Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-05
LOCAL NEW s.
Brief Mention.

The comfort Royal shoes save $1 %. Lent begins next Wednesday and March 29 is Easter Sunday.
 Waterbury is beset by petty thieves and clothes lines are despoiled nightly.
 Joseph Whipple, prominent man of Windsor Locks, died Monday aged TT. J. w. Norton of Ansonia was committed to the insane asylum at Middletown yes terday.
 Rev. Dr. Talmage lectures at Proctor's opera house shortly. Subject, "School for Scandal"
 Mr. A. R. Smith of Shelton and of the Derby Silver company's store, this city, is very dangerously ill.
 The mother of George F. Davis, the teamster, living on Hazel street, is ill but improving. Dr. Judson is attending her. Tomorrow afternoon at the St. Andrew s Brotherhood Sunday school rooms, Shel- ton avenue, sewing school will be held. The Catholic students of Yale will meet to night at the residence of the Dominican Fathers It will be largely eocial occa sion.
 The Silver Plate company of Derby has secured large boiler which will furnish steam enough to run both the engines al works.
 The New Haven Progressive Building and Loan association will hold a public meeting in Todd's hall this evening at o'clock.
 The thermometer last evening at g o'clock at filings drug store, stood at 12 above zero Quite change in the weather in twenty-four hours.
 William Townsend, corner of Dixwen avenue and Charles street, who has been seriously i'll, is improving. He is one of our oldest residents.
 R. J. Bestor, formerly auditor of the Housatonic Railroad company, has been removed and Mir. A. c. Heitman has been appointed acting auditor in his place.
 At the next popular concert Madame Oertel and Miss Sullivan will, by special request, repeat the duet which so delight ed the audience at a previous concert. The Glover Sanford hat factory, Bridge port, where the hands have been on a strike, start up to-day with full force, the difficulty was settled by arbitration. The sudden change from spring to severe cold brought out the seal skin sacques and heavy overcoats again in full force yester- day. The thermometers were again objects of mnch public attention last night.
 J. w. Sessions of Bristol was surprised by party of 100 friends from the Pros- pect M. E. church Tuesday night and pre- sented with an elegant silver tablet com memorative of the church's indebtedness to him.
 The ladies of St. Johns Episcopal church will give supper at Trinity parish build ing on Temple street, Thursday evening from till 8 o'clock. Supper tickets will be sold at the door for 25 cents. Proceeds for the church.
 George Botsford, who formerly kept a livery stable on Grown street, is very ill at his home on York street with peritonitis. MT. Botsford is we'll known Now Haven citizen and his many friends will regret to hear of his illness.
 Died of Heart Disease.
 Mrs. Catherine Birk, wife of Carl Birl of 398 Oak street, died yesterday after g few fays' illness of heart disease. She was 68 years old.
 AtTaylor Church.
 Mir. Kevork Harutune Kazaujian of Ain tab, Turkey, will give lecture on "Mo hammedanism" at the Taylor church this (Thursdsy) evening. The lecture will bt illustrated by sixty stereopticon- views Admission free.
 Annual Berkeley Sermon.
 The annual sermon preached before tn, Berkeley association of Yale university will be delivered in Trinity church on Sun day evening at 7:3O by Rev. Dr. William s Rainsford of St. Georges church, New York city. The center aisle will be reserved for students, but the rest of the seats vii be free.
 By the Connecticut Training Schoo
 Nurses.
 The Aumn@ association of the Con necticut Training school for nurses, ha, made arrangements with MT. E. A. Cess ner, Apothecaries' hall, s21 Chapel street New Haven, Conn.,, for the establishment, of directory for nurses. Open only te members of this association. There vii be no expense to physicians and patron for assistance in securing the services O members.