Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-26
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THANKSGIVING.
Getting Ready for the Great National
 Festival.

l Getting Ready for the Great National l Festival.
 The trains yesterday brought large num- Der of passengers bound home to spend Thanksgiving and as many came to visit in l their old New Haven homes The trains will
 be crowded to-day. The markets and stores | begin to present their annual festive Thanks l giving appearance. About 20, 1000 pounds of 1 turkey, geese chicken and duck were whole
 saled to their customers in this city and in all parts of Connecticut yesterday by one firm,
 Frisbie & Hart. They have 5000 pounds
 more which will be shipped to Connecticut 1 towns to-day at wholesale, and the other | 5000 pounds is for their annual home trade | The firm received in all 30,000 pounds yes-
 terday, to say nothing of the other thousands ] of pounds that found their way to the city 1 yesterday and the quantities that will arrive 1 to-day.
 Thanksgiving will be marked at the hospi- tai, the almshouse and the orphan asylums ] by an extra nice feed, in which gobblers and ! other ''birds" will figure to the satisfaction of the eaters, and at the jail something extra
 will be spread to tickle the palates of the | prisoners. MT. -Mossman will distribute 1 quite a number of turkeys to poor families | and there will be nice times in many homes l through private generosity from other | sources.
 A China Wedding Celebration. On Monday evening last J. E. Northrop, the popular grocer, and his estimable lady
 were surprised at their residence corner of | Olive and William streets. A large party, numbering at least one hundred persons, as- l sembled at the house of MT. Frank Grum- | man, on Olive street, and proceeded thence | in a body to the house of MT. Northrop. The 1 party consisted largely of friends in the St.
 John street M E. church, of which Mr. ! Northrop is prominent member. During 1 the evening the pastor, Rev. A. H. Wyatt, in the name of the assembled friends, pre- sented the genial couple with Rogers latest group 'sNeighboring Pews.'
 Mr. Northrop responded in appropriate and heartfelt words, after which the company joined in an impromptu rendering of "Auld Lang Syne." MT. O. F. Case read an original poem which delighted theknowing ones with its witty allusions to incidents and names connected with the early history of Mr. Northrop and his wife. Mrs. J. H. Taylor gave a humorous recitation entitled 'tThe DeaCOntS with peals of laughter by the assembled company. A beautiful placque mounted on an easel was the gift of Police Commissioner Franklin Hart. Aside from congratulations appropriate to the occasion the uppermost topic in every group seemed to be the pros pective success of the great effort which is now being made to clear off the debt of the church, and which is creating an interest and enthusiasm never before known in the histo- " of the society
 A bounteous supply of edibles filed two large tables which were discussed later on, and at 11'o'clock the party separated with oft repeated wishes for the future well being l of the happy pair.
 Trains on Thanksgiving Day.
 On Thanksgiving day the following trains l will not be run: The 5:15 train from New | Haven to New York, and the 8 p. m. train l out of New York for New Haven. The local | express train, 6:3O a. m. from New Haven, | will stop at all stations between Stamford | and New York in addition to the regular | time table stops The local express train, 4 p. m. from New Haven, will stop at all stations between New Haven and New York Adams express train, leaving New York at 9:2O p. m., will stop at all stations between