Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-05
LOCAL NE WIS.

Bricr Mention.
 Wedding invitations printed at Dormsn's.
 They all use it-Brussels soap.
 The board of aldermen will meet this svs- ning.
 To-day the Congregational church in Strst. ford will celebrate the 25oth anniversary of its organization.
 Our motto Is pure wines and liquors which we place before the public at moderate prices --G. F, Heublein & Bro.
 The Branford look works started up again yesterday, as 1t was announced they would in last Thursday's COURIER.
 Safety Temple of Honor will be visited by large delegation from Garnet Temple, oi Ausonia, tomorrow evening.
 The ladies of the Admiral Foote corps will hold an ice cream festival and sociable at No. IS Bradley Place tonight.
 Annie Harlan, aged 40. wife of O. B. Har- Ian, employed at the Buckle shop, died sud denly early yesterday morning of heart fail- ure.
 Inesndiaries burned the blacksmith shop of Lacey & Moore in East Bridgeport yester. day morning. Loss si,ooo, partially in- sured.
 An epidemic of babies has broken out in the Fifth ward, no less than twenty-five hav- ing been born since Sunday. Standard.
 0. R. Bouton, formerly of the Danbury and Norwslk road, will be the new ticket agent at the New Haven and Derby road office In this city
 The condition of Mir. Bishop, of the firm of Peck & Bishop, remained about the same yesterday. There Is considered to be no prospect of his recovery.
 The Y. M. c. A. of Msriden make s moon- light excursion to Branford Point Tuesday, Sept. 10, coming to this city by the cars and taking the steamer Ivernia at Belle dock.
 Miss Edith Church of Chaplin is to teach school In North Haven this fall, and Mics Alice Reynolds of this city will teach in the Model school at the State Normal school. .
 Potter W. Hill, who few years since was popular Y. M. c. A. secretary in Ansonias was fined $7 and costs in Ansonia yesterday by Judge Munger for drunkenness and Ie- sisting an officer.
 At the New England fair at Worcester yes- terday the race for yearlings, half mile, was won by Halvane. owner George L. Clark of Merideu, Conn, in two straight heats. Time, 1Al14, i;43a<.
 Judge A. B. Beers, Henry A. House, Frank Armstrong, the Hon. k. c. Burnham and John R. Rowland, of the firm of Eaton, Cole & Burnhem, all of Bridgeport, sailed for Europe on the steamer City of Paris yester- day for trip of several months duration.
 Prof. IT. K. Beach and his wife have re- turned from Woodbury to their New Haven residence. Mrs. Beach's girlhood home was that afterward made 30 interesting and fa' nous by Ike Marvel in My Farm at Edge. wood," eto. MT. Mitchell having bought the estats.-Waterbury American.
 At Suffield last evening fashionoble wed ding oecuared at the home of ex-Senator Luther I. Spencer, the happy couple being the senator's only daughter, Clara, and Charles 0. Bissell, prominent young man of suflield. Rev. D. D. Reed officiated. Over 1000 invitations were sent out
 Miss Francis Kibbsy and Dr. William Fitch, both os Southington, were married in Newport, N. FL, on Wednesday, and they will reside in Bridgeport. Miss Kibbsy is . sister of Mrs. ]. H. Pratt. Mir. Fitch has but lately returned from San Salvador where for number of years he held an official posi-. ton in that province.
 The children are preparing for their return to school and books next Monday. The pending school question interests even the children. One bright little chap on Orchard street, hearing good deal said about free text books, exclaimed to his indulgsni mamma by way of enquiry, if Bibles were meant, "Bibles being SO full of text books, ha said siaanecialIv ou Suudavso