The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-12

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 Cloudy and rainy weather is expected for to-day. New Haven is still in the middle of the rain belt, which extends from Nova Scotia to Texas and Is only 15O miles wide.
 A masquerade ball at the Peouot club house for next Friday night is on the programme.
 Miss Newman of this city has been engaged as principal of the Union school, East Haven, succeeding Miss Lord, resigned, Miss Hubbell of this city will take the place of Miss Phebe Ives, resigned. A vacancy in another room remains to be filled.
 The rooms of the Sarsfield Guard are in mourning for thirty days in respect to the memory of their late comrade, John Dunlay.
 The minutes of the Stonington Union association have recently appeared, and the largest number of baptisms in any | one church is at the First Baptist church of Groton, whose pastor since 1895 has been Rev. Dryden w. Phelps, long a resident of New Haven. Postmaster Howarth yesterday re- ceived from Washington the plans for the proposed improvements in the in terior of the postoffice. Bids have been advertised for, and 1t is expected the l changes will be in progress soon. The condition of W. P. Nugent, who is at the hospital suffering from con- | cussion of the brain, the result of be- | itocr -tp hxr +,a1 o1o Tomlinson bridge, was about the same | yesterday. He has partially recovered | consciousness and has been able to rec ognize and speak to his wife.
 The derelict schooner James N. Sea- man of this port, which was lowed into Halifax several weeks ago, was righted Tuesday. No bodies were found | in the wreck. The matches, rails, etc. are all torn away, and from the appear ance of the stern there is scarcely any doubt that the vessel was sunk in col | lision.
 | Superintendent Baldwin of the street | department is having the dirt and stone taken from Orange, Chapel and Woos- | ter streets, where permanent pave
 ments have been laid and utilized in making needed improvements in vari- | ous streets which are muddy and un- l even, such as portions of George street. 1 near Derby avenue; Factory, Palmer, l Rose, Cain, Ferry, Edwards, Cedar streets, and some on Edgewood avenue. | Two or three blocks in the worst parts | of the streets are receiving this mater
 ial and after it is rolled down and lit-
 tie small crushed stone put on top, I makes a good surface.
 | A movement for a free public library | is on foot in East Haven, and the sug- l gestion meets with much favor. Sev- | eral encouraging offers have been made and a meeting will be held soon. l Edward w. Colby, who for some months has been manager of a brok- | CTS office in the First National bank | building, has left the city and a num- | Der of persons in the city claim that l he took with him money which they l placed in his hands to invest in stocks. | Complaints have been made to the city l attorney by parties who claim to have l given money to Colby. One of the all 1 legged losers say that Colby had $500 be- | longing to him and others have con- !! plained that they have lost amounts l aggregating some hundreds of dollars.
 Colby first established branch office 1 of Percival R. Irving, u New York l broker. He lost this agency and then | represented Lewis Tewksbury and Grelich Martin & Co. in succession. His
 friends think that he is i'll and broken
 down at his home in New Hampshire | and that he will in time make good the
 claims against him.
 The picnic of Court 131, Foresters,
 which was to have taken place on | Wednesday at Lion Park, Allingtown,
 was postponed to Saturday on account
 of the stormy weather.
 To-day twelve of the incurable in-
 mates of the Middletown insane asylum
 sent there from New Haven, will be
 brought to Springside Home by Messrs.
 Rowe and Wright. The transfer is
 brought about by the crowded cond-
 tion of the Middletown asylum and the
 necessity for the sending of number
 of insane patients there from this city. | Those who are to be brought to Spring
 side Home are Charles Scheufeile, Fred | Richardson, Michael Carroll, John | Muller, Brick Trickland, John Dunn
 2d, Fred Heritage, Ann Burnes, Han
 nah Kelly, Margaret Coffey, Lillian
 Clinton and Bridget Sullivan. Michael
 Carroll has a wife living at 164 Hamil-
 ton street, Brick Trickman's wife lives at 164 James street, John Dunn's at 264 | Wallace srteet. H. Burnes of 42 Foote
 street, is Hannah Burnes' father; Mich ael Coffey of 1884 Hamilton street is the
 husband of the Coffey woman. Lillian
 Clinton has relatives living at Oak and Day streets. The others are, without
 relatives so far as known.
 The Connecticut Society of the Sons
 of the American Revolution offer every
 year prize for the best paper on a rev
 olutionary topic. The paper is limited
 to 1000 words, and the topic selected by
 the society. Among the numerous con-
 testants this year was Miss M. Belle
 Hutchinson, pupil of the Misses
 Johnstones school on Whitney avenue
 Miss Hutchinson was the only young
 lady from New Haven who received
 honorable mention.
 A fine new main altar costing about
 S4000, has just been placed in position in St. Patrick's R. c. church on Grand
 avenue. It replaces the altar that has
 been used since the reconstruction o1
 the church after the fire over thirty