Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-13
PERSONAL.
Jottings Regarding New Haven Peo- pie And Other PeoPle-A ConvuIsfon M of Nature In Plymouth - Theories Advanced Concerning The Same.

Jotfings Regarding New Haven Peo | pie And Other Peop1e-A Convulsiol
 of Nature Nm Plymouth - Theorfe
 Advanced Concerning The Same.
 Professor W. K. Townsend and family lief
 yesterday for Moosehead lake.
 Mir. John Platt and wife returned yester l day from the White Mountains.
 Charles Fowler and wife left for Charles
 town, New Hampshire, yesterday.
 Senator and Mrs. A. H. Robertson 1ef yesterday for Block Island to be absent one l week.
 yesterday to look after his sons interests 1T ! the West.
 | Mrs. Joseph Shearlock and daughter and
 Mrs. O. E. Palmer and daughter are visiting relatives at Easton, Penn.
 Miss Nettie M, daughter of Fire Commis- l sioner L. E. Jerome, is visiting in Colches- I ter, Conn.,, for several weeks. A. M. Hawley, of Stafford Springs, son of the Rev. J. P. Hawley, with his wife, left for l Trinidad, Colorado, Monday night. Mayor Holcomb being at Niagara Falls President Thomas R. Trowbridge, jr., of the Board of Aldermen, is acting Mayor Miss Annie Cunningham, of Grove street, and Miss Mercer, of York street, left for a two weeks stay in Newport yesterday. Mrs. L. A. Hohenstein and Miss Minnie Hohenstein, of this city, and Mrs. Joy, of Ansonia, are rusticating in New Preston
 At fashionable entertainment last even ing in Watertown Miss Justine Ingersoll, of this city, took the part of gypsy fortune teller.
 Vice Consul-General Penfeld sailed from Liverpool yesterday on the Britannia for a brief vacation home. He will be due at New York on Saturday, the 21st.
 Allan Seaman and wife, of 265 Ferry street, have gone pleasure trip to Coney Island, Saratoga and other popular resorts. They will be away week or more.
 Judge Lynde Harrison and family are sum- mering at their cottage at Cedar Point, Leet's Island, where they have been since the mid dle of June and will remain until September 1st.
 MT. Franklin H. Sage, of Hartford, was on Wednesday elected most worthy recorder of the Supreme council, Templars of Honor and Temperance, in session at Buffalo, New York.
 George A. Butler, of the National Trades mems bank of this city, is attending the American Bankers association in Boston. He was elected an officer of the association yes terday.
 MT. and Mrs. N. c. Bushnell, William R. Chambers and family, MT. and Mrs. H. B. Bushnell, Miss Jennie Chapman, Deacon George Durand and MT. and Mrs. Walter Wellman of New Haven are at Clinton, Ct.
 Colonel and Mrs. George M. Harmount, of Chicago, have been on trip to the Thou sand Islands and the Adirondacks and after a short stay here Mr. Harmount returned to l Chicago, his wife remaining on visit of | couple of weeks at the residence of her fath- ! CT, President Hiram Camp of the Clock com | pany.
 MT. Edward Sigel, residing on Hine ! Place, returned recently from visit to Mil waukee, where he attended the grand dem onstrations of the S@ngerbund of North | America and also visited his brother, Her | mann Sigel, formerly of this city, who is a | journalist engaged on the Free Press of Mil | waukee, and MT. Volkhardt, who formerly | resided here and now has a shop in Milwau- | kee.
 MT. Arthur G. Thompson, of Henry G. l Thompson & Sons, will sail on the Etruria | from New York for Europe next Saturday. l
 
 firm, which will require him to visit Eng land, France, Germany aud Bel. .ium. After | he graduated from Yale college MT. Thomp- son went to France where he pursued his | studies in Paris, and afterward travelled ex- tensively in Europe.
 Councilman w. A. Beers and wife will | start for Saratoga this morning and during l their several weeks vacation will probably l go to Lake George and the Adirondacks. While MT. Beers is away his photo establish ment will be in charge of MT. A. NJ. Costallo, for the past several years the leading artist at Van Patten's gallery of Great Harrington, Mass. MT. Costal1o is an expert in the use of the new instantaneous photo process, as well as fine positionist, and will see that the large summer patronage which this gallery is re- 1 ceiving will in no way deteriorate during the | absence of MT. Beers.
 Mr. l.. D. Chidsey, the grocer, is stopping | with family at the Langdon House, Plymouth, | Conn.,, where they have been for a week or | two. MT. Newton, of the barytes works, | who with his family has been stopping there, | and MT. Cruttends sn and family, who were | stopping at the same place, have returned. l During their stay at the Langdon House, of | which MT. Dewell, brother of James D. | Dewell, Esq, of this city, is proprietor, slight shock resembling an earthquake was felt by guests ill the house, accompanied by some other convulsion of nature; at least so | it was supposed when in the morning it was l found that the shock some other myster ious agency had elevated an arm chair from ! the ground to upright position at the top | of ten-foot pole in front of the house. Still 1 the mystery deepens, and the city visitors | seem to have inspired new life in Plymouth, | which is growing to be favorite resort for | summer visitors, and especially for families. | One theory that is leaking out pertaining to | the shock spoken of is that at New Haven l store supply of cannon crackers were in l voiced to Plymouth shortly before the affair, l and that fragmentary evidences of the same l were found after the explosion, together with l the charred remains of matches, which were sold at Church street store fa- l nous for purveying