Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-09-25

Rriaf Mention.

Rubber bands by the pound a& Dorman's.
Egopodium.
Mayor York will address the ksriden Dem
ocrats tomorrow evening.
The police commissioners will have spec
ial meeting this afternoon.
The twenty-ninth annual fair of the GULL
ford Agricultural society win OCCUR to-mor-
row.
Senator Frye spoke to big audience in
Meriden last night Hon. J. P. Platt presi'
ded.
Hon. E. x. Foster, now located in Florida,
arrived in town yesterday on visit to his old
home.
The New Milford Hremen will hold theiz
annual picnic tomorrow at Parlor Rock
grove.
The SUM of $50, 3O4 10 has been awarded to
each of the heirs of the late James Lockwood
of Hartford. =
The Vermont mammoth oxen, weight ,4eO
pounds, girth Q feet 10 inches, viii be on ex-
hibition at the Danbury fair.
Mrs. Woodruff, wife of Driver George s.
Woodruff of steamer 4, is confined to her
home, No. 1O7 Nash street, by illness.
DR.. Joseph Anderson of the First church,
Waterbury, will preach in ,Battel chapel in
this city next Sunday in exchange with Pres
ident Dwight.
Prof. Wayland will preside at the annual
State Baptist convention in Hartford, Octo-
Der 16 and II. Prof. Harper will deliver one
of the addresses.
The Housatonic Railroad company win run
excursion trains from Bridgeport to the Dam
bury fair on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day of next week.
James P. Plat, E. ]. Doolittle, w. R.
Mackay, John ". Coe are the Meriden dele
gates to the congressional convention to NOR.
row in Middletown.
Frank Clark, younger son of Massens
Clark, and his wife are on q carriage tour
near Lee and Great Darlington, Mass. They
started two weeks ago.
The canal boat Western Star, which went
down recently off Savin Rock, was raised
yesterday morning and towsd to Long Wharf,
where she will be repaired.
Branford Democrats raise o banner Thurs
day night. Speeches by ]. G. Hendryx Of
Brooklyn and others, and in Mt. Carmel the
Democrats form club tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. d. Ayres of Naugatuck ex-
pect to sail Saturday of this week on the City
of Berlin, of the Inman line, for Liverpool
They will be absent about one year.
The railroad commissioners will inspect thu
Hartford and Connecticut Western road or
Wednesday, the Danbury and Norwalk OF
Thursday, and the Housatonic on Friday.
Scribner's for October Is received and fol
sale by T. Il. Pease & Son. It contains
among other interesting articles Prof. Had
lsy's on ''The Railroad in its Business Rsla
tons"
The Bristol fair opens to-day and continues
four days. The entries for the cattle and
poultry show and OF horses for the races, OF
bicyclists, of foot racers, &c., all indicate 6
very successful tair.
The bearers at the burial Of the late Tru-
man A. Warren, of this city, in Watertown
were H. ]. Nation, G. II. Noble, II. g.
Scott, Il. E. Scott, 8. A. Merwin and George
Woodward. The Rev. Mr.. Merwin, Of We
terbury, oficiated.
Mr. P. P. Bush, formerly of this city and
now residing in Canton, o.. is in town. he
came East to attend the reunion of the Four
teenth @. v. He lie travelling for the Bolton
Steel company of Canton. He has visited
all the mines in the Rocky Mountains and
probably has the finest cabinet Of minerals
in the United States.