Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-19
LOCAL NEWS.
Rrief Mention.


 Edwin Booth appears in Hartford in OthelIo in the middle of February.
 PIT. Barnum has had a fine private office fitted up in Bridgeport on Main street.
 Mrs. Charles S. Stratton will appear with her company next week in Stamford.
 The Chamber of Commerce meets this eve ming to discuss the proposed new treaty with Spain.
 Ellen E. Farley died at the hospital yester- day in consequence of injuries received by being burned last Sunday.
 There is less sickness in town than usual at this season of the year, according to the testi- mony of some of our physicians.
 Yesterdays snow squalls ended in colder weather. Last evening the store windows wore frost work decorations.
 Some critics think that the new chancel of Trinity church will be detriment to the acoustic properties of the church.
 Special bargains in umbrellas for the ho1i- days at Brooks & Co.'s, Chapel, corner State. Furs of every description, trunks and alligator and grain leather satchels.
 One hundred and four pounds of honey is what William Harvey, of Colchester, recent " maple. It was worth about $20.
 The police made search in the Annex on Wednesday night hoping to find Patrick Tucker, one of the brutal assailants of Henry J. Wilmot. They were unsuccessful in their search.
 The directors of the Watertown Agricul- tural society have reelected William G. French as president and A. H. Scoville sec retary, AIanson Warren declined reelection as secretary.
 The steamer Capitol City resumed her place on the line between New York and Saybrook, yesterday. The City of Spring field will be hauled off and lay up at New London for the winter.
 At the annual meeting the Union Agricul- tura1 society of Monroe, Trumbull and Hun tington, the secretary's report showed little more than $100 to be the net results of the late fair of the society.
 The second track over the new iron bridge on the Hartford division of the Consolidated road at the James street crossing was finished Wednesday and heavy freight train was sent rolling over it.
 The State Board of Health, at a meeting held in Hartford Wednesday, voted to pre- sent bill to the next legislature providing for a thorough official inspection of all plumbing done in the State in future.
 The Hartford and Harlem Railroad com pany is still buying land for the layout and will go ahead with the construction of the line when times become better. A recent purchase of land was made in Hamden for the road bed.
 The wrecking of the house of newly mar ried couple, MT. and Mrs. Dougherty, in Litchfeld, by roughs who were angry at Dougherty for being married outside his church has cost the perpetrators $100 and the case has been settled.
 The rush to Burgess & Burgess famous depot for sealskin sacques, beaver shoulder capes, Inuffs, seal caps and gloves, fur robes, fine plush robes, silk umbrellas, travelling bags, gents kid gloves, shows that the peo- pie know where to save money in buying their Christmas presents. Their magnificent stock, low prices and long experience tell the story.
 Who has not heard of c. M Loomis' fa- nous Temple of Music and it's branches? Mr. Loomis informs us that he was never giving such bargains in the splendid Chick ering or Mathushek pianos as now, while fine Christmas gifts are found in rich scarfs and covers for pianos, the Hopkins and Hotch- kiss banjos (best in the world), flutes, picolos, accordeons, new style piano stools, etc., etc.