Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-14
LOCAL NE w $.
Brief Mention.

Monographs and supplies at Curtiss & Bradley's.
 So very dressy-new Royal Shoe.
 A new house $1, ,500-R. E. Baldwin.
 Oriental rugs. Crampton's, 694 Chapel. Both branches of the general assembly meet again to day.
 Rev. MT. Markwick of Ansonia Is ill with a severe attack of neuralgia.
 Theodora Circle No. 30, O. of F., gave 8 masquerade last evening at Harugari hall.
 Fred Fl. Plant of Southington, who has been critically i'll, is now in fair way to recovery.
 The New Haven C~eilien Verein held their annual masquerade in Aurora hall last evening,
 The bicycle club Germania will hold meet at their club room, 73 Union street, this evening.
 Arthur Clark of Milford, who has been dangerously i'll the past week, Is more comfortable.
 Professor M. A. Reynolds of this city has been engaged as organist at St. Thomas church, Southin9ton.
 More of the alleged beautiful snow yes- terday, followed by an abundant rainfall and more slippery pavements.
 The New Haven district Sunday School Superintendents' union will meet in Wal lingford, Thursday, February %.
 The society, Sons of New Haven, will give their first annual reception and ball in Harmonic hall Easter Monday night.
 The Boys brigade of the Humphrey street church Is arranging for an enter tainment to be given in the church next Monday evening.
 Andrew Anderson, aged sixty-fve, a Swede, who formerly resided at 252 East Chapel street, died at Springside farm yes ternay afternoon.
 Tho tax commission metin the probate court last evening and elected ex-Senator Joseph D. Plunkett chairman and Major Callahan secretary.
 The annual encampment of the Grand Army, department of Connecticut, will be held at the opera house in Willimantio to- morrow and Thursday.
 Rev. D. M. James of Fair Haven will conduct the first Lenten service at the Congregational church vestry in Birming. ham tomorrow evening.
 The local police were yesterday re- quested to be on the lookout for Rsnsford A. Ferris, who strayed away from his home, 89 Third avenue, West Haven, yes terday afternoon.
 Mrs. Fitzgerald, mother of J. H. Fitz- gerald. formerly rector of St. Peters, church, Milford, slipped on the ice satur- day in the rectory yard at Bristol, and broke one of her wrists.
 The first in the Mechanios' course of lectures to be given at North Sheffield hall will take place this evening. Mir. J. Stanley Brown will speak on "Fur Seals and Seal Islands of Behring Sea-"
 MT. and Mrs. Fl. B. Tolles and their son of Ansonia left for Florida yesterday to spend the winter. They go with party of twelve, which includes Dr. F. B. Futile and Fremont Tolles of Naugatuck.
 MT. Welch, formerly of the letter car rier department of the postofics, Is in Mantle with his father, Cyrus Weloh, formerly contractor at the clock shop, who is still very i'll and not expected to recover.
 The committee on finance of the board of selectmen met last evening and audited the bills of the town and the bills of the almshouse for the month of January The bills for the month of January amount to about $7,OOO.
 The annual winter games of the Yale Athletic association will be held on March 13 and IA in the new gymnasium, and March 13 will probably be ladies' day. All the eastern colleges will bs invited to send representatives.
 The Consolidated Railroad company has just placed an order with the Rhode Island Locomotive works of Providence, for thirty-ive new engines, to be used in the passenger and freight service and as sub- stitutes. They are to be completed in April.
 Nathaniel Heaney, formerly in the stove business in Derby, g brother of Mrs. John Ballantins of Derby, died of pneumonia at his home in Newtown, L. l., recently, aged forty-three. W. 0. Kelley and wife of Ansonia left yesterday to attend the funeral.
 Oliver Burr Jennings, sixty-eight years years old, who died suddenly in New York Sunday, was born in Fairfield, Conn. In conjunction with John D. and William Rockefeller, Mr. Brewster and others, he established the Standard Oil trust. He was one of the California Forty miners.
 Walter Baldwin, ex-superintendent of the Middletown horse railway, took a large dose of laudanum Saturday night, thinking 1t was paregoric. The drug was sold to him by a New London druggist for paregorie. The doctors saved Mr.