Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-30
Thanksgiving Day.

The Recurrence of the Tfme-Honored |
Anniversary The Early Advent of |
Winter and Sleigh BelIs-The Arrivals
Heavy Trave1-BenevoIencea and the |
Poor.
To-day, Thanksgiving day, there will be
united services in various of the churches.
There are entertainments at all three opera
houses, both matinee and evening" also at the
American. few of the trains on the Con-
solidated road are taken off for to- day, &C
cordlng to custom. They were mentioned
yesterday. There will be sociables in the
evening in several of the public halls The
postofice hours were announced yesterday.
Winter asserts herself right early this season
and the gentle snow has already become ia
miliar sight. The small boys and girls are
beginning to realize that life is full of enjoy
| ment, judging from the zest with which they
welcomed the increased snow fall yesterday
| and employed their spare time in coasting
The boys also, to whom an errand is simply
distasteful and performed in a perfunctory
| manner, were enamored with snow shovelng
! and performed prodigies of muscular work in
| handling the snow shovels The walks on
| the Green were shoveled Off again yesterday
! afternoon. The snow fell sufficiently yester-
| day to warrant the use of sleighs, and now
| and then the sleigh bells were heard, to the
great enjoyment of young America The
farmers had some wagons in town yesterday
laden with turkeys and poultry, and at the
principal markets heavy business was done.
At Frisbie & Harris six tons of turkeys,
geese chickens and ducks were sold yester-
day. Nearly every pound of turkey they had
went to meet the memorable demand for COB
blers. They sold about four tons of western
poultry and turkeys, and on the whole the
Connecticut yield was little behind the
average.
Rev. DR.. Newman Smyth delivers 8
Thanksgiving discourse this morning at unit
ed service at Center church, at which the
North and Center congregations unite. The
Third, College street, Davenport and Hum
| phrey street churches unite in worship at the
Church of the Redeemer, Rev. DR.. Tod6
| preaching the sermon. All the M. E
| churches unite in service at the George stree
church, Rev. DIR. Goodsell preaching the
| sermon.
Many old familiar faces were to be seer
| about the city, of people returned home tt
spend Thanksgiving and the Thanksgiving
travel was lively. The II o'clock train on
of New York divided up into two sections
the first arriving at ITO, the second few
I minutes later. The first section was com
| posed of one baggage and nine drawing room
!. cars, and the second of one baggage car ant
| ten coaches. The Shore Line train arriving
here at 3:12 was very heavy train, and tn
| 1:50 p. m. train down on the New York roat
had sixteen coaches. 1t had about 400 stu
dents on board.
At the hospital there will be special,
good dinner served to the patients At tn
I almshouse a similar treat will be served. Not
, withstanding the good times and the gener
I ally busy times in the shops it is said Their
are many homes in this large city of abou
| 10000 inhabitants where the bare necessarie
of life are with difficulty provided a situa
ton of affairs due in some cases to intemper
ance, in others to the heavy hand of affection
, and in all cases bearing hard upon deservin
members of the community. It is gratifyin
to know that many such cases have been me
1 through personal investigation and generou
givers. No doubt could all such cases b
made known there is generosity and benevc
lence enough in this city to provide ever
such home with splendid Thanksgivin
f dinner.