Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-25

To- morrow evening Miss Lizzie May Ul- mer, supported by 8 cast of experienced and able artists, will appear at New Haven Opera House in the celebrated drama entitled 1.-The Danltes." Miss Ulmer will appear in her un- equalled impersonation of Billy Piper" in which she has achieved great success She will also appear again on Monday evening in tho same play.
 HEALTH LECTURES.
 pr. Hale, of Edinburgh, will deliver q course of lectures at Carll's Opera House next week, commencing on Monday evening The subject of the first lecture will be ''Dis eases of the Throat and Lungs " The doctor comes we'll recommended His lectures are embellished by the most beautiful illustrations from taken life illuminated on twenty five square feet of canvas by @ most powerful stereopticon. Reserved seats are now on sale at Loomis'.
 FIFTH AVENUE COMEDY COMPANY.
 The Fifth Avenue Comedy company give the dramatic sensation, ''The Ticket of Leave Man," at Peck's Grand Opera House this Friday evening" Tomorrow afternoon they give ''Uncle Toms Cabin" and to- nor row evening "The Colleen Bawn." Popula, prices. An exchange says: ''But the charm of the evening lay in the harmonious inten ton of the entire company. Hardly line of the clearly pointed dialogue was allowed to pass without good use of it's advantages and every situation was we'll played and exc cuted, and the company played into each oah CTS hands most effectively and in manner more common to the French than to the English spoken stage, and their essential un derstanding raised the performance to a standard which would make Q far less merit. orious play more interesting"
 
 Donations to the New Haven Colony Hiss
 toricaI Society.
 During the past week this society has been the recipient of numerous valuable and in. teresting articles. Among them arc portrait. of MT. Ebenezer Townsend and wife, paint ed nearly 8 century since. MT. Townsend was the owner of the ship Neptune" of this port, which made the famous China ard sealing voyage in 179S, and was the first New Haven ship which "doubled Cape Horn" /"
 A fire portrait of Daniel Greene, the Nep- tune's commander, hangs in close proximity to that of his old employer, The Townsend portraits were sent to the society by Mrs. Dr. Brewer, of Middletown, 8 descendant of Mr. Townsend.
 William J. Miller, Esq, has given to the society several particularly interesting relics, notably the quaint old cane used by Francis Lewis, the signer of the Declaration of In- dependence" Mir. Lewis came to this country from Wales in 17S5 aged 22 years He died in 1903 at the great age of 90, and the cane used by him all of those years has now 8 resting place in one of the cases of tke so- ciety.
 There have also been presented to the so- ciety, by MT. Miller the plume, powder horn and drum sticks used by his ancestor Peter Miller in several of the New England battles of the Revolution. In the powder horn is eI the drummer came home from the army when peace was declared.
 A number of engravings, miniatures, canes, etc, formerly owned by old New Haven peo- pie, have also been presented, and many art1- cles have been promised and will be sent to the society when the owners return home next month.
 At @ hearing recently before the State House committee one gentleman said "that nothing had ever succeeded or lived that had been in the old State House." This society must be excepted from the list of failures.
 When it was moved from the City Hall to it's present rooms it had an annual life membership of twenty five. It now has annual members, 142 fife members 40. At the time of the removal the articles upon the walls numbered 157. They now exceed 300 ; and the library from six hundred volumes has been increased by donations to over one thousand books.
 At no time since the founding of the soci- ty has so great an interest been taken in it's welfare as at present, and a gratifying testi- mony to it's worth and influence IS the fact that several of the leading English county historical, archaeological and genealogical societies voluntarily forward the reports of their meetings, reading of papers, etc., to our home society.
 Several papers will be read before the soci- ety during the winter, and also lecture on '"The Spanish Armada illustrated by the stereoptieop, due notice of which will be given. T.