Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-10
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Visiting cards engraved at Dormans.
 The board of councilmen meet next Mon- day evening.
 Smoke Heublein's Chancellors, Cuban mad and all imported tobacco.
 Connecticut will receive St, ,e95. .s2 from the $400,0 appropriated by congress for equip- ment of the militia.
 The will of the late Stephen Terry of Hart- ford, which has been admitted to probate, gives all of his property to his wife.
 Beginning next Monday. the 9:15 p. m. train from Hartford will connect with the New Haven boats direct by way of Tin bridge junction.
 The surviving members of the First Con- neoticut Heavy Artillery will hold their an nual reunion at the old State House in New Haven June 10.
 Postmaster Knowlton, of Bridgeport, has received fifty four applications for positions as letter carriers since his re-appointment g short time since.
 The Messrs. Hubingsrs have purchased of w. H. Wilson of Cynthiana, Ky, the entire crop of Wilkesbrino foals of 1889. They are the owners of Wilkesbrino II.
 John Jennys, a brakeman, had his arm badly smashed while coupling cars in this city yesterday and was taken to the hospi- tai. His home is in Troy, N. r.
 Mrs. Arthur Welch of Bristol street this city returns home next week from her stay at Aiken, Ga., in improved health. Mr. Welch greets her in New York Sunday.
 In a race between pair of common shoes and apair of Royals the Royals outwalked the common shoes miles to 1 and they didn't cost as much into one dollar.
 Mr. Cyrus Welch, of the Clock shop, has sold his summer cottage at Mantle and will build house with all convenisnees in the village of Mantle for his permanent resi- dence.
 Judge Deming, James Bishop and ex- Grand Master Lozen Fl. Stannard are the committee to arrange for the grand semi-centennial celebration of the founding of Odd Fellow ship in this State.
 Department Commander Pierpont, of New Haven, has made the annual detail of Grand Army men to attend to the Memorial day ob- servauces in the towns in the State which are without Grand Army posts.
 The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Connecticut Eclectic Medical association will be held at the United States Hotel, Hartford, Tuesday, May IA, commencing at 10 @. m. and continuing in the evening.
 Rev. Dr. J. E. Twitchell, of this city, was among the clergymen present at the anni- versary exercises of the Hartford Theologi- cal seminary yesterday. Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor, of New York, delivered the ser- mon at the closing exercises.
 Royal Andrews, fife major of Putnam Pha- lanx. who is S2 years of age, shod in pair of boots 60 years old. manufactured by his father, walked to Hartford from Pennington Wednesday, and is visiting his children. Charles and Martin Andrews.
 The closing battalion drill for the season of the city companies of the Second regiment takes place next Wednesday evening. There will be an admission fee of twenty-five cents to cover extra expenses. It will be full dress drill with guard mounting, review by the Governor and dress parade and music by |. the band.
 The Connecticut Sunday School associa- tion held Sunday school convention in the Congregational church, Collinsville, last evening. MT. c. R. Feote of North Haven gave an address on Practical temperance work in the Sunday school" and Miss Mary J. Bassett on 'sNeeds and methods of work in behalf of outsiders"
 "Wash" Andrus, captain of the Hartford police force for several years, and who, soon after his removal to California was elected mayor of Oakland and has also held other official positions there, has become totally blind. The afHiction was due to the running down of the nervous system and paralysis of the optic nerves. The physicians have hopes of partial return of his eyesight.