Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-26
Personal.

Senator Plunkett is considerably better and hopes to go to Hartford Tuesday to resume his legislative duties. He caught cold after taking Russian bath for the purpose of breaking up cold. The many friends of Nehemiah H. Hoyt, one of our veteran Odd Fellows, will regret to hear that his health continues very poor and that there is little prospect of any i'm provement in his case. Band Leader Streit is i'll with rheumatic fever.
 H. H. Thomas, leader of Thomas orohes. tra, is again ill.
 Hon. William c. Crump, of New London, is seriously i'll in Boston and his recovery is considered extremely doubtful.
 H. T. Durand, for nearly twenty years in the employ of the Waterbury Brass company, has accepted the superintendency of the new brass mill of the Winchester Repeating Arms company.
 William E. Thompson, who has charge of the committee rooms at the Capitol during the session of the General Assembly, has been confined to his house for several days He was threatened with pneumonia, but is slowly improving.
 Fair Haven.
 Born on Saturday morning the 24th inst, Q son to Mir. and Mrs. Edgar Palmer
 Church services were not generally well at tended yesterday on account of the stormy weather.
 Four weeks from to-day is Easter Monday then comes the season of scenes of pleasure and merriment again.
 Communion at the Second church next Sunday afternoon, when several persons will be admitted to the church by profession of faith
 The schooners William Farren, Captain H. R. Linsley and Mary c. Decker, Captain Nel- son, arrived in port on Friday from Virginia with oysters for the dealers here.
 Business at the wire works is driving. The new building, one hundred and fifty feet in length by fifty feet in width, now going up, is built of brick and is now ready for the roof work.
 The frame work for the new oyster dredge steamer now building at George Graves ship yard is nearly up. Mir. Graves will push business as fast as possible.
 MT. Nell Beebe has been confined to his house at 61 Pine street for nearly week past.
 Mrs. Leisenheimer, living on the short street coming in near the junction of Farrsn avenue and Center street, fell on the ice Fri day afternoon and badly broke her wrist. Dr. Gilbert was called to set the broken bones
 The birthday party at Captain Hesekiah Tuttle's last Thursday was 8 noted gath ering, the occasion being the seventy third birthday of Mrs. Captain Futile. With three sisters, Mrs Chidsey, mother of Horace Chid- sey, Mrs. Ann Mallory and Mrs Edwin Barnes, their united ages -four sister, are 3o9 years Captain J. H. Lanfair, of Fair Haven, Capt. Horace Lanfair, and Capt. George Lanfair, of Baltimore, M. D., are brothers. The united ages of the brothers and sisters, seven of them, are 523 years There has never been death among the brothers and sisters, the whole number of children surviving until now.
 Very few people were on the streets prom enading on Saturday evening as many of them had gone to the city to witness Carrie Swain as stMab, the Miners Daughter " to see Pat Rooney, and visit the American Theatre. All were well pleased at the entertainments they attended.
 The rain Saturday night and Sunday morn ing with the fog made considerable trouble and did some damage, especially on the east side. The sewers were all stopped. the gut ters were not cleaned, so the water oyer flowed, flooding cellars, basements and side. walks. The town officials had men at streets Some of our citizens thought they would have accomplished more if they had gone to work on Prospect street instead of where they did One of the cellars flooded had over one foot of water in depth over the Hoor