Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-10
wALLINGFORD,


 Six Months for Nugent-The Lamp
 ExplOded-General News of the
 Town.
 Larry Nugent was brought before Judge | Bartholomew charged with aggravated as- sault upon Daniel Murray, and attempt at | highway robbery. MT. and Mrs. Murray | were both in court and told substantially | the same story as was printed in ysster- day mornings COURIER. Nugent was sen- fenced to six months in jail and costs $9.72 for assault, and was bound over to the superior court on the charge of at tempt at highway robbery. Sheriff Austin took him down to jail at AT.
 B. R. Futile and Miss Grace Doolittle will be married on Wednesday, March 9.
 The marriage of Charles F. Wooding and Miss Elizabeth Gooding is booked for Wednesday, February 24.
 Contractor c. A. Haskins has finished the work of ying the 450 feet of water main through the tunnel, and the sixty feet approach to the tunnel and now the water main is complete from the gatehouse to Main street and the full force of the water can now be used.
 Chief Engineer Smith will celebrate his birthday to morrow by banquet to 8 few invited friends in the evening.
 Henry Martin is meeting with much suc- cess at orange growing in Pieolata, Fla.
 The bearers at the funeral of Mrs. Joseph Kershaw yesterday morning were Edward Hayden Thomas Wrinn, John Ginty James Morrissey, Michael Luby and Thomas Con- don.
 Garrison, the shoemaker, has moved to New Britain.
 Samuel Simpson wishes to get first class barber in the only vacant store in Simpsons block.
 Mrs. John 0. Silva of Providence, R. l., is the guest of Mrs. Oliver Spencer of Washington street.
 Rev. J. E. Wildman has taken for his subject at the Wednesday evenings the ten commandments This evening his dis course will be upon the third. MT. A. c. Gunter's romantic play, 'Mr. Barnes of New York;" will be at the opera house on Friday evening, the production | being by Frank w. Sanger's Broadway Theater company. The leading characters of the play will be cast as follows:
 Marina Paoli; ;.................. Miss May Wheeler Enid Apstruthee ee...........;; Miss Miss Emma Field Maud Chartris. Miss Lola Bertelle MT Barnes ;................;,:M Mr Hugo Toland | Edward Arnstruthee. ....... Mr. Coulter Brnker Thomas Monalds. MT. Charles Lamb 1 At the promenade concert and sociable to be given by Ivy lodge No. 16, U. R. K. of F., in the armory Friday evening the National band will render the following program for the concert:
 "A Picture of the Past' Rollinson March-"Passing Review. .Dodworth
 of Merden.
 Thomas Morrison has withdrawn his ap- plication for license to sell liquor in
 Morse's rookery on Hall avenue. The ob- jections raised by the residents of the vii
 cinity were the main cause of his with
 drawal, he realizing the fact that his eff
 forts would prove faultless.
 | John Johnson, sexton of the Center
 street cemetery, has bought horse. The
 for grave digging.
 w. H. Coffyn has settled with his cred
 itors and with his family left yesterday af.
 ternoon for Ludlow, Vt
 0. F. Seibel. who was so badly burned
 about Christmas time, will have three of
 his fingers amputated.
 Rome Donovan will have his big boquet
 on exhibition this evening at the Walling
 ford hotel
 Larry and Ned Nugent are again united in New Haven jail. George Donovan, { brother-in-law, is@also under the same
 roof.
 Mrs. Charles c. Treat arrived home or , the late train Monday evening from { , three weeks visit to her former home ir
 Brooklyn.
 The supper of the members of the Y M c. A. aminstrels and few invited friends
 at the Wallingford hotel this evening
 promises to be very pleasant affair, ant , Landlord Smith will zee that his part of thu , program is carried out in a manner that vii E surely please all the guests.
 The members of the Simpson Hooks ar,
 all heavyweights, and the largest shir Belonging to the working uniform) of thu , disbanded company proves too small fo | the smallest member of the new company | An overturned kerosene lamp in the lit tie shoe shop on Hall avenue about clever , o'clock Monday night came near causing fire alarm, but the judicious and timel, use of a pail of water put out the blaz , with only slight damage. In Woodbridge. | | THE WOODBRIDGE GLEN-THE HOUSE Il , WHICH HON. N. D. SHERRY WAS BORN scHooLs-FEBRUARY g TO BE MADE ] GALA DAY-MR. SHERRY TO SPEAK. Il WOODBRIDGE, Feb. 9.-A few days sine Charles B. Cooper, while getting load O. hay on Windham Hill, stepped on rust, i nail, which went through the sole of hi
 boot into his foot, making quite painful wound.
 Mrs. Cora E. Newton celebrated he birthday last Wednesday evening by party of her young friends. The evening was spent in dancing.
 Albert L. Sperry is among the sick ones , Mrs. Jacob Beiseigel, jr, is sick witl
 sciatic rheumatism.
 David Smith, while chopping down , tree the other day, slipped just as it wa
 falling. The tree struck him on the head
 making a gash there four inches long.
 People visit many times what is termed
 the Ravine, or Woodbridge Glen. 4 little northeast of this spot ii
 seen 8 house, now in ruins, an6 on inquiry it will be found that it ii here that Hon. N. D. Sperry, the New f members his native place by presenting to
 each school in this town 8 national flag measuring four and one-half feet by sever ' feet. Last Friday evening the joint board of education met to make the necessary arrangements for accepting them. Wash. ington's birthday, Monday, February 22,
 at o'clock in the afternoon MT. Sperry
 will come to the Congregational church and give an address, telling the origin oi the flag, what it means to us, it's use in the past, the present and the future, and oul relations to and care of it; and then pre- sent one to each school district. Besides
 MT. Sperry's address there will be re- marks by others. MT. Charles T. Walker will furnish music appropriate for the oc- casion, and Charles P. Augur vii, recite an original poem. It if desired that all the pupils in the town, | with thair narants and friands ha nraaant