Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-24
LOCAL NEWS.


Buy q new house. r. E. Baldwin.
Plenty of Christmas shoes. Royal.
A box of Shows candy makes a merry
Christmas.
The police are not enjoying their new
caps very much.
of roses and carnations.
At - o'clock last night the Thermometer
registered 8 degrees above zero.
Go to Kirby's jewelry store to-day for
fine bargains in beautiful goods.
A very fine program of Christmas music
has been arranged for the service Sunday
morning at the Westville Congregational
church.
There will be no 1915 a. m. old line
boat to New York on Monday, December
%, nor any 1870 p. m. boat from New
York to this city.
For the fifth time in seven years the
store of Postmaster W. E. Gates of Glas-
tonbury was broken into Thursday night
and robbed Of a lot of goods.
A set of scissors with pen knife in
leather, plush lined folding case, offered
by Linsley, Root & Co., is entirely new
and the most unique present we have seen
this season..
Remarkable, to say the least. We are
Informed that q pair of Barney & Berry
improved skates can be bought of Linsley,
Root & Co. for 45 cents, and higher grades
also at reasonable prices.
Officer e. G. Burnham of Westville dis
trict had a bad fall Tuesday night, and in
consequence has not been able to do police
duty since. The chances are that he will
be laid up for several days.
8. Goodman & Co.'s beautiful jewelry
store has bssn thronged this week. The
new store has won instant popularity with
the public, and the fine stock of goods
carried is a feature of the Chapel street
trade this Christmas week.
The postoface corridor in the vicinity of
the stamp window presented busy scene
nearly all day yesterday, and most of the
time there were thirty to fifty people wait
ing their turn to buy stamps and send off
packages and letters, mostly the former.
Officer Bradley politely lined up the crowd.
At ths annual meeting Of teachers at the
Howard avenue Congregational church the
nominations for officers for the coming
year were: For superintendent, Charles
B. Foote; for first assistant, Mrs. E. A.
Beckley; for second assistant, Mrs. F. D.
Wiley. The Sunday school numbers 1856
scholars, % teachers and officers.
Charles 8. De- Forest of St. Louis, son
of Mrs. g. H. De Forest of Birmingham,
Conn, died Thursday night of typhoid
fever, aged twenty eight years. Mrs. De
Forest left yesterday for st. Louis. The
deceased was well known in Birmingham,
where he had lived nearly all his life. For
years he was employed by the Derby Silver
company, but few years ago took posi-
ton with Bachelor & Langdon of New
York, and had since been travelling In the
west for that firm.
The superb display of fur goods at Bur-
gess & Burgess this Christmas season eur
passes even all the former efforts of this
noted fur house, and the onset of wintry
cold and of King Santa Claus finds the
store thronged with buyers as never before,
selecting such acceptable or useful gifts
for the holidays a. seal sacques, seal muffs,
seal gloves, fur carriage robes, fur robss
for baby carriages, fur capes all lengths
and styles, fur neck boas, fur floor mats,
and rugs, travelling bags, umbrellas, ETC.,
etc. The large business of the firm as
manufacturers of fur goods enables them
to offer the best of inducements to buyers.
Personal Notes.
The Misses Shears leave to- day for New
York, where they will spend the winter.
Mr.. William a. Neebe of Philadelphia
Is visiting at tho home of his parents In
this city.
Superintendent Starkweather of the hos.
pital has gone to Montclair, N. j., for his
vacation.
President Thomas Forsyth, of the For
syth Dye Works and Laundry company,
who Is i'll, was much worse yesterday and
the night previous, but his condition was
little easisr last evening.
George q. Street, Yale law school '94, a
well known and popular ex-newspaper
man of this city, left last evening for his
home in Exeter, N. a., where he will re-
main during the Christmas vacation.
'z Yesterdays Bridgeport Farmer rays:
The friends in this city Of George Hender-
son, manager of R. g. Dun & Co., of New
Haven, viii learn with regret of the death
Of his sister, Minnie, at Toronto, Canada.a
few days ago. Mr.. Henderson went TO
Canada on q vacation trip week ago and
arrived Just in time to see his sister alive.
She was fourteen years OF age.
Sciatica and lubago readily yield to Sal
walton OIL. A few applications win pro-