Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-21
LOCAL NE WIS.
Brief Mention.


 Brief Mention.
 The largest line stationery in the city at Dorman's
 Rents collected promptly at H. P. Hoadley's.
 Pianos, pianos, low prices, ,643 Chapel street.
 New Haven harbor was well fringed with ice yesterday.
 The schooner Lucy A. Lane stove in her bow in making Bridgeport harbor yesterday.
 The wife of ex-Lieutenant Governor Catlin died yesterday at Hartford at an advanced age.
 President Dwight of Yale College will preach on Sunday at 10 a. m. at Calvary Baptist church.
 Rev. J. E. Elliott, formerly of Newington, Conn.,, died in Washington Territory of heart disease recently.
 Chauncey NJ. Depew, the great after dinner speaker and railroad magnate, is soon to de- liver lecture in Bridgeport.
 Captain Dickinson, janitor of the post office, is confined to the house by illness, but is improving and will be out in few days.
 The Wheeler & Wilson sick benefit asseei- ation of Bridgeport has received ninety-two applications for mem bership during the past month.
 A house belonging to Philander Trowbridge vas burned at Pomfret yesterday. The loss is estimated at between s, 900 and $4,- 900; partly insured.
 The Rev. P. Mulholland, executor of the estate of the Rev. T. J. Lynch, late of Dan- bury, has brought suit against the Knights of Columbus for $1 ,000.
 Henry R. Mather, native of MiddIetown and brother of..Mrs. Thomas G. Mather of that city, died at Marquette, Mich, on Jan nary 13, aged sixty-four.
 The county commissioners yesterday urer, $50 ,00O, which sum has been received by them for liquor licenses.
 In Bridgeport yesterday John Henry Finn, aged twenty-five son of Officer Thomas Finn, died at the residenos of his parents after an illness of nearly year.
 pr. John J. Crane and wife of Whitney I avenue left yesterday for Florida, where they will remain for about Q month prepara- tory to making European trip.
 John Goodrich, of Moodus, has been ar | rested charged with robbing the store of
 
 been placed nnder $500 bonds.
 Mrs. Beach Camp, who has been seriously l III at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. L. I Johnson of New Britain, for eight weeks I past, died on Thursday evening, aged forty | seven.
 Secretary of State Hubbard is besieged with letters from all parts of the State ask | ing for copies of the revised statutes. Comp tToller Hubbard is the proper person to ap- ply to.
 Complaint continues to be made that the | High school building is not properly heated. Many of the pupils found it necessary this ! week to wear their cloaks during school l hours. |
 George w. Hills of Bridgeport, one of the I editors of the Bridgeport Evening Post, was married to Miss Lillie w., daughter of Wat son w. Smith of Hartford, on Thursday I afternoon.
 Mrs. George R. Wilson, who was received I at the hospital January 19, died there Thurs day night of pneumonia. Her home was in Southampton, Mass. She was twenty-six | years of age.
 Secretary of State Hubbard yesterday an- the returns of the county commis- sioners. The total amount received from li- oenses in New Haven county was $175, ,072, and the total for the State was $451 TAI.
 A dispatch was received by R. A. Belden, of Danbury, on Tuesday afternoon dated at Dak., and stating that Louis and Hattie Belden, brother and sister of MT. | Belden, had been frozen to death in a bliz- gard.
 Mrs. Decatur Morgan will give one of her Bible readings in the lecture room of the First Presby church Sunday afternoon at o'clock The subject will be 'Tle Christian Sabbath" Rev. Dr. Mullaly will again occupy the pulpit in the evening. The Y. M. o. A. will hold . service at the iail at o'clock tomorrow. Rev. Dr. Reed will give address. At a meeting at the rooms at o'clock Rev. J. W. Bixler will preach This evening a meeting for young men will be held at the rooms at 8 o'clock. All men are invited.
 Hazekiah Msrwin, well known and re. spseted resident of Maromas, Middietovu. ! lied on Monday, aged eighty-four He was model husband. He had been married to 1ia wife, who is still living and is three months his senior, between fifty and sixty 7ears. In all that time he had not been one night. from home.
 The reign of Jack Frost reminds many adies that not for many months have ele- yant sealskin sacques sold SO low as they can low be had of Burgess & Burgess, and many prefer them made over, selecting the fur to heir taste. Many fine saeques also on hand o select from. Also now is the time to bay | UT sets, .muffs, boas and fur robes. caps ( md gloves very low. Megars. Coffin & Stanton offer the unsold ,alance of the Housatonic railroad ffty-vear i per cent. gold bonds issued to fund the referred stock at par, and to refund the resent bonded debt maturing from date to 992. The bond is the first and only mort c ago bond on the road, which is one of the j Idest in New England, having always paid t 1terest at minimum at 2 per cent. of the ( referred stock. In Fair Haven yesterday a grocer's sleigh las smashed up. The horse took advantage [ the ab1encs of the driver, who was in a ouss delivering groceries, and ran away. F t the Hitchcock place, corner of East Pearl t a Exchange streets, the horse knocked | V ,wn an outside fence and jumped oyer an f aide fence, scattering eggs, tea, biscuit, k lsese, eto., hberally while en route. The ls ocsr recovered his team and then gradually W a up the scattered produce. 4al