Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-25
Personal

MrS. EnreGta Merriam Qied or pleufo pneu monia last Friday night, aged 62, after an ill., ness of nine days. She lived with her daughter, Mrs. Buckland, on the fifth floor of the Insurance building. Her daughter is en, gagged in Malley's, her husband having died suddenly some months ago. Her little child has staid with the grandmother, but she has no one to leave it with now.
 MT. and Mrs. F. O. Bangs held a crowded reception in Philadelphia Tuesday. Mrs, Bangs, who is & handsome and stately blonde was dressed in white silk heavily embroidered with pearls Her ornaments were diamond brooch and necklace, and bracelets of old gold worn above the elbow.
 Mir. Ed. Torpay, of the Wilbur Opera com -pany, went last evening to Brooklyn where he has accepted an eight weeks engagement with the Snyder & Grau Comic Opera oom- pany Mir. Daley leaves this morning to fill a similar engagement with the same com pany.
 MT. filling, of the firm of Bradley & filling, and his bride were registered at the Arling- ton House, Saratoga, Thursday, and wit messed the arrival of the New Haven military at that place.
 Messrs. Thomas filling, the sash and blind manufacturer, and NIT. Beckley, the lumber merchant. were at Albany on business trip the evening the Grays arrived and saw their reception in that city.
 James R. Mullen, now of Comanche, Iowa is in town visiting friends.
 Judge LIP. Deming was on Saturday unan- imously reelected chairman of the Repubi- can town committee for the ensuing year.
 August Belmont and family passed through here Saturday for Newport.
 The Rt. Rev. Bishop Williams is sick with nervous prostration brought on by hard labor. He has disposed of all his engage ments for the coming two weeks and will de- vote the time to rest.
 Mrs l.. F. $. Foster of Norwich who within two or three years has lost husband, a brother and sister, has met with fresh bereavement by the death of her sister, Mrs. Charles Mason, of Boston, who had been visiting her for three or four weeks past. Mrs. Mason's illness was of very short dura- tion.
 Captain Stephen L. Sylvester, of Norwich died Friday morning after @ long illness, at the age of sixty-three- He was born in Pic ton Nova Scotia, in 1920, and was ship builder by trade. He came to Norwich in 1860.
 The Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Parks, formerly connected with the First Baptist church of Norwich, and now pastor of the church at Scotch Plains, N. J., were surprised by large party of friends on the twenty-ffth anniversary of their marriage, which oe- cured recently.
 Governor Waller is not going to Europe.
 Miss Parloa, the well known lecturer on culinary science, was the chief cook of the St. James Hotel, Florida, for a couple of years and after8ard teacher in the public schools of that State.
 Malcolm Adams, a small boy, fell from cherry tree in South. Farms (Middletown), on Thursday and broke his skull. As several other boys had been injured by falling from this tree, the owner has decided to cut 1t down.
 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Nef, of Higga- mum, celebrated their silver wedding Friday evening. A large number of their friends were present, and they received many costly gifts. The Rev. A. s. Kavanagh, of Brook lyn, N. Y., was present
 J. Aspinwall Hodge, jr., son of Rev. Dr. Hodge, of the Presbyterian church, Hart ford, has won the Benedict historical fellow ship and the first Lynde prizes for excellence in debate at Princeton. During his course MT. Hodge has won eight literary and four athletic prizes.
 Capt. Fred. A. Parker, of Portland, died Saturday morning. He was for thirty-fiVe years connected with the Middlesex Quarry company, a leading business man and staunch Republican. He represented Portland in the Legislature, and held many local offices with honor and trust.
 City Attorney B. c. Cooke, of Norwich, leaves for business enterprise in the West. He is well known in Eastern Connecticut. He was graduate of the Free Academy and of Yale college; for several years he has been the law partner of Col. George 0. Rip ley.
 Sherman E. Grannis, superintendent for the Water company here, was elected vice I NU4k4- ATr.r.Vr association at the annual meeting held at Mass, Thursday.