Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-20
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Brief MentiOn.
 Buy 8 new house. R. E. Bald win.
 Pease & Son have received Scribner's for December.
 The holiday vacation at Yale will begin to morrow and end January 10.
 At Snow's-a large assortment of beauti- full packets, suitable for presents.
 Xmas gifts, bags, umbrellas, fur scarfs, rugs, robes. Brooks 6 Co.,, Chapel, cor ner State.
 The second grand annual masquerade ball of the Free Hebrew school was held in Arion hall last night.
 Two bunco men made a successful visit to Essex Saturday and swindled Constable W. M. Robbins out of $500.
 Many of the Chapel street merchants report very fine Christmas trade yester- day at their respective stores.
 Mr. and Mrs. Atwater Nettleton of Or ange will celebrate the fftleth anniversary of their marriage Monday evening, Decem- Der 26.
 Joseph D. Burnham, aged -.ixty eight, a well known and esteemed business man in Hartford, brother of Colonel Burnham, died Sunday.
 The first patient at the new Yale inirm- ary on Prospect street hill is Emory Hawes of New York, freshman. He ia suffering with rheumatism.
 That is indeed a charming display of choice articles in perfumery, fancy toilet articles and many other attractive goods at Whitmorss drug store, Chapel street.
 Fine Turkish rugs, Ghiordas, Dagestans and Karabaghs, Wilton, Bokharas. and a very large line of fur rugs, and no fancy prices. J. M. Champion, 6o4 Chapel street Clinton w. Pratt and Charles E. Mich olson, two of the smallpox patients, were sent from the pest house to the hospital yesterday, and after short detention they will be discharged.
 Many are buying of the fine antique rugs, of small aize, very choice and very cheap, sold at Enfsjian's famous oriental rug depot, 940 Chapel street, one of the best places to buy rugs in the United States.
 No wonder there is constant stream ot buyers of articles for Christmas gifts al Burgess & Burgess great fur emporium Fur collars, boas, oapss, sacques, gloves, mats, muffs-al beautiful and in all the varieties and styles known to creation.
 A busy store is Lyons, gents furnisher ss2 Chapel strest, where you will find useful holiday presents for gentlemen such as silk mufa CTS, suspenders, canes umbrellas, smoking jackets, sweaters, snd the finest line of neckwear in the city.
 The men found dead on the tracks o1 the Consolidated road near Darien Sunday was James McBrine, an old soldier of Com pany B., Sixth o. V. He was ffty-thre' years old, and was an inmate of the Sol diers' home. He belonged in Ansonia.
 G. B. Bunnsll, New Haven's populsl amusement caterer, will donate % pe cent of the bhx office receipts at the per formance of 'satan" at the Hyperion the Ater tomorrow evening for the benefit O the temperance hall which is to be opened in the Blair building on Orange street.
 The high aaish, exquisite posing ant artistic excellence shown in all of MT. F A. Bowman's photos Ii recognized nor than ever, as is specially seen by his yer! numerous orders for cabinets to be deliv cred for Christmas gifts. Yesterday amoni his orders from 8 distance were one iron Turkey and one from England for supplie of duplicates, showing that his fame as photoprspher extends far and wide.