Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-27
LOCAL ME Tvs.
Brief Mention. IN

Music pound at DOImAn5.
Chase pianos at Catlin's, 643 Chapel street.
1t showed little more in Connecticut and
New York State yesterday.
Officer Helget of the police force is again
confined to the house by illness.
The committee on claims meets tonight
to hear various claims for damages.
Joseph Marshall, Bridgeport lad of ten,
was badly bitten by a vicious dog last Sun
day.
big attendance is expected at the dress
parade of the Hartford battalion, G. N. g.,
tonight.
Howard lodge, I. o. of G. T., will entertain
tonight delegation from Nonpareil lodge Of
Bridgeport.
The steamer Nouowantuc has not appeared
yet in Bridgeport. She still lies at Port JEFF
ferson, L. 1.
Rev. DR.. HoYey lectures on "Caverns" in
the Pearl street church in Bridgeport next
Tuesday evening.
Colonel L. L. Morgan has been appointed
feet captain of the New Haven Yacht club
by Commodore Clark.
At the First Baptist church in Bridgeport
Sunday $500 was raised in q few Minutes to
pay off last years current expenses
Professor Hoppin of Yale and party are
travelling in Spain. They will not return
probably until the latter part of May.
OK AverilI, treasurer of the Housatonic
Railroad company for twenty-five years, has
resigned and retires from the position April
1st.
Miss Alice McQuaid, graduate of Gafeys
shorthand school, has taken a position with
the Stiles & Parker Press company, Middle
town.
Fred R. Guest, bookkeeper of the First
National bank of Los Angeles, Cal, died
suddenly recently. He hailed from New
London, Conn.
The Rev. DR.. I. W. Andrews, late president
of Marietta college, Ohio, is now seriously i'll
at the house of his brother, Rev. I. ]. An
drews of Hartford.
The rumor that Mr.. Wstkinson of the Can
dee Rubber company, this city, is interested
in reviving the Colchester Rubber works
lacks positive confirmation.
Strangers coming in town are amazed at
the fearful extent of the blizzard as shown
on New Ravens old Green until informed
how some of the snow got there.
New Haven. Hartford, New Britain and
Bridgeport friends will take part in the cele-
bration on Thursday evening next by Friend
ship lodge, Sons of Hermann, of Waterbury.
An assessment of So per man has been
levied by the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers in order to raise 100000 with
which to continue the fight against the c.,
B. SC @
In Meriden yesterday afternoon Baum &
Bernatein's clothing store was slightly dam
aged by FIRE. The fire alarm was struck. A
plumbers gasoline exploded causing the
trouble.
Mrs. Hall, the soprano at the Center Con.
Rregational church in Meriden, will probably
sing at the Baptist church in Wallingfoid the
coming year, that society having made her
more favorable offer.
Mrs Emma A. Champion Of Torrington,
who has been seriously i'll with inhammatory
rheumatism for the past FIVE weeks, is recov-
ering, which will be pleasant news to her
many friends in this city.
The chief topic of conversation in Wethers-
field is the approaching marriage of one OF
Wethers6eld's Oldest gentlemen, past seventy
five years, with a maiden lady forty years
his junior, which occurs this week.
Messrs. James G.. Bacon and James L.
Doyle of Hartford have purchased the New
Britain Record and propose to introduce new
features which will make it ono of the lead
ing weekly newspapers of the State.
The State hospital board has decided to
erect on the grounds of the Soldiers Home
at Noroten hospital building to accommo- /
date persons who need to be treated for
specific diseases and for surgical treatment
Dr. w. G. Vile of Danbury, son-in-law of
Mr.. G. NJ. Loomis of this city, has been elect /
ed one of the vice presidents of the Interna-
tional Congress of Anthropology to be held
in New York city June 9Th, 9Th and 7th of
this year.
Hartford Times: "Governor Lounsbury's
portrait, which is to be placed with those. OF |
his predecessors in the State library, is now
on exhibition at Vorce's. It was painted by
Harry I. Thompson of New Haven and is an
excellent piece of work"
DR.. R. M. Griswold of Manchester, Conn.,,
has sold his practice to DR.. B. s. Barrows,
late resident physician at the New Haven
hospital. DIR. Griswold will remove to Port 1
land, where he has formed q co-partnsrship |
with DR.. G. e. Hammond.
John Creegan was arrested by Officer |
Shields last night for violation of the Sun
day liquor law and his cousin, Cormaek 1
Creegan, was arrested for keeping watch last |
Sunday and informing Creegan that Officers
Hyde and Nichols were after him.
The dam fshwsy at Birmingham has sur
Vived the frsshets and the blizzard. Agent |
Fenton of the fish commission will be there !
again this season and expects to hatch out |
,00o. 600 young fry or double the number of |
last year.
The county board of directors of the A. o.
H., including the president, vice president, |
recording and financial secretaries and the
treasurer of each division in Connecticut, will |
meet at New Haven Friday at the Clan-na-
Gael hall ON Chapel street.
Mr. VIII Harper, Yale 80, and wife have
returned to Chicago from their wedding trip.
Mr.. Harper was class poet of 80 and lie well
in New Haven society circles.
His bride was Miss Cook of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Er. Harper is one of the editors Of the Chi
,aro Inter-O Ocean and has been engaged in
journalism since leaving college.
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