The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-02
Local Weather Report.
 FOR AUGUST |, 1898.
Brief Mention,

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 High water to-day, 11:1S p. m
 Two-family house $26OO-R.E. Baldwin
 Miss Ella J. Barton of New Haven is visiting her sister, Mrs. Miles Paine of Waterbury.
 M. F. Shanley and wife left yester- day for two weeks stay at Saratoga Lake.
 Herbert c. Warren, banker and brok- CT, has gone away on a western busi- ness trip to be absent this week.
 Misses Mae Marsella and Annette FL lis of Waterbury left yesterday for a two weeks vacation to New Haven and New York
 Lida and Helen Burpee twin daugh- ters of Colonel Burpee of Waterbury, are spending a vacation of three weeks at Woodmont.
 Mrs. Dennis Kilduff and her nephew, Fred Kilduff of Waterbury, left yester- day for Savin Rock, where they will spend several days.
 The condition of County Commis- sioner A. B. Durham continues to inn prove, he being well enough Sunday to go out riding for a few hours.
 A gang of workmen were employed last night in flushing the gutters in the central part of the city and much un- healthy refuse was washed into the sewers.
 The county auditors of New Haven and Fairfield counties met at the office of the Fairfield county commissioners yesterday morning to audit the joint bridge account.
 Miss Lois Hayward has arrived home in Waterbury from a three weeks va cation, accompanied by Miss Ruby Cook of Ansonia and Master Ernest Cook of New Haven.
 Charles H. Clark, who has been the efficient and popular assistant steward at the Algonquin club, Bridgeport, for the past year, has accepted the clerk ship of the Park hotel, Milford.
 William Arfman, who was operated upon for appendicitis Saturday, was taken with a fit of vomiting yesterday forenoon, but last evening he was rest ing easily and was apparently better.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Light Guard will be held at the armory this evening" On next Tuesday even- ing, August g, will be held an election for second lieutenant of the company.
 J. Edward Geary, William Hassel- bach, of this city, and Thomas Cum ningham of Springfield, Mass, left yes- terday on a two weeks trip. They will spend most of the time at Atlantic City and Asbury Park.
 The family of Justice A. Y Beach, who have been enjoying several weeks in the Beach cottage at Woodmont, have returned home and Sharon Beach and family are now the occupants of the place for a few weeks.
 Mrs s. s. Adams and son George and Carl A. Mears of Orange street. Miss Dayton and Miss Bassett of Dwight street and Mrs G. M Clark and daughter Addie of Wolcott street have all gone to Northport, Me, for the month of August.
 Mrs S. c. Fleetwood of Trumbull street left yesterday with her daugh- ters, the Misses Fleetwood, for Mount Kisco, where they will spend August. They will be the guests of Mir and Mrs Fleetwood's oldest daughter, whose summer home is at Mount Kisco, a fine farm of sixty acres.
 A quiet wedding was celebrated, Sat urday afternoon, at the home of Daniel w. Clark, of Derby avenue, Seymour, the parties being Miss Anna Butler of Oxford and Myron D. Clark of this Seymour. Both are well known and very popular with all Seymour people. The event was more quiet than usual owing to death in the family of the bride short time ago.
 Albert Fletcher, the seventeen-year- old son of George Fletcher, still lies at the hospital in a critical condition from asphyxiation by Illuminating gas at his home, 173 Howard avenue, Sunday morning. He was still unconscious last evening, but the hospital physicians thought that he would regain con- sciousness with fair chance for re- covery.
 Two intinerant musicians attracted considerable attention on the streets yesterday by their queer sounding mu- sic and peculiar makeup. They were evidently sons of sunny Italy and were quite good musicians. One plays a fageolet and bass drum, symbols and triangle, the latter three instruments being strapped on his back and worked by another strap fastened around the ankle The other man plays the &C., compartment on the hand organ.