Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-23
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Rev. MT. Buck lectures in Meriden soon Colonel s. J. Fox rendered his resignation as an official at the adjutant generals office Saturday. Major s. c. Waldron, brigade commissary on General s. R. Smiths staff, has resigned and retired from State service There are nine of the ''Dakota band" en- gagged in evangelical work in that distant Territory, instead of three, as reported. MT. E. B. Miller, well known Hartford butcher died Sunday night from rheumatism of the heart He was 65 years of age. There is some skating on the Old Green Many would be glad to have the Green flooded in order to have better skating there. A twenty foot ice boat has been completed for Mr. Howard Sherman for use on Lake Whitney. Many are anxious to take the first slide.
 The lectures on English literature by Rev. D. T. Rodman, at the Elderage school, will begin next week Friday, February 2d, at 3:3O o'clock.
 There are about three miles of walks about the public squares that Superintendent An druss keeps sanded during this 'slip up" season.
 The SchiIIerbund's masquerade ball at Germania Hall last night was much enjoyed. There was full attendance of members and their lady friends.
 No deaths have resulted from the late ac- cident at Hop Brook on the New England road The injured men are all on the high road to recovery.
 Memorial services in honor of the late Mrs. Pettengill, of Bridgeport, were held Sunday at St. Johns church in that city, Rev. MT. Maxey preaching the sermon.
 small boy in a Hartford Sunday school last Sunday rendered Matthew iii 4, as fol- lows s'And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and leathern girdle about his lions; and his meat was locusts and wild honey"
 Rev. A. D. Miller, rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Middletown, has been unanimously elected rector of St. Luke's church in San Francisco, Cal, at salary oi $3,OoO year. He gets the same amount in his present place.
 There will be an oyster supper and social entertainment given by the young people oi St. Johns parish, North Haven, Wednesday evening January 24, at the residence of MT Joseph Pierpont. All are invited to attend and bring their friends.
 Charles l.. Lyon and George H. Wilcox, o1 Meriden. will act as two of the ushers at th' marriage of F. H. Allis and Miss Annie Morton Yale, which occurs in this city to day. A large number of MT. AlIis' friends from Meriden will attend.
 John B. Davis, an employe of the Nev York and New England road, was crushed while coupling cars at the yard in Hartford Saturday, and died at the hospital a feV hours later. The deceased lived on Fort street, Hartford, but had no relatives in thi country.
 The seventh annual meeting of the Con necticut Pharmaceutical association will b. held in Hartford February and 7. Int subject of trade interests and of Legislation affecting druggists will be. discussed, ant other matters. The headquarters will be a the Allyn House.
 The new brick block for which ground hal been broken on Grown street. near the corne of Temple, is being built for Mrs. Robert son, wife of ex-Mayor Robertson and will b. three stories high, with English basement and brown stone trimmings, with a forty-fv foot frontage and depth of thirty eight feet It will cost about $14 1000.
 The Southern New England Telephon company is constructing a metallic circui from New York to Boston, the poles having been erected save for a distance of four milel at Greenwich. The wires will be place. twelve inches apart and will form a perfec service, the ground induction. which inter feres so much with the local service, bein avoided
 Lecture i'm Woodbridge.
 The lecture to have been delivered by Rev F. Stanley Root at the Woodbridge Congre gational church last Friday evening" post poned on account of the storm, will be de livered this evening.
 Temperance.
 A complete roll of those in attendance the recent annual convention of the Connet ticut Temperance Union was not obtained but it was ascertained that all the countit and upwards of eighty of the towns in u State were represented and there were repr sentatives present from about one hupdre churches, fifty temperance organizations an thirty Sunday schools. The annual repo showed that much good work had been do1 in this State during the past year, that gre progress was made in other States, and tn the Union holds firmly to total abstinence ar prohibition.
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