Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-25
Personal.

Personal. Rev. MT. Thrall, of Derby, takes foul I weeks vacation, his church being closed dur. ] ing his absence.
 Ferris Botsford, of Southbury, died at 3:3C years and months.
 Miss Anna Prentice, of Norwich, daughter of ex-Mayor A. W. Prentice, sailed for Flu
 rope on the Scythia from New York We'd
 nesday.
 Mrs. Mary Cosier, who has kept house for
 Agur Lewis, of Southbury, the last twenty
 five years, died on Saturday last, aged Y
 years. She was buried in, the South cemetery
 on Tuesday.
 Father Hewitt, the eloquent Paulist
 preacher, from the church in Fifty ninth
 street, New York, is visiting friends in this
 city. He is a brother of Congressman Hew-
 it, of New York
 Hr. George A. Reynolds. for a long time
 in the employ of the Pratt & Whitney com
 pany, Hartford, is critically i'll. He was at
 tackled a. few days ago with what was thought to be boil on his back. It grew worse and
 erysipelas set in.
 MT. Charles A. Strong died at his home on
 Miller's Hill, East Hampton, last Monday
 morning aged seventy-seven years. He had
 been a long and patient sufferer. Prominent
 in town affairs he had held many positions of trust and discharged his duties with prompt ness and fidelity.
 Major T. l.. Watson and wife, Mrs. Han ford Lyon and Mrs Charles G. Lyon, of Bridgeport, will start about July first on a three months trip to California, Arizona and other points in the West. Before they re- turn they will visit the mines in Arizona in which Major Watson owns large interest. Mir. John l.. Franklin, a member of the senior class of the Yale Theological Seminary, is preaching during the summer at White Cloud, Mich. Mir. Franklin has been con- l nected with the English Hall Sunday school since it's organization, nearly five years ago. For the past three years he has been secre- tary of the school.
 The Hon. Oliver Hoyt and Mrs. Royt, of Stamford, and MT. Theodore Hoyt, their son, | with Mrs. Wales, the Rev. Dr. Tiffany, Mrs. Tiffany and others, leave New York today for Europe. The party will be absent some IHrce UT TOUT months. Af. dOyC IS one or l the delegates to the Ecumenical Council of Methods n to be held in September. Dr. Lewis Williams, of Pomfret, died on Wednesday of a complication of diseases and
 over-work. He was sixty-six years old, and was born and bred in the town He was well and favorably known as a physician in Pomfret, Putnam Woodstock and Eastford He was friend of temperance and educa- tion, and will be greatly missed in the con- munityiin which he lived MT. William E. Peck, of New Britain, who is member of the graduating class at Yale, intends to sail for South America in a few weeks. He has made study of the lan- guages of that country and has many inf1uen- tial friends in several of the cities. He will
 locate permanently in Valparaiso, and twice
 every year will visit the principal cities of Chili, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Ar genuine Confederation. He goes in the inter
 est of several of the manufacturing estab lishnents of this State. Mir Peck has been preparing for this business for the past year. Mir. Peck has been connected with this paper for some time past as contributor of college