Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-17
LOCAL NEWS.
Rraef Mention.

Swords blaming mill in Bridgeport was slightly damaged by fire on Sunday.
 Miss Lucy Wightman, for forty years New London school teacher, died on Sun day.
 The first rehearsal of the Gounod society preparatory to their concert takes place this evening"
 Thefcase of Cashier Hood, the defaulting member of the Norwich water board, has been continued until May.
 Charles Walker, an old resident of New Britain, died suddenly in bed at o'clock Sunday morning at his residence.
 Several of the block signal towers of the Consolidated road between this city and Bridgeport are not yet completed.
 The remains of James Reilly, the tramp smallpox patient, were inferred in Potters field, Birmingham, Sunday night.
 Mrs. Ellen O'Keefe, of New London, has been informed that an uncle who recently died in Rio Janeiro left her $500, 900.
 Rev. T. De Witt Talmadge, D. D., will give his lecture, "Big Blunders," in the Dwight Place church on Thursday evening, January 19th.
 The Ansonia Ice company commenced harvesting nine-inch ice yesterday morning and will push the matter until the harvest is completed.
 Emmett Phillips, the nine-year-old Anso- nia boy who narrowly escaped drowning under the ice on Saturday, is improving and will recover.
 The Connecticut Register will soon be put in circulation by Secretary of State Hub bard. It will comprise 150 pages of historic cal information.
 The new rubber Rhoe factory which has just been completed at Naugatuck will em- ploy 1,OO0 hands. It is expected that oper- tions will commence in September.
 The will of the late John E. Pond of Bridgeport, which was admitted to probate Saturday, bequeaths all the estate valued at between $30, 900 and $40, 900 to his wife.
 pr. l. De Yer Warner, of Bridgeport, will exPend $2, 900 this winter in improvements on his steam yacht Daring which he pur- chased last summer from Lorillard for $16,- GOO.
 Professor Wayland of the Yale Law school delivered the principal address at the obse- quies of the late James Lockwood at the Asylum avenue Baptist church in Hartford yesterday.
 Professor James c. Van Benschoten of Wesleyan university has in his possession one of the rarest gems of Greek pottery in existence. It is an Athenian vase which was made ,000 years B. ..
 Mort Pond, the nomadic pipe smoker of Winsted, has been taken to Litch6eld, much to the relief of some of Winsted's citizens, who have barns which he has used as dor Initory and smoking room.
 The funeral of John Irving of Milford, who was for twenty-seven years most faithful trackmaster of the Consolidated road and for twenty years resident of Milford, took place Sunday at St. Peter's church, Milford. He died very suddenly of heart disease.
 The Rev. E. Hanson, pastor of the Swe- dish NJ. E. mission in Newport, R. l., has been assisting the pastor of the Swedish M E. mission in Bridgeport in revival meetings the past week. The Baptists and Methodists have held united meetings for two weeks.
 John H. Kingsbury of New Haven, Will liam G. White of Birmingham, Fred Hawks of Torrington, F. A. Saunders of Williman. tie, Jacob Fletcher of Hartford and R. W. Kellogg of Hartford are the contestants in tho billiard match to take place in Hartford tonight at Matt Hewins' parlors.
 Another cold snap. Thermometer at 10 last evening 10 above and hugging zero in the "wee sma" hours this morning. But way down in Texas last Saturday the ther- memeter fell from "A above to 10 above in- side of four hours, or between p. m. and 10 p. m. This was owing to a touch of the terrible Dakota blizzard.
 Mrs. James D. Blakeman of Morris, moth- CT of Mrs. Henry I. Boughton of Waterbury, died very suddenly at her residence at Nor rls yesterday, in her seventieth year. She was most estimable lady. She leaves 8 husband, two sons, and besides Mrs. Bough- ton one daughter, Mrs. H. R.. Stockbridge of Morris. The sons are James D. Blake man, jr., of Hudson, N. Y., and R. W. BIakeman of New Haven.