Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-13
LOCAL NEWS.
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 Wedding invitations engraved at Dorman's.
 Egopodium.
 Read Family Package Co. 'sady, for agents.
 Litchfeld loses mn old resident in the death of George B. Turrell,- aged seventy
 The Young PeopleAs association of the Humphrey street hold festival to night
 The French Canadian Harrison and Mor- con club, of Waterbury, expect to parade ths 2Oth.
 About fifty Waterbury people attended the Opheus clubs concert in Watertown last night.
 The Meriden Britannia company has con tributed $1OO to the Jacksonville yellow fever sufferers.
 The venerable John W. Osborne, of Birm- ineham, is seriously sick with an attack of pleurisy.
 Judge E. K. Foster of Sanford, Fla, a son of the late Judge Foster of New Haven, was in Litchfeld Wednesday.
 The Prohibition tent will not go to Fair Haven next week, the managers having de- cided 10 take it from here to New Britain.
 The condition of Mr. John H. Klock eon- tinues without material change. It is not expected that he will be out again for sev- eral weeks.
 Miss Dizzie Flaherty, who graduated from the Birmingham High school last spring, has decided to take four years' course of study at vassar college.
 Winsted Republicans will turn out en masse to hear Judge Wheeler, of New Jersey, speak. A Republican club is to be organized at once in the town.
 George s. Andrews, aged 55 years and months, prominent citizen ot Naugatuek and an extensive coal end lumber dealer, died of apoplexy Tuesday afternoon.
 Jabex Duxbury well known member of the Fountain Hose company of Ansonia, died Tuesday after months of illness. He worked for years at the Farrell foundry.
 Ruby, the twelve-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. T. F. Barbour of Durango, Col, who arrived in Bristol with her mother last Tuesday, died of heart disease yesterday.
 The Clark battalion, Republican cam paign club, has just been organized in Biru- ingham, named after sx-Postmaster Clark, with R. J. McHolley captain and H. R. Park CT first lieutenant.
 The condition of Mr. Lewis H. Merwin, the fish market proprietor on State street, re- mains unchanged. His left side is complete ly paralyzed, but he retains fully his power of speech. He is about sixty-fve years of ags.
 The residence of MT. George Peckham on Davenport avenue was throngsd last evening to witness the opening of fine night bloom- ing cereus. The plant contained several fine specimens of that much-admired and fra grant flower. The Waterbury hospital fund has reached within $2, 900 of the 50,O00 which will en- able it to obtain the. conditional State appro- priation of $25,000, and the Waterbury papers are beginning to pred the Waterbury people to contribute the balance.
 Nearly every flash of the many flashes of lightning last night at about 12 o'clock, just before the shower, splendidly lit up and brought to view from the city the Soldiers' monument on East Rock Park. Many peo- pie stopped and stood on the Grand avenue railroad bridge, near State, to sse the mouu- ment thus displayed to view.
 The Waterbury fire department have their annual parade today. It will bs a fine af- fair. Companies from Bridgeport and Wa terbury will participate and there will be music in the air with the following bands in Waterbury, Wheeler & Wilson's, Park City band of Bridgeport, Msriden City band, Baynes, 69th Regiment band of New York, Meriden Military band and the National of Walliupford ~