Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-09-26
LOCAL NEWS.

The counterfeit 50 bill has reached Wa
terbury.
Make application for the night school at
Yale Business College.
The best family shoe store in town is the
Little Royal. Try them.
Choice roses and long stem carnations
at John N. Champion & Co.'s, 1854 Chapel
street.
DR.. J. P. Blodgett's residence in Ansonia
was damaged slightly by fire, Wednesday
afternoon.
The steamer G. H. Northam will resume
her trips to-day, leaving New York at the
usual hour.
Ellington's loss by the recent floods
foots up $4,000, including the loss to
property owners.
The twelfth annual cattle show and fair
of the Simsbury Agricultural society will
be held on Wednesday and Thursday, o.
tober 8 and g..
The Suffolk County, L. l., Brotherhood
had feast and fraternal gathering yester-
day in Branford. A number of Bradford
ers belong to the organization.
The Waterbury republican town COM
mittee has organized with John B. Do
herty chairman, John p. Kellogg secretary
and George A. briggs treasurer.
National flags will be presented to the
public schools of Torrington next Tuesday
evening, the donors being members of
Sedgwick council, No. "a, O. U. A. M.
Adam Hugo of Bridgeport was presented
by the Postoface club with gold-headed
cane, in honor of his fiftieth birthday,
Wednesday night; also with a big birthday
cake.
E. L. Hine has the contract to build
Frank S. Platt's house and barn on Sher
man avenue, for which R. G. Russell
made the plans. The cost will be about
$4,000.
G. D. Kinney is building for the Win
chester Repeating Arms company one
story brick addition to the cartridge shop
about fifty feet square, for the hydraulic
presses.
The descendants of Heman Doolittle
held reunion at the family homestead al
Mt. Carmel Wednesday. There were thir.
ty-four persons present from all parts Of
the state,
The furniture in the room at the Mer
chants hotel, where Young was found
dead, was burned yesterday by order Of
the coroner and DR.. White. The walls
and ceiling will also be purified
President Clark, General Manager Tut
tie, Engineer Curtis, Superintendent Da
wilson and other Consolidated road
officials were in Hartford yesterday in re-
gard to the Morgan street crossing.
L. w. Robinson has let the contracts fol
building the new Haven Pipe company's
new factories to A. D. Baldwin & Son,
masons, and Kenney & Phelps, carpenters.
CIR. Waterhouse & Son will do the pile
driving.
The Universalist ladies' circle of Meri-
den have decided to hold carnival of
industry in the Meriden rink, November
II, 70 and 10. The entertainment is of a
spectacular nature and will be given on a
grand scale.
Members of the St. Ignatius society OF
New Haven were entertained Wednesday
evening by the St. Augustine society of
Hartford Of the twenty visitors present
two were from Milwaukee. The party
had dinner at Habensteins.
Imported pattern bonnets and hats and
large variety of millinery novelties, the
recent selections of Mr.. Moses in Paris,
Lyons and London will be shown at R.
Ballerstein & Co.'s millinery opening to-
morrow and on Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Elida Doolittle and Miss Florence
Woodmansee of Westvil1e arrived homs
Wednesday evening from very pleasant
stay of about two weeks among the White
Mountains, returning home by way o
Boston, where they made short soiourn
The funeral of Conductor nottingham
takes place from his late residence, 27
James street, this morning at $3.50, will
mass at st. Francis church at 8. The de
ceased leaves q wife, mother and tive
brothers and many friends to mourn hi
sad death. g.
Miss Mollie Sloan, or rather Miss Mar,
Adelaide Sloan, and Mr.. Caldwell n. Col
are to be married about the last of DC
tober. Miss Sloan is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Sloan, No. East Thirty
eighth street. Her mother was Miss Mar
garet Elmendorf. Mr.. Colt, member O
the Manhattan and other prominent clubs
lives at Hartford.