Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-14
LOCAL NEWS.
Rrlef MemtfOn.


 Calim and docket at Dorman's.
 Bargains in pianos at Catlin's, ,643 Chapel st. Spring, gentle spring. How do you like itl
 Did you promenade in the SHOW yester- day!
 The Rev. MT. Morgan will preach tonight at St. PauTs.
 The old State House question has taken a back seat this week.
 Thomas Booth of the Mahogany Palace is snow bound in Providence.
 A fire occurred in Washington street, Bos- ton, yesterday; loss about 5000.
 The police all exclaim with regard to Mon day night, "Oh! what night"
 The old Green was shrouded in Cimmerian darkness last night-no electric lights and no gas.
 There is some fear of meat panic i'm Mer- iden as the stock of meat in the markets has all been sold.
 The police had no trouble to maintain order last night Even the ''night owls" kept shady. Route Boy Johnson of Greene street was the first COURIER newsboy to be on hand yes- terday morning.
 The saloons and hotels and telegraph off ces were about the only places open last even ing after o'clock.
 The "dim religious light" on most of the streets last night caused pedestrians to look sharp for the narrow paths.
 Men with baskets of condensed milk were around yesterday, evidently supplying their regular patrons of the genuine article.
 It is supposed that in consequence of the storm the 'told leather man" will be behind his schedule time, if he has not perished in the storm
 The stock of coal at the New Haven House was so nearly exhausted yesterday that coal was taken in sacks from the North church and carried to the hotel.
 The walking on Chapel, State and Church streets last night caused many stumble and many fall, being so uneven and there be- ing no electric lights to guide the footballs.
 Night Station Agent Jacobs of the Consoli- dated says that he has been railreading for eighteen years and never before has he known of every wheel being stopped. There have al- ways been some trains running.
 The residents and property owners of New Haven may be congratulated that no fire has occurred in the city during the blizzard and especially night before last, when March's winds were Blowing so fearfully.
 The directors of the Fair Haven and Vest vile horse railroad meet this morning to take action regarding the blizzard The company will make every exertiont to run the cars ct the earliest possible moment.
 large area in the rear of the stores of SilverthaH, Wells & Gunde and Butler is filled with snow as high as the roof of the addition which forms the rear part of those stores. The police did not attempt to patrol the area.
 Jot it down in your diary. Not a team of any description was seen on the streets of New Haven yesterday far as can be ascer- tained. It is doubtful if a similar cireum- stance was ever known before since the set clement of the city.
 The newsboys were on the streets all day yesterday selling the morning papers, Two men took several hundred CoURIERs to East Haven and were paid as high as 25 cents in many instances for a single paper. Peo- pie seemed to be wild to get paper.
 The present obstruction to the mail ser vice has caused so much interruption to cor- respondence that the following remark which was made some time ago has been recently called to mind: Perhaps we do not suffi- ciently appreciate this mode of communica- tion."
 Snow shovels are scarce. None could be bought yesterday at any of the principal stores. Edgar E. Durant of the G. F. War nsr Manufacturing company hunted all over the city yesterday for snow snoyel and finally found one in small out-of- -the-wsy store. Shovels will be at premium to-day.