Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-03-22
PERSONAL MOTIFS.

The Church Was Throneed-An
SAINTS ChurchsA New Reetor-Dr.
Dormanss Success-A Worcester Wis |
1tor's Impressio ns-Great on Whist
An Albany Divine to Preach the |
Berkely Sermon-Professor Town
send and the United States judge
ship-Ex-Ch1efHend in Georgia.
All Saints church was thronged to the
doors Sunday evening. The new rector,
Rev. Mr.. McCrae, formerly of California,
is wonderfully interesting and drawing the |
people of that section to his preaching |
services. He is an impassioned. earnest |
speaker, speaks wholly extemporaneously
and at times is eloquent and inspiring.
His utterances are listened to with close
attention. -t
DR.. Dorman of this city is lecturing in
all the principal cities of New England to
large audiences of young men. His lee
he is unable to make appointments with
only part of those requesting his SER
vices.
Mr.. Leander Howe of Worcester, Mass,
has been visiting in West Haven at the
home of his brother in-law, G.. P. Jordan,
of the Hub clothing store, this city. Mr..
Howe is a Worcester man through and
through, proud of his fine city and it's
growth, and cautions New Haveners to be-
ware or Worcester, whose population is SO
near New Ravens in size, will take the
lead. He points to Worcester's new and
fine buildings now being erected and to it's
street railway, and says several other cleo
trio railways are projected to connect the
oif vuif1 ont nix nf wi
are from ten to fifteen miles away.
George w. Pettis of Boston, who died
at his home in Brookline on Friday, was
well-known in Hartford's whist circles.
| He was great whisc player and "Pettis'
nine-spot" is one of the bywords in local
whist circles.
Deacon Joseph w. Dimock of Hartford
WAS reported yesterday by his physician to
be much more comfortable, although still
| monia. Mr.. Dimock ia ninety-one years
old and prominent Hartford Baptist He
has relatives in this city.
The late Thomas Glastonbury Welles,
son of the late Hon. Gideon Welles,
served as aide and captain on General
Arson D. MeCook's staff and afterward on
the staff of General Grant, and at the end
of the war on General Ord's staff. being
brevetted Northumberland for bravery on
the field. He served through the battles
before Richmond and rendered distin-
guished service at the mine before Peters
burg. After the war he was for q year OF
more on the staff of General Ord. De.
clining a commission in the regular army
he accompanied Admiral Farragut as his
| secretary on the Franklin on the celebrated
| European cruise.
Rev. Mr. Battershall, an eloquent and
scholarly divine of Albany, N. Y, will
preach the annual Berkeley sermon before
Yale students at Trinity church next Sun
day evening.
Yesterdays Hartford Courant, speaking
of the announcement that Professor w
K. Townsend of New Haven has beer
named for the United States district
judgeship, says: "The news will be re-
received with pleasure by his friends, and
they are all over Connecticut, and will be
especially welcome in New Haven, where
J beside facilitating law business it adds tc
: the fourishipg Yale law school the pres
tige of another active judge in its faculty
The same paper adds in an extended no
notice of Professor Townsend: "Few law
yers acquire in twenty years, or, indeed
at all, any such business, either in extern
or quality, as Professor Townsend has SO
!, cured through his tact, his shrewdnesi
and his recognized ability"
Il Yesterdays Springfield Republican
speaking of the late Daniel Lothrep, thu
noted Boston publisher, whose death ant
an account of whose career were recorded
: | yesterday in our columns, says: "He wa
one of those publishers who generously
encourage writer's and bring them forward
and the authors whose books he ISSUED
found him indeed friend He had a
the basis of all his work a most genial anc
child loving nature and sincere religious
principle. He married several years ag'
. one of the favorite contributors to Wild
l Awake, Miss Harriet Milford Stone of New
| Haven, Conn, known widely as Margare
D Sidney, and she and their daughter sur
| vive him. Their country home was eth
Wayside," the house Hawthorne built il
. Concord and dwelt in for some years, ant
| in whose occupancy the Lothrops succeed
7 | Hawthorne), q fact which occasioned tn
4 remark that it was an extraordinary in
3 stance of literary succession in more way
u than one. The Alcotts lived in this nous,
Q for while after Hawthorne's death befor
: they removed to the Orchard house nea
by. Mr.. Lothrop's body will be buried il
Q the Sleepy Hollow cemetery, where lie tn
o ashes of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thorea
. and others of rare note"
L Concerning ex-Chief Engineer Hendricl
of this city the Columbus, Ga, Enquirer
Sun of last Thursday says: "Columbu
a was visited yesterday by Mr.. Albert c
I Hendrick, one Of the most important fir
officers of the United States.
"Mr. Hendrick is the general inspecto
of fire departments for the national gov
eminent, and his duties require him to ez
:. anime all the departments. He was TO
more than q quarter of a century the chic
of the New Haven, Conn.,. fire department
and his experience enables him to form
i rapid and comprehensive estimate of ho'
1t | department is managed.
"Chief Burrus placed himself yester,la
at the disposal of the visitor, and not onl
it showed him the fire department, but dul
ing the afternoon drove him about th
city. In the evening the two chiefs visi
J. friendly that it was evident that cordi
relations existed between them