Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-26
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Brief Mention.

BrAof mentiOns
 Plate printing at Dorman's.
 Howard avenue grounds, Newark vs. New Haven.
 Gov. Bulkeley Is expected home from his vacation trip to-day.
 More changes are to be made to improve the electric road in Meriden.
 The enumeration of the school census will hereafter be made In October instead of Jan uary.
 John Mitchell, son of !. w. Mitchell, who was accused of pilfering corn. has been sxon- erated. n.
 If you will give 1t chance, Brussels soap will tell its own story of superiority over other soaps.
 Miss Kitty o'Donnell and MT. John Collins of this city sang at St. Pstrick's church fair, Bridgeport, last evening.
 Mrs. Emma K. Nothnsgle, wife of George Nothnsgle. and daughter of Wm. Griesen- ger, died yesterday at her home in Bridge port. She was highly esteemed.
 James Burke and Michael Barry, two Meri- don men, were badly burned in the Meridsn bEoWory yodteTuhy Wuuo vhkuinuiuk uooT vat inside. The varnish caught s6re.
 Flooded tracks at Bridgeport Tuesday night delayed Consolidated railroad trains. A big water main burst alongside the track. All the late night trains were delayed.
 Sister Mary Regis of St. Joseph's convent, Hartford, who died on Tuesday, sged g, was the daughter of Alderman Patrick Off ford, of the Fifth ward, this oity, and much beloved and cultivated woman.
 Councilman George w. Bromley picked from one of his large out door rose bushes yesterday fine moss rose. the "last rose of summer" but looking as fresh and fine as any of It's former companions, which are withered and gone.
 II. H. Barbour, the Baptist clergyman who made e sensation at ministers' meeting in Chicago on Monday by denying tho existence of . personal devil, Is a brother of Lawyer Joseph L. Barbour of Hartford, and was formerly Hartford reporter.
 Mayor Peck received . dispatch from Washington yesterday from W. F. Garter, agent of the department of State, announcing that the South American visitors will reach New Haven Got. at 1:s0 p. m., instead of $40, as was previously expected.
 At the meeting of Qulnnipisc Temperance society to be held In the Church of the Messiah next Sunday evening there will be temperance addresses by Judge Rufus 8. Pickett and 0. E. Hart. Miss Alice Fechter will sing. William H. Conklin will preaide.
 Prosecuting Agent Niles has desided that tho saloons in New Haven must remain closed Monday, Oct. 2. during the voting on the prohibitory amendment. Under this de- oision the saloons should bs closed from 12 p. m. on the preceding Saturday until am. the following Tuesday.
 President W. W. Converse of the Win chester armory, who has been under medical and surgical treatment In North Adams, is improving and is expected homo in about three weeks. Quite number of New Haven friends, among them Gov. BIgelow and Gen. Greeley have visited him at North Adams.
 The funeral of young John Harney took place yesterday afternoon from the home oi his parents on State street, near East. It was attended by a large number of sor- rowing friends and associates. Rev. Mir. Luckey of Humphrey street Congregational church oficiated. The floral tributes were very beautiful.
 And now duilford too has resolved to have DO fair this year. The old town expended SO much work on its recent big jubilee that the fair gets the go-by this time. Many New Haveners will miss this annual festival, and the more SO as no Woodbridge fair is to bs held this year. This is the second time that Woodbridge and Bethany have skipped theil annual fair, but there are indications of . rs- volt In these towns which will result in tho holding of combined fair next year.