Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-08
Personal.


 MT. Clark L. Smedley is confined to his home on Brewery street by illness. Instructor True of the Latin department of Wesleyan university is i'll with diphtheria. Messrs. J. c. Murray and Dr. J. D. Bently, of Willimantic, left Monday for visit to Florida.
 D. K. Belden, of the Norwalk Hotel, has leased the Dorlon House at Dorlon's Point for five years.
 State Attorney Doolittle left Washington g few days ago and is now at Kittrell, N. O., fer a short stay. Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth of this city lee tured before the students of Wesle! an uni versity last evening. slHon. H.W. R. Hoyt, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is sojourning in Washing ton for few days.
 President Isaac Holden of the Bridgeport Scientific society will lecture at New Bruns- wick, N. J., tomorrow evening. MT. Samuel P. Hicks, the father of Rev. L. W. Hicks of Wethersfeld, died at his home in Charlton, Mass, February 8. Colonel John B. Clapp of Hartford, who has been qui te ill of malarial fever, was able to be out for 8 short time yesterday. Reporter Flaherty of the Ansonia Sentinel discovered and foiled an attempt to burn the AnsoBia covered bridge Monday night. Dr. A. A. Smith of Ansonia, who has been quite i'll at Milford, continues to i'm. prove and is able to be about the house.
 E. H. Tomlinson of the Farrel Foundry aud Machine company, Ansonia, has Jeff town for an extended trip through the South.
 Professor Prescott, organist of the First Methodist church at Msriden, has been en- gagged as organist at the Center church in the same city.
 Governor Lounsbury relates that while so- journing in Atlanta, Ga, last week and sit ting out on balcony one evening the air was full of mosquitoes.
 David Rummell of West Stratford, who accidentally stabbed himself a few days ago, is considered by his physician, Dr. Clem- ents, to be out of danger.
 Arthur W. Harrison, brother of Hon. Lynde Harrison, has resigned the position of examiner in the United States patent office he has held for the past twelve years.
 The Rev. Father De Bruycker of St. Jo- seph's church, Middletown, left town on the New England limited Sunday night for 6 trip to Florida and other points of the South for the benefit of his health
 Simon McNamara, liquor dealer, and John Smith, a carpenter, fell from a scaffold on McNamara's new house at South Norwalk on Monday morning. Smith received a broken leg and McNamara was fatally in- jured.
 James Bailey Silkman, who died at New York Saturday, was Yale graduate and at one time an assistant editor of the New York Evening Post. He was practicing law when the war broke ont and caused good deal of excitement by introducing anti-slavery reso- lutions in the New York diocesan conven- tion.
 MT. George A. Dickerman, the florist, of this city, returned yesterday morning from 8 flying visit to Norfolk, Va, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mrs. Dickerman's health, her many friends will be glad to learn, is nearly established again, owing to the southern air and change of scene. Way land l. Diekerman is prospering finely in the floral business in Norfolk and his wife, who has been seriously i'll, is restored to health.
 Rev. R. O. Putney, who died at his resi- dence in East Brookfeld, Mass, Sunday, was e native of Union, Conn.,, born May 19, 1914 mia from the age of 21 to 25 he studied for the ministry. His first pasterate was the Baptist church in Ashford, Conn.,, where he four or five years. when he was obliged to cease preaching on account of 8 pulmonary weakness. He removed to East Brookfeld in 1850 and had worked at his trade there ever since.