Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-13
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

See the pocketbooks at Dorman's.
 Unrivalled Chase pianos, ,645 Chapel street.
 Ice harvesting at Lake Whitney will not begin until next week.
 Bridgeport is moving in the direction of having more wharf accommodations.
 About one hundred young ladies and gen. tlemen were out skating on Lake Whitney last evening.
 Mrs. Henry Steele, a much esteemed lady of Middletown, died yesterday morning after long illness.
 me colored Baptist church on Wooster street, Hartford, was damaged $500 by fire Wednesday night.
 Rev. Mir. Tuck of Middletown, who has been very i'll, ia somewhat better. His wife is nearly recovered.
 The cold increases. Last night was the coldest of the season and this morning at 4 o'clock the mercury was near zero.
 Minnie Palmer has an especial Yale verse in her topical song which is said to be finely adapted to the latitude of young Yale.
 William Erwin was arrested yesterday by Officers Dunn and Moore for refusing to pay for meal he had eaten at the Florence House.
 Dr. Beach of LitchAeld, with his wife and daughter, left on Wednesday for Orange City, Florida, where they will spend the winter.
 Professor William G. Sumner, refuting the theories of Henry George, has an able ar- ticle in this weeks Independent on Gland Monopoly"
 Frank c. Alton has bought from the Will liam Parmalee estate three lots on Parmalee avenue, which extend from Mulberry street to Gilbert avenue.
 The funeral of the late Lemuel J. Curtis, of Meriden, will be held this afternoon at 2:30 at St. Andrews church. there. Rector Randall will conduct the services.
 Miss Cora M. OlmstsAd, daughter of sx. State Attorney olmstead of Fairfield coun' ty, and her friend Miss Julia G. Holmes art stopping at the hotel in HOrta, on the island of Fayal.
 Ex-State Senator Earle Buckingham o Washington, Litch6eId county, died sudden ly at his home on Wednesday. The deceased was aged fifty years and leaves a wife ani five children.
 The decision of the Whitneyville hors, railroad management to run the last car iron the Green at night at 10:30 instead of Il o'clock gives much satisfaction to the pat rons of the road.
 The Consolidated road will on January Il place in use their new system of block sig nals. The order has been issued and it rev olutionizes the entire system now in vogue of moving trains.
 The twenty-hrst annual reunion and ban. ouet of the Veteran association of the Hart ford City Guard was celebrated at Bssse'f cafe Wednesday evening. Forty seven sal down to the dinner.
 In Ansonia on January 19 Professor Frank E. Howard, teacher of music in the public schools there, and Miss Florence E., dangh- ter of Wales Terrell of Beaver street, will be united in marriage.
 While Dennis Quill, of Ansonia, was shoot ing at an old tin can on Wednesday his foot slipped and his gun went of, blowing his big toe completely of. Drs. Randall and Welch. attended him.
 In Bridgeport yesterday afternoon Miss Fannie Hawley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Monson Hawley, and Edward W. Marsh treasurer of the Peoples Savings bank oi that city, were united in marriage. At a rs ception which followed guests were present from Bridgeport, New York, Brooklyn, To. Iedo (Ohio), Portland (Oregon), New Haven New Milford, Greenwich, Lenox, Mass, and Montclair, N J.