Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-09-11
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Jupiter is now a magnificent object in
the southern sky.
Ladies, $3.50 and 50 buys fine dongola
chloe at the new Royal.
At the Ferry street church next Sunday
morning Rev. A. P. Miller will occupy the
pulpit
A special train will be run to this city
from Waterbury on one of the nights when
the conductors fair is held here next
month.
Mr. William Noonan and Miss Lizzie
Noonan of New York are spending week
at Captain Lawrence O'Brien's of 70 Beach
street.
Rev. DR.. Jacobson of this city preached
one of the sermons at the convention of
Swedish Lutheran churches now in session
at New Britain.
Remember to look in Bowditch & Prud-
den Co.'s window at the overstuffed tapes
try parlor suite at $49.50. Square and
round folding card tables only $3.50.
Every conductor on the Naugatuck and
the NewHaven and Derby roads has tickets
for sale for the conductors fair to be held
in New Haven, and the sales are large.
Secretary Andross and Clerks King and
Birdsey are working night and day in
Meriden recording the floods of entries for
the state fair, which opens next Tuesday.
Angelo Amelia complained to the police
yesterday that sometime during the night
previous $65 belonging to him had been
stolen from his room on Hill street while
he slept
Only two days more of the special dis
count sale at Bowditch & Prudden Co.'s,
1O4 Orange street. Close buyers are TAX
ing advantage of it. 500 chamber suites,
price this week $50.
August Kiesele, past master of Wooster
lodge, was presented with past masters
jewel at the regular meeting of the lodge
Wednesday evening. George Moses made
the presentation speech.
Sergeant Stormont of the Howard ave-
nue. sprecinct and Thomas T. Armstrong,
night clerk at the Union depot, go on
weeks vacation to Saratoga, Niagara Falls
and other places of interest, starting in a
day or two.
Isaac Woodford who died in this city of
apoplexy Thursday, was seventy-o one years
of age and had many friends by whom he
was much esteemed. He was brother-in-
law of John E. Durand of Meriden. The
burial will be in Avon.
The state normal school at New Britain
has three hundred pupils receiving train
ing for work as teachers and the number is
expected to be increased to three hundred
and fifty in few days. There are sixty
of these pupils in the Kindergarten train
ing department.
The staff officers of the state Patriarchs
Militant met in Meriden Wednesday and
decided upon holding the annual parade in
that city October s. Major-General G. B.
Foster, Colonel Henry H. Hillman and
Colonel Pond of New Haven were among
the officers present.
Miss Hattie Pierce of Plainville returned
last week from four months trip abroad.
She went as chaperone for two daughters
of Pierce WEIGH of New Haven. In COM
pany with Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Pierce she
has gone to their cottage at Sachem's Head
to stay two or three weeks.
Colonel David E. Austin of Brooklyn.
commanding the Thirteenth regiment, N.
g. S. N. Y, is the guest of Lieutenant
Colonel A. G. Hendrick. Colonel Austin
while in command of the Forty-seventh
regiment twenty years ago entertained the
NewHaven Graysin Williamsburgh, Brook
Ign.
Frank H. Osborn, the accomplished
teacher of vocal culture, who is in Europe,
sails for home SO as to arrive here and re-
sumo with his pupils on October Is. For
several months he has been profting by
special instruction under William Shaks-
peare of London, England, much noted in
the profession. Mr.. Osborn in now enjoy
ing season of relaxation in Switzerland
prior to returning. ~ -.
Says the Connecticut weather prophet
''You can stick pin in the fact that we
are in for a cold, hard winter. All signs |
indicate it. The abundance of nuts shows |
that Indicating animals are going to need |
plenty of provisions, while the thickness of |
corn husks is another sure sign of rigorous |
weather ahead" The fall goose has not |
been killed as yet, 80 the breast bone horo- |