Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-15
LOCAL NE WIS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
 All kinds of printing at Dorman's.
 Children's carriages at Mallett's.
 There are twenty-three shad pounds this season between Clinton and Saybrook Point.
 Maltby, Stevens, Curtiss & Co.,, of Wal lingford, will hereafter shut down on Satur- days.
 Ex-Senator Joseph W. Alsop, of Middle town, will build cottage at Fenwick this season.
 Asahel Smith, pioneer in manufacturing at Union City (Naugatuck), died Friday, 11th, aged S4.
 There was a small meeting of the Congre- eational club last evening owing to the stormy weather.
 The Farrel Advance drum corps of An- sonia have received call to play for G. A. R. post in New York city on Memorial day.
 Conductor MoDermott, of the Naugatuck division, became a property owner Friday, having purchased house and lot in Win sted.
 The banns of marriage were published at the Church of the Assumption, Ansonia, Sunday, between James Queenan and Miss Mary Ware.
 James Hine, an old resident of Starr street, Ansonia, father of Miss Annie Hine, the school teacher, died suddenly Sunday night of heart disease.
 Miss Pebble DeIavan, niece of Opera House Manager Delavan of Meriden, is quite ill at her home in New Haven and Mrs. Delavan has come to visit her.
 The volume of selections from the sermons and lectures of the late Rev. Dr. N. J. Bur ton of Hartford was issued from the press yesterday at Hartford.
 About fifty members of Pacific lodge, l. o. o. F., of Meriden, visited Accanaut lodge of Wallingford last evening when the latter lodge held its anniversary celebra- tion.
 P. T. Barnum has deposited in bank S3, 900 for the benefit of Jimmy Hogan, a bright little New York boy whose eye was injured by fireworks during the circus parade in New York last March.
 The Consolidated road has caused to be printed for distribution the section of the Connecticut statutes forbidding the casting of rubbish, garbage, foul or offensive water into the drains along the railroad tracks.
 E. A. Watrous, formerly of Meriden, was last Wednesday elected president of the Bea- trice, Neb., board of trade. The board is doing a big business, and the advertising fund has been drawn on recently for 5000 in booming the town.
 Uncas mill, Platner & Porter's old mill. in Unionville, is shut down for an indefinite period and the help have been notified that they are at liberty to look for situations else where. This mill was engaged in the manu- facture of the finer grades of book paper and the light demand for this grade of goods is understood to be the cause.
 Charles w. Scofeld, whose name has achieved unenviable prominence in New York in connection with the Scofeld- Hatch tragedy and scandal, is the only surviving son of the late Rev. Seth w. Sco- field of Stamford, who died February 23, 1886, respected by all. The deceased early in life was ordained minister of the Meth odist church, but for years engaged in busi- ness.
 Nearly 300 children were confirmed at St. Rose church, Meriden, Sunday. Among the clergymen present were: Rev. M. Tierney of New Britain, Rev. B. o. Sheridan of Mid dletown, Rev. M. A. Hunt of Southington, Rev J. Russell of New Haven, Rev. M. Me- Keon of New Haven, Rev. P. M. Kennedy of Birmingham, Rev. T. Broderick of Hartford, Rev. R. F. Moore of South Meriden, Rev. H. Mallon of Wallingford and Revs. McAlenny, Broderick and Walsh of Meriden