Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-16
LOCAL NE WIS.
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
 Oriental rugs. Crampton's, 694 Chapel. So very dressy-new Royal Shoe.
 A new house s1. .5OO-R. E. Baldwin. They do wear elegantly-Royal Shoes. Monographs and supplies at Curtiss Sc Bradley's.
 Franklin chapter worked tha past mas ter degree last evening.
 Thomas M. Roach of Ill Franklin street is suffering with severe cold.
 General and Mrs. George H. Ford have been for several days past in Boston.
 Winthrop castle No. 10, Knights of the Golden Eagle, was instituted last evening. Richard M Russell and Noah R. Osgcod, foremen at ths Winchester armory, have resigned.
 The young ladies of the First M. E. church are preparing to hold conundrum party next Thursday night.
 The masquerade ball of Red Cross lodge No. 162, Sons of St. George. will be held in Golden Rule hall this evening.
 It is thought in New Britain that Rev. 0. H. Buck, formerly of this city, will be appointed to 8 pastorate in that city in April.
 Charter Oak lodge, N. E. o. F., voted to visit Elm Tree lodge in a body Friday evening to institute new lodge of this order.
 The First M. E. church people have no one in view yet as successor to the Rev. Dr. Kelley in the pastorate of their church.
 The concert, which was to have been given at Springside farm last evening, was postponed indefinitely on account of the bad roads.
 Ex-Lieutenant Governor George G. Sill, who has been confined to his house with illness during the past week, is not yet able to be out.
 There was a cake sale at Humphrey street church last evening for the benefit of the Ladies' Auxiliary society. A goodly sum was netted.
 A dance and candy ball was given in Woodmont by MT. and Mrs. E. H. Egglss- ton Tuesday night. A barge load of New Haven friends attended.
 The engagement was announced yester- Miss Bessie Hubbard of Washington place, niece of Walter Hubbard.
 The Consolidated road officials are con- sidering the advisability of reducing the tariff on bicycles over the various divisions of the road in tho spring.
 Alfred Mccarthy of E. MoCarthy & Son has just returned home after an unusually successful business trip, embracing nearly every portion of the state.
 An unverifed rumor comes from Boston late last night that MT. Prince had sold his holdings of Connecticut River railroad stock to the Consolidated road.
 The "World Almanac" for 1893 is re- ceived by T. H. Pease & Son. Price 25 cents. It is the Encyclopedia for the People" and contains almost everything.
 The remains of Patrick McKennan, head brakeman OF freight train, who was killed at Noroton Tuesday night, were brought to his home in this city yesterday noon.
 MT. and Mrs. 0. Bery Peets vera among the many guests at the Tredennick- evening-a brilliant Meriden society event.
 New Haven commsndery Mo- will hold special meeting this evening and work the order of the Temple, Fair Haven man being the recipient of the honor.
 MT. Saunders of Yale lectured in the M E. church at Thompsonville last evening under the auspices of the Enfield Sunday School union. Subject, "A Century After the Exile."
 The second annual meeting of the Connecticut Classical and High School Teachers association will be held at Os- born hall on the Yale campus, Saturday, February 25.
 Francis & Co.'s clothing store on Wash ington street, Norwalk, was entered by burglars early yesterday morning and robbed of quantity of clothing and a small amount of cash.
 The seventh annual masquerade of the Barbers' Social club will be held in Ger mania hall, Monday, February 27. Music will be furnished by the Philharmonic or chestra. Professor Dunn will prompt.
 A resolution was introduced in the Rhode Island legislature yesterday to con- firm the lease of the Providence and Wor- cester railroad to the New York, New Haven and Hartford road. It was re- ferred.
 Rev. H. E. Burnes, war veteran, for merly of the Fifteenth Connecticut Volun- teers, lectures on Personal "Reminiscences of the Late War" ct the First M. E. church, Norwalk, on the evening of Washington's birthday.
 Ar. and Mrs. N. A. Baldwin of Ivy Nook, Whitneyville, accompanied by Dr. and Martin Grinnell and Henry W. Bero- man, left last night on the Washington ex. press for an extended trip through the south and west.
 The Epworth league of Howard avenue M. E. ..churoh give an entertainment on the evening of February 16, readings by James F. Parsons, piano playing by Mrs. Rosabelle Frushour Lines and other at fractions on the program.