The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-20
OF LOCAL INTER EST.

The Jewish residents of the city will observe the Day of Atonement, which begins at sunset next Sunday and con- tinues until sunset on Monday.
 There is great run of the little blue fish at Lighthouse Point and big catch es by various individuals are reported daily.
 A wedding of interest to many friends in this city, which will take place in St. Mary of Mount Carmel church at 10 o'clock this morning is that of Ed ward T. Purcell to Ellen A. Kenny.
 The set of colors given by Yale grad uates to the cruiser Yale has been re- turned to the college by the war de- partment, the use for them being over, and are now in the Yale library. The large Yale flag which was given to the Yale has been sent to the New York Yacht club.
 Dr. G. B. Bouton, who had passed the summer at the home of Town Clerk and Mrs. Joseph G. Hyatt in Westport, came from there recently to the New Haven hospital. He is practically help less as the result of a stroke of paraly- sis while in Saratoga, N. Y, last year, and proposes, should improved condi- tions warrant to go to Florida to spend the winter. The doctor succeeded the late Dr. D. S. Burr, who died in 1865 and practiced his profession in Vest port and Saugatuck and vicinity about twenty years, making many friends, who will watch for news of his prog ress healthward, hoping for his entire recovery.
 Superintendent Hotchkiss of the charities department yesterday morn ing received a letter from J. G. Chris tian of Reading, England, who is brother of Frederick w. Christian, the tinker who died at the almshouse on September ', having $2,100 to his credit in bank books which he had with him. The letter paper and envelope bore the crest of the Christian family. The crest consisted of a unicorn and the inscrip- tion underneath was "Salus per Chris tum." The writer said that the dead man had brother, T. P. Christian, in Redlands, Cal, and that he should con- municate with him.
 Yesterday afternoon Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Flahavan called on William F. Barnett, secretary of the Consolidated road, and notified him that under the ruling of the internal revenue commissioner the railroad com pany would be required to place a one cent stamp on all excess baggage.
 A months mind mass will be cele- brated at St. Johns R. c. church to- morrow morning at 8 o'clock for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs. Francis Taylor of No. 47 Davenport avenue.
 George L. Ives has been appointed in- spector of the crushed stone pavement which is to be laid on Dixwell avenue, from Division street to the city line. Part of the cost of the pavement is to be paid by the state under the good roads act. MT. Ives was formerly su- perintendent of streets and is a compe- tent road builder.
 Attorney Carleton P. Hoadley yester- day received a handsome badge from Pittsburg, a souvenir of the twenty seventh triennial conclave of the Knights Templar of the United States, which is to be held at Pittsburg from October 10 to October IA, inclusive. The badge is one of the finest ever gotten out for an occasion of this kind.
 Director Beecher of the public works department favors the Boston plan of having the city lay the sidewalks and then keep them in repair, the cost to be defrayed by taxation Jumped in with the general tax. Speaking on the sub feet, he said: Our system here has many disadvantages. There are now bad walks all over town. We do our best to keep them in good repair, but there is too much detail and trouble under the present system. The new plan, I think, would be more economi- cal and would result in much better walks"