Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-18
LOCAL NEWS.
Rrtef Mention.

Festoons of evergreen now decorate the City market.
 The next State saengerfest will be held in Bridgeport, June g.
 MT Frederick Hoag, of Sherman, is in this city visiting friends.
 The Adelphi Literary association give their grand ball January 10th.
 The hospital is filling up again, there be- ing 224 patients there now.
 MT. Snow, the confectioner, yesterday fill ed an order from Wyoming Territory.
 The annual meeting of the Hartford and Harlem road will be held December 27th in this city.
 Buyers for Sunday schools will do well to look into Snow's for Christmas boxes and confectionery.
 The Farrel foundry, Birmingham, are suf- ficiently stocked with orders for the winter and more are coming in.
 Ridgeley degree of the three I. O. O. F.. encampments hold reunion reception on New Years day from to 12 p. m.
 Christmas greens are plenty and quite cheap this season, the weather having been favorable to the work of collecting them.
 George Fawker and George Clark, of Winsted, leave for Florida to-day to locate there. Their respective families follow them soon.
 The schooner N Easterbrool, jr., arrived yesterday from New London, lowed here by the tug Gladwish. She was damaged not i. over $500.
 About sixty young ladies, pupils of Miss Porter's school, Pennington, occupied a special car on the 9:3O train to New York yesterday morning.
 About three hundred were present at the reception to Rev. MT. VanDeerlin and Mrs VanDeerlin at AS Howe street by the mem bers of Christ church.
 E. M. Andrews, of Naugatuck, has nearly finished the work of shipping his machinery. It was sent by railroad to New Haven, thence by a sailing vessel to Florida.
 MT. A. E. PIatts, the tobacconist, has re- ceived present of pair of moccasins from Montana from James Fagin, of the Eighteenth infantry, stationed at Fort As sinaboine.
 Don't let Christmas, 1884, go by without purchasing sealskin or plush cloak of Brooks & Co.,, Chapel, corner State. A large assortment of holiday umbrellas, satchels and gloves in stock. -
 The cold wave signal was hoisted on the Insurance building last evening by Sergeant Sherman. He anticipates fall in thermom- eter during the next twenty-four hours of from fifteen to twenty degrees.
 The faithful mariner on the seas heads not more surely by the compass than do the throngs of people looking for Christmas cards and calendars, diaries, etc., flock to the fine display at O. A Dorman's.
 Mrs. Ellen Farley, the woman who was badly burned last Sunday at 10 William street was reported as being very low at the hospital last night It is feared that she may not live through another day.
 Connecticut's Christmas tree for the New Orleans exposition, the gift of Donald G. Mitchell, 'Ik. Marvel" of New Haven, was shipped from New York Tuesday by the steamer Fl Dorado of the Morgan line.
 The officers of Harvard church, Brookline, Mass, on the authority of their pastor, the Rev. Ruen Thomas, contradict the report that he has accepted call to the United Congregational church of New Haven. An answer from MT. Thomas is confidently ex- pected here this week and favorable antici- pations have been formed on the subject. Dr. Thomas has refused calls of very flat tering kind from Chicago Manchester, Eng land, and London, England.