Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-28
AUUAL NEWS.
Brief Me1ttoEG,


 t4sneral HaaIey Is home in Hartford on Jrief visit. s@ sgsse
 Attention is called to the advertisement of S25 reward for $207 in money lost.
 A. s. Hotchkiss, the well known newspaper nan, of Hartford, is improving in health. The January number of the Home World, 1ublislied by Rev. E. 0. Baldwin, is just Issued
 John Anderson, Hartford stone cutter, Tell on the ice Wednesday and fractured his lsg in two places.
 MT. Frederick Leavenworth, press feeder at filings printing office, badly crushed his right hand while working one of the presses. Charles Warren was arrested last evening on charge of breach of the peace. He treated disturbance at the American Thea- ter.
 On Monday evening the members of the Third church will consider the invitation rendered them to unite with the North church.
 James ODonneii, an employe of Winches- tors, who was i'll with lockjaw consequent upon an injury to his hand, has entirely re- covered.
 
 the war editor of the Baltimore American, who saved Maryland for the Union, died in Chicago the 2d inst. Mrs. Oliver Dudley Cook, who died at Peekskill on Tuesday at the advanced age of eighty four years, was sister to MT. Thomas BelknRp of Hartford.
 The engine of the Hartford train leaving here at SIP p. m. yesterday jumped the track at the switch above the depot. The damage and delay were slight.
 Rev. Father Lalor and his assistant at St. Mary's church generously donated their en- tire collection on Christmas toward the pay ment of the church debt.
 MT. Lewis Fox, eighty-three years old, Hiring on Elm street, Bridgeport slipped and fell on Inc grating in front of Reads store, Monday evening, dislocating one shoulder. Mrs. AImira Dowd died at her home in Clinton Wednesday, aged seventy-six. Her husband died yesterday morning, aged sev- euty-five. Both had been feeble fer some time.
 Peter Johnson, a colored man about fifty has aeen an inmate at the almshouse, was
  patAnt.
 Several New Haven gentlemen have been invited to the one hundred and twelfth re- ception of the Governors Foot Guard of Hartford to the Governor of Connecticut on Wednesday evening, January 9th.
 Mrs. Huntington, wife of the famous rail- way magnate, lately deceased, left $329, ,O0O. Hhioh she distributed among twenty-five jeRatees. Mrs. Asa N. Hawley, of Danbury, Ga5 sister, and has been handsomely re nae nbered.
 The skull dredged up in the Sound by the steamer Ivernia, which was supposed to be that of pterodactyI, is the skull of dol phiu, but different from anything before seen in the Sound that scientific men have knowledge of.
 The sale by auction of the house and lot at 56 Kensington street, which was an nounced for yesterday unless stormy, has been postponed until to-day, when if stormy the sale will be on the next fair day. See advertisement.
 Fourteen children were sent from the New Haven alnlshouss to the St. Francis orphan asylum yesterday. Six more will be sent to the Home for Destitute Children at Tyler City and four to the New Haven orphan asylum this week.
 Hearing in tho case of Mrs. Mary Me Gcath vs. Mrs. Daley was postponed in the Court of Common Pleas at Bridgeport yes- terday until Saturday. The writ was served to gain possession of Mrs. McGrath's eleven year old daughter, who has been in Mrs. Oaiey's possession since she was a babe
 The Rev. D. F. Lamson, who is about to leave his work in Hartford for charge in Massachusetts, was surprised Christmas evening by the gift of handsome engrav- ing from the scholars of the Sabbath school and an elegant French mantel clock from other friends connected with Morgan chapel.