The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-02
OF LoC.iL INTEREST.

auNlSaDlllty or JolnlnS With the NdlluH- al Polo league and will report at joint meeting to be held at Savin Rock in the near future.
 The Howard avenue Baptist church and Sunday school enjoyed their an- nual picnic to Mansfields Grove yes terday.
 General humidity was in the saddle again yesterday and affected everybody, but there was more breeze to help swell tering mortals along.
 Hope lodge No. s, Degree of Honor, of New London, intends to celebrate it's first anniversary on August 20 in very elaborate manner and will have as it's guests from out of town Mrs Carrie Mann, past grand chief of honor, of New Haven, and Mrs. Ida L. Whit man of Rhode Island, grand chief of honor.
 Among the New Haven people who left yesterday for trip to Saratoga and Ausable Chasm were k. E. Well man, E. w. Wellman, H. r. Douglass, Mr. and Mrs. M M Lindsley, Mrs. Ed ward Herrity, MT. and Mrs. T. Gun nung, MT. and Mrs. J. E. Chapman, Mrs. M. Ives and D. $. Gamble, Jr. There were about twenty-five or thirty from other parts of the state
 Lieutenant Colonel Callahan, now act ing colonel of the Second, passed upon three enlistments of Waterbury men yesterday and endorsed them.
 Among the New Haveners who left for the White Mountains yesterday were H. r. Hemingway W. R. fleming way. C. A. Bracket and Mrs. Henry Hale. There were about twenty-five others from Ansonia Derby, Hartford and Bridgeport.
 Hon. o. R. Fyler, chairman of the republican state central committee, who has been quite i'll. is now nearly well again, and in day or two Will be entirely recovered. Just before taking train home from New York last week he drank a glass of milk, which about an hour later produced severe collie and brought on severe prostration.
 The police commissioners have decid- ed that the members of the department must take the days off that are allotted to them by the superintendent's sched- ule.
 The merchants of Ansonia, Derby and Shelton have decided to discontinue all trading stamp schemes after Septem- Der l. The merchants of these towns say that over one million red stamps have been given away. representing an outlay of three thousand dollars to the merchants.
 Branford expects to have big peach crop this year. A. E. Plant, for one, expects to put 1000 baskets on the mar ket. He has 8, 400 trees, occupying twen- ty-five acres. The announcement is made of the en- gagement of Miss Hattie l.. Cooper of l 1921 Whalley avenue and Alfred 5. Hamlin, president of the Robert Nor gan Plumbing company. Miss Cooper is a graduate of the Misses Orton's school and Mir Hamlin of '9S Shelf. Acting Fire Chief Fancher reports fourteen bell alarms during the month of July, which is considerably above the | average.
 The Eagle Hose company of Ansonia VIII ldhb ullIllel Ll lsoiiIliOue7S A oAAA~ on August 10, and on August Il the Ma tional Butchers association will enjoy one of Manager Taylor's famous din- ners. Michael J. Donohue, who formerly lived at 19 Cain street and who lately enlisted and went to Mantle, became disheartened with military life and de- serted. He came back to New Haven, but was captured and sent back to Mi antic.
 Captain George R. Hodgdon has sold the Haynes house in Springfield, and will devote his entire future time to his New Haven interests.
 Warrants were isss1ed yesterday by Prosecuting Agent W. F. Niles for the arrest of James McNamara of 343 Oak street and Peter Stanford of 45 Broad street, saloon keepers, who are charged with violating the screen law. New Haven will be well represented at the national convention of the c. T.. A. U. in Boston beginning on August To-. Among those who will go are James M. Brennan, B. E. Lynch James r. Foley, Patrick Kent, Philip Ryan, James P. Bree, Martin Flynn, Miss Mary Gilli- gan and Miss Kittie Malloy. At Grace M. E. church, corner How ard avenue and Portsea street, this eve ming at 7:30 Convict Evangelist w. F.. Ireland, better known as Kid Davis, :" will speak for the last time in this city; topic, "The Road of the Transgressor from My Own Life Experience" All welcome
 The Connecticut Indemnity associa- ton has issued circular to it's policy holders setting forth the condition of the association as already given herein by officers of the company and levying an additional assessment pro rata upon all. The insurance commissioner of the state has designated Frederick c. Lum of New Haven as trustee of this sum to be raised, which 1t is anticipated will place the association on the footing it deserves to be upon.
 Reuben H. Smith, formerly editor of the Waterbury American, afterward proprietor for years of the Newtown Bee, but now editor and proprietor of the Religious Herald of Hartford, has gone on a vacation to Massachusetts. For two weeks his paper will not be published. MT. Smith, with the effi cient help of his wife, son and daugh- ter, is working hard to make the Her aid good state Congregational paper. and is gradually succeeding. He takes