Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-16
Personal

Charles Austin Sherman, 8 lawyer, who died in New York, Saturday, aged seventy three, native of this oity and lived here till he was sixteen. He studied law, and upon being admitted to the bar became iden- tifed with railroad interests. He had an office at No. 69 Wall street, and was we'll known in the profession.
 MT. Frederick Ross, the Congress avenue candy dealer, has gone to Europe. Rev. Mir. Lines, of this city, preached in Trinity church, Hartford, on Sunday. Gen. William Randel Smith, of Norwalk, is recovering from severe attack of illness.
 Theodore Hilton was booked to lecture at Southington last evening in '"The Worlds To morrow"
 Emma E. Wilcox, of this city, graduates at the State Normal school this week Friday also Ella F. Buxton, Alina M. Hull and Hattie c. Wallace.
 Rev. Father Mulholland announced in St. Francis church yesterday that hereafter he will not perform the marriage ceremony after sunset
 Rev. Dr. Stifer preached Sunday at the Wooster Square Baptist church The people  Dr. StiAers family reside in this city for the present.
 Mrs. John Stokes. of Wallingford, is very i'll and but slight hopes are entertained of her recovery. | The late Mrs. Oscar Weed, of Branford,
 was buried from her late residence Sunday afternoon. Rev. c. c. Smith oficiated. The Baptist church choir sang. The interment was in Stony Creek. Her age was 32. 1 The widow of the late John Plant died at her residence, Branford, Saturday. The flu neral takes place this afternoon, Rev. c. P. Osborne officiating | D. D. Bartholomew, of Branford, has re- turned from a visit to Florida.
 Rev. Mir. Fitzgerald, of Milford, preached
 in Trinity church, Branford, Sunday.
 Rev. J. T. Lee, of Winsted, has declined g
 call to Boston. Rev. T. Ockford, rector of the Episcopal 1 church in Thomaston, has rendered his resig- nation, to take effect on the 14th of Febru- ary.
 Judge R. W. Wright, of Cheshire, is now
 slowly improving, and considerable hopes of
 his recovery are entertained. Dr. Paul c. Skif is attending him. 1 Mr. John G. North was able to be out for
 the first time yesterday in two weeks. He has 1 been suffering from a severe cold attended
 with prostration and fever. l Fire Marshal Kennedy has begun the in- spection of the large hotels and buildings of the city.
 Mrs. Daniel Buck, of Wethersfeld, has en- | ha, ha at l Wethersfeld, January 10th, 1784, the daugh
 ter of Colonel Ezekiel Belden, and is now in 1 good health.
 John Pierce, of South Britain, has recently purchased full blooded Norman Pencheron stallion which was imported from France by
 Mark Durham, of Wayne, Ills, in August 1 last, at 8 cost of $1, 100. MT. and Mrs Oliver Evans, of Naugatuck,
 celebrated their golden wedding yesterday afternoon and evening. 1 Mrs. D. L. Durand, of Waterbury. died yesterday after an illness of three months Rev. H. E. Burnes, of Birmingham, | preached in the Waterbury NJ. E. church l Sunday.
 It is reported at Hartford that Mir. Parsons, of the Register, was rendered the insurance commissionership by Gov. Waller, last week, to succeed Commissioner Brooks, as it has
 been rumored for some time that he would 1 be.
 Mir Henry c. Beckwith, of New York, who
 has been very sick, is improving. James Maloney, a Springfield man, was captured in Hartford yesterday and taken to
 Massachusetts to answer to the charge of murdering a man of 50 years of age named | Sylvester Griffin last Thursday. Bishop Williams preached an eloquent ser
 mon in Trinity college chapel Sunday after noon commemorative of the semi-centennial
 anniversary of the College Missoniary society. l Murty McMahon yesterday morning caught hold of man at the Bridge street railroad 1 crossing in this city and pulled him away
 from right in front of train. The man did not see the locomotive owing to clouds of steam