Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-08
LOCAL E w 8.
Brief Mention.


 LOCAL NEWS.
 Brief Mention.
 The best printing at Dorman's.
 Rents collected promptly at H. F. .Hoadley's.
 Royal shoes, slippers free, 21 Church street.
 Flaunels washed with Brussels soap are always white and nice.
 A. A. Jenks of Whitney avenue is very ill with pneumonia and rheumatism.
 Next September MT. Robert Penn, of the Winchester armory, will make an extended trip in Europe.
 We guarantee the purity of all our goods price is entirely governed by age.-G. F. Heublein & Bro.
 The number that drew the counterpane at the Ladies' Aid society was 52, and not 25, as stated yesterday.
 Cromwell people are excited over 8 case of smallpox in the town. A young Swede child died of the disease.
 One bar of Brussels soap will do more work and do it better than two bars of the best rosin soap ever made.
 The evening contributions at the Dwight Place church tomorrow evening will be do- mated to the Johnstown sufferers.
 The Sunday school and choir of the Col lege street church will hold praise service tomorrow evening at half-past 2.
 Afr Bishop, of the we'll known firm of Peck X Bishop, is very i'll at his residence. He has been sick for two or three weeks.
 A. L. Chandler, the defaulting treasurer of the P. o. S. of A. lodge of this city, is fore man of a newspaper office in Toronto. Cans ada.
 The Parsons quartette will sing fin Nauga- tuck next Monday evening. Prof. E. A. Parsons and Mrs. Parsons will accompany them.
 The engagement is announced of Mir. c. N. Fisher, of this city. to Miss Esther Lib- man, of New York. At home, 84 Lyon street, Sunday, June g.
 Charles Beckwith died at the hospital yes- terday, aged 32. He was released from the jail the day before. He had been in jail for non-support of his wife.
 At the Baptist mission conference in Mer- ney, Mrs. E. M. Jerome and Miss Futile, of this city, took part in the exercises.
 One of the largest and best stocks of felt and straw hats, all varieties, and of trunks and travelling bags, in the Nutmeg State at Burgess & Burgess renowned hat and trunk store.
 John J. Perkins of Wood bridge, one of the oldest residents of tine town, died yesterday, aged eighty years end nine months. He was anative of the town, as were his parents be- fore him.
 aoEk kla Ioka ouI0 all f6vuiV of Terryville, amounts to $141 ,000. No will has been found. MT. Baldwin was by mar riage connected with the Terrys, who found ed the village.
 ChiIdren's day will be observed at the First Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow morning. The Sunday school will give va rious exercises and Dr. Chapman will.de- liver an address.
 Superintendent Dutron speaks on "Mod- ern Teaching in Waterbury to-day before the Naugatuck Valley Teachers association, and Principal Barrows, of Hartford, on Schools Fifty Years Ago."
 Frauds have been unearthed in the Bridge port fire department which have been going on for years and amount to over $10,000. Louis Hidd did all the blacksmithing for the department. He also did work for other people and charged it up to the city. The latest freak of Lyman Clinton of An sonia, who is not worth dollar, but who offered girl 1000 to become Mrs. Clin- ton, is to publish his life in book form. On Thursday he sat for picture which he says is to adorn the title page. and then went can vassing for subscriptions to the work.
 Coroner Holt has rendered his verdict in the matter of the recent railroad accident at Trumbull, on the Housatonic road, in which Engineer Look and Brakeman Olds were killed The responsibility he places upon John J. Flynn, the night train dispatcher. He also censures Conductor Curtiss of the down train for passing Stepney without re- ceiving orders, as told at Hawleyville.
 Middletown people have given $2. 900 for the Johnstown sufferers. The Meriden Brittan- mia company has given $1, ,000. A circular has been sent out to the members of the I. O. O. F. requesting them to contribute. Grand Secretary Frederick Botsford will re- ceive the contributions. The local councils of the Royal Arcanum will be called upon to contribute toward the a, 900 appropriated by the Grand council. The Phoenix and Etna Insurance companies of Hartford have voted contributions of $1 ,000 each.
 The Acme cash railway, of which we have made mention before, has been doing a much larger business of late than 1t ever expected and foreign patents are being taken out, and several wealthy New York men are putting capital into the concern to large amounts. MT. swezey has been offered large sums for his patents, which now number nearly a dozen, all based upon his original invention, but up to this time they remain in the hands of the first owners. The largest stores on Broadway have contracted for his system, and four large stores of Fulton street, Brook. lyn have it now in daily use, and many more have contracts pending. The Acme company is decided success.