Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-16
PERSONAL NOTES.

Home from Europe or for tht Golden State-A Trip to Oyster Bedi up in Vermont.
 Dr. B. H. Cheney and wife have returned home from very pleassnt iourneyings ir Europe. They returned on the steamer Saale.
 Mrs. A. Heaton Robertson is seriously ill. Hubert Wells, teacher in the high school, is the father of fine boy, presum- ably the class boy of 1889, Yale.
 Justice John O. Gallagher is the father of a very young baby girl. The young lady was kindly remembered at the meet ing this week of Pyramid lodge, A. O. U. w., at which the happy father was pre- sented with quantities of soothing syrup, teething rings, rattle boxes and other ap- proved paraphernalia for the nursery, which was selected in the main by a judicious and critical authority on the subject, @ well known and prominent dealer in portieres, window shades and lace curtains. Justice Gallagher, who is chief officer of the lodge, was equal to the emer- gency and responded fittingly and happily, the whole affair being very pleasant incl dent of the evening.
 Miss Elinor Bromley of Lyon street has returned from very pleasant vacation spent chiefly among the Berkshire hills.
 Mrs. Louisa Meserve, daughter of Rev. I. 0. Meserve, is enjoying a vacation stay in Boston and vicinity.
 Charles s. Gray, who has been in charge of the baggage and package office of Peck & Bishop at the Union depot for SO many years, has resigned to engage in business in California. and the position has been arrar6aH fn (xaorc,a yUhfSna., of Sho 11l employees of the firm. Lieutenant Gray and family are possessed of a large circle of friends, by whom they are highly es- teemed and will be much missed from the old familiar scenes, but as they go under hattering prospects of prosperity in their future new home all unite in congratula- tions and good wishes.
 Frank s. Grant, the Waterbury optician, whose mysterious disappearance on Au- gust caused buzz of excitement among his friends and the people living in his neighborhood, has returned. He says he has been in Boston and Hartford. He dis appeared in the same way once before and was absent nine months.
 John A. Martin left Wallingford Mon day for Tallapoosa, Georgia, where he has large interests.
 F. L. Homan, the president; J. Frank Homan, the vice president; Assessor Hen ry E. Marsh of this city, the secretary and treasurer of the American Oyster company, visited with some friends the company's oyster beds Monday. Henry Hillman, Henry Cooper, Wallace Dickinson, Charles Taylor and John F. St. Clair were in the party. Charles Nash, recently arrested in Bridgeport for stealing oysters from one of the beds of the company, has been fined $7 and costs.
 Dr. Rollin McNeil of this city is away enjoying a vacation up in Vermont and New Hampshire and recuperating after a very busy season of professional labor. He is expected home in few days.
 Rev. Hugh Mallon moves into his new home about October 1.
 Dr. S. Shigemi speaks of going home to Japan next month.
 Eugene Underhill and Murry Bocock of New York arrived at St. John, N. B., yes terday, having travelled from Moosehead lake to the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, 8 distance of 504 miles, in a canoe. They left Mount Kineo on August 10, but only fourteen days were spent in travelling. This is the first time the feat has been ac- complished. Bocock is a student at Yale.