Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-07
RerAOnal NOfes.

Robert Jackson of Wooster street has l returned from trip to Boston H. N. Clark and wife of Prospect are | visiting with friends at 10 Gilbert avenue. Robert F. Mitchell of this city, with wife and son, will start Wednesday for
 DeSoto county, Florida.
 Colonel L. L. Morgan is i'll with liver ] difficulty. Dr. McNeil, his physician, says ! he is not dangerously sick. MT and Mrs. Arthur Fisk, who have been visiting friends in Milford, have re- turned to their home in Springfield. Mir. E s. Stevens has been appointed agent for territory hereabouts for the Total Abstinence Life association of America
 Ex-Alderman T. B. Kelly yesterday took the office of assistant superintendent of streets in charge of parks, to which he was elected last week.
 Matthew Riley of this city is to make
 Milford his place of abode in the future He will occupy Mrs Nettie Nettleton's s residence on Hill street.
 James Gallagher, jr., leaves shortly for a trip through Florida and may wind up with visit to Nassau. MT. Gallsgher's health Is much improved
 Willis M. Anthony of 155 Meadow street, who has been in poor health for some time, is in critical condition. He sub mitted to an operation Sunday and was very weak to, day.
 Ezra O. Bull, the son of W. E. Bull of 2SS Portsea street, will celebrate his eighth birthday on Wednesday evening. Invita- tions have been issued to about thirty of his juvenile friends to be present.
 Ex-Lieutenant Governor Samuel E. Mer- win, accompanied by his wife and his niece, Miss Dudley, leaves in 8 few days for an extended trip through the west and southern California. The party will be absent between two and three months.
 Mir. and Mrs Henry 0. Smith have is- sued invitations to the wedding reception of their daughter, May E., and Louis J. Hopkins, Wednesday evening, February 15, from until o'clock, at 75 Kimberly avenue. MT. and Mrs. Hopkins will re- side at the Spalding, Duluth, Minn.
 Lieutenant Brownlee Robertson Ward, a nephew of Judge A. H. Robertson, who re- gently secured the position of assistant surgeon in the United States navy after a competitive examination, has been assigned to the schoolship Richmond, which is now in Newport hsrbor and will report for duty on February 8.
 Harry R. Durant has resigned his posi- tion on the reportorisl staff of the Union in order to give more time to his studies in the law school. William O'Keefe, ir.. for the past year and half of the CouR. TER staff of reporters, son of Captain O'Keefe of the Grand avenue precinct, has taken MT. Dnrant's place.
 Mr. Henry Hopkins, for years 8 prom inent official at the Hub clothing store, has resigned, having charge of the agency for the sale of the work entitled, "Life and Public Acts of James G. Blaine" John A. Enberg has resigned his position at the Hub clothing store to accept that of can vaaser for the same work.
 Attorney Robert T. Platt of Milford. now lawyer at Portland. Or, delivered a lecture in the Unitarian church of that city on the evening of January 24, before the Eliot fraternity, literary society of Port land, on one of the phases of the science of evolution, to large audience of the more cultured and intellectual people of the city.
 General Frederick Barton of Adams Ex- press, this city, has gone south on a trip for his health. He took steamer from New York to Savannah, from which D int he will go direct to Tampa Bay, Fla Before his return he will also visit Havana, He will agaiu see Richmond, Va where he spent along period as prisoner of war in Libby prison.