Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-01
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief MeRtI0n.


 LOCAL NEWS.
 Brtef Mention.
 Music bound at Dorman,s.
 Happy New Year to all.
 No paper will be issued from this office to- morrow.
 Rev. Dr. Twitchell has sent out his annual New Years greetings.
 The Century for January is received ard for sale by T. Fl. Pease & Son.
 The public schools will resume their win ter term sessions on Wednesday.
 The Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing company of Bridgeport have shut down foz one week.
 Last evening the Hartford City Guard held it's thirty.sixth annual competitive drill for the Veteran association medal.
 L.L Camp, of New Haven, has deeded to his son, Walter o. Camp, the Yale athlete, piece of real estate in Meriden.
 The Yale Apollo and Banjo clubs will ap- pear at the New London Opera House in grand concert Thursday evening.
 Dr. Elkin of the Yale observatory will watch the eclipse of the sun to-day from some place in Nevada or California.
 At Center church chapel this evening re- ception will be given by Rev. Dr. Smyth and wife to the people of Center church.
 Franklin Farrel and family, of Ansonis, left for Aiken s. O., yesterday morning on the 9:1O train, to remain for the winter.
 John G.. North mailed 5000 illustrated programmes of the Stoddard lecture, includ- of Mp
 Briggs of Bridgeport, D. R. Brown of New Haven and Jones of Meriden are the com- peting architects for the plans for Meriden's new Town Hall.
 To-day is a holy day in the Catholic church, being the Feast of the Circumeision. Masses will be celebrated in all the Catholic churches in the city.
 Come look at a shoe that is perfect, complete, At 21 Church street, and cannot be beat. Buy the Royal shoe and you'll never repine; Twill save you dollars in the year 's9.
 The schooner E. M. Reed, with cargo of coal from Philadelphia for the Housatonic railroad company, has arrived and is dis charging at the companys wharf In Bridge port.
 The Whitlock Machine company will take possession of their recent purchase of the Maltby shops in Shelton to-day and will at once remove their works here to the new plant.
 MT. w. D. Smith of Litchheld, Conn.,, ie the new farm manager and purchasing agent of the Atlanta (Ga.) university, vice MT. H. M. Sessions, who held the position for six years.
 Sopranos, altos, tenors and bassos are wanted for St. Paul's church choir. Appli. cation should be made, in person or by let ter, to Professor F. A. Fowler, s51 Chapel street.
 Lawyer Tyler, who with his family oocu. pied one of the s. L. Marsden cottages al Savin Rock last summer, was so pleased with the shore that he has engaged the same fine cottage for another eeason.
 Saturday morning last Q number of dogs in West Winstrd were found to have been poi soned, three of which died. The three dead dogs belonged to c. Newmen, Chris Holland and James Maddrah.
 The Derby savings bank have declared their semi-annual per ceAt. dividend, pay able to depositors after January 1. There has been an increase in deposits of $23, ,0O( during the past six months.
 The Blues, actives and veterans, will hold their annual meeting next Wednesday night. The commissioned officers and Sergeants oi the Blues shot 6 match with the corporals and one musician last evening.
 Miss Lillian Mansfield, a ward of Lieut.. Gov. B. Douglass of Middletown, left for Cal- ifornia recently to visit the scenes of her early childhood She is also a relative of the late General J. K. F. Mansfield.
 In Meriden to-day Mrs. John 0. Byxbes and Miss Ida Byxbee will received at their Colony street home, and Miss Ellie Lines, assisted by Miss Tillie Doual of New Haven, will receive at 65 Pleasant street from 5 un- til o'clock.
 The regular monthly entertainment of the Young Women's Christian association will be held in their parlors on Wednesday even ing, the 2d, at o'clock. Stereopticon views of Germany and Italy will be shown, inter- spersed with music and humorous reeitatiens. The Meriden poultry and bench show be- gins this morning and lasts four days. There are several New Haven entries. There are over 500 poultry entries and 100 dogs. The $5, ,O0O dog St. Cloud, from the St. Cloud kennels, New York, is one of the dog aris- tocrats to be shown.
 MT. Edward R. Miller. telegraph operator at w. T. Hatch & Sons' for five years past, has resigned to accept position with a, new concern about to start on Center ;..reet, and MT. Malone, United Press reporter in this city for several years past. takes the vacant position at Hatch & Sons.
 The Consolidation question Again. There will be a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow evening. It will be g public hearing and the question of the advis- ability of consolidating the city and town governments will be discussed. Chrisrnaas Praise service i'm Milford. There was scarcely vacant seat in the large audience room of the First Congregar tional church in Milford, Conn.,, Sunday evening. Rev. F. L. Ferguson made short address, which was listened to with interest The organist, Miss Lizzie Smith, sustained her we'll earned reputation and handled the organ with marked ability. A duet written by Harry Rowe Shelley, entitled "Hark, ,rk, My Soul" was sung by Miss Nellie
 and Mrs. Joseph E. Platt. whose
 Ill trained voices filed the church
 ' The choir also did exoalllsn.
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