Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-06
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention

Fine weather for December, suggestive of balmy spring.
 The adjourned town meeting takes place at Ioomis' Temple of Music this afternoon at o'clock.
 Seymour manufacturing is reported very brisk. In some of the factories they are working night and day.
 The liens of the city and town on the h. surance building were released yesterday, the back taxes on the property having been paid.
 Mir. John Jackson and daughter, Mrs. w. l.. Braddock, and Master Louie Braddock, ot Ansonia. start for Florida on Wednesday to spend the winter.
 Captain Samuel Pond, of Branford, was accidentally killed in a gale at sea of the coast of North Carolina. His vessel, the U. H. Sprague, was wrecked.
 BaIlou, the government contractor who ran away from New London, is reported by the telegraph to be in Boston trying to get set clement of some kind with his creditors.
 The annual recital of the pupils of the New Haven Conservatory of Music takes place on Saturday evening next at the Athe neum. There will be as usual 8 large at 
 tendance.
 MT. George S. Barkentin, the caterer, of this city, arrived home Monday evening from a months visit to England. He came on the Alaska, which ran down the pilot boat of Fire Island.
 Dr. F. J. Whittemore is expected home from Europe to-day. He has been through Ireland, England, Germany, Switzerland and France He has been absent on the trip nearly three mon,hs.
 Professor Van Druning of Wheeler < Wilson's band, Bridgeport, had a diseased leg amputated yesterday at the hospital by Dr. Bacon. woman also had 8 leg amputated at the hospital yesterday.
 It is understood that Charles R. Spiegel, the recently defeated candidate for Town Clerk on the Republican ticket, will be one of New Havens deputy sheriffs under Sheriff Gates. The selection is good one.
 Residences and tenement houses are going up in various parts of the city, and the west ern part is more particularly noticeable in this regard, although other sections are get ting fair share in projected improvements. The Grays last evening made a',.large ad
 
 now nearly up to the maximum number and is fourishing finely. After the exercises at the armory the company partook of a fine spread.
 The annual meetirg of the Wmen'a Christian Temperance union for the election of officers for the ensuing year will be held this Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Y. M. C. A. hall. It is desirable that every member be present.
 Major John w. Barlow, corps of engineers, now on leave of absence, has been reassigned to the duties from which he WAS temporarily relieved by Captain F. A. Hinman who, on to duty in New Orleans
 There are several of the subscribers to the New York Trio club concerts, the first of which takes place tonight, who have failed to secure their seats at 255 Chapel street. The pest part of the parquet in the Athe- neum is already reserved and all who want good seats should attend to it the first thing this morning.
 The large circle of friends of Dr. David A. Tyler of Wooster street, this city, will be glad to learn that he is much improved in Haven shore for the present and leaves this week for visit with his daughter, the wife of Rev. Mir. Bryant, pastor of the Congre- gational church in South Britain.
 Hon. William D. Bishop and President Bartholomew's recent conference regarding the proposed union depot in Ansonia is re- garded by Ansouia people as having been very favorable for that result, and Engineer Smith of the Naugatuck road was in Ansonia yesterday with his assistants surveying about the station, probably to locate the site.