Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-02
LOCAL NEWS.

Brief Mention.
 Broderick x Curtiss gave all their employees turkeys on Thanksgiving eve
 Mir. Charles Watrous has sold his yacht Ruth to Captain Hathaway for $30,OOO.
 The sleighing was improved by hundreds on Whalley avenue yesterday and Thanksgiv- Ting day.
 A very successful rehearsal of the "Chimes of Normandy was held at the Atheneum last evening.
 The Consolidated Railroad company are surveying for double track from this city to New London.
 There will be praise service at the Sea- mans Bethel Sunday afternoon before the regular service.
 The lecture by Lieutenant Danenhower at the New Haven Opera House last evening was slimly attended, but of great interest. The Odd Fellows Mutual Aid association ss.szs asssd $1 800 benefit to Mrs. Henry HagermaH S2' 900 to the ~ido" Of Frank T. Keller.
 Rev. T. Harwood Pattison, D. D., of Rochester Theological Seminary, will preach morning and evening, Sunday, at Wooster Place Baptist church.
 Business Manager H. B. Warner. of the well known stTourists'' company, was in the city yesterday. They appear at Peck's the afternoon and evening of Saturday, the 9th inst
 Young Goebel, one of the Orange masked burglars, has been bound over in $500 bonds to the Superior Court for trial. Oliver Butts, charged with being an accomplice, was discharged.
 A new and large two-story dwelling house k in Cromwell, just erected by Hubbard Smith s8zasr boarding house, was destroyed by fire Thursday morning. Fire accidental. Loss about s., ,5OO.
 Joseph McDonald, foreman at Barker < Ransom's, has had relapse, and lies in 6 very low condition at his room in the Ire mont House. Yesterday afternoon, however, he rallied slightly.
 -Soroner Bollman yesterday gave James Fallon of Providence, brother of Michael Fallon, who died at the almshouse of a brok- en skull, permission to have the remains dis inferred for the purpose of recognition.
 The tie in the Sixth ward on the town dele gation between J. D. Belcher, Jacob Marx, Thomas Leddy and Bernard Clark was set tied on Wednesday evening by drawing lots, J. D. Beicher and Thomas Leddy being suc- cessful.
 On Thursday evening of next week the Social Union of the Humphrey street church will give literary and musical entertainment at their chapel in aid of furnishing the new church. A very choice programme is to be rendered.
 Tomorrow evening Rev. c. B. Harris, pastor of St. John St. M. E. church, will de- liver a memorial discourse on the late MT. Charles J. Allen, who for many years, and at the time of his decease, was a member of that church.
 The convent in Ferry street, Fair Haven, recently bought by the parishioners of St. Francis church, was blessed Wednesday by Bishop McMahon, assisted by Rev. P. Null holland. The name of the new convent is Our Lady of Mercy.
 AS MT. Theodore Zunder and friend were driving in a sleigh down the Wooster street hill from the bridge to State street yesterday afternoon, the horse slipped and fell, and the shafts passed under the horse A crowd col lected, but it was found that the horse had escaped injury.
 There is being built at Clinton, Conn, @ new savings bank, of which Mr. J. D. Lef- fingwell is president, Mir. E. E. Post cashier, and MT. Chapman, of Westbrook, teller. It is two stories high, of pressed brick of the finest quality, and will be in use about the 1st of March.
 The Yale Princeton football game at the Polo grounds, New York, Thanksgiving was won by Yale by score of goals and 1 safe ty touchdown to 1 goal and safety touch downs, which gives the championship to Yale, as she has won all three association games played this season.
 Yesterday afternoon $1O0,O0O of the re- deemed Quinnipiac bridge bonds were burned in the presence of Town Agent Reynolds and the Town Auditors James G. Brown and James M. Mason, who afterwards gave re- ceipt certifying to the destruction of the bonds. The burning was done in Janitor Bohan's room.