Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-11
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.


 The best inks at Dorman's.
 Egopodium.
 College reopens on the 20th.
 Mir. David Rhoades, of Stratford is Ill will malarial remittent fever.
 Major Allen, of Hartford, has decided to resign soon as leader of Allen drum band.
 Staeg, the phenomenal pitcher, was in town yesterday; also Fisher 's9 and H. O. Hurd go.
 Thomas Allen, 56 years old, Aagman a' North Manchester station on the New Eng land road, was killed by the cars yesterday
 The funeral of Henry Sawyer, aged 6O who died in Plainville Friday, took place yesterday, He died of csncerous affection of the liver.
 George White, for ten years in charge oi Heublin's cafe in Mulberry straet, Hartford will manage the Heublein cafe to be opened Oct. in New Haven.
 Mrs. Catherine Martin, widow of Thomas Martin, died at the home of the family, Mo- 40 Union street, Waterbury, Sunday after noon, after nearly two years' illness.
 The Putnam Phalanx were having fine times in New London yesterday, according to pro- gramme, and the city was gay with flags and bunting. The Puts band kept playing "The Girl Left Behind Me-"
 The twenty-third annual convention of the Y,M.C. A. of Connecticut will be held in Bridgeport Oct. Il to IA. The feature of the convention will be the services of song con- ducted by Ira D. SankeY.
 On Friday next the veterans of the Eighth regiment c. V. will hold their nineteenth an. nual reunion. The business meeting will be in the G. A. R. hall, South Norwalk, and the dinner at Roton Point at p. m.
 Colts factory, Hartford, yesterday began running forty,eight hours a week, instead of fifty, as during the past few months. 1n- stead of ten hours day for five days, they are obliged to work eight hours day for si1 days.
 Schooner Spray (Martin) while leaving Belle dock yesterday morning in hauling the luff rope carried away her mainsail. The captain anchored in the stream to wait furth- CT orders. The schooner is bound to Phila- delphia.
 Mrs. Marie Bradley and Miss M. E. ohap- man have returned from their five weeks eo- iourn in the Adirondacks much improved in health. They returned by way of Lake George and Saratoga, stopping few days at the latter place.
 R. Nj. McBride, sturdy farmer of Meek ertown, near Norfolk, Ct., had lively brush last Friday with a rapacious eagle, which had evinced taste for his sheep and lambs. Mcbride was clawsd by the bird. but killed 1t with 8 wagon prop.
 The excursion of the Grand Canton Sassa- GUS, order of Odd Fellows, to Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Albany and New York, will leave Hartford at 9:26 this morning. The excur- sion will start from New Haven at o'clock and stops will be made along the line.
 Mir. John Kerley and wife leaves this morning on a western trip of several weeks, most of the time to be spent in southern Kansas where Mr.K.'s interests are in conntc- tion with his loan business. Persons wish ing to communicate with him during his ab- sence will find particulars in his adv. in this paper.
 Mrs. Knons of Hartford, who arrived home from Europe Saturday night, finds that the securities of the Shutlas estate, left in the care of Joseph Breed with full power of attorney, to be intact, as stated by MT. Breed in consultation with his lawyer. A full ex- animation of the affairs of the Hartford bank was concluded yesterday noon, and it is found that MT. Breed had not taken dollar from the bank.