Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-16
LOCAL NEW s.
Brief Mention.


 Children's Royal shoes wear like iron.
 The Winthrop hotel, Meriden, is being enlarged.
 Carnations 15 cents dozen. Champion & Co.,, 1O54 Chapel street.
 The Gentlemen's Driving association of Norwalk will hold races. June 16, IT, IS and 19. Entries close June 3.
 Special price on carnations. Long stem 15 cents a dozen to-day at F. s. Platt's, 374 State street.
 The roster of the department of Con- necticut, G. A. R., shows sixty-nine posts of the order all in the best possible condi- ton.
 Rev. c. H. Dickinson of Wallingford left yesterday for the Litch6eld hills to be gone a week or two for the benefit of his health.
 An event to-day on Chapel street will be the opening by Snow, the confectioner, of his big new ice cream parlor. Open, rain or shine.
 Shaumpishuh council No. 8, D. of F., will give box social at their lodge room Monday evening. A musical and literary program will be rendered.
 w. I. Richardson, the extensive mine owner of Telluride, Colorado, has arrived in this city for the purpose of having an artificial limb applied by George F. Hogg- son.
 Professor Carl vOn Gayer, the secretary of the bureau of religious information of New York, is making arrangements for 8 series of union meetings to be held in this city next fall.
 been appointed conservator over Conductor Edward Manning of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad ,who went in sane few weeks ago.
 Burgess & Burgess big stock of hats, trunks and travelling bags has styles and prices for every taste, and the unprece- dented sale of fur shoulder capes from the finest stock, prices so low, goes on apace.
 Negotiations are in progress for the pur chase of the Maltby residence at Savin Rock by number of prominent New Ha- ven men for conversion into seaside club house. It is expected that the sale will be completed.
 MT. L. NJ. Perkins is erecting very pretty, artistic one-family frame house on Cottage street, all modern improvements, ornamental shingle trimmings, steam heat, and to be finished in hardwood, with cabi- net mantels, etc.
 Captain William G. Dickinson will de- liver temperance address in Temperance hall, West Haven, Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be under the auspices of the Temperance Union of Christian Women.
 A Bridgeport excursion manager is nego- tiating for steamer to be run on excur sion trips daily from that city. He will on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays give excursion trips to Roton Point, Savin Rock and California Grove.
 Miss Hattie Catlin, who has been visit. ing the City of Films, guest of Mrs. Lee, wife of Professor J. M. Lee, for the past few weeks, returned to her home in Beth 1ehem, this state, yesterday, having great ly enjoyed her: long stay here supremely.
 General Manager Stevenson and Super intendent Lyon accompanied the railroad commissioners yesterday on their annual spring examination of the Housatonic main line. They will inspect the New Ha- ven and Derby and Danbury and Norwalk divisions to-day.
 Captain Remey of the Charleston. now scooting after the elusive Itata, and Judge Valentine B. Chamberlain of New Britain are old acquaintances. Twenty-four years ago they passed some time in each others company as involuntary guests of some gentlemen in gray down South Carolina way.
 Captain Munson of Fair Haven East has sold his residence on Center street near Lawyer Niles for $2,5o0 to Captain Barnes, who has removed to it from Prospect street, and will alter and improve it. Cap tain Barnes is commander of one of Fair Haven's fleet of Oyster steamers. Captain Munson has gone to reside with his daugh- ter, Mrs. Smith, wife of H. R. Smith, who resides on Fair Haven heights.
 Straw hats and light summer derbys at Brooks 6 Co.'s, Chapel, corner State. Trunks and satchsls.