Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-19
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Large line card cases at Dorman's.
 Ask your doctor about stNo rosin."
 Ask your druggist about "Ne rosin."
 120 boxes Tutti Fruit, 379 George street.
 The condition of Martin Gum, clerk of the Fremont House, is still critical.
 The Stanley building in New Britain was damaged about $4, 500 by fire Sunday.
 The hearing on the Housstonic railroad petition comes up again in the legislature to- day.
 Center lodge, I. o. o. F., of Meriden, pays a visit to Eureka lodge of Plainville to- night.
 Henry Hull, aged eighty-three, died in Wa terbury Sunday at the home of his son. Orris T. Hull.
 Rev. James G. Robertson of the Theologi- cal seminary breaches regularly at Falls Vil- lsge, Mass.
 Stickney & Co. of Meriden housed about 5000 tons of ice just before the present mild spell set in.
 Frederick Chedwiggen of Ansonia died of pneumonia yesterday. The interment will be in Cheshire to-day.
 P. T. Barnum has presented the Bridgeport hospital with life size portrait of himself It is hung in the main hall.
 Diphtheria is reported as very prevalent in Meriden, and the Republican warns people to look after their sewer traps.
 Thomas Kelly, an ex-member of the Good win Guard of Bridgeport, was buried yester- day. He died of pneumonia.
 The First Congregational church of Wood stock, in which worships one of the oldest societies in this country, was rededicated Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. George H. Sutton of Spring field, Mass, are spending few days at Grove Hall with their son Edward, @ member of the freshman class in Yale college.
 The Yale orchestra give a concert to night at the Seaside Institute, Bridgeport, assisted by Miss Justine Ingersoll of New Haven and Miss Susie Hawley of Bridgeport
 Christopher M. Devost of No. 22 Clinton avenue, Bridgeport, aged sixty-two, slipped down on patch of ice Sunday afternoon and suffered fracture of the right ankle.
 Nearly every evening. when 1t is clear, the reflection of the electric light in Meriden, Waterbury and New Haven can be plainly noticed in Wallingford, says the Witness.
 General s. 0. Armstrong delivers his two lectures on the education of the Indian and negro races at Harvard, in Sanders Theater, on Tuesday and Thursday evenings of this week.
 Mrs. Peter Foster, aged thirty-6ye, of Bridgeport, was struck and killed by 8 New York train at the Main street crossing in Bridgeport yesterday. She leaves husband and three children.
 Miss Agnes Bayles, the soprano of the new St. Augustine's church choir, Bridgeport, resigned last Sunday. Miss Kittie O'Donnell, the leading soprano of St. Johns Catholic church, New Haven, takes her place.
 One of the handsomest illustrated calen- dars the year 1889 has brought is issued by the Smith & Anthony Stove company, the noted Hub stove and range dealers, and is re- ceived from g. E. Dibble, the Grand avenue stove merchant.
 David Sweeten, who fell from the bridge over the Naugatuck river at Ansonia when the bridge was in process of construction, being injured so that he was taken to the hospital at New Haven for treatment, has brought suit against the town in the sum of $3,OOO.
 Mrs. Caroline Lum, who died in Birming- ham Saturday of dry gangrene, aged sixty seven, was born in Oxford and had resided in Derby forty-three years. Her husband'. William A. Lum, when they moved to Bir- mingham, bought all the property surround ing his present residence, comprising an inn nortant part of the place.