Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-22
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention,

The Hartford Democratic jubilee has been indefinitely postponed.
 New Lordon's Mayor has called meeting to organize board of trade.
 The Stamford Democrats celebrated the election Of Cleveland last night. About 600 were in the parade.
 The police had their monthly drill yester- day. Lieutenant Wrinn exercised the police battalion in the manual
 The Seamen's Friend society placed good library or the General S. E. Merwin and will put one on the c. H. Valentine.
 William Zeigler, wealthy New York man ufacturer, will enter two steam yachts in the New Haven Yacht club next year.
 A second carload of goods for the Con necticut collective exhibit at the New Or leans exhibition was shipped from Hartford yesterday.
 The Gurney cabs have been introduced here, six of them being now on the street. They differ but slightly from the Herdics and charge the same rates.
 It is proposed to extend the New Haven and Derby railroad to the New York and New England railroad at Sandy Heck, dis tance of fifteen miles.
 A number of the Sons of Veterans with invited guests enjoyed fine course supper at Downes' City Hall dining rooms last even ing after the conclusion of business.
 Henry Oaks, graduate of the College of Physicans and Surgeons of New York, who has been practising in New Haven for five years, has moved into town and opened an office here.
 The ''B'' quartette of this city gave con- cert in Torrington Thursday evening at the M. E. church, by which the Young Peoples society of the church gained $25. The re- oeipts were $63.
 Commander Kountz and General Austin, who visited the Hartford G. A. R. Thursday night, left yesterday morning for Rutland, Vt, where they were received last evening by the Green Mountain Grand Army boys.
 Mrs. Caroline B., widow of the late Henry Stocking and mother of e1 Representative H. W. Stocking of Middietown, died at her resi- dence in Cromwell Thursday, November 20, at o'clock 6. m., aged eighty-four years and two months.
 At the Seamen's Bethel Sunday evening Thomas R. Thompson will speak and other good speakers are expected, and Mrs. San ford's girls orchestra will furnish music. The afternoon service, which will be praise service, will begin at half past two.
 The Stamford Wheel club is in possession of fine meeting room in the new block on Atlantic Squaro in that place. The room needs some further establishment. The club have engaged Burdette, the humorist, to lecture for them. Stamford is also soon to have rouor skating rink.
 Saturn Is now one of the most brilliant planets of the evening sky. He rises in the northeast about an hour after sunset and is visible almost until sunrise. By the aid of an ordinary astronomical telescope his moons and rings may be seen, well as what ap- pears to be dark spot on the planets disk.
 The remains of Charles H. Doolittle, son of William A. Doolittle of Cheshire will be brought from Chicago and buried in Ever green cemetery to-day. Deceased was twen- ty-four years of age. He had been for years in the service of the Cunard line and had risen to the position of an assistant agent of the line. He had Q wide circle of friends in Chicago.
 Only one other man held the office of post master of New Haven as long as Hon. N.. D. Sperry has filled the position, viz. William H. Jones, who was appointed under Madison in 1874 and retired in 184O. Postmaster Sperry's service will be ot twenty -four years' duration next March. It is common re- mark about town that probably no post master of New Haven ever gave such general public satisfaction as the present incumbent