Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-02
LOCAL NEWS.
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 The best letter scale at DoEmanAs.
 Pretty girls now sport Royal shoea-
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 Isaac M. Milbank of Greenfield Hill died March 25, aged seventy-eight.
 Deacon Frederick Doulton of Ansonia died Sunday night, aged sixty-six.
 The New Haven Baptist Ministers associa- tion met in Middletown yesterday.
 William Knoth, the Grand avenue saloon keeper, has sold out to Charles Grafenhorst Six refractory boys were taken from this city yesterday to the State Reform school Meriden.
 The French Canadians of this State will hold their second annual convention in Bridgeport in September.
 You stand in your own light when you use cheap resinous soaps, when for a slight ad- vance you can buy Brussels.
 The Century for April is received and for sale by T. H. Pease & Son. It is the Wash ington inauguration centennial number.
 New York steamers loaded at Shelton yes- terday and made their first trip of the season from there down the Housatonic last night. Rev. Alfred Taylor, @ retired Methodist minister, died at his home in Bridgeport of erysipelas of the head on Sunday, aged sixty eight.
 By invitation of Wooster lodge, F. and A. M., Day Spring lodge of Centerville will visit Wooster tomorrow evening and exemplify the work.
 The Monitors of Manchester open the sea- son next Saturday with the Yale Consoli- dated nine, and all Manchester is expecting to be there.
 We import all our foreign goods and age our American whiskies. We can conse- quently guarantee their purity.-G. F. Heu- blein & Bro.
 A reception was rendered to Mir. Isaac Pragner, the well known Brooklyn attorney, at the residence of Mir. A. Ullman, 29 Olive street, last evening.
 Mallon's orchestra has contracted to play again at :he Thousand Islands during the coming summer, and Fichtl's of the Grand will play at Cape May.
 Joseph Kenney, sentenced in 1885 to State prison for twenty years from Bridgeport for rape, escaped from prison yesterday. A re- ward of $100 is offered for his capture.
  Point is back from New York with new engine and boilers, which will render her a much faster boat than before. The improve ments cost $500.
 Louis s. Bond, travelling salesman for J. E. Thompson, and Miss Clara F. Davidson, daughter of the late Hiram 0. Davidson, were married at the brides residence, 26S Dixwen avenue, last evening.
 Mr. Robbins Battell of Norfolk has bought (prior to the opening of the academy exhibi- tion) Thomas Hovenden's picture, "In the Hands of the Enemy" This is said to be the 'sstar of the collection" The price paid was $5, 800.
 The public will be glad to hear that Vice President Reed of the Consolidated road, who has had such a siege with soiatio rheumatism, is now improving daIly. He is not yet able to leave the house, but will probably soon be out again with better weather.
 April fool candies had a good sale yester- day. Bricks carefully wrapped up to resem- ble store package and well calculated to deceive the unwary lay in wait to be kicked on Chapel street pavements. School boys and girls, as usual, made the most of April fooling. Several practical jokes were perpet- rated on unsuspecting merchants by brother merchants, and the City market folks found untold delight over an orange dropped on to the floor in an out of the way place with string attached to it and a mischievous boy at the other end of the string. TypewritingI TypewriGinGi Type.
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 Taught day and evening at Gafey's short hand school, 49 Church street. Pupils can commence any time.