Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-21
LOCAL NEWS.
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 The moon will be full on Christmas eve A slight fire occurred in Peter Bayley's house on Bishop street, Waterbury, yester- day.
 c. W. Blakeslee & Son. of this city, have been awarded 8 $15,OO0 Telford pavement contract in Bridgeport.
 Mrs. Stancliffe, wife of Paymaster Stan cliffe of the navy, is dangerously Ill at the United States Hotel, Hartford.
 Garfield Lodge, K. F., of Branford, was visited and addressed by Grand Chancellor Dawless, of this city, Tuesday evening.
 The seventeenth select sociable of Excelsior Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will take place to-morrow evening in the Atheneum.
 Quite company of young people were busy tying greens at Christ church last even- ing. The church will be handsomely dec- orated.
 At Q. A. Dorman's there was immense number of Christmas patrons yesterday. The stock of Christmas cards and illuminated pa per is highly popular.
 The annual meeting of the County Agri- cultural society to have been held yesterday at Mr. F. S. Platt's store was deferred, there being only few in attendance.
 A horse belonging to J. Crawford, of Ham den, ran from the corner of Oak and Broad streets yesterday, out Davenport avenue to the bridge, but did little damage.
 Many of the scholars in Miss Porter's s5HHuif;- i-F E Pennington, and 150 boys from the Episcopal school at Concord, N. H., passed through here yesterday bound home for the holidays.
 At Minors on Church street there are many pretty little articles suitable for Christ mas gifts, such as Japanese butterfly plates and other novelties. They are having a rapid sale.
 Five-pound boxes of mixed or broken can / dies, home made, at Ryders for one dollar, and eight pounds of grocery store mixed can- dies for tho same money, and toys and candy receptacles in great assortment.
 The package of money that was accidentally placed with others when returning them to the old 1adys pocket from which they had fallen in slip-up last Friday has been returned and the owner made thankful.
 Among the young men to be admitted this week for the diocese of Hartford, which in- cludes the State Of Connecticut, in Montreal, to the priesthood of the Catholic church. is Mir. Henry Redding of this city.
 Mr. Burton and Mrs. Virginia T. Smith, of Hartford, visit New Haven to-day to at- tend the meeting of the commission on neg Iected children. This will probably be the last meeting before tho opening of the Legis- 1ature-
 The family of Mir. Thomas Smart, living on Squire street, Hartford, lost another child 1aH the third since Sunday. Their ages were g years and months, 5 years and months, and 12 years and months-all girls.
 At the meeting in Hartford Tuesday of the Connecticut Congregational club Presi- dent Magoun, of Iowa College, led in prayer. The paper on "T he Revision of Creeds, J read by the Rev. Newman Smyth, is pub. isted in the Janu ary North American Regteao.
 In Branford Tuesday night School Princi pal Cunningham was fined one dollar and costs for assaulting School Visitor Dr. Zink when the latter expressed doubts of Cunning hams ability as a pedagogue. counter charge of assault against Zink will be heard Friday.
 Next Wednesday and Thursday, 27th and 28th, Frank Frayne and company appear at the New Haven Opera House in 'Mardo, J the New York success. Mir. Frayne has given up shooting since the late unhappy tragedy in Cincinnati, and ''Mardo'' has none in it. and~is society play.
 The Horse Guards had very successful fair, one of the best and most successful ir the history of the company. Although the expenses were considerable, the receipts will amount to somewhere in the neighborhood of $500, which will probably be used towards fitting up the new armory which the compa ny will occupy in the State armory building now being erected on Meadow street.
 Among the numberless attractions at Gen. standing cabinet of mahogany decorated with artistic pieces in bronze and porcelain; a beautiful model of Mercury, three feet in height; quaint polished brass clock, set in Louis XIV. style; a carved brass Venetian lamp; very handsome vases, single and in pairs. Then there is Dresden china set for dining room table, very interesting, and com. prising quaint bowls and dishes in rich as sortment of decorations for oysters, soup, game, salad, fowl and cream, and small pieces for individual use, such as Copeland cups and saucers from $4 to $2O each, and some small Sevres butter plates, exquisitely painted, at $5 each, together with bread and milk sets and plate sets of less extensive character.
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