Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-18
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

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 Good luck goes with Royal shoes.
 Meriden's town and city election takes place to-day.
 The Grays expect to elect captain to- morrow night.
 Mir. S. Fl, Watrous, of Ansonia, is very low with typhoid fever.
 The annual meeting of the State Changers will be held in Meriden January 8, g, 10. Mrs. Hagen of Middletown, mother of Rev. Dr. Hagen, died Sunday of apoplexy. Roger Sherman lodge, Knights of Honor, have banquet at the Elliott House early in January.
 The removal of the old Derby passenger depot to Commerce street is still slowly pro gressing.
 Senator PIatt will address the Congrega- tional club in the Dwight Place church next Thursday.night. MT. Isaac Bromley, advertising agent Of the Consolidated railroad, is building summer residence at Groton.
 MT. E. R. White, city editor of the Mid- dletown Herald, and wife were visiting friends in Fair Haven on Sunday.
 Officer Tinker one of the best known members of Hartford's police force, was stricken with apoplexy yesterday.
 Doorman John H. Porter of the Bridgeport Police force is sixty years old to-day. He is the oldest police officer in Bridgeport.
 Robert T. Merwin and John T. Sloan, ap- praisers on the Elijah Gilbert estate, appraise the stock of groceries in the Gilbert store as worth about $20O.
 Cards are out announcing the approaching marriage of Chauncey M. Clark, a well known Fair Haven resident, and Mss Lillian Barnes, of the Annex.
 Gen. Frank D. Sloat, who has recently re- signed as general manager of New York life insurance company, will soon return to his residence in this city.
 MT. Charles Isaac Hills, of the wholesale shoe firm of Isaac Hills & Sons State street, Hartford, died here Saturday afternoon of Bright's disease, aged ffty-seven.
 Professor Max Dessauer, of this city, has been engaged by the Hartford Sengerbund to act as musical director. A festival will be given New Year's night by the Seenger- bund.
 Miss Florence Campbell, 8 graduate of Froebel's Institute, Liverpool, England, will open Kindergarten class in connection with the Elderage school on January 2, 1859, at 136 Sherman avenue.
 Mr. John c. Anderson, who left West Ha- ven couple of weeks ago intending to go to the Hot Springs, went no farther than New York city, where he still remains, his health not permitting him to undertake the journey at present.
 Dr. Thomas D. Goodell, who is soon to leave the Hartford High school to take the position of assistant professor of Greek in Yale college. was yesterday morning the re- cipient of another testimonial of esteem from his pupils.
 The late Mrs. FIisbie wife of the Hon. Elijah H. Frisbie, was an estimable lady whose death is lamented by many friends. She suffered much from heart disease for some time before her death. MT. Frisbie is also in very poor health.
 Dr. Jonas Jacobs of Elmira, N. Y., is in town visiting his parents. He has already won a fine practice in EImira. After stay of week or ten days he will return to El- mira to assume the duties of coroner, to which office he was elected last November.
 J. Wilson Kinyon, who formerly wrote many interesting articles which appeared over the non de plume of "Ivy Green" in the Waverly magazine, and who is now regular contributor to the columns of the Troy Bud get and other papers, is stopping at the Sel' den House.
 The family of MT. Frank D. Mosher, oi West Haven, desire to return their sincere thanks to Rev. Dr. Smyth and the choir oi Center church, this city, for their kindness at the funeral of their son, and to all others in New Haven who remembered them ir their sad afiiction-
 The late MT. Augustus F. Bull, formerly oi this city, who died at his homo in Utica, N. Y, November 19, 1888, as was chronieled iu the COURIER some days ago, leaves a daugh- ter, Mary E. Bull, and sister, Mrs. Lizxie A, Shaver, who resided with him at 1oS Whitesboro street, Utica.