The Newtown bee., 1891-05-22
BRIDGEPORT.

CASShA AAS I''eAitiSN place of the Baptist church on State street and the work there will not be car ried on at present.
 The firm of c. Russell & Co. is to be continued by Arthur J Cable, William c. and Franklin A. Russell; Erwin Strck- land is about to retire from the coal firm of Miller S5 Strickland.
 Longstaff & Hurd are building an as- tronomical observatory at the Barnum institute, at their own expense, the Stand ard says.
 Michael Picket, the veteran West End painter and real estate man, is to put up frame block on Clinton avenue.
 J. c. Ehrsam has obtained permit for the brick block he will build on Hurd ave- nue.
 Builder WE. Randall of West End will put up house on Hancock avenue.
 Blaise Soule, an old resident of Bridge port, died at his home on Warren street, Saturday. He had been afflicted with paralysis of the lower limbs and soften ing of the brain. When health permitted, he was in charge of class in the Sunday school of Christ church and has been act i've in church work. He leaves a wife, two unmarried daughters; another daughter, who married Mr Wilkins, died some years ago and the family never ceased to mourn for her. During the last of MT Soule's sickness, Mrs Soule and both daughters have been prostrated by grip, but are in a fair way to recover.
 Rev Dr Horace c. Hovey assisted Rev II. A. Davenport at the communion ser vices at the Presbyterian church, Sunday.
 The Savage tG Smith Building Co. is to put up a frame house on Fremont street, West End.
 Dr N. E. Wordin will put up large fourfamily tenement house in East End, on land he secured upon the settlement of his fathers estate.
 Rev w. II. Walker, who has resigned as pastor of the Berean church in East Bridgeport, gave two lectures in the First Baptist church, Sunday afternoon and evening.
 A. J. Cable and William A. Smith have sold to Henry Fenn a building lot on Norman street.
 Gov James II. Smith of the Territory of Connecticut, N. P. c., has been suffer- ing with grip.
 One of the handsomest office buildings in the city is the new Sanford building at the corner of Main and Cannon streets. The front of the building, on the Main street side, is of glass, iron and Ohio sandstone, to the height of the first story :; the Cannon street side is of white stone. Above the cornice, the building is of cream brick and ornamental iron.
 NJ. G. keane, the stone cutter of Bridgeport, has erected on the lot of the late Christopher A. Mooney, eX-city clerk of Bridgeport, a large and neatly designed monument in Quincy granite. The base is about 6 feet square, standing about IS feet inches high. On the bot tom base rest two bases; on the sub-base is raised in relief the family name Moon ey in large block letters with headings. On the sub-base rests a die with raised panels on four sides, which contains the inscriptions of Christopher A. Mooney and father. On the die rests a plinth neatly moulded, on which is carved an iuyr vino rarnracnntinr flinripr n fa if h and love. On top of the plinth rests a die in oval shape, neatly paneled on four sides. On top of this die rests Corinth- ian canopy, moulded and carved in Ro- manesque style of architecture. The whole is surmounted by a cross of Ro- man and Celtic design, on the face of which is raised in relief Maltese cross, in the center of which is panel, mon- ogram representing Jesus, Savior of Men. The design and structure of the monu- ment is altogether new and reflects credit on the designer and it's execution. MI Keane has two more contracts for simi- lar monuments in the same cemetery, one of which is six feet taller, with base seven feet square. MT Keane has placed in Riverside cemetery sarcophagus monument over the grave of James Quin- tard and wife of South Norwalk. He at present runs P stone cutters and would hire more if the labor troubles in the stone trade were settled. He has two large jobs on hand, the Congregational church of Fairfield and the Trinity Epis- cho, ;p tha ta tnrathpr with the County Home building in Nor walk.
 J. Rielly will build on the lot he has bought at the corner of Park avenue and Atlantic street.
 Mrs Capt Goodwin has bought and moved into Charles Hanson's place On Pembroke street.
 Mrs Joseph Lavery of Jersey City has visited pr J. W. Gordon of East Main street.
 Sarah, infant daughter of Thomas Will son of Pine street, died, last Friday, of diphtheria.
 Henry Luddington and Dora -Conroy will be tried in the Superior court on Tuesday, 26th.
 Miss N. Edith Phillips of 1Os Warren street is one of the six High school schol- ars selected to compete for the Barnum prize medals, June 5.
 Jeremiah Harrington of Ansonia has James Coogan's bakery on East Main street.