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

Brief Mention.
 Books made to order at Dorman's.
 E5opodium at all druggists.
 Remember the orphans tomorrow.
 Just out-The NEW Spotted Beauty cigar.
 Sterling pianos at Catlin's, GAS Chapel St.
 Col. w. H. Stevenson ia building sum- mer house at Black Rock.
 T. w. Downs, United States consul at Que becs is in Bridgeport on brief visit.
 Judge Edward s. White, of Hartford, cons tinuss dangerously ill with pneumonia.
 Go and hear Frank Beard in his famous stChalk Talk" at Trinity M. E. church to- night.
 Ralph W. Blood has recovered from his at tack of insanity and is home again in Wa terbury.
 The Meriden poultry raieers meet tonight to take action in regard to holding poultry show this winter.
 In the fifteenth Senatorial district yester- day the Democrats nominated Hon. Alexan- der Wildman for Senator.
 Prof. Weir expects to have 70 students in the art school by Nov. 1. There are now 42, an increase over last year.
 Ex-Congressman Kasson of Iowa, ex-min- ister to Austria, spoke in Stafford Springs last night to a rousing Republican rally.
 Mir. Williams, tho New York broker who committed suicide because of great losses in the wheat squeeze, was born in Essex, Conn. Dr. Clemens of Bridgeport returned home Monday evening from Fair Haven, where he has been in attendance upon 0. L. Luding ton.
 Richard Smith, of Conductor Daly's Nau- gatuck freight train, lost portions of three fingers while coupling cars at Ansonia Mon- day afternoon.
 Gus Traeger expects to sell his present place in New Haven, take possession of the Quinnipiac club house and make a sort of Delmonico's out of it.
 Mrs Thomas Broadbent, of ChapmaA's Hill, near Meriden, killed large black snake with a carriage whip yesterday. It was basking in the roadway.
 No trace yet of the 6rebugs who fired Sat- urday night the barn of Lewis Morse and an old unoccupied house belonging to Mrs. Lan- don, both of which were destroyed.
 Ansonia has another grand Republican rally tomorrow evening. Hon. Mr. Kasson, ex-minister to Austria, will speak. The Git izens' band will play and the Glee club will sing.
 Cards are out for the wedding at the First church, Waterbury, at p. m. Oct. 1s, of Mary Rose, daughter of the Rev. Ir. and Mrs. Joseph Anderson, and Dr. Carl Eugene Munger.
 Cool weather last night again. Winter overcoats were trotted out. Snow fell in Hartford yesterday, but not to auy slarming extent. Six inches of snow fell in Montreal yesterday.
 The Euclid avenue Congregational church in Cleveland, Ohio, of which Rev. Dr. Twitchell of this city was formerly pastor, gave a fine reception last evening to Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Twitchell.
 John Lyons, of Hartford, died at the resi- dence of his con, Patrick, in New Haven Monday night in his 18th year. MT. Lyons was an old and respected resident of Hart ford for nearly forty years.
 But comparatively few of the cottagers have returned home from the shore cottages at Savin Rock. The majority yet remain at the shore, finding October weatSer by the seashore very enjoyable.
 Daniel W. Prior, son of Daniel H. Pnor of Hubbard district, South Farms, Middleeown, will be united in marriage to Miss Alice O. Wright of Clinton on Thursday next at 9 p. m., at the residence of the brides parents.
 Postofice clerks in Connecticut and postal clerks on the route between Boston and New York have received within few days Q sec ond circular letter from the Democratic na- tional committee calling for political asseRs- ments. c
 The Masonic Mutual Benefit association has voted $2,O00 to the widow of the late Daniel L. Carpenter, and 8 like amount to she benefciaries of the late George s. An drews of Naugatuck and Walt H. Somers of Hiram lodge, No. IS, of Newtown.
 The seventeenth annual meeting of tue Woman's Foreign Missionary society, con- nected with the New Haven Baptist associa- tion, will be held in Calvary Baptist church this city, Wednesday, Oct. 10, opening at 1:30 p. m Mrs. Morrow of Tavoy, Burma, will speak. {. MT. o. Howes of St. Augustine, formerly of Savin Rock, who with his wife have been stopping at the Sea View House, Sayin Rock, for two weeks past, leaves tomorrow for stay in Philadelphia, after which they go to Tennessee, leaving thence for Florida whom cold weather arrives.
 The toothsome frost fish are now being caught in considerable numbers at the docks and wharves. Night before last the tide be- ing right for evening fishing, party tried their luck off Kelsey's Wharf, West Haven. and hooked eight or nine dozen, most of which were fine ones of large size.