Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-18
LOCAL NE WI 6.
Brief M ent1On.


 Town Clerk Brethauer is confined to his house by illness.
 The 21st school year of tho Yale Business College begins Monday, September 4.
 Typewriter supplies at s10 Chapel street. Joseph E. Platt, general dealer for Conn. Dwight P. Wilcox of Aeriden, who has been seriously i'll, is now rapidly improv- ing.
 Superintendent Babcock of the Hartford Southern NewEngland telephone office was in town yesterday.
 The remains of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves were buried yesterday in East Thompson cemetery in this state.
 Call at S1O Chapel street and see new Remington Standard typewriter. Joseph E. Platt, general dealer.
 Ernest Cooper, son of Rev. Dr. Cooper of New Britain, is improving. He has been quite sick with typhoid fever.
 Silver City lodge, A. o. U. w., has &C., cepted the invitation of Sterling lodge of this city to visit them October 25.
 Miss Bertha Rockfort of Edwards street has been confined to the house for two weeks owing to ivy poisoning, but is near ly recovered.
 St. Ignatius' T. A. B. society will give a grand fair in the armory during the week commencing with the Monday previous to Thanksgiving day.
 The annual meeting of the stockholders of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad will be held at the depot in this city this morning.
 Tho report that Nathan Wolfe, who was Q witness in the Lee-Whitten case, had dis appeared from the city is false, as he was seen in town Monday evening.
 Inspector Allen of the New Britain office of the Southern New England Telephone company, who has been eick in this city from ivy poisoning, has returned home.
 The condition of James Eppss, the col ored man who is suffering with smallpox at the pest house, is unchanged, but it is believed that he will pull through all right.
 The reunion of the Twelfth regiment, c. ", will be held in Grand Army hall, Will Hmantio, tomorrow. Dinner will be served by the Woman's Relief corps at Franklin hall.
 Judge George W. Wheeler of Bridgeport last night granted an injunction restrain ing the Consolidated railroad from taking possession of certain land at the east end of that city.
 Nr.Van Alen, President Cleveland's nom- inee for the Italian mission, was driving yesterday in his tally -ho coach from Pough keepsie to Lakewood, in Litchfield county, on route to Lenox.
 A cats tooth was found by Dave Levigne of 305 East street in Frankfort which he purchased at a Grand avenue meat market last Monday. Dave thinks the sausage was altogether too toothsome.
 At the annual meeting of the Conneoti- out Association of Science and Arts to be held this evening Professors Verrill. and Brewer will read papers on the effects of the August storms on vegetation.
 Judge John M. Hall, the newly elected vice president of the New Haven road, will take up his residence in this oity next spring, leaving his beautiful home in Will umantic, one of the finest residences in the state.
 At Springfield, Mass., yesterday, W. W. Windle, in an attempt at the fve-mile bi- cycle record. reduced the three mile mark of GA 1, 5 made by Meintjes to 6:43. He fell behind the record on the fourth mile and stopped.
 Miss Julia Leary of Howard avenue and John Farrell of 122 Ashmun street will be married ct St. Patrick's church at 5 o'clock this afternoon. A reception will follow at the future homo of the happy couple at Asylum and Oak streets.
 The Knights of Honor held a special meeting in their hall on Grown street last evening, at which large delegation of the several lodges in the city were present. Tho supreme dictator of the United States was expected to make an address, but he was unable to be present.
 The custom house authorities at Bridge port yesterday tied up the coal barge Blue Bird with . cargo of foreign coal consigned to the Bridgeport Gas company from Ben edict A Downes of New Haven. The own CTS failed to take out Ncense and had no manifesto of the fact that the duty had been paid on the ceal.
 John Benham, an esteemed farmer of Aiddlebury, who WAS thrown out of his wagon in Waterbury September 13 by . collision with another wsgon, and has lain unconscious ever sinoe as the result of his injuries, died in the Waterbury hospital yesterday. Ar. Benham was seventy six years old. He leaves five children, James Bsnham, E. 4. Bsnham, Lucy Benhsm and Mrs. Henry AcCarthy, all of Waterbury, and John D. Benham of Pasadena, Cal.
 shelton Paper Makers Happy. SHELTON, Oct. 17.-The employees of the Derby Paper company are happy to day. Two months ago 15 per cent. reduction Vas made in their wages. Last evening