The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-15
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
 High water to-day, 9:03 a. m.
 Two-family house $2,600-R. D, Baldwin Miss Rosella Corliss of New Britain is spending week in this city.
 MT. and Mrs. Curran and Miss Cur ran of this city are at the Glen house, East Kent.
 John T. Manson of the board of edu- cation returned yesterday from a stay in Litchfield.
 The Sunday school of Epworth M. E. church has it's annual picnic at Mans fields Grove to-day.
 The Church of the Messiah trolley party excursion to Bridgeport takes place this afternoon.
 Miss Belle Horn, daughter of Colonel S. B. Horn of Winsted is the guest of friends at Short Beach.
 Thomas R. Dexter of the F. H. Allis company, New Britain, will spend next week in this city and vicinity.
 The Universa1ist Sunday school of Bridgeport makes an excursion to Glen Island tomorrow from Bridgeport.
 Mrs Hattie Williams and daughter Helen of this city are spending the summer in Essex, the guests of Miss Philena Williams.
 No principal has yet been appointed for the East Haven public schools There are several applicants for the position. Action will probably be taken July 26.
 Miss Mamie Daley. of Forestville is spending a few days with friends at Morris Cove. Miss Daley is promi- nently known among the musicians of the state.
 Rev. M M. Mccarthy, formerly of St. Johns, this city, is the newly appoint ed priest to the parish in Uncasville Father Mccarthy is a young man of much promise.
 J. Jerome Hayes the vocal instructor of this city, now summering in Har- winton, has a new trotter, something fast-2: :35-which he purchased in New Haven last week.
 Professor G. A. Andreen, Ph. D., of Yale university, who is soon to leave for Europe delivered a farewell address at the Swedish Lutheran church, Hart ford, last evening.
 The public will regret to learn that John Ruff, for many years a leading contractor at the Sargent factory, is very low and growing weaker daily, and that he is not expected to recover. Messrs. Zimmerman & Forshay of New York announce that they are pre- pared to buy and sell the new per cent war loan bonds: also to take en- tire charge of the financing part of al- lotments.
 Principal A. B. Mather of the Church street school, Meriden, is a candidate for superintendent of schools of Meri- den in place of Charles M. Williams who has been elected superintendent of the Connecticut School for Boys.
 The new soldiers home being erected at Danville, H., Is progressing rapidly and will coon be completed and ready for occupancy by about 2,500 veterans General w. B. Franklin of Hartford has just returned from a visit to the institution.
 Commodore Myron Ry Durham of the Peouot association is off for month s cruise to the eastward in his schooner yacht Christine. He has proceeded al- ready as far east as Vineyard Haven. The schooner yacht Diana will start on a cruise in a day or two.
 Mrs. S. C. Myers and children, Miss Una and Master Norman, from Cleve- land, O., are here for visit of a week or ten days with her mother, Mrs. Will liam Jones of 30 Spring street. MT Myers is an engineer on the Pennsyl- yania railroad running between Cleve- land and Pittsburg.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles s. Leete and Miss Leete, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Brown and Miss Brown, Charles S. Mersick and Miss Mersick and MT. and Mrs. w. T. Fields have arranged to take a most delightful trip to Duluth and return on the elegant steamers of the Northern Steamship company through the Great Lakes.
 The Sunday school of the East Pearl : street M. E. church and Grand ave nue Baptist church and of Hope Bap- list church, held a grand union picnic yesterday, going to Manstield's Grove on special cars of the New Haven Street railway line. The throng num- bered about 400 people, adults and all. It was a basket picnic, and the dinner was served in Mansfield Grove, which is well supplied with tables, stoves for cooking purposes and other appurte- nances for helping make picnic a success. There were games and other diversions during the afternoon. The picnic was great success.