Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-29
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

The St. Aloysius society banquet tonight Mayor Peck will preside.
 Smoke Heublein's Chancellors Cuban mad and all imported tobacco.
 The New Haven Prohibition club meet to- night at TAG Chapel street.
 D. NJ. Welch 6 Son will not open their store on Tuesday, Centennial day.
 The clock shop Is closed for to-day and to- morrow. Sargent's closes tomorrow.
 The case against Drug Clerk Robert Latta has been nolled by State Attorney Doolittle.
 Scoville M. Buckingham, prominent man of Waterbury aged seventy eight, died Saturday.
 The Ancient and Honorables of Boston pass through here this noon en route to the centennial.
 Lieutenant Governor s. E. Merwin was one of the speakers at Bridgsport's Board of Trade banquet.
 Ex-President Barnard of Columbia college, who died Saturday, graduated from Yale at the age of nineteen.
 Four extras will be sent out on the New York road to-day, tomorrow and Wednes- day for the centennial.
 Bridgeport will have grand united ob- servance of the centennial at the First Con- gregational church tomorrow.
 Hurlburt Brothers will not close the entire day Tuesday, but will keep their store open until 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
 You get your moneys worth when you buy Brussels soap. It being strictly pure, you get just what you pay for. - Mfr. uobuEgef, residing On 0d"-Ids 1t-Oos' 1who hoa for nr fwn q very low and slowly sinking.
 The Consolidated road had force of about eighty men busy putting down new rails in the cut between Chapel and Grand streets yesterday.
 The Baptist State educational convention will be held in Hartford May list. Professor Harper and Rev MT. Poteat will be among those present.
 The annual sale of pews and sittings in Dwight church will take place this evening at half-past o'clock, and it is expected that there will be large sale.
 Sassacuas' grand fair is progressing finely and the interest in the voting is spirited and increasing nightly. A new entertainment is given from the stage every night.
 MT. and Mrs. Dr. Camp, of Bristol, cele- brate their golden wedding to-morrow. Dr. Camp graduated from Yale Medical school in 1884 and in '3e removed to Bristol.
 The Grand lodge of Masons will meet in Hartford May 9th to take action on the peti ton of Hiram lodge, signed by two hundred names, fer restoration of its charter.
 The public schools are closed for the week and the sassafras root and slippery elm bark excursions planned are myriad in number, to be varied by base ball contests innumerable.
 Rev. Edward E. Hale will preside at the banquet of the ffty-seventh annual conven- ton of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity to be held at the New Haven House May and 6.
 The late David H. Fogg, whose dead body was found in the river near Middletown, N. Y., is now thought to have committed sui ' eide. He formerly kept saloon on Chapel \ street, this city.
 Cards are out announcing the marriage of II Sheldon Fl. Bassett, son of Royal N. Bassett | of Birmingham, to Miss Florence Shaffen- I burk of Laredo, Texas, on Tuesday next at l Kansas City, Mo. Moses Mann, the Chapel street dry goods merchant, has purchased the shore cottage I and property at Savin Rock, corner of Beach | street ana WaSn1uRtou avenue 41o4A AsAAC Il Rosenberg for 5000. Saturday morning the Skinner's defeated the Edwards' school nine by 8 score of 27 to \ 8. The large score was due to "rotten | catching." There were twelve home runs | made by the Skinners. The Admiral Foote post held an enjoyabls | social entertainment and gathering at the G. | A. R. hall Saturday evening. The members will soon be in possession of their new caps, which are very satisfactory.
 Walter s. Crosby has sold out his bakery and is now connected with the New Haven Decorating company. He is now in New York city representing the company there and will rema in during the centennial exer cises.
 The annual reception rendered to the friends of Trinity church choir was very suc- cessful and well attended. The choir sang finely. A duet by MT. W. Luton Wood and \ Mrs. Hedden was especially fine; also MT. Miller, one of the chorus bassos, agreeably A surprised his many friends by his fine rendi- ton of the song, "Thy Sentinel am l."