Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-27
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

brisk to high northwesterly winds, diminishing In force and becoming southerly.
 LOCAL NEWS.
 Brief Mention.
 Inkwells, paper cutters, envelope openers at Dorman's.
 Pianos, pianos, low prices ,84s Chapel street.
 The Connections Indian association has 552 members.
 The steamer Naugatuek has frozen up in the Housatonic river.
 Ex-Selectman James J. Sweeney, ot Derby, Is down with the humps.
 The Wilkins Guard big ball takes place tonight at the Union armory.
 A new council of United American Me chanics will be organized in Bridgeport to- night.
 The National band of Wallingford gives concert Saturday evening, Feb. 4, in the Town hall.
 Col John o. Healy, now of Washington, D. O., continues to improve. He was threat- ened with pneumonia.
 Thomas E. Graves, aged "A, prominent Windham county lawyer, died at Danielson- vile, Wednesday. 25th.
 Mr. Hotchkiss, the labor commissioner, ad- dresses meeting of Knights of Labor in this city to be held next week.
 The clock on Dwight Place church stopped yesterday at ten minutes of 9, supposed to have been affected by the weather.
 Rev. Messrs. Widman and Dickinson ofi- ciated at the funeral of Samuel P. Parmelee in Wallingford yesterday afternoon.
 Rev. Mir. Fitzgerald, of Milford, is at Saco, Maine, to which place he has received call He went to look over the field.
 New Haven physicians report an unusually large number of throat and lung diseases, consequent upon the severe cold weather.
 Mrs. E. H. Barber and son, Dorrance, of Winsted, start Tuesday, February 7,for their new home in Hanford, Tulare county, Cal.
 The wife of Judge Carpenter fell down six stairs at her home in Hartford yesterday noon and broke her nose and was severely bruised.
 Past Most Worthy Patriarch Bradley of Washington, D. O., will address the mem- bers of Good Will division, s. of T., this evening.
 bury, who has been spending the winter at Morristown, Tenn, is seriously sick with pneumonia.
 Mrs. Jane Jones, who has been very i'll with apople1y, is slowly recovering. She resides on Whiting street with her son, Ed win T. Jones.
 The Tallapoosa Land Co.,. branch..ofice ex- isted at 280 State st. for three weeks previous to November 1st, 1887, but was discontinued on that date.
 Germania lodge, l. O. O. F., did good work last night. They initiated tQur- and conferred aaFsst and second degrees on two candidates.
 One of the engines on a passenger train from this city broke a driving pin near Yalesville yesterday and occasionsd a delay of about half an hour.
 Rev. I. M. Foster of the St. John street M. E. church lectures in the Town hall, Mil ford, Feb. 9th. The lecture is for the bene- fit of the Lyceum library.
 If you wish to see a veritable Mother Goose and all her numerous family, attend the Church of the Messiah tonight. Admission 25 cents. Children 15 cents.
 Judge L. E. Munson of this city is an
  bury on the S1st of this month in the regular lecture course there this winter.
 Frederick Schorer of Bridgeport, who tried to end his life Tuesday night by taking laudanum, is much better. He had just got out of jail and was Respondent.
 Mrs. F. W. Warner, daughter of William Willard, ex-warden of the Connecticut State prison, died yesterday at her home in Weth- ersfeld, aged 34, leaving 8 child two days old.
 Martin street people, between Orchard and Park streets, are said to be very derelict about cleaning their sidewalks, particularly on the south side, and the owners of vacant lots.
 President w. R. Downes, with others of the New Haven union, conducted the meet ing of the Christian Endeavor society of the First church, Milford, in their chapel last night.
 Barrett Hook and Ladder Co.,, of Birming- ham, give their masquerade ball tonight. Miss Susie M. Drew, the elocutionist from Meriden, will give selections of her readings during the evening.
 The National Opera company arrived here from Hartford at II 80 yesterday forenoon. The party numbered 179 persons. They had special train of five baggage and one drawing room car and four ordinary coaches.
 Mrs. Emily M. Southworth, wife of Ed ward Wells Southworth, who graduated at Yale in '75, and who is q son of the late Wells Southworth of this oity, died in New York Monday and was buried on Tuesday.
 The property of the late James Lockwood, of Hartford, consisted of a SIG, 900 house, ,$40,- 900 in western bonds, $7,850 in bank, 1000 shares in the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Go. valued at $100,0o0 and $10,000 of other assets
 The game last evening in the billiard tour nannsnt st Hartford was between Hawks of Torrington and White of Birmingham and was won by Hawks; Whites score 165 .Hawks' average 22-57; Whites 9 51-57. Largest runs, Hawks 35, White 1T.
 A leap year sleighing party was given Wednesday evening. Seven young ladies invited seven young gentlemen. They rode ont to Ansoaia and had supper at the Day ton House and dance sfterward. The young ladies footed the bills. The party de- aed the binding snow storm, and arrived home at about yesterday morning.
 The ice on the harbor is eight inches thick for long distance. The harbor Is nearly cIosed to vessels. The big steamers manage to keep the channel open, but the steam tugs have foundering work to get through the channel. The harbor has net been closed to tbe biz steamers in thirteen years, said rrominent navigator yesterday. Thirteen -say. aoo it was closed for eight days: It is ysrv asiaom that the harbor is closed to the large steamers.