Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-15
LOCAL NEWg..
Brief MeDs6ou


 Trial balance book at Dormsn,s.
 Pictures and Works of art boxed at c. K. Cadwell's, 9lCrown street.
 The f1Heral of Mrs. 0. B. Smith, who died in Great Harrington, will take place from Trinity church, Torrington, this afternoon. R. L. Martin, the South Main street dry goods dealer, Waterbury, will sail for Europe next Wednesday on the Scythia He will visit his old home in Scotland.
 Miss Lizzie, daughter of Adam Leiningsr, of Waterbury died Wednesday after short illness from inflammation of the bowels MT. Leininger is still confined to his home by ill., ness.
 The Stratford Young Republican club has appointed the following executive committee: Frank K. Curtis, F. s. Beardsley, Charles E. Stagg, J. Meachem, s. Judson, jr., W. E.. Peck
 The elegant new cloister building of the Sheffield Scientific school society "Snake and Book" at the corner of Hillhouse ave- nue and Grove street, will be dedicated June 27.
 Mrs. Henrietta E. Gilbert, wife of Col. B. s. Pardee of the old Tenth 0. V., died sud- denly Wednesday. She was the oldest daughter of Mrs. Levi Gilbert, of this city, and lady of much worth and estimabls character.
 The estate of the late Rev. MT. Tillotson, of Wethersfeld, inventories $6s, ,19S. He had twenty acres in the suburbs of Minne- apolis, valued at $15.OO0 among the assets; eighty acres in Southern Kansas, valued at s4O0; eight houses in Chicago, valued at SIS, 800, besides mining stock, bank stock, railroad stock, etc.
 Prof. William Fl. Welch, N. D., of John Hopkins university, will deliver an address on Medicine before the Yale Medical society at Battell chapel on June 20. Dr. Welch's address will be given at 12 m., and from to 10 in the evening reception will be tens dered him at the residence of Dr. William Fl. Carmalt, No. 80 Elm street.
 The dust is SO thick on the highways lsad- ing out of the city that those driving out for little fresh air and change of scene or on business, return thickly covered with dust from head to foot unless great precautions are taken. And yet there was an enormous rainfall last month. However, the grass lands and the fields are clothed in living green.
 A Children's day service and flower con- cert will be given Sunday evening at the Ferry street church, Fair Haven. very fine programme is arranged, consisting of "The Gates Aiar," recitations and praise service Rev. MT. Lee, the new pastor, will address the children. He is already very popular with his congregation. The concert will begin at 2 o'clock.
 The funeral of Merritt Lane, of Water bury, takes place tomorrow afternoon. He was 71 years old. In company with J. M. Scovill, c. B. Merriman, Henry Merriman and Henry A. Merrill, MT. Lane in 1885 or- ganized the present Lane Manufacturing company of Waterbury. He sold his inter est in this company in 1868, and had been in other employment since.
 The seventeen directors of Hartford's board of trade, which hGs just organized, are: J. M. Allen, George P. Bisssll, c. c. Kimball, F. S. Brown, M. G. Bulkeley, H.C. Dwight, George A. Fairchild, John Fl. Hall, Judson H. Root, F. A. Pratt, William H. Post, Charles M. Beach, William H. Good- rich, A. E. Burr, John c. Mead, George H. Day, Jonathan E. Morris. -
 The busy mosquito was, according to what everybody says, never SO numerous or so persistent at this early point in the summer as they are this year. The wet May did it. The woods are full of 'em. The college woods near the foot of East Rock are alive with them. They do not sing, neither dc they hum, but they get there just the same, and far more insidiously. Clouds of them arise from every bush and oopse and thioket, and they say they are even more numerous and fully as diligent in business at the East Havan shore.