Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-16
LOCAL N E w s.

Mrs. Lines, wife of Rev. E. 5. Lines, IS i'll with the. prevailing epidemic.
 Attorney Louis E. Jacobs is ill at the home of his parents, 12 Day street, with severe cold.
 One hundred and seventeen varieties of stationary to select from at O. A. Dor mans, 696 Chapel street.
 Buy gold watch for present of s. Goodman & Go. and have your photograph enameled on it free of charge.
 William Goldenblum, the well-known futist of this city, has accepted perma- nent position in Dayton, Ohio.
 Henry Wiman, local manager for R. G. Dun & Co.,, is lying ill at his fathers resi- denee, Staten island, with pneumonia.
 The ladies of St. Paul's guild will hold their Christmas sale of fancy articles at the Parish house this afternoon and even ing.
 Eli Perkins lectures in the free lecture course at Calvary Baptist church to-mor rom evening, subject "Satire and Ridi- cule."
 Don't fail to buy one of those real Turk ish rugs at Enfajian's, $40 Chapel, for a Christmas gift. The prices are astonish- ingly low.
 New Haveners who were in Bristol yes terday found the sidewalks quite icy and slippery, owing to the rain and sleet which had frozen. .-~-.
 Theodore B. Fiegler, an inmate of the Soldiers Home, at Noroton, will soon re- ceive from Washington nearly $30,OOO prize money. ''''
 Superintendent Starkweather's horse fell on Chapel street yesterday afternoon. A shaft was broken, but no further dam age was done.
 An entertainment for the benefit of Wonx Spring cemetery, Southington, will be given in Marion chapel, in that place, this evening.
 Cards are out for the marriage on De- cember 24 of MT. L. L. Harrison and Miss Georgia Rosenkrans, at the First Baptist church, Southington.
 At Meriden's city election yesterday Dr. Tracy, the democratic candidate, was elected by twenty-eight majority. The election was hot and exciting.
 Jerry Chadbourne, one of the proprie- tors of the Windsor hotel, on Union street, is seriously ill with congestion of the brain, following an attack of the grip.
 The funeral of A. E. Dudley, for many years one of the well-known fire insurance
 Is a:k ko- &1 afternoon from his late residence, "A Dix well avenue.
 Miss Sallie Prentice, sister of the late Frederick William and John Prentice of Norwich, died at the residence of her neice, Mrs William Faulkner, on Mount Murray, in Bridgeport, at the age of ninety seven.
 Mrs. Potter of Osborn street and her daughter, Miss Emma Potter, the latter employed at Dorman's printing office on Chapel street, will erect an attractive two story house on Avon street. Work will be commenced at once.
 The funeral and burial of Edmund Bromley of Detroit, who was formerly in the silver plating business here for years, took place in Detroit and was largely at tended by many prominent citizens. De- ceased had for years past conducted a sill yer plating manufactory in Detroit.
 There will be special train from New Haven at the conclusion of Mme. Bern hardts performance of "Cleopatra," on the evening of the 24th, for the conven- fence of patrons from Hartford, Meriden. New Britain and intervening towns. The sale of seats opens tomorrow at a. m., at the box slice.
 MT. Cummings of Avon street, father-in- law of Major Wellman of New York, for merly of this city, is very low with heart failure and not expected to survive more than day or two. Major Walter B. wellman, formerly bookkeeper for the New Haven Clock company, is now bookkeeper for the National Box Syndicate of New York.
 Governor Bulkeley presided at the meet ing of the state board of agriculture in New Britain yesterday, and made a short address, in which he referred to his own brief experience in farming;. and referred to the scholarships in Yale Scientific school, pointing out the advantage of striving for them. Mir. J. H. Hale of Glastonbury, read paper on "Fruit in Connecticut" which was discussed at con- siderable length.