Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-05
LOCAL NEVIS.
Brief Mention.

BrIe1 menTlOn.
 The Board of Aldermen meet this eVen- ing.
 Hon. George H. Watrous has 8 severe cold, but is improving.
 The seats in the new Trinity M. E. church will be rented this evening.
 Read John G. Chapman's letter about the Red Jacket Bitters in another column.
 Samuel B. Gum, of Milford, father of Senator Gum, is quite low with pneumonia General s R. Smith, it is said, will enter into the bakery business in New York with Major Watson, of Bridgeport.
 Work at the shoe department of the Glove company, Naugatuck, it was expected Satur- day, would be resumed to-day.
 Mir. William D. Bryan, the merchant tail or, passed comfortable day yesterday, but last evening was still seriously ili
 The Ladies Seamen's Friend society will hold their regular monthly meeting this af ternoon at 3 o'clock in the North church chapel.
 The monday meeting at the Y. M. c. A. to-day will be led by Mir. E. P. Merwin. Sub ject, ''No lack when the Lord provides for us." John 6, 5-13.
 Rev. Father Fitzpatrick, of St. Patrick 8 church, has been very low for two days past with complication of diseases. Last even- ing his condition was about the same.
 Superintendent Howe, of the Reform school, will give the boys plum pudding dinner this week, for which Representative Starr, of Litchfeld, contributed $1O.
 Rev. MT. Corbit breaches next Sunday morning a memorial discourse relative to the late George H. Fowler, of Humphrey street for many years prominent in the employ Of the Candee Rubber Go.
 Complaint is made us by citizens against the dumping of snow on the Green, the req son given being that the heaps of snow when melting floods the sidewalks making them inconvenient to pedestrians.
 This evening the Light Guard will hold their annual meeting and elect successor tc Lieutenant c. w. Bogue. resigned. Corporal 0. W. Suoher is said to be the probable suc- cessor of Lieutenant Bogue.
 Radcliffe Hicks is president of the New Garfield Rubber company, of Middletown, which has @ capital of $100,O0 H. O. Can field is vice president, D. M. Baldwin secre- tary and I. A. Garfield treasurer.
 The railroad mems reading room on Mead. ow street is patronizsd by about seventy-fve railroad men, large proportion of whom are brakemen. Thirty papers are taken and there are several hundred volumes in the li- brary.
 Another of the educational tours in Eu- rope, which in the past five years have been 50 successfully planned and carried out by Dr. Tourjee is announced for 1883. This includes the unprecedented attractions of the past, with new ones added, making 1t the finest tour before the public.
 The eight new elephants at Barnum's show winter quarters were let out into the yard at the winter quarters Friday, and before they were through with their airing they got away from their keepers, but were reduced to sub mission and placed under control again be- fore any damage had been done.
 Yesterdays weather was varied enough to suit the most fastidious just the kind once described by Mark Twain when writing of New England weather. It snew, blew and thew, rained little the sun shone a while and finally it cleared off snapping cold, with the stars coldly sparkling in the blue ethereal vault.