Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-17
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.


 Harper's for February is for sale by T. H. Pease & Son.
 The county commissioners yesterday grant ed fourteen liquor licenses.
 Dr. Carver weighs 230 pounds and is six feet two and quarter inches in height.
 The Bridgeport Salvationists have begun to make occasional raids into Stratford.
 Henry Herz has been appointed trustee ot the estate of Louis E. Ryder by Judge York.
 Quite number of New Haven gentlemen mediate going to the Montreal ice carnival.
 Henry Meachen, of Stratford, has recently been offered S4, 900 for one of his thorough bred bulls.
 Speaker Simonds is improving and it is probable that he will be able to preside ill the House on Tuesday.
 The subject of Rev. Dr. Peck's discourse at Trinity N. E. church tomorrow evening will be ''An Old Story Retcld.'
 The Connecticut Temperance Union will hold it's nineteenth annual convention at the Park church, Hartford, next Wednesday.
 The wreck of the schooner Jane is to be raised. It is a dangerous object in the chan mel where it lays, making navigation hazard ous.
 The funeral of Prof. Silliman will take place from Battell chapel at 12 o'clock to- day Services at the residence will take place at 113O.
 An entertainment will be given at the Ath- eneum February 12 and IS by the ladies of Christ church parish, the proceeds to go to the rectory fund.
 Mir, Mix, father of Henry Mix, the restau- rant proprietor in the City market, met with severe fall recently and is now quite sick, threatened with pneumonia.
 Two pieces of wreckage that have drifted ashore near the lighthouse excite considerable comment from people down that way. Where the pieces came from is not known.
 Drum Major William c. Steele, of Colts band, Hartford, has resigned. He has held the position for upwards oftwenty years and is one Of the best drum majors in the state. John O'Brien, for 17 years past employed at the Hooker carriage shop, slipped on the ice and fell yesterday and dislocated his hip. He was removed to his home on Arch street. - Tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock Rev. Dr. Kleeberg will address a lecture at the Court street synagogue on Religion and Card Playing" It will be given ill German. Next Monday night Professor Dexter, of Yale, will read paper on the diary of Pres ident Stiles, of Yale, kept from 1755 to TIT, during his stay in Rhode Island. before the Historical society.
 The Rt Rev. Bishop Williams is announc- ed to deliver one of the addresses following the annual meeting of the Connecticut Hu- mane society, to be held in Hartford next Wednesday evening.
 Complaint was made yesterday to the city authorities by well ll-known citizen that some of the show bills on the fences and bill boards at the present time are an offense against de- cency and morality.
 The Board of Compensation were in ses- sion last eve1-ing and heard Charles Shanna- han, who claims damages by the establish ment of building lines, and Mary A. Bassett. who claims damages by the change of grade in Maltby street. In the absence of Mrs. Dr. S. D. Phelps, of this city, Mrs s. NJ. Whiting, of this city, presided at the twelfth annual meeting of the Women's Hartford Baptist Foreign Missiona- ary conference, held in Hartford Wednesday. Mrs. Payne, of Burmah, made an address at the meeting. MT. Clark Peck, the owner of Peck's Grand | Opera House, now Bunnells Museum, leaves | on Monday next for the Hot Springs, Alkan- | sas, for the benefit of his health, which has | not been good for number of months. He | expects to remain south uEtn spring. He | has the best wishes of the public for pleas ant and satisfactory trip.
  Fire Insurance Company. The seventy-ffth annual statement of this well known fire insurance company has just been made public, showing their total assets January 1st, 1885, to be $4 4,491 ,S30.01. This company is represented at Norths insurance agency, 70 Church street.