Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01
iUJ'AL NEWS.
Brief Fl enGiOn

Brief Mention.
 Tho new High school building in Hartford will be occupied January 3d.
 In accordance with annual custom no pa- Der will be issued from this office to morrow. The 7th annual exhibition of the Meriden Poultry club begins this noon in Meriden. It premises to be good success.
 C. F. Balbier in the Probate court yester- Jay made a voluntary assignment, naming Jason P. Thompson as trustee.
 Among the good trotters on the avenue ie noticed MT. John W. Kenney's Colonel, . dark chestnut seven year old and a fine srotter.
 Siuog-shots as well as toy pistols are dan eerous pIaythings for boys, and those who uss tham must beware or they will get in the lookup.
 Burglars stole $4OO worth of plated ware from Johnquest's jewelry store in AnsoDis Saturday night or Sunday morning. No traces of the thieves
 To night the Police and the Fire commis sioners meet. Tue Board of Public Works meets on Wednesday night and the Board of Finance Thursday night.
 
 of Mir. Samuel W. Langdon, of Barker & Ransom's, is critically ill. She has been in failing health for about two years.
 Mir. J. Russell, elI-known oyster dealer in Hartford, suffered paralytic shock Sun- day evening. A council of physicians at. : tended him and yesterday he was improved. There will be an additional mail to Bridge port hereafter at 11:5O a. m, and an extra one from Bridgeport to this city by the 3 D.. n train, making six daily mails between the two cities.
 Miss Rosalie Baldwin, who has been en- plo5ed for number of years at the City Hall dining rooms, is to take a two weeks vacation commencing tomorrow. Her many friends wish her Happy New Year" Mamie Egan, aged years, daughter of Th,nas Eagan, of Southington, died at the hosp II yesterday, whither she had been brought few hours before by her mother The child Was suffering with dropsy.
 F0ur more Ge the police telephone and telegraph stations were erected vest terday Thoir location is at Orchard and Henry streets, Cedar strsst and Congress avenue, Dixwesi avenua n-A Munson street. The New Haven Progressive Union l.A, elected officers as follows: President, Julius Hermann; vice-president, Rudolph Fechner treasurer, Frederick Bucholz; secretary Paul Gebhard; collector, Dennis Harold. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Judson lost yesterda, shsir only child, Lewis Mallett Judson, aget 9 years and month. Many friends vii ,lpathize with them in their bereavement Hz hardware store of Mir. Mallett, uncle o1
 ohild, was closed yesterday.
 lSen Edwin R. Yale died yesterday in Ben eiss ton, Vt, in the seventy ninth year of hi sse Gen. Yale was born in Meriden, Conn. -L August 8, 1904. When young man he sass astage between Meriden and New York .-etrr hs had charge of the United States ho- ,s Q New York and the old Mansion house ... .rOoklyn.
 t7 Treasurer c. 0. Strong of Hartford, 9. med Saturday from Detroit, where he t Christmas with his son, William H. ';lsong. His wife will remain there for sev- ersl weeks. MT. Strongs son-in-law, William .. Cashing and wife of New Haven, were ~i'h him in Detroit, the family spending Vety happy reunion together. MT. and Mrs. GrHning will return on Wednesday,