Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-17
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
 123 varieties note paper at Dorman's
 ChiIdren's carriages at Malletps.
 Congressman Amos J. Cummings and wife were in the city yesterday.
 The organization of @ Republican club in West Stratford is talked of.
 Yan Phou Lee is a happy father. The child is girl and her name is Jennie Lee.
 Mrs. W. H. Moaeley and children are in Winsted, sojourning at the Beardsley House
 Mrs. Harriet Chamber1in, of New Haven, is in Winsted visiting with Mrs. Moses Cam pion.
 John H. Austin, who keeps saloon near Belle dock, has been arrested for violating the liquor law.
 At the State convention yesterday De- pew's name was applauded almost as vocifer- ously as Blaine's.
 John E. Searles, jr., formerly an importer of this city, is in Washington in the interest of the sugar importers.
 William M. Hudson, fish commissioner, is attending the national convention of fishery commissioners in Detroit.
 Colonel Sol Pierce of Bristol, Ct., who lies stricken with paralysis at his place in Mont gomery, Ala, is slowly failing.
 Particular attention is called to the adver- tisement on this page of G. H. Gidney, the we'll known and popular dentist.
 The Hon. Tallmadge Baker has been chosen president of the City National bank of Nor wich to succeed R. H. Rowan, resigned.
 Fred Beecher, of Bethany, was badly gored by bull Saturday, 18th, and forty stitches were necessary to close the lacerated wounds.
 There will be an adjourned meeting of tine Lancasterian School association this evening at the City Hall, rooms 10 and II, at o'clock.
 The newly elected Republican State cen- tral committee organized yesterday by re- electing E. 8. Day chairman and R. J. Walsh secretary.
 Governor Lounsbury gave up the Dixon place on Pennington avenue, Hartford, where he has resided during the winter, yesterday, and returns for the present to New York.
 H. A. Wales of Bridgeport, the inventor of the invisible sound disk for deafness, which has attracted such widespread attention in this country and Europe, will be at the Tom tine Hotel tomorrow.
 Thomas Ranson, who died in Harlem yes- terday aged eighty-four years, was for many years engaged in the wholesale grocery busi- ness in Water street, Bridgeport. and there by accumulated a considerable fortune.
 0. K. Farnam of this city was elected col onel, G. B. Smith of Hartford lieutenant col onel and A. J. Even of Birmingham major at the fourth annual encampment of the Connecticut division of the Sons of Veterans. Deputy Sheriff spiegel yesterday attached the property of George B. Bates of Pearl street on suit brought by Bradley & Davis, the Grand avenue grain dealers, for $1, 300. The suit is brought to recover on two notes given by Mr. Bates and his wife.
 The railroad commissioners have decided that they have not the jurisdiction to order the closing of Lafayette, Hill and Liberty street crossings. They will, however, at the city's request issue certificate condemning the property at these crossings for railroad purposes.
 e.The new electric street railway in Derby, the first of it's kind in New England, con- tinues to work successfully and the company are we'll pleased with the results of the en- terpfise. The officers are: J. B. Wallace president, H. Holton Wood vice president, and W. J. Clark secretary and treasurer.
 At the Quinnipiac brewery, Fair Haven, yesterday the men, all of whom were dis charged the night before, were taken back hired as individuals, with the understanding that the employers were to be the bosses and not the union. All but three returned to work, these being men whom the proprietors xwonId not taka hack oD anv farrna