Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-23
LOCAL NE WIS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
 Matchless letter files at Dorman's.
 To cure the blues wear Royal shoes.
 Harper's for February is received and for aleby T. H. Peass & Son.
 Trailing arbutus in bloom was picked last Wednesday in Canton, Ct.
 The Rev. A. Douglass Miller, rector of St. James, church. New London, has resigned. The Hartford Record, after an existence of fve months. has been absorbed by the Tele- gram.
 Coiered men of Norwich are trying to form a military company and join the Fifth bat ta1ion.
 s.Sport' Campana is entered in seventy tvo-hour race which comes off in Brooklyn this week.
 Mithra K. of F., of Bridgeport, celebrated it's twenty-ffth anniversary by 8 soclaoie Monday evening.
 William J. McConville got the nomination for police court judge in the Hartford county caucus yesterday.
 Ex-Councilman William Knoth Of ol7 Grand avenue is seriously i'll. Dr. Fleisch' ner is attending him.
 The Sound Breeze is the name of the new paper that hast just launched upon the world at South Lyme.
 The late MT. Keney of Hartford, whose death was announced yesterday, leaves an estate of over million dollars.
 Miss Annah Ayres of Woodmont, who mas been spending the fall and winter months in Buffalo, N. Y., has returned home.
 Senator Graham, of West Haven, is inn proving and hopes to be able to resume his seat in the General Assembly this week.
 Herbert W. Penney, graduate of the Ho- garth Academy, has taken position in the we'll known firm of Norton & Son, of this city.
 If there is to be @ new insane asylum, Bridgeport, Waterbury and Willimantic will present their claims to have the institution located with them.
 Peter Tatro, who about three years ago was a well known sportsman in Hartford, died last week at Syracuse, N. Y. Tstro was an excellent billiard player.
 Miss Lizzie Liddell, of this city, will be among the soloists at the Burns anniversary celebration in Hartford tomorrow night. Rev. Mr. Pitblado will deliver an oration. An interesting exhibition of the work of the cooking school at the Y. W. c. A. rooms will be given this evening. A lesson will be given and some housework will be exhib- tied.
 The committee on licenses will hear the case of William AcGlynn, the hack driver, for permission to drive hack, on Friday evening. Chief Bollman's objections will then be heard
 The Rev. MT. Ma'-' somwell, erased 'Robert 1Slsr- books for
 aground that it
 .ency to weaken the faith
 eans who read it. s-Rev. A. s. Kavanagh, of Hartford, is to be assigned to the charge of the Brooklyn Tab- ernacle in response to call for him from that church, and Rev. MT. Richardson, of ForestvilIe, will probably take his place in Hartford after conference meets.
 George Walker, formerly prominent ems ploye of the American Pin Co.,, Waterbury, who went to California and settled there about ten years SEQ, died at Santa Cruz, in that State, on Monday, after a lingering ill- ness.
 MT. F. W. Watterson, formerly at Friend E. Brooks hat and fur store, will open in the hat and fur business February 9th in the store lately occupied as a confectionery store in the James Gallagher building on Chapel street.
 Albert Wheeler's case against the town of Oxford for $5,000 damages is on trial before Judge Fenn in Bridgeport. The damages asked are for the drowning of Harriet Vince Ter and his horse during an ice gorge at Zoar Bridge.
 Edwin A Perry, formerly of New London, died of heart disease in Los Angeles on Sum- day, aged forty-nine. His wife was dsugh- ter of Commodore Rogers. He lost an arm in the battle of the Wilderness and was for years chief clerk in the New York custom house.
 The choir of men and boys from Trinity church, New Haven, will sing in the ser- vices at St. Johns church, Bridgedort, next Friday evening, St. Paul's day. About forty will attend and participate, under the direc- tion of W. R. Hedden, the accomplished musical director of Trinity.
 Miss Abby L. Goddard, of Hartford, has returned and says she did not elope with 0. H. Robinson, who is a Hartford truck man. She disappeared July 2d of last year. Mrs. Robinson of Glastonbury, the deserted wife, will go to Hartford to inquire into the case. The Times says Miss Goddard is to be sent to an insane asylum.