Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-17
LOCAL NEWS.
Rraef Mention.

Brlef Mention.
 Wedding invitations at Dorman's.
 Royal shoes are all warranted.
 The Housatonic road has voted to reduce fares to a uniform rate, not to exceed three cents 8 mile.
 Judge Sanford is slowly improving in health and Saturday WAS able to ride out for a short drive.
 Senator Platt was in town Saturday. He returned to Meriden in the afternoon and to- day goes back to Washington.
 There was excellent skating on Lake Whit ney on Saturday afternoon and evening. large crowd enjoyed the sport to late hour.
 Ths Juvenile Turner's of Meriden will come to New Haven this evening to attend the an- niversary exercises of the Juveniles of this city.
 The Christmas concert by the Yale orches- tra, assisted by the Glee club, takes place to- night at Loomis' Temple. A very attractive programme is offered.
 At the St. John street church last evening the Rev. l. NJ. Foster repeated his lecture, 'sThe Young Man Wanted" to a very large and interested audience.
 A. E. Kilbourne, of East Hartford, has
 
 been elected State treasurer of the Y. P. S.. c. E. in place of Eli Manchester of New Haven, resigned. The next State conven- ton will probably be held in New Haven.
 Mr. and Mrs Edward Malley have gone to North Carolina for a three months stay. Mir. Malley found the shooting so good in North Carolina last winter that he engaged quarters in the same locality for this season.
 The report in the Sunday Register that MT. Charles H. Pierpont, late clerk at the Fremont House, had mysteriously disap- peared was a great surprise to MT. FlerPont' who returned to the city on Saturday from visit to relatives, after a few days absence. MT. Pierpont was for the last eleven years, and until the recent change of management, clerk at the Fremont.
 Mrs. Moulton, wife MT. James Mouiton of New York, the architect, formerly of this city, is lying in very critical state at the home of her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Luclus Crockett, in Montowese She was taken Ill with consumption about year and halt ago and was removed from her New York home, after various trips to the mountains for change oi air, to Montowese.
 Among a party of twenty who left here Saturday evening for ten days trip to Sel- ma, Alabama, were Hon. N. D. Sperry, Gen. George H. Harmon, Charles Kimberly, Miles Goodyear, Henry D. White, Albert Hooker and MT. Billings, General Superintendent Shephard's clerk, all of this city, and Henry T. Sperry, Manager Spaulding and William Countryman of the Hartford Post.
 Splendid for Christmas gifts, useful as we'll as elegant and beautiful, are the seal skin and high grade plush sacques at Bur- gees 8c Burgess renowned fur emporium. Their stock of elegant sealskins and sacques just made up is magnificent and extensive, and their splendid stock of all the latest fashions in smaller furs is a feature of the holiday business on Chapel street, compris- ing African monkey sets, Iceland lamb sets, Thibet lamb sets, and lynx, black martin and bear sets. Look also at those elegant fur rugs, fur gloves, silk umbrellas, etc.
 Miss Bertha Cargill daughter of Mrs. NJ. J.. Cargill ot Elm street, this city, will be united in marriage January 18th to MT. Miller of Springfield, Mass, son of Sheriff Miller, @ wealthy and retired citizen of Springfield and much respected. The groom is bookkeeper in Springfield and both the contracting par- ties have many friends. The ceremony will take place in Brooklyn, N. Y., at the resi- dence of the bride-elect's grandfather, MT. Cargill, corset steel manufacturer who was formerly in business in this city and later in Waterbury The bride is a teacher in the Training school in this city.