Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-07
LOCAL NEWS.

Requires no breaking in, Royal shoes.
Principal f. F. Barrows of the Brown
school, Hartford, is at the Baker house in
Guilford.
Nine years ago yesterday the dead body
of Jennie Cramer was found floating on the
beach at Savin Rock.
G. S. McGilvray, the Chapel street news
dealer, will give the newsboys days out
ing at the east shore to-day.
DR.. Tuttle, recent graduate of the
the Yale medical school, has become one of
the physicians at the hospital.
Frank S. Cornwell of New Haven is Wis
iting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Corn
well in Danielsonville, for few days.
Henry Austin & Son are to make plans
for alterations in the residence of Henry J.
Smith of West Ansonia, to cost 81 900.
Hartford has two candidates for the lieu
tenant governorship on the democratic
ticket. They are Colonel Charles M. Joslyn
and Mr.. Charles M. Beach.
Mrs. Julia G.. Farrell of Ansonia is to
make alterations in the Clark homestead
at Woodbridge to cost about 81 800.
Henry Austin & Son will make the plans.
The Consolidated road have applied for
permit to build trainmen's house of
wood on the grounds west of the depot. It
is to be 25 by SO feet, one story high, to
cost s., 200.
Daniel F. Carr, the State street news
dealer, has sold ont his business to Albert
g.,
Washington, D. c., where he will take
position in the main office of the United
States signal service
Mrs William H. Merwin of 90 Edwards
street has gone to spend the rest of the
summer at Huntsville, near Great Barring
ton, Mass, where her two daughters and
her sister, Mrs. John J. Hart of Bridge
port, are spending the summer.
About twenty of Howe & Stetson's clerks
have chartered the large and commodious
sloop-yaeht Starlight for tomorrow after
noon, and will spend their half holiday on
the sound. The trip will be to the STRAIT
ford light 81 ttfhsrea,bout and return.
/. The convention of the United Brass
hall on Chapel street yesterday. The pro-
ceedings were private. To-day the dele
gates will be driven about the city and to
East Rock Park, and afterward given a
dinner at the shore.
g By the Consolidated roads improvement
at the Air Line junction, it is intended to
give. room to side track 1 900 cars, most of
which will be coal cars. When business
at Belle dock is slack in coal freights, there
is always big surplus of coal cars, and
these cars will be slowed on these new
tracks.
Harvey Edwards, eighty-s seven, of Glas-
tonbury walked ten miles a few days ago
to visit relative, and in the evening en-
tertained his callers by dancing break
down. The next day he continued his
walk to other towns. He makes the jour-
ney his annual dissipation, and always
fells better for it, he says
Mrs. Dimmick, "a niece of Mrs Harrison,
who is visiting the presidents family at
Cape May and who was rescued from
drowning at Cape May Monday, is the
widow of Walter Dimmick, who graduated
at Yale in 1878. His brother, Benjamin
Dimmick, married Miss Hunt of Hartford,
daughter of Dr. E. X. Hunt.
Mr. Guy Higgins, one of our Oldest and
best known old citizens, who for thirty
years or more roomed in the Exchange
building, spending his winters in the south,
lies very ill at his rooms in the Elliott
house, where he has resided for two or
three years past. Owing to his advanced
age his recovery is not expected.
George A. Dickerman, the florist, is in
Norfolk, Va, with his son Wayland, the
Norfolk florist, who has been seriously i'll
for about two weeks with Inflammation of
the throat and severe prostration of the
system, and was at one time in critical
condition, but who is now, reports received
yesterday say, slowly gaining. Mr.. Dick,
erman will probably not return under q
week or two.