Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-02
LOCAL NEWS.
Rrfef Mention.

Prof. Louis Bail is in town on business
 Royal shoes sold only at 21 Church street.
 Rents collected promptly at H. F. .Hoadlsy's
 Connoisseurs are delighted with the F1ttn Avenue.
 Mrs. silas Clark died in Woodbury Thurs day of pneumonia at the sge of 79.
 Attorney W. K. Townsend took the oath of office as corporation counsel yesterday.
 The members of Gov.. Bulbeley's staff will attend the funeral of Col. Parrott in Bridge port to-day.
 MT. William P. Hart of Chapel street is soiourning in southern Florida among the orange groves.
 The February, mid-winter, number of the Century magazine is received and for sale by T. H. Pease & Son.
 Miss Ada B. Ingram, 26, died at the home of her father, John Ingram, at 202 Baldwin avenue, Waterbury, yesterday.
 Ex-Governor Bigelow and wife will leave early in February for long absence abroad, including an extended journey through Egypt.
 Two more victims of typhoid fever have been taken sick at Polkville, Bristol, the Misses Grace Russell and Alice Bartholomew, in families where others have had it.
 Arthur W. Beard, aged IT, oldest son of William M Beard, the builder of this city, died yesterday in Southford, where he had been stopping in hopes to regain health.
 Cappa's famous band, of New York will furnish music for the banquet which Coi. Stevenson is to give the members of the Con- recticut Press association in Bridgeport Mon- day.
 Messrs. A. P. Hyde and John R. Red6eld, the executors of the will of George ID. Sar- gent, yesterday notified Karl Gerhardt that his model for a statue of Gov. Richard U. Hubbard. of Hartford, had been accepted.
 The low prices for sealskin sacques, plush sacques and the big drop in the prices of these beautiful, fashionable small furs at Burgess 6 Burgess bring many buyers, both in this city, Derby, Meriden and other towns.
 Frederick Smith, youngest sen of Hon. Carlos Smith, will sail for Sydney, Australia, about the middle of February with his cousin, w. s. Maltby of Wallingford, the rp 1pion bicycle rider of the world. They will engage in business together at this place.
 The course of lectures on patent law de- liyered at Yale Law school by Congressman elect William E. Simonds has commenced. It was begun earlier than usual as there may be an extra session of Congress, in which case the lecturer would be called to Wash ington.
 President Henry L. Hotchkiss, of the l.. Candee Rubber Co.,, and wife, leave Monday for Aiken, Ga, where Mrs. Hotchkiss will spend the winter for the benefit of her health, her soiourn there last winter having been beneficial. Mir. Hotchkiss returns in week or two.
 The contracts for the furnishings of the new opera house in Birmingham were award ed Thursday to c. B. Demarest of Brooklyn, NY. There are to be IA sofas at $S. 20 each, 242 chairs at $3. 10 apiece and 462 chairs at S1. .55 each. They are to be set in the hall on or before March 10.
 Nicholas Slingland, master mechanic of the Consolidated road twenty years ago when Vice President Reed was superintendent, and who successively served in the same capsolty on the the Connecticut Western and Aousa- tonic roads, has been appointed foreman ot the New Haven shops of the Consolidated railroad.
 Miss Jeannie R., daughter of John d. Chapman, bookkeeper at 0. E. Hart 6r Co.'S, was the third of the fair sex in this State to be appointed a notary public. She was sp- pointed two years ago, hence an item that New Haven young lady appointed a notary public recently by Gsv. Bulkeley, was the second to be thus honored is a misapprehen- sion.
 The fine chance to buy those beautiful Rogers silver plated goods at George L. Streeter's is unprecedented. They were bought at great bargain, enabling Mr. Streeter to sell them very low. It is chance seldom offered to buy these reliable and beautiful goods. Customers from all around who have bought of them appreciate the goods and the bargains.