Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-30

setts and Rhode Island Fair slightly colder, west erly winds, diminishing in force.
 For Vermont, Western Massachusetts, Connectt- cut and Eastern New York: Fair, nearly stationary temperature, westerly winds, diminishing in force
 LOCAL NEWS.
 Brief Mention.
 Books made to order at Dormsn's.
 Last nights cold formed ice rapidly.
 The Prohibition club will meet this even- ing.
 The ice on Cooks pond, Plainville, is nine inches thick.
 Mr. J. 0. Lewis, of Southington, is able to sit up few hours each day.
 The debt of St. Mary's church, Bridgeport, was reduced $3, GOO last year.
 Middletown's dance prompter, W. H. Bak- CT, is to remove to St. Paul, Ninn.
 The ire alarm bells struck at 3:S0 yester- day owing to some difficulty with the wires.
 About 150 selectmen attended the State convention of selectmen in Hartford yester- day.
 Rev. Joseph Cook lectured in Bridgeport last evening under the auspices of the Y. M. CA.
 ". vention Y. F. s. c. E. in Middletown this evening.
 There are now several diphtheria cases in East Bridgeport among the Hungarians and Italians.
 Charles L. Way, Yale 's5, has the distinc- tion of being the first member of his olas to become the father of boy.
 The electric light corner of Howe and Chapel streets is voted by people living in the vicinity to be gloomy failure.
 Senator Graham is unable to be in his seat in the legislature. Though not seriously i'll his physician enjoins rest for few days.
 Willie, son of w. G. Wolton, was drowned in Pembroke lake, Bridgeport, Monday even- ing. He broke through the ice while skat-
 H. w. Latham, graduate of Yale '93, and one of Bridgeport's we'll known young men, has established law office at Los Angeles, Cal.
 Miss Edith Todd, of Welch training school this city, addresses the Torrington teachers on the subject of writing Saturday after- noon.
 Michael Smith, a brother of "Chip Smith, ," who was hung in this city for murder, has been arrested in Newtown charged with theft of a watch.
 Lulu, the IF year old daughter of Fl. B. Northrop of Waterbury, has mysteriously disappeared. She is believed to be hiding in Waterbury.
 Ex-Police Officer Charles Small of Bridge. port, who deserted his wife and went West, has just inherited about $s, 800 from his deceased father.
 Miss Emma Juch, assisted by an excellent concert company, gives one of her superb en- tertainments at Foot Guard Armory hall, Hartford, Feb. 4.
 Prof. Jrmes R. Gilmore (Edmand Kirke) of this city lectures this evening in Bridge port before the Scientific society on "Three Pivotal Americans"
 Mrs. Charles E. Latin, of Birmingham, Saturday night horsewhipped A. J. Burgess, who refused to take his team of her prem ises when she ordered him to.
 The monthly meeting of the Womens Church Missionary association will be held in Trinity safsb, building, Temple street, -En--z7-., Feb. 9th, at 3p. m.
 The employees on the Naugatuok division of the Consolidated road have presented Con- ductor Sesgers, who recently had a surgical operation performed upon his eyes, with $500.
 The managers of the Cutlery company in Southington claim that if the Senate tariff bill should become law they could soon double the force of workmen in their knife shop.
 A very fine crsyon portrait of the only child of MT. J. J. Tierney, the photographer, executed by MT. Tierney, attracts much at tention in Longley's window on Church street.
 The Ladies' society of the Howard avenue Congregational church will hold it's annual meeting this evening in the church. Supper will be served and the occasion will be very enjoyable.
 Miss Mary Tracy, one of the survivors of the Wallingford tornado, has been taken to the insane retreat in Middlesewn. Her fath- CT and mother and one brother were killed by the tornado. The quarterly meeting of the Woman's Baptist Home Mission union will be held in Calvary Baptist chapel, corner of Howard avenue S1st, at 2:30. A New Haven manufacturer received a letter from friend in Bangor, Maine, yes terday, which spoke of great ice harvesting operations that were in progress there. They were cutting fine 8inch ice. A horse and wagon came very nigh being smashed yesterday by Canal railroad train at the Canal street crossing. The engine ! grazed the horses head and broke the shafts. ! A boy was driving the team. Thomas Booth of Providence, formerly owner of the Mahogany Palace here, was in l town yesterday. He has nearly completed a l four story building in Providence where he ! will conduct 8 saloon and restaurant. Rudolph Ericsson of New Britain, the in- 1 ventor of the new explosive, "extralits," re- 1 ceived on Monday letter from his uncle in | Sweden stating the right to use the discov- cry in England had been sold for E20, 900. People in Southbury are SO everjoyed over the discovery of oil that they are celebrating by setting fire to their chimneys. Mrs. Nan- | cy Stiles caught fire Monday night and shot l a flame 15 feet high. The neighbors quickly put 1t out without damage. At the residence of Mir. Pearl in Winsted Saturday night, Miss Belle Pearl and Charles | Roberts of New Haven, were married. A lunch was served after the ceremony, large l number of friends being present. Many ele- | zant presents were received.
 On Friday, Feb. 22, Clan Mcleod, Order of Scottish Clans, will give an interesting en- at the Atheneum. Singers will | participate from New York, Brooklyn, Bos- lon and this city. The club is busily prepar- ing to make it a very successful event. The Broadway Hotel, S34 Broadway, New York, will be found a desirable place for and visitors to the metropolis to top at. It's rooms varying in price from sev- ,nty-five cents to tive dollars day have been recently fitted up, and attached to the hotel s a fine restaurant with popular prices. Plush wraps half price at Brooks 6 Ce.'s, JhapeI, corner of State. Our best $2 hats we fer for few days at 41.e0. \