The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-13
Local Weather Report.
Brief Mention.

High water 10 day, 8:20 a. IT..
 Two-family house $2600-R.E Baldwin
 J. P. Strong and family of 222 Sher- man avenue, this city, will go to West Cheshire to-day to spend some time.
 MT. and Mrs. George P. Merwin of p Eld street have been spending a. week with John W. Merwin of Merwin's Point.
 Alexander Fulton of 23 Livingston street, and family, have rented a cot tage at Cosey Beach for the month of August.
 Mrs. R. B. Dwight of Il Cottage street, who has been very i'll for eight weeks past, is in a very precarious con- dition owing to complication of dis eases.
 Ulysses Clark of Richards Place, West Haven, bookkeeper for the Chat field Co.,, at their factory West river, is recovering from a two weeks illness with malarial fever.
 Mrs. C. P. Merwin, formerly of this city, and family, who have been spend- ing five or six weeks at their Wood mont cottage, have returned to their New Britain home.
 The New York, New Haven and Hartford road will give an excursion to Glen Island to-day. The trip will be made by special train to Bridge port and from there by boat
 George E. Bearn, formerly editor of the Morning News, and now of the New York Evening Post, was in town yes- terday on his return from Litchfield, where he spent his vacation.
 General Agent B. F. Bliss of the Unit ed States Life Insurance company leaves to-day, in company with Eli D. Weeks, for the national convention of life underwriters at Minneapolis
 The issue of the Connecticut Quarter ly just out has 8 very timely and pro- fusely illustrated article on New Ha- ven's Coast Defenses in 1S12,'' also an article on Peter Farley and other ex- cellent articles.
 Conductor Parker of Southington, in Jumping from the car last week in- jured his right foot. It is now giving him much pain, and an operation will be performed upon it to-day in this city by Dr. Park.
 The second annual excursion of AL fred H. Terry command, No. 8, of the Union Veterans union, will take place next Tuesday, August 16. They go to Glen Island on the steamer John H. Starin, and big party is expectedt
 Harry w. Peck, son of Professor John H. Peck, formerly of the New Britain high school, will resign his posi- tion as assistant city engineer in Green wich. MT. Peck, who is a graduate of Yale Shelf, will enter Cornell in Sep tember.
 Frank s. Hamilton, jr, returned yes- terday from a stay in Stockhridge, Mass. Last Sunday morning MT. Ham, iIton sang a solo in the Congregational church in Stockbridge and last Thurs daynight assisted Miss Mary L. Brown ing, a reader of New York city in en- tertaining the guests of the Red Lion Inn, the leading hostelry of Stock bridge.
 MT. and Mrs. Rutherford Trowbridge and children and Mir. and Mrs. Franklin Farrel and family of Ansonia are guests at the Red Lion Inn at Stock bridge, Mass. MT. Treadway, whose wife is New Haven lady, daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. Horace P. Shares of this city, is manager of the Red Lion Inn. Miss Sharles of North Haven, a relative of MT. and Mrs. Treadway, is also stopping at the same hotel. Mr. Treadway is manager of Horace P. Shares Rocklegde (Fla) hotel each winter
 The following letter was written by a little Schnectady boy to Fernandina, Fla. to the soldier boys of Schnectady under command of Captain Andrews. The little boy is a grandson of the late Colonel John Chatfield of Waterbury: ssCaptain Thomas: I send you one dol. lar for the soldiers. Please give it to them and tell them I have a good time. l made it selling lemonade. If they want any more let me know" The let ter was read to the company by Cap tain Thomas and the writer received hearty cheers.