Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-30
LOCAL NE w s.
Brief Mention.


Ink and mucilage at Dorman's.
Cut flowers of all kinds at low prices ut
Rosien & Henderson's, the florists.
Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost takes the pas
torate of the Belleville avenue church in
Newark.
Mr.. F. F. Proctor, of Albany, has just
leased the Roberts Opera House, Hartford,
for three years.
Both branches of the legislature will come
in to-day-the House at 1880 a. m. and the
Senate at 1 p. m.
The funeral of Mrs. Merford, wife of ex-
Mayor Merford of Bridgeport, takes place
this afternoon at o'clock.
Waterbury is to have new opera house.
DR.. Jacques and his son Jean have bought
land and will erect the building.
Rev. Mr. Sharpe of Yale Theological SEM
mary made an interesting address in Y. NJ.
G. A. hall, Bridgeport, on Sunday.
Mrs Leonard R. Welles died at Maiden,
A. j., March g. Her father was the first
warden OF the Connecticut State prison.
William NJ. Doyle, of Meriden, was ter
ribly injured by being caught on a revolv-
ing shaft in the Meriden wooden mill yester-
day.
Mr.. Moses Thomas new brick building on
Congress avenue near Meadow street is an
other Improvement of this growing business
locality.
Rev DR.. Newman Smyth will speak at
Loomis' Temple of Music next Sunday after
noon on Grades Unions as Viewed by an
Outsider"
IN - ! T..
JOURNAL AND COURIER, who died Saturday
at Englewood, N. J., was buried yesterday at
that place.
The New York East conference begins on
Thursday. 1t will be held at De Kalb ave-
nue. church, Brooklyn. The New Haven
pastors leave for conference Thursday morn
ing.
John O'Gorman of 1853 Franklin street was
buried from st. Patrick's church yesterday
morning. A solemn requiem mass was said.
The interment was in St. Demands GENE
terry.
The town authorities buried the remains
of Frank Dorman, the unfortunate imbecile
who died at the Lakeville institution Satur-
day, yesterday afternoon from the aims
house.
The funeral services over Mrs. Mary Chris
tie, who died Saturday at the age of sixty
seven, were held yesterday morning from the
Church of the Sacred Heart and were largely
attended.
Miss Nellie PATTERSON, who was buried in
Stratford Saturday, was twenty-four years
old and only daughter of Edward PATTERSON
of the former firm of Bradford & Patterson
of Winsted.
The funeral of John Mahoney, a member
of the st. Aloysius Temperance society, who
died Sunday, will be held from his home,
1856 Orchard street, this morning at 8 o'clock.
The society will attend in body.
Yale is sending to its alumni the annual
circular with vote enclosed for the nomina-
ton of candidate for member of the cor
poration. Hon. William Walter Phelps is
the member whose place is to be filed next
June.
The socialistic celebration of the fifteenth
anniversary of the revolution in Paris, held
in Germania Hall, Bridgeport, Saturday
night, was pretty well attended. DIR. Bur
hans spoke in English and Herr Johann Most
in German.
The statement made in an evening paper
that the Third church property on Church
street had been offered to the Y. M. G. A.
for $45, 900 was incorrect. The sum named
was $50, 200, and it has never been offered
for less than this amount. The lot instead
of being 70 feet front is 80 feet.
Daniel Prior, aged fifty, was found drown
ed in the Quinnipiac river at Wallingford
Sunday afternoon. He was last seen alive
on Friday morning near Wallace's bridge,
acting as if he were out of his head and NUT
tering to himself 1t is supposed that he fell
or threw himself into the river. He had
wife and five children