Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-12
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Latest stationery at Dorman's.
 MT. Horace Wilcox, of Meriden, is again
 quite seriously ill.
 MT. Edmund Futile, an old and esteemed citizen of Meriden, died yesterday, aged Fl.
 MT. Harris Fenn, wealthy and esteemed Waterbury citizen, died on Sunday, aged 70.
 Judd & Rogers turning shop in Union vile was burned Saturday night; loss $3, 800, insured for $1 1,500.
 The annual meeting of the Consolidated road will be held tomorrow morning at Il o'clock in New Haven.
 The town of Huntington voted Saturday afternoon in favor of abolishing the turnpikes which lead into Bridgeport.
 Charles Blakeslee of Stratford, butchered his porkers on Thursday last. One weighed 507 and the other 5S9 pounds.
 The second annual meeting of the Connec- ticut Civil Engineers and Surveyors asso- citation takes place in Hartford to-day.
 The sleighs were out yesterday and with continued clear weather sleighing carnival is expected on Whalley avenue this after noon.
 The collection of the Dwight Place church for the hospital on Sunday should have read $44. 56 instead of $4. 56 as enormously printed yesterday.
 Henry Bison, vice president of the Bige- low company, with his wife and daughter, will start for Florida Thursday, to be absent several weeks.
 Sexton and Daly, the billiarl experts, ap- pear on Wednesday evening in Fowler's bill Hard parlors, Bridgeport, and give an exhibi- tion of their skill.
 A dispatch from the yacht Button, which has gone South with party of New Haven gentlemen, states that the party are at Nor ris river, Delaware Bay.
 Rev. c. E. Miller of Plainville, took dose of laudanum by mistake for rhubarb on Sat urday. A timely discovery of the error and prompt remedies saved him.
 January 29 is the date for the annual win ter banquet of the Connecticut Commercial Travellers association which will be eaten at the Atlantic Hotel, Bridgeport.
 Supreme Knight Mullen and Supreme Secretary Colwell of the Knights of Colum bus of this city will pay official visit te San Jose council, Willimantic, this even ing.
 At meeting of the police commissioners held last evening the charges against Officers Clancy and Connolly, who were charged with refusing to arrest drunken man, were 
 The steamer Capital City left Bridgeport | about o'clock yesterday afternoon. While ! coming into the harbor on Saturday she lost 1 her big anchor off the bar It was found | and will be marked by buoy.
 The Arion society's fair, which will be given for the benefit of the library, begins on Eas- ter Monday and will last one week. MT. w. l F. Sternberg is the societys new president | The society has now little over 300 mem bers
 The little daughter of Principal J. R. | French of the Skinner school ate large l quantity of camphor gum Saturday and l went into convulsions. A hypodermic in jection saved her life and she is now out of | danger.
 The action of the directors of the Consoli- | dated road on Saturday, whereby 1 1000 mile tickets are made transferable to any extent and restrictions as to date are removed, will be appreciated by those who travel frequent ly on the line.
 An officer from the Middletown insane asylum was in the city yesterday and went back with Mary Ward, the violently insane woman who recently escaped from the asy- lurn and returned to her sisters house on Hallock street.
 The steamer Lighthaul which went out from Bridgeport last Friday night just be- fore the storm began, has not since been seen or heard of and it is feared she was driven ashore and wrecked on the Long Island side of the Sound
 The monthly meeting of the New Haven Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions will be held in the Center church chapel this | Tuesday afternoon commencing at o'clock. | Miss Pierson, returned missionary, is expect | ed to tell of her mission work in China.
 The Mill and the Quinnipiac rivers were | coated with ice yesterday morning. Two | venturesome boys had sn immersion in Mill | river near the Tin Bridge yesterday morning | in venturing on the thin ice. They scram- bled out and rushed for home in lively | manner.
 Cards are out for the marriage on January | 26th of Miss Emelie, daughter of Mr. Thomas | R. Trowbridge, to MT. George Bliss Rogers | of Boston, who was captain of the Yale crew | in 80. Six hundred invitations have been | issued. The wedding will be at 2:3O D. m. and the reception from until 5:3O.
 The next meeting of the Woman's Branch | of City Missions will be held at the mission | rooms, No. 23 Church street, at o'clock this | afternoon. All who are interested in this | effort to reach and benefit women and chil 1 1ren among the poor in the city are invited | to be present at these meetings which are | held regularly every other week.
 A splendid assortment of elegant seal 'acques at very low prices at Burgess & Bur yess', and seal sacques made to order in the finest style, securing a perfectly fitting gar ment, their prices for both being the lowest, Burgess & Burgess being the only manufao- 'urers of seal sacques in New Haven. Also the hnest plush sacques to be found in the city 1t this old and reliable fur emporium, 751 Chapel street. Beaver trimmings in beauti- tul shades and great variety The finest stock in the city.
 General DiekInson,s Illness.
 Owing to the illness of General L. A. Dickinson the installation of ofieers of rrumbull council Mo- 21, N. P. U., of Hart ord, is postponed until Tuesday evening January 26th.
 The Annual of the l.. 8. o,s.
 The annual meeting of L. s. o. will take