Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-26
LOCAL NEW 8.
Brief Mention.

Have you seen pound papers Dorman's.
Rev. Dr. Anderson preached yesterday
at Batteu chapel.
The ice on East Litchfe1d pond is TWEEN
ty-four inches thick.
The Natchaug school building, Will
mantle, was badly damaged by fire Satur-
day morning.
Rev. DR.. Hovey has an article on Glow
Crucibles Are Made" in last weeks Scien-
tifc American.
The Second Regiment armory is de-
nounced in the quartermaster generals re-
port as badly constructed in roof and
floors.
Rev. Joseph Cook of Boston lectures in
the Y. NJ. G. A. course in Bridgeport, this
evening, on "The Seven Modern Wonders
of the World.
George Bennett of Mansfield, veteran
of the Twenty first Connecticut volunteers,
died very suddenly of heart disease on
Friday, aged sixty.
Robert johnson, colored, who has been
for several days at the hospital, died at
formerly janitor for one of the college
clubs.
DR.. R. J. Gibson of this city, who was
ordered few weeks ago to the Pine Ridge
agency, the scene of the late Indian war,
is at the agency awaiting orders, the war
having ceased.
The Hartford Post of Saturday takes
pleasure in presenting to its readers of
that issue number of admirable cuts,
illustrations of the proposed new Y. M. G.
A. building in Hartford.
Judge Henney presided at the Clan Cor
don celebration in honor of Burns in Hart
ford, and Rev. Kittredge Wheeler made
the address. D. Urquhart, Highland
piper of New Haven, furnished some Of the
music.
Mrs. Bartram, wife of S. G. Bartram,
the Center street jeweler, who was pros
trated week ago by illness and has been
in critical condition, was somewhat
easier yesterday, which afforded ground
for hope of her recovery.
Bernard, William, Michael and John
Corners, brothers, living at No. Van
stone Court, Bridgeport, have been mott
fed they have fallen heir to a small for
tune of $4,000, left by an uncle who died
recently in Trenton, N. J.
Horace Ogden, who died in Westport
Friday, aged eighty, and who was buried
yesterday was, with the exception of Mr..
J. Hyde Ogden, who recently celebrated
his ninetieth birthday anniversary, the
Oldest male resident in this city.
John H. Dillon of Dillon & Douglass,
and we'll known in Waterbury, has pur-
chased two racing horses to replace two he
has recently lost by death. The horses
were purchased in Boston and the price
paid was $4,000 and 81, 500 respectively.
Miss Hattie Bishop, daughter of II. NJ.
Bishop, the State street druggist, arrived
home Saturday evening from Oswego, N.
Y, where she is taking higher course of
studies at the State Normal school there.
The young lady is graduate of the high
school, this city, and resigned her position
as teacher at Skinner school, where she
had served with great acceptance, to go to
Oswego. She is on two weeks vacation.
The Connecticut Prison Association.
The annual meeting of the Connecticut
Prison association, Francis Way land presi-
dent, will be held in roAm No. As, state
house, Hartford, Wednesday, January 20,
at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon.
Ministers' Meeting.
1.-THE United Minister'S meeting of this
city and vicinity will hold its next session
at Center church chapel to-day at 1870.
Rev. E. G. Towne will speak on the subject
''Puritan Theology Not Narrow, but Broad
for Their Times" The discussion will be
continued by others. A full attendance is
deaired