Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-31
LOCAL NIX WIS.
Brief M ention

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 LOCAL NEWS.
 Brier Mention.
 Rubber bands by the pound at Dorman's.
 Rents collected promptly at H. P. Hoadlsy's.
 Boye' Royal shoes 90 cents. Buy pair at 2l Church streot.
 A new bridge Is to be built over the Nau- gatuek river at Union City.
 Entries for the races at the State fair to be held at Meriden will close to-day.
 William 1T. Conklin will speak Sunday afternoon at the Juvenile Temple In English Hall.
 If your grocer has never heard of Brussels soap, give him no peace until he orders some for you,
 Bridgeport Odd Fellows will have parade in that city next Tuesdcy before coming to this city
 Acsr on the State street horse railroad ran over and killed dog last evening near Humphrey street.
 Our motto is pure wines and liquors which we place before the public at modsrats prices. --G. r. Heublein & Bro.
 Ray. Mr. Williams, pastor of the First church of Meridrn, has resigned and breaches hl, farewell sermon next Sunday.
 Webster, Tho injured driver of steamer 2, continued to improve yesterday and tho doc- tors think he will be out again in week.
 The debt on short Beach chapel, amount- Ing 10 little over $l00, has been paid of and money raised to carpet tho premises.
 Buzzell, tho youthful victim of tho re- cent shooting sfray in Bullen'scafe in Bridgeport, died at 9:45 o'clock last evening.
 D. NJ. welch & Sous' stores will be closed Monday, September 2d, at Q e. m. on ao- count of the annual picnic at Pswson Park.
 Several of the racers who are to take part in the bicycle tournament at Charter Oak Park next week have taken up quarters at the park,
 Some of the tables are already up at the Second regiment armory ready for tho Odd Fsllows big collation. next Tuesday. More will be put up to-day.
 Mrs. Smith, of Ansonis, slipped upon . banana peel which was upon the walk oppo- eite the Aldrioh House yesterday afternoon Md WhN Vutto phuly nuIt.
 The New Haven Amendment association meet in Y. NJ. c. A. Hall next Monday evsn- ipg. Thomas Elden of Iowa. who lost his eyesight In battle, will speak. and others.
 While Mir. s. c. Bosworth, of Berlin, was digging in his garden the other day he un- esr,Led coin that Is much prized by numis- iaatis;s. l. is s copper cent of the year 17S7.
 Connecticut lodge, I. O. o. F., of Hart fori, was presented by thstr lady friends with iire banner to be used by them at the psrade here mex. Tuesday. A banquet fol- lowed tie exercises.
 Morris r. Tyler and family, of this oity, are spending the summer In Newtown. Mir. Tyler vii! give an illustrated lecture Sep tember 8d in that place for the benefit of the Library association.
 Master Mechanic Kittendorf of the Derby road has not resigned. as reports said yester- day. He is troubled with enlargement of the heart, but is able to attend to his duties for the present at least.
 J. Randolph Tucker of Virginia, who de> livered the commencement oration before tho Yale Law school two years ago, was elected a member ex.ofioio of the American Bar as- sociation at Saratoga yesterday.
 Judge DeForest, of Bridgepart, has been retained as counsel to assist Attorney Walsh, of Ansonia, in bringing suit against the elec- trio road in damages for $5,000 in causing the death of the late John Lenehan.
 Johan Sterling, of Bridgeport, had one of his eyes taken out yesterday and replaced by . Bridgeport doctor In order to remove a cinder that has caused him great annoy ance and pain. Cocaine was employed to render the optic devoid of feeling.
 Captain Callahan, the SarsHeld Guards popular commander, is being earnestly asked 10 continue in command, but his business and other duties, it is reported, will prob- ably compel him to decline. He has now been 'in the military" tor twenty years.
 Jsweler Philip silvsrthau had e letter In last nights Bridgeport Farmer explaining his action in the case of the arrest of young Clark of that city. The Farmer states that Judge Lockwood will bring suit for Clark for $1, ,000 damages iu the Common Pleas court.
 The Labor day parade next Monday will be the largest yet held on Labor day in this city, weather permitting. A free concert is announced for tomorrow evening at the Hyperion in celebration of this first legal Labor day. Frank Fiohtl will lead the or ohestra. Edward King, of New York, will speak.
 Attorney P. W. Chase, of this city, has been retained to look up the fortune of 1100,- 900 supposed to have been left by Jacob sedar. The heirs, or soma of them, live in Germany, and the negotiations have been through Ernest Kroger, q carriage body maker who lives on Wall street in this oity. ssdar once lived here and died In 1887 out West.
 Tomorrow evening at the St. John street M. E. church the psstor, Rev. W. F. Mark wick, will deliver the first of his series of 6 inday evening lectures to wccrkinsmen. tba snbjeot being "The Trials and Triumphs of ths workingman." These lectures oive promise of being unusually interesting, and workipgmsn arc especially invited to be present., as it has beon arranged to assure sos,s to all who may attend. The object In view is worthy one and will undoubtedly prove of great benefit to all who attend the lectures.