Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-30
LOCAL N E " s.
Brief Mention.

Brief ment1On.
 The Century for February is on sale at Pease & Sons.
 A special sale of misses shoes to- day, 89 cents, at Royal shoe store.
 Clerk Anketell of the superior court is sick again and unable to leave his home.
 The sum of s1,7Ol. .s5 has been received for the Lewis memorial fund, $21 being added yesterday.
 F. D. Ludington will address the tenn perance meeting in the Seamen's bethel on Sunday evening.
 Ex-President Porter passed a comfort able day yesterday, his condition remain tug unchanged from the previous day.
 Captain w. G. Dickinson of Yale has been quite i'll for some time with dyspep- sia and is still unable to leave his room.
 Sheriff Tomliuson and Constables War ren and Spiegel acted as deputy sheriffs at the Borjessen hanging in Litchfeld yester- day.
 The annual masquerade ball of the Viking Swedish Benefit society was held last evening at their hall in the Boardman building.
 William Ryan was arrested last night on a charge of breach of peace against Mary Ann Mccarthy, domestic living at the Globe hotel.
 Fire Marshal Kennedy and several off cers of the frs department witnessed the fire scene in Charles Mccarthy g play, "One of the Bravest," at the Grand last evening.
 A delegation from Princeton college will be present at Bunnell's Bridgeport opera house tomorrow afternoon at the young mems meeting.
 The schooner H. T. Hedges, Captain Harper, from Norfolk, with lumber for Austin Mansfield, arrived in port yester- day. She was run into off Barnegat, NJ. .. and is leaking badly.
 Miss Bessie Case, pupil of Mrs. Nora Russell-Haesche, will be the soprano solo, ist at the concert to be given by the Young Mems society at St. Psuls parish house next Tuesday evening.
 The first entertainment and fair given under the auspices of the Young Mems T. A. and B. society of the Church of the Sacred Heart opened at Music hall last night with large number in attendance.
 MT. and Mrs. Norton, Miss Lawrence, MT. Wood, L. M. Norton, Miss Justine h. gerson and Prof. J. H. Ryley occupied a box at the Hyperion last night and wit messed the performance of ''Uncle Celes- tin."
 Pension Commissioner Green B. Raum told gentleman of this city this week that there had been during the past six months stricken from the pension rolls over 25, ,000 pensioners by death and he thought there would be over 50,O ,O00 during the year.
 Many members of the police force ex- press themselves in favor of the cap which was described in the COURIER day or two ago. The hope was expressed that the matter would be pushed SO that the caps might be here in time for the next siege of cold weather.
 Joel sperry, president of the Grace Hos- pital society, recently received 6 check for $1, 900 from D. W. Plumb of Shelton, with the request that the same be applied to the general uses of the society. The generous gift was gratefully accepted and will be appropriated to the uses for which it was intended.
 The residents of Fairfield are at last be- coming aroused, as the frequency and extent of fires in that town of late are such as to be menace. to tho townspeople. The people are greatly exercised over the fires and should the misoreant bo discov- cred but little time would probably be wasted before inficting summary ven- Deance,