Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-08
Plymouth church has been awarded to Mr..

Plymouth church has been awarded to Mr..
Schsnck, of New Haven.
William M. Merwin and wife are making
plans for their annual trip to Florida.
Lawrence Healey, who has been the bag
pacemaster at the Woodmont station, has
been given the same position at the Milford
station in place OF James Sheridsn. who has
gone to Portohsster, N. 7.
Plymouth church will be closed for several
weeks while undergoing repairs, and during
First church to worship with them.
The railroad commissioners have granted
the request of the citizens in the center OF
the town to discontinue the whistling Of the
trains during the night. This will increase
the danger to those who have occasion to 60 |
across the crossings during those hours.
Isaac Goldsmih is having new tenement /
built on West Main street by D. e. Smith. |
The work has progressed rapidly and Will
soon be ready for occupancy.
The harvest festival given by the Netho- |
dists in the Town hall Wednesday and
Thursday evenings of this week promises to
be successful affair.
The concert which will be given next
Monday evening in the Town hall by the
Ladies' Atrial Qaartette of Boston will be one
of the greatest treats in store for the public
here this season. No one should miss the
rare pleasure which will be afforded by
these singers. 1
Prof. Chandler is meeting with success in
the class of vocal structure and training
which are Under his charge. The interest in
the work he ia doing is increasing and prepa-
rations are being made for a concert in the
near future.
A memorial of the Andrew family has re-
Gently been compiled and published by Mrs.
Adslia Elmer, giving the genealogy Of Rev.
| Samuel Andrew, who was one of the trst
pastors of the First church. It contains
much valuable information regarding the
| family and it's numerous branches. It should
| find q ready sale, as no one belonging to these
different families should be without copy.
| The fact of its being issued at this 260th
year Of the church, and contains the facts re-
lating to the memorial tablet which was
placed in the church for Mr.. Andrews, gives
it additional value. The book itself is at
tractive in the style of printing and binding,
and does credit to both author and printer.
| General state News.
| BIG HAULs OF MENHADKN.
| A Mystic authority says: The nenhaden
fishermen have had the best year known In
or gang toek 100000 fish 1t was prosper
ous. Now the double gang steamers take
Is, 900, 600. Mystic people have works here,
on Long leland and in Delaware. Messrs.
Brown & Lennen we're the leaders last year
and were well to the front this year until the
fearful accident on the s. 8. Brown, by
which three men lost their lives and the boat
was wrecked The Wilooxes here have many
hundreds of tons of scrap which they will
| probably manipulate into phosphates this
| winter to supply an ever increasing demand
from the farmers.
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.
Arrangements have been made by the Mon
day Morning Minister'S meeting of Hartford
to hold union meeting in the Park church
next Sunday evening in the interest of the
interdenominational work of the Evangelical
alliance. The conference held year or SO
ago in Washington by the alliance, and re-
ported In handsome volume on National
Perils and Opportunity" was q great exhibit
| of the broad basis and patriotic purpose with
which DR.. Josiah Strong is directing this
cooperative work for common Christian in
terests. A similar meeting is to be held In
Boston in December. The Rev. DR.. L. T..
Chamberlain of Brooklyn, well known in
Connecticut through his Norwich pastorate.
will be the principal speaker Sunday evening.
HARTEoRD's cHRYsANTHKMuM SHOW.
| HARTFORD, Nov. THE chrysanthemum
exhibition which is to be given at Allyn
Hail next week, under the auspices of ths
Hartford County Horticultural society, will
be the finest affair Of the kind that has
been given in this city. The display will be-
gin on Tuesday and will continue through
Wednesday and Thursday. There will be
many rare specimens of plants exhibited.
| The president of the society has just received
| information from the Short Hills, New Jer-
| sey, nursery that bloom of the celebrated
Mrs. Alpheus Hardy was sent here for ex-
hibition. Liberal prizes are offered by the
Horticultural society, and it is believed that
the interest in chrysanthemums will secure a
large attendance. The managers will issue
| 1000 copies of the souvenir volume, which
has been prepared with great care for the oc-
casion, and they will be given to the patrons
of the exhibit. The volume will contain
| much Valuable information concerning horti-
culture and Horticulture.
| WHY MR.. OSBORNE LEFT.
| A San Francisco dispatch to the Boston
A. Osborne, who disappeared from Winstsd
fifteen years ago, leaving wife, children, prop
erty and debts behind, and who was given
up as dead, and his will probatsd. He was
found at Benicia, Cal. Osborne il manager
of the Electric Light and Motor company Of
San Francisco, and has condustsd himself In
a straightforward manner He acknowledged
that he was the person In question. His frst
wife, he says, has no claim on him whatever,
! as he procured . divorce from her on the
ground of infdelisy over fifteen years ago.
She was the only daughter of David Nathan
| OF Birmingham. Three children were born
to them before they separated, and he claims
to have contract from his wife's father,
agreeing to caro- for and educate the children
if he would keep the divorce matters quiet
In regards to his debts, he said he did not
owe any great amount, and that he left prop
erty enough to square everything. He was
married to his present wife in 1879, and by
her has four children.
FIsTIc ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO GRAY-BEARD-
ED CITIZENS.
Yesterdays Hartford Times says: The ad-
| journed case Of Edward Bassett, charged
with assault upon Erastus Gilbert, was called
In the police court to-day. These two men,
both of whom are in their sixty ninth year,
and have gray whiskers, have bssn lifelong
friends until within a short time. It seems
a dispute has arisen In regard to = roadway
cut through certain land owned BY them
down on East river. Mr.. Bassstt
claimed the road was to be 20 feet wide, and
Mr.. Gilbert asserted with equal vehemsnee
that IL was only Is feet. An alteration oc-
cured on the street one morning and q few
hours later they met accidentally in the Office
of Mr.. w. P. woolley's livery stable. Mr..
Leonard Woolley, the sen, gave q graphic
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