The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-03
OF LOCAL INTERJSJ.

OF LOC1L | INHERENT
 The annual meeting of the New Ha.
 ven West conference will be held Oc-
 tober II.
 Deacon William A. Collins of Column bia was a recent visitor at Whitneyville
 Congregational church. He is for
 mer Sabbath school teacher of the pas
 tor of Whitneyvllle church, Rev. MT
 Clark.
 Rev. MT Clark, pastor of Whitney vile church spent the last Sabbath of his vacation in attendance at the h.
 ternational council In his absence Dea-
 con Payne kindly consented, as on pre-
 yious Sabbaths. to take charge of the service and preached from the text,
 "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and will give you
 rest"
 Admiral Dewey'a nephew, James Dewey, is in town the guest of Morris E. Futile, the young son of MT. and Mrs. Frank c. Futile, of 205 Orchard street Young Dewey is a lad ot e1gh- teen and is at school at Montpelier, and has been entertaining his friend, Morris Futile, at the Waldorf-Astoria for the past two days. He came back to New Haven with his guest to remain here until to-day, when he will go on to Washington to join his distinguished uncle. He is the son of Edward Dew ey, Admiral Dewey's brother, and is nearly six feet tall. Young Dewey and his guest dned at the Waldorf-Astoria with the admiral and the Dewey fami- ly. After dinner the two boys left New York, reaching New Haven about 1 o'clock yesterday morning.
 Brother Barnabas of the Christian Brotherhood will visit this city to-mor- row His mission here will be to seek recruits from among the Catholic young men of the various parishes of the city for the Christian Brotherhood.
 News has been received in Water town of the death of Mrs. J. Neville Thompson of Leesburg. Fla., wife of the rector of St. James church in that town and a cousin of Mrs. H. N. Gun ningham of Watertown The death is peculiarly sad, as Mrs. Thompson leaves several motherless children. The church. of which MT. Thompson is rec tor, contains memorial window for the Rev F. B. Woodward. formerly of WatertoWn. who was much interested in the work of that parish, his son, F. S, Woodward being one of it's promi- nent members.
 The team to represent the Second regiment, Connecticut National Guard, at the brigade shoot to-day at Mantle will include Major Dickinson and Cap tain LaBarnes of the field and staff officers; Captain Norton, Go. K; Lieu tenant Allen, Co K; Lieutenant Is bell, Go. D; Lieutenant Husted. Co E; Sergeant Ward, Co K; Private Landon Go. F; Sergeant Fox, Co. F; Sergeant Deal, Co. I; Sergeant Norton, Go. K; Private Mcintyre, Go. I: Private Ka- chubby, Co. |: Private Rushgrove Co., K.
 Harry Rowe Shelley, the world re- nowned concert organist, formerly of New Haven, has been engaged to open the remodeled organ at the First Con gregational church, Meriden. He is to appear in the second annual lecture course, probably sometime during No vember or December.
 A new joint stock company haa been formed in Derby. It is to be known as the Sterling Pin Go. The capital stock Is s200O0, divided into 200 shares of $100 each. The purposes for which the cor poration is formed are: To buy sell. manufacture and deal in paper pine, hairpins, hooks and eyes, and other wire novelties; to buy, sell and own the necessary real and personal property for the management of the business. The subscribers to the capital stock are: Irving H. Peck, Frank S. Slauter, John Peterson, Richard Hendee and Howard B. Peck, all of Derby. The gentlemen connected with the new con- cern are mostly young men, all prom inent in the community.
 A thirteen-inch mortar known to the members of the First Connecticut | Heavy artillery as Petersburg Ex- press," is to form part of the monu- ment which the artillery has perms- sion from the legislature to erect on the | capitol grounds. The regiment ia now | raising money for the base, and it is | hoped that the mortar can be placed in | position with appropriate exercises on | June 10, 1900 the occasion of the reun ion of the regiment. The mortar is | now in Bridgeport. It war manned by | the First Connecticut heavy artillery on General Grants railroad between Richmond and City Point It was fit ted on a freight car and waa run over the line at convenience. It was given to the First Connecticut heavy artil- lery by a special act of congress and was taken to Bridgeport from the navy | yard at Washington on a schooner owned by Frank Miller of Bridgeport who is a member of the artillery