Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-23
LOCAL ME WIS.
Brief Mention.

DR.. Broadhead, of Ansonia, was very low
yesterday.
Harper's for June is received and for sale
by T. Il. Pease & Son.
Fishers Island and Mystic Island have
been connected by telephone.
Captain w. G.. Dickinson, of this city, will
deliver the Memorial day address IN Bran
ford.
Mr.. 7. P. MCGOWAN of Portland, Maine, is
visiting the city in the interest of the Boston
Pilot.
l.. Rothchild & Brother will be open for
business at their store on Grand avenue at
O'Clock this morning.
Grand Canton Golden Rule has its install
lation of officers this evening at its hall in
Exchange building.
Agent Potter of the State board of educa-
ton has been looking after the truants in
Birmingham this week.
Mr.. Grant, the mason builder, has force
of ssventy-five men at work in erecting New
Ravens new almshouse.
F. E. S. Munger of Meriden, formerly OF
the Selden House, this city, starts soon for q
two weeks trip in Canada.
Mr.. Jonathan Rowe has just finished q
house on Forbes avenue in the Annex and ls
building another on the same avenue.
On June 1st the steamer Shrewsbury will
be put on the line between Wilson's Point,
South Norwalk, and New York by the Housa-
tonic railroad.
In Birmingham yesterday Drs. O'Sullivan
and Conklin removed large tumor from the
breast of Mrs John Bark. The operation
was successful.
Mr.. Shubael Holmes, of Preston City, has
been appointed overseer of the Ledyard tribe
of Pequot Indians, vice Noyes w. Avery of
Preston, resigned
General L. A. Dickinson will tomorrow
night at Grand Army hall, Hartford. read q
paper telling OF his visits to the battle6elds
of Virginia last summer.
The channel alongside the Starin dock used
by the Starin line of steamers is to be deep
ened at once. The New York dredger which
is TO do the work ia ct the dock.
Mr. H. H. Benedict has bought the corner
lot on Townsend and Forbes avenues in the
Annex, to which, it is reported, the East Side
Tor Woodward town) chapel is to be re-
moved.
Lawyer Alling of New Haven and G. E.
Terry for the defendant, and S. w. Kellogg
and L. F. Burpee for plaintiff, argued the
case in Waterbury yesterday of L. ]. Atwood
We. the executors of the John @. Booth estate.
Corporation Counsel Driscoll has bought
for about 81, 800 a lot of land 100 feet front
by 100 deep on Dixwell avenue of Mrs. Eliz-
abeth S. Howe, through the E. G.. Beecher
real estate agency. There is q good dwell
ing house on the property.
Mrs. Hannah Hoar of Prospect street, An
sonia, left yesterday morning. accompanied
by her brother Samuel Hoar, for Idaho
Springs, Colorado, for visit to her brother
in-law, Mr.. Stratten, who is engaged il
mining interests in Colorado.
Yesterdays Springfield Republican says
sold Sport" Csmpana, with bald head,
toothless upper jaw and swollen ankle. but
game to the last, is in town waiting for the
opening OF the seventy-two hours profess
sional foot race. He says he will cover 40(
miles or perish in the attempt.
Mr.. Dwight P. Wilcox leaves Meriden to-
day for New York. He will be joined there
on Saturday by Mr.. Horace O. Wilcox and
Messrs Hirschfeld and Jepson of Meriden
The party will sail that day for two
months tour in Europe, the visit to include
Edinburgh, London and Paris.
Charles E. Woodward has sold q lot on
Townsend avenue in the Annex to Mr.. Lu-
cius Porter, on which the latter is to build
house. Mr.. Woodward has remodeled and
built additions to the old Woodward home
stead and frightened it up much by the aid
of the artists of the paint brush. He is also
removing an addition and enlarging it for q
house.
Meriden is somewhat agitated over the
rumor that the glass furnaces there may soon
be removed to Philadelphia. The concern at
any rate shut down for six weeks in the sum-
mer and will at once discharge twenty out OF
its force of forty men. Those to be dis
charged are the best workmen, who cut the
fine table ware used by the Meriden Brittania
company.
The Old or Grove street cemetery is kept
in the best order and condition. Various
improvements which add to the appearance
of this city of the dead have also been made,
and much credit is given the gentlemen who
have the cemetery grounds under their super
vision-Messrs. T. r. TrowbridGe, Nathan
T. Sanford, committee, and James M. Ma
son, superintendent.