Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-24
LOCAL NEWS
Brief Mention.


 Elegant line card cases at Dormans.
 Mrs. William Geary of Clark street is at Asbury Park for the week.
 The Methodist church in Bristol will be ready for rededication on the second Sunday in August.
 Mr. J. Edward Geary, with Brooks & Co.,, is absent on his vacation, travelling through New York State.
 The funeral of Mrs. Catherine Hawkins, o1 Naugatuek, will be attended to-day at 1 r. m. Her age was 70 years.
 Mrs. Sarah Bradley and her daughter, Miss Annie Bradley, of this city, are spending few weeks in Litchfeh.
 Louis Provo, of Torrinton, has sold his teaming property and removed to this city yesterday to engage in business.
 John Manning, man nearly 50 years ot age, was found dead in the barn of Matthew Kennedy in Waterbury Sunday. He had been i'll with cholera morbus.
 Judge James Phelps, of the Superior court, sailed from New York Saturday on the steamer City of Berlin. He will devote about two months to travelling in Europe.
 Attorney George M. Gum of Milford and MT. Dean of Seymour, the county auditors, were engaged yesterday auditing the ac- counts of the county commissioners for the year.
 Miss C. B. Underwood, of the firm of Un- derwood & Hotchkiss in the LeffDgwell building, and Miss Breckenridge, of Meri- den, have gone to Chatauqua Lake for a month.
 C.M. Loomis returned last evening from a five weeks vacation, having attended the music teachers notional convention at Chica- go, visited Niagara Falls and spent the last three weeks at Pine Hill in the Catskills.
 The Rev. A. J. Wheeler of the Second Ad- vent church, this city, read his resignation Sunday, but it was not accepted and he will remain, trying to dispose of his business at Barrow & Wheeler's, which hampers him.
 Mrs. Catharine R. Rogers died at Rogers Farm, North Cornwall, on Saturday, the 21st, at the age of @ years. Deceased was the mother of Noah Rogers, of the firm of Roger & Morford, of Bridgeport. She had resided on the Rogers Farm homestead for a period of nearly 30 years.
 The first Italian to die, of those working on the Derby railroad extension, was buried on Saturday in Birmingham. He had been sick with pneumonia for about week. His name was Angelo Frederico and he was born in Baseticata, Barrite, Italy.
 Conductor Cole, for th:rty-fve years on the Housatonic railroad, has resigned and Con- ductor Gurdon s. Colt, formerly of New Ha- ven steamboat line, succeeds to the position. Conductor Colt, the Farmer says, has be- come very popular with the travelling public. William Fl. Nelson, aged 75 years, died in Stamford Sunday about noon. MT. Nelson had been 8 resident of Waterbury since 1S4S, when he came there with his family from FishkilI, N. Y. His wife died about three years ago, and foon after he went to live with his son in Stamford.
 ". H. Starbuck's handsome yacht Tillie steamed into Bridgeport harbor yesterday morning and tied up at the city wharf. The great railroad magnate alighted and took the Naugatuek train for Derby, to visit the new bridge which is being built across the Houra tonic river for the Derby railroad extension large crowd gathered around the Tillie and inspected her.
 Milton Sparks, aged 32, once Pullman palace car conductor on the New York and New Haven road and of late in charge of gang of eighty men on the Panama railroad fell from verandah while asleep June 3t and was found the next morning in an un- conscious condition. from which he did not recover, but soon died. His remains were buried in Panama July 8. He leaves wife and child in New York, and widowed mother and one brother in Bristol. Mrs. H. s. Parsons, of AnsOnia, is a sister of the de- ceased