Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-05


Robert Brown of the Yale observatory is
down with the grip.
Miss Lizzie Boland of New Britain is
visiting friends in this city.
DR.. M. F. Linquist of New York, former
ly of this city, was in town yesterday.
Mrs. Lille Winslow of Water street has
secured position in Stamford hat fac
tory.
Deputy Sheriff Eugene T. McGann and
his bride have returned from their honey
moon.
Mrs. Ellen Outerson of Windsor Locks
is visiting her friend, Mrs. Kate Waite of
Greene street.
William Weber of Lloyd street is con-
| fined to his home with an attack of mus
| cular rheumatism.
Officer Rhodes of station was on duty
yesterday for the first time in a week. He
had been laid off with the grip.
| Master Charles and Miss May Graham
| have returned to their home in this city,
after holiday visit at New Britain.
Theodore Farrar has been missing from
| his home in Bridgeport since Thursday,
and his people believe he has killed him
| self.
Miss Mary Sullivan, the soprano singer
New Orleans that she is fast regaining her
strength.
The Rev. Father Smith of st. Mary's
church, Bridgeport, is confined to the resi-
dence of his mother in this city with an at
tack of the grip.
Mr.. E. E. Peck, special agent in this city
of the Equitable Life Assurance society of
| New York, will soon 90 to New London to
assume the duties of general agent of the
company in that part of the state.
The Rev. Professor Stevens of Yale uni
versity occupied the pulpit of the Congre-
gational church, Naugatuck, Sunday morn
ing and preached a sermon which was al
most an Inspiration, from the text, "What
is Your LifeH'
Judge Phelps, who retires from the su-
| perior court bench January 10, has
courteously notified the committee on ar
| rangements t.Nat he does not care for a
banquet in his honor, and the proposed
event will have to be abandoned.
Charles Shepard, proof-reader en-
ployed by the E. B. Sheldon company,
was stricken with paralysis, at his board
ing place in George street, Sunday after
noon, and cannot recover. He is about
fifty years of age and has no relatives in
this city.
Mrs. 9. H. johnson, of Baldwin Place,
lady prominent in Daughters of Liberty
and Juvenile Temple circles, is very ill at
her home with pleuro-pneumonia She
had partially recovered from an attack of
the grip, yentured out too soon, and was
prostrated again. Yesterday her condi-
ton was somewhat easier. DR.. Talmadge
is attending her.
General S. G. Armstrong of the Hamp-
ton institute, Va, well known to many in
this city, who has been ill in Boston, has
80 far recovered his strength as to be able
to take his departure from the Parker
house for his home in Hampton. He will
be accompanied by his family and nurse,
and will travel in b private car furnished
by G. P. Huntington.
Roswell B. Mason, mayor of Chicago
during the big fire, and father of E. G..
Mason, who is well known in Waterbury,
and who recently died in Chicago, aged SO,
was early in life chief engineer and super
intendent OF the Housatonic railroad, and
afterward chief engineer of the New York
and New Haven railroad. He then lived
in Bridgeport. He went West in 1851 to
become chief engineer of the Illinois Gen.
trail railroad.
An enjoyable affair was the entertain
ment given by Miss Mary Goss to fourteen
young ladies at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. g. P. Goss, on Hillside ave-
nue., Waterbury, on Saturday afternoon.
While the storm ragged outside, the young
people sat down to q delightful luncheon,
} Hoffman catering. Among the guests
were Miss Florence Parsons Of Providence,
Miss Manville of New Haven and Miss
Nellie Hsminway of Watertown.
Mrs. Marion Hopson Partree, wife OF
George Partrse, the well-known Water
bury stabIenan, died Saturday after long
sickness, aged ffty-three years. For over
year she has been continual and much
of the time an intense sufferer. The very
best of nursing and medical advice could
not save her. An affectionate mother and
wife and q kind friend to all, her death
will be sad blow. She was member Of
! ST. Johns church, Waterbury, and model
Of Christian virtue and patience under
long suffering. S