The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-06
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

TOT many years connected as an official
 with the United States internal revenue
 department, having an office in the
 postofltce, this city.
 Rev. G. Foster Prentiss of the Daven-
 port church went yesterday with his
 family to the Prentiss homestead up in Vermont.
 Alderman John H. Clarke of the Sec
 ond ward filed his bond and was sworn
 into office as United States deputy mar
 shal yesterday forenoon at Hartford.
 Marshal Bishop notified MT. Clarke of
 his appointment a week ago, but he did
 not qualify until yesterday morning.
 MT. Clarke will assume the duties of
 his office August s, the same day that
 Marshal Bishop takes hold. pr. Edward Mccarthy of Davenport
 avenue, graduate of the College of
 Physicians and Surgeons of this years
 class, is at his home in this city for
 short visit k He will leave soon to open
 an office, which will probably be in
 Brooklyn.
 William H. Calvin, a teamster em-
 ployed by the firm of Calvin x Son,
 was accidentally thrown from his wag-
 on yesterday afternoon on Congress
 avenue and was badly injured about the head. He was removed to his home, No. 29 Orchard street. He will recover.
 Owing to the electrical disturbance
 caused by the thunder storm on Mon
 day night and consequent damage done
 to the telegraph wires, none of the brokers offices of this city had tele-
 graphic or telephone connection with New York yesterday during the busi-
 est part of the day on the stock ex- change.
 The Consolidated road has been tax ed to it's utmost nearly with passenger
 travel since last Friday. On some divi- sions nearly every passenger coach was
 pressed into service. Travel continued
 heavy yesterday, when the people re- turned home.
 The lull in building operations in this
 city continues and the prospects for
 any great activity in the trade this year
 are slight.
 A stove pipe in the kitchen of the house at the east corner of Grand ave
 nue and Wallace street was pusheed in too far when the woman of the house started her fire at noon yesterday and the house became filled with smoke. A still alarm was sent to engine 1, but all the firemen had to do was to pull the
 pipe out.
 The inmates of the almshouse were not forgotten on the glorious Fourth Major Sucher treated his boarders to an extra dinner. Ice cream and cake l were served to all, with peanuts and candy for the children and cigars for the men. They all enjoyed themselves to the full in quiet way. At present there are 360 inmates at Springside. Of these 192 are men, 159 are women and there are thirteen children.
 Edward Mccarthy of Ohio is the guest of his sister Mrs. Connolly of Howard avenue.
 Judge Joseph Sheldon will start for San Francisco to-day to consult with
 the Red Cross society about sending a hospital ship to the Philippines. At the internal revenue office in this l city 6000 900 revenue stamps were receiv- | ed yesterday, but the amount is not a | quarter of the supply demanded by cur | rent business at the present time. In | documentary stamps 100000 were re- | ceived and the entire installment was sold at once. They were all one-cent stamps Up to date Collector Kennedy
 has sold S22, 900 worth of stamps. | Mrs. John Addison Porter, wife of | President McKinley's private secretary l sailed for Cuba on the Fourth on the | government hospital ship Relief She will assist Clara Barton of the Red | Cross society. She said she could not | tell just how long she would be ab- | sent.
 | MT. and Mrs. James Smith, whose marriage was celebrated last week at Christ church chapel are spending | their honeymoon at Boston. When they return they will make their home with | the brides mother, Mrs. William F. Co., burn, 1173 West Chapel street. Professor H. A Beers of Yale is in
 Bridgeport for a stay of several days. Captain Howard A. Giddings of the United States Volunteer Signal corps left Washington Barracks, District of | Columbia, Saturday under orders to re- port to Major General Fitzhugh Lee for duty on his staff as chief signal officer of the Seventh Army corps. Miss Ella York, daughter of Judge and Mrs. S. A. York, has gone, for July and part of August to Martha's Vineyard. She is staying at Bristhal F. A. Bris- tols summer villa, where that promi- I nent singing master of New York for merly for years of New Haven has a colony of musical people. Later in Au- gust Miss York will join her parents at | Rangeley Lakes in the Maine woods, where they have spent several success | sive seasons.
 Mrs George Marsh and family of Church street, Branford, left for Cold
 Springs, N. Y, on Saturday. MT. Marsh followed Sunday morning, going on his wheel.
 Near Professor Bristors summer abode and colony at Marthas Vineyard, about three miles distant, is E. A. Par
 sons summer home, "Innisvale," where Tom Karl also summers. MT. and Mrs.
 Parsons left this city yesterday for Martha's Vineyard, where they, too, ] expect to entertain a large musical col ony.
 Mrs E. Knight Sperry of St. John
 street has gone to East Tillou, N. H.,
 where she will join her daughter, Mrs Mitchell of Boston. Mrs. Mitchell will
 be remembered as Miss Edith Sperry
 whose marriage to Mir. Mitchell took
 place a few months ago. Dr. Charles $. Stern of Hartford has