Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-12
LOCAL NE WIS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
 The comfort Royal shoe sold only at Royal shoe store, 21 Church street.
 Mrs. Mary E. Jackson is dangerously i'll at her home, $50 Columbus avenue.
 H. Wales Lines of Meriden is out again after ten days illness with dysentsry.
 Benjamin F. Hewitt, aged seventy. nine, 8 prominent man of Mystic, died Thursday.
 Samuel Thompson, the billiard room pro- prietor, has gone on trip to Tannersville, N.Y Y.
 To-day the Derby Good Samaritans picnic at Savin Rock, starting on the 9 o'clock train.
 new house is being erected ct Orange and Willow streets. It contains fourteen rooms.
 Master Eddie and Miss Etta Inghsm of Torrington are in New Haven visiting with friends.
 The Birmingham Bicycle club will partici- pate in the lantern parade of the Ansonia club July 18.
 The president has nominated B. Bowser of . Connecticut to be consul of the United States at Sierra Leone.
 Rev. I. R. Wheelock and family of Meriden will go to Short Beach on Monday to remain for several weeks.
 The St.Andrews Brotherhood mission, 22a Shelton avenue, had very pleasant picnic. They went to Pawson park.
 The "Dsring Donald" makes another bal- loon ascension and parachute drop at Savin Rock next Tuesday afternoon.
 George Dayis~ of Hszel street has just finished his house, which has been under course of erection for the past four months.
 MT. Charles Dudley Warner is reported in San Francisco. having completed his trip through southern California in the interest of Harper's Magazine.
 The anniversary of the battle of Cedar Mountain will be celebrated by the Fifth Connecticut regiment on August 9 by re union at Seaside park.
 Professor W. F. Harper of Yale college will be the president of the new university of Chicago. This action was practically decided upon at meeting of tho trustees.
 Rev. William Roberts will preach at Grace M. E. church tomorrow morning and evening in place of Rev. James Coote, the pastor, who will oficiate at the Westville N. E. church.
 Citizens living in the vicinity of Shelton avenue and Starr street report that the cleo tric light at that point has not been lighted but few times since its erection four weeks ego.
 Interest in the proposed new building for the New Haven Athletic association is rather at . standstill just now, but the members propose to push the movement vigorously next fall.
 Master Harry Buckner, son of Nr. Louis Buckner, the cloak manufacturer of Balti- more, is spending the summer vacation with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marks Jacobs of 12 Day street.
 N. s. Platt of Cheshire found some unuau- ally large wild strawberries while moving recently. Some of them measured an inch in diameter. He has taken up number of the plants and will experiment with them.
 Mir. and Mrs. M. Sonnsnbsrg and family, who are in Europe, have had very pleasant stay in Berlin, and are now in Bonn. From there they go to other noted places in Ger many. Mrs. Sonnenbergs health is greatly improved.
 The Brotherhood of Railroad Men of the New England states will hold meeting at Hartford Sunday, July 20. In the forenoon there is to bs secret session and in the after. noon grand union meeting in the opera house. Colonel William Fl. Stevenson, vice president and general manager of the Housa- tonic system, has been invited by the com- nittee of arrangements to deliver an address.
 Benjamin Beecher of 282 George street, one of the oldest and best known New Haven citizens, lies very low and his death was yes- terday expected at any moment. He was taken down with congestion of the brain . number of days ago. He received a fall four months ago down the stairway of an elevated road in New York city and after that his health began to fail. His father was the eel ebrated Captain Ben Beeoher, who ran the first steamboat to New York, and was first selectman here for eighteen or twenty years The son Benjamin kept . grocery store here many years ago and was afterward identified with the movement out of which grew the Adams Express company. His wife, who is still living, is an invalid. Dr. Sanford is attending MT. Beecher and says his case is hODe1esa