The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-27
OF LOC4L INTEREST.

County Commissioner George A. AL colt of Clinton was unanimously nomi- mated for state senator yesterday at East Haddam to represent the Twenty first district. On the informal ballot Alcott had 23 votes, Joseph Hayden of Saybrook IA and MT. Bodwell of Ches- ter 2.
 Bishop Tierney has made the follow ing assignments among priests of the diocese: The Rev. Felix O'Neil to the cathedral, the Rev. James F. O'Brien to the Church of the Immaculate Concep- ton, Waterbury; the Rev. William P. Kennedy to St. Thomas, Waterbury; the Rev. William Blake to St. Francis, New Haven, and the Rev. John c. OBrien to Windsor Locks.
 Report made to the mayor yesterday by the finance committee of the board of education for the fiscal year shows that the total expenditures so far have been SPA, ,457.02. The appropriations were s373,531,54 leaving a balance of $149,07452 The bills contracted for the rest of the year, which include the sal aries of teachers, janitors and every thing for which contract has already been made, amount to $136, 443.34. There is then an actual working balance of $12,631.1S. The department has received from Controller Brown the sum of $237,- 311.54. The indebtedness is given as follows: Bonds $500,000, loans $230, ,00O loans in anticipation of the special B. mill tax $157,8zo3 30, This makes the total indebtedness of the school district or rather the city, on account of the schools, ssS7, ,S2o.3O.
 Rev. R. o. Sherwood, pastor of the South Norwalk Baptist church for five years and actively interested in the Christian Endeavor movement of Con- necticut, having been the president of the state union, has resigned, his res ignation to take effect November 1. He has received two calls, one to Somer- vile, Mass, and the other to Brattle- boro, Vt, but is undecided which he will accept.
 The statement published that the di- rectors of the New Haven road have been discussing the advisability of mak- ing a change in the present method of operating the marine district division of the system is denied by the officials in this city.
 The cars on the Lighthouse Point branch of the New Haven Street rail- way now leave the green every half hour, leaving at ten minutes after the hour hand twenty minutes before. The Cosy Beach cars leave hourly, leaving the green on the even hour. The East Haven and Lake Saltonstall cars leave every half hour, beginning on the even hour
 Little Mary Cummings, aged four and half months, child of John Cummings of Humphrey street, was found dead in bed Sunday morning. The little one had been i'll with whoop- ing cough, but Medical Examiner White reported that the child was smothered by an older child who was in the same bed and rolled upon the baby while both were asleep.
 At the meeting of the Women's School association Saturday afternoon Miss Rebecca Beach, a delegate to the edu- cational convention which met in New York in the summer, made her report, which was listened to with interest. Mrs. Fisher presided at the meeting. Mrs. c. w. Shelton, recording secretary of the Connecticut Federation of State Clubs, made an address, her subject be- ing the immensity of the federation of clubs, giving from Connecticut alone 10000 members and 500,0OO in the na- tional society. The Women's School association has thus far stood alone, but so much impressed were the listen CTS by Mrs. Shelton's talk that it is more than probable the invitation to join will be accepted.