Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
Personal

Lieutenant-GoYernerS Sumner, of Hartford, is quite i'll and it was reported on Monday l that his condition was very serious. He is, l however, improving. MT. George L. Burton, Yale 's3, formerly of New Haven and now at the Columbia Law school in New York city, is in the city for 8 few days.
 Miss Jennie Lyman, of New Britain, and Mr. H. c. Talnadge, of Woodbury, were united in wedlock in New Britain yesterday Mr. J. W. Parsons furnished the wedding music.
 Miss Josie Bradley and Miss Lila Wells will receive on New Years day at the residence of Miss Wells, on North Quinnipiac street, Fair Haven.
 Mrs. Dr. W. H. H. Murray is extending her practice to Meriden.
 Mrs. Joseph Welles, of Lebanon, has gone to Charleston, s. C., for the winter.
 Mrs. Hiram Knight, of Meriden, under the will of an uncle lately deceased in Glendale, Mass, comes in possession of $20, ,000.
 It is said that c. P Blackmar, whose vot- ing residence is in Danielsonville, but who has been clerk in Washington for several years, will be candidate for Railroad Com missioner in the place of Col. Hayward. Judge E. I. Sanford, of this city, was able to be out yesterday, but is not yet fully re covered.
 The Hon. Russell Tomlinson, of Bridge port is famous whittier. He has just fin ished something that he calls F'yim yam, 7" and so odd that every Bridgeporter who sees it for the first time inquiries in the graceful language peculiar to that town, "What'n thunder's that ?''
 Do-r oE ,s-.s4- church, Newtown attempted to drive Aaron Sanford's spirited horse the other day. Mir. Crockett is now in bed, very much broken up, but, fortunately, not so much as the sleigh J. A. Beal and wife, of Danbury, have gone to Florida for the winter and have rented their residence tOJ. W. Greene, hat manufacturer.
 Judge L. E. Munson returned Monday night from trip to Iowa.
 Norman B. Perkins left Monday evening for New Orleans in the interest of Hart ford publishing house. Clifford Ayers, of South Coventry, accompanies MT. Perkins, but in different interest.
 Cornelius nern, or New Britain, IS to leave for Florida, where he and his brother Frank have several thousand orange trees of various ages, growing finely.
 Major Phelps, of Winsted, excites the envy of his townspeople by his skill as roller skater at Winsted's new rink
 F. F. Ives, of the MeIiden rink, was in this city yesterday for the purpose of getting one of the rinks here to enter the State league. Dole, of New Haven, will furnish the suits of the Meriden team.
 Mrs. Thomas A. Osborne, wife of the United States minister to Brazil and ex-Gov- ernor of Kansas, has been visiting for some days with Mrs Walter S. Baillie at the home of the latter's mother, Mrs. D. H. Sterling, in Bridgeport. Mrs. Osborne will sail on Sat urday for Rio Janeiro to join her husband.
 Mary O'Hearn, aged S3 years, died in Mer- iden Monday after 8 long illness.
 Dr. c. H. Rowland has resigned the cor responding secretaryship of the Y. M. c. A. of Meriden, and w. H. Nugent has been elected in his place.
 James S. Howe of New Haven, who was at time a reporter the Palladium, died of consumption at Aiken, s. C., on De cember g. MT. Howe's health failed about a year ago and he went south in hopes of re- oovarino if