pr. Bevans is now both town and borough health officer. pr. Barnett lately concluded that Or
 ange did not need any other attention than that given by the borough officer,
 pr. Bevans, and so he sent in his resig-
 nation. The movemnt was harmonious
 on all sides.
 Owing to the storm the band concert
 that was to be given by the A. O. U. w. band last night on Trowbridge square was postponed to Friday even ing, August 12, at the same time and place.
 On account of the rain no perform
 ance of the Brocken scene was given at Savin Rock last evening.
 Some of our large oyster growers say the set this year of oysters is below the average and quite discouraging. The same difficulty prevails at Bridge port, Milford and Stratford. | The officers and members of the Me- Kinley Republican union are requested I to meet this (Thursday) evening at Mo- | 37 Eaton street at 8:90 to transact im- | port business.
 Despite the unpropitious weather the | biggest excursion of the season was
 that of the St. Aloysius T. A. B. society
 to New York and Coney Island yester- | day on the steamer Sirius. Over 1,200 people took the trip. They had the | Second Regiment band along. Court Israel Putnam lodge, No. S047, A. o. F., has installed the following
 officers: Chief ranger, Robert Me- | Laughlan; sub-chief ranger, William Wilkinson; financial secretary, T. F. Friend; recording secretary, Clarence | Warner; treasurer, S. Blogg; S. w., J. | Coleman; J. w., George Yardley; C.. | B., w. Krahl: J. B., O. Delanlator; | trustees, o. Delamator G. Yardley, w. | Wilkinson. Deputy E. Oatley was the | installing officer.
 l The three-masted schooner James G..
 Beehcer, formerly owned at this port
 and built at the Fair Haven shipyard, has sailed for Porto Rico from Balti-
 more with cargo of coal for the 1 United States fleet in the West Indian waters.
 | The converted cruisers Huntress and
 Free Lance, which came into the har- | Dor Tuesday to make repairs, sailed
 yesterday for New York. Captain
 Parker of Hartford is the commander 1 of the steamer and Robert Hutchinson
 of this city is first lieutenant. com | pany of people from the pequot club
 house went on board the little ship l Tuesday evening and were much in- | terested with the splendid battery of | rapid fire guns. The ship has four
 officers and twenty seamen. Several
 of the officers and men came ashore. | The cruiser Restless, Arthur Day com manding, was also in the lower harbor Tuesday morning and the school ship Alliance sailed from Woodmont early {! in the week.
 The North Haven republican electors meet in the court room, Memorial hall,
 this (Thursday) evening at 8 o'clock | to elect delegates to the several con- | ventions and chairman of the town committee.
 Health Officer Wright, in his report submitted this week to the board of
 health, showed that there had been 1 twenty-one ca ses of diphtheria during July and that six of them were in one family at Morris Cove. There were but two deaths from this cause. Forty | three deaths from diarrhoeal diseases
 occurred, as against seventy-two in the
 month of last year, and seventy-nine
 children under five years died, as
 against ninety-four for that core.
 spending term. Dr. McNeil, the bac.
 teriologlst, made examinations of eigh.
 teen specimens of milk and found then
 all of the required quality. The sani.
 tary inspector made 425 calls and re.
 five nuisances were abated, The plumb
 ing inspector made 155 inspections, ot l which twenty-three were on work il
 new houses.