Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-15
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Large line card cases at Dorman's.
 Hgopodium cures gout.
 Sterling pianos at Catlin's, 643 Chapel St.
 Rents collected promptly at H. P. .Hoadley's'
 Wheatine makes delicious breakfast dish.
 Hon. H. Wales Lines is to present banner to the Lines battalion of Middletown.
 Police Commissioner Johnsons condition was slightly easier Saturday and yesterday. atConcressman French does not return to Washington until December. He was in town Saturday.
 Rev. T, J. Lee of the New Milford Congre- gational church has resigned, to take effect al New Years.
 Last evening the condition of MT. William Franklin was unchanged, but he is still slowly sinking.
 ouinnipiac lodge, I. o. O. F., works the third degree tonight, after which refresh ments will be served.
 Humboldt lodge, l. o. O. F. of New Haven will visit Lessing lodge of Bridgeport on the evening of October go.
 Hon. William D. Bishop of Bridgeport has been reelected director of the Western Union Telegraph company.
 About 400 Yale students are expecting to take part in the grand Republican parade in this city next Friday evening.
 MT. William L. Judd, postal clerk on the Housatonic road, has been superseded by Frederick L. Chase of New Milford.
 Westville Democrats have rally in Sperry s Hall tomorrow evening, at which Edward Downes and 0. H. Fowler will speak.
 ae h. ter of MT. and Mrs. H. 0. Wilcox, has en- tered Miss Porters school for young ladies at Pennington.
 Hon. David Clark and wife of Hartford celebrated the sixty-first anniversary of their marriage Friday which was also MT. Clark g eighty birthday.
 Ex-Alderman Benejah Douglass, senior member of the house of B. H. Douglass & Sons, State street, is very ill at his home with a complication of diseases.
 Richard w. Laws new oyster dredge, which is being built at Captain George N. Graves Fair Haven Yard, will be launched Thursday The new dredge is fine one.
 MT. John Cullinan, jr., has resigned his position on the staff of the Bridgeport Farmer to enter the Columbia Law school He is graduate of the Academic department of Yale.
 Peter E. Dorgan, driver of steamer No. 6, has erected 8 new house on Winchester ave- nue. It is a well built and we'll designed place, and quite an improvement to the avenue.
 Bruce & Shepard, civil engineers in the Insurance building, have dissolved partner ship. Bruce will remain in the city, while Shepard goes to Bristol to engage in other business.
 At the Sunday school session at the United church yesterday, the prayer of the superin' tendent feelingly alluded to the death yester- day morning of Mrs. Andrew H. Smith, wife of the assistant superintendent.
 A big Republican State parade will be held in the latter part of this month, on the day that Blaine speaks here. It is expected that there will be 15, 900 men in line on that occa- sion. MT. Blaine will probably speak on the Green.
 Floyd Tucker, ST., father of the associate editor of the Bridgeport Farmer, died at his home in Easton Friday evening at the ripe old age of eighty-three. He was highly re- spected by his townsmen, and had been se- lectman and representative.
 N. D. Sperry, who has been confined to his residence for several days by illness, was able to be out Saturday. He attended the opera Dorothy" together with his daughter, Miss Chezzy Spcrry, who has returned from so- journ of over year in Montana, her health fully restored.
 MT. Cleveland's dear friend, Governor D. B. Hill of New York, is to make two speech es in this State next Saturday at Waterbury in the afternoon and at New Haven in the evening. J. B. Sargent, whose guest Mir. Hill will be while in New Haven, has been chosen to preside. Governor Hill spoke in Mitchell, Ind, last Friday in. the afternoon and at Indianapolis in the evening.
 The fine residence and grounds in Hartford of the late ex- Governor Jewell have just been sold for $30, GOO to MT. Martin Bennett, jr., manager of the United States branch of the Lion Fire Insurance company, by Mrs. Hol- land, who bought the place from the Jewell estate. The grounds have frontage of over two hundred feet on Pennington avenue and three hundred and twenty-seven feet on Mar shall street; and the mansion, which has re- gently been greatly improved at considerable expense by Mrs. Holland, the owner, is one of the best appointed houses in Hartford.
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