Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-17
LOCAL NE WS.
Brief Mention.


 A new house $1 .500-R. E. Baldwin.
 Mimeographs and supplies at Curtiss & Pierpont's.
 Every shoemaker in town recommends the Royal Shoe Whys No shoddy.
 Charles E. Ferguson, the we'll known Groton ship builder, has begun work on new yacht for Richard Mansfield, the actor, to be completed by June 1.
 The widow of the late Rev. Samuel Or cutt of Bridgeport, whose husband was killed by the cars recently, claims $5,000 damages from the Consolidated road.
 Yesterday morning Labor Commissioner Vance took his office and appointed ex- Editor George E. Bearn of this city, chief clerk, in place of William A. Countryman, formerly of this city, to take effect imme- diately.
 Conlon Brothers, the big dry goods dealers in Waterbury, were served with warrants last night, charging them with violating sections 1753 and 1754 of the state statutes relating to the employment of children.
 A horse belonging to o. A. Schofeld, the expressman, took fright at the electric cars on Kimberly avenue last night and ran away. Scho6eld was thrown out and sustained severe fracture of the right arm. The horse was caught near Oyster Point.
 MT. Steve Leggett, the genial and popu- lar treasurer of the Wilbur Opera com pany, is very much pleased with the re- ception his company is receiving from the theater- going public of this city. MT. Leggett has bsen with the company for the past five years. His wife is the leading lady with the Second Bostonian company.
 The Wolfe Tone and Napper Tandy clubs will celebrate Robert Emmet's birth nay on Sunday evening, March 5, by a public free entertainment at the New Haven Opera house. The orator of the evening will be Professor John D. Brophy, L.L. D., president of St. Louis college. New York. Singing and other music will be rendered by persons whose names will ap- pear later.
 The meeting of the committee on streets this evening in the city hall, when 8 pub lie hearing will be given on the measure recently presented to the court of common council, providing for the issuing of bonds to the amount of $500, for the purpose of providing permanent pave ment for the streets of the city, will be one of the most important ever held by that committee.
 The Plant Steamship company, of which H. B. Plant of Branford is the founder and head, has established new winter route between Tampa, Fla, and Nassau in the Bahamas and Jamaica. News has just been received in this city of the first sailing of the steamshP Halifax yesterday noon for Nassau and Jamaica with eighty nine passengers. She will sail again March and the last trip of the winter on March IA.
 Miss Clara 0. Barnum spoke before the Yale Mathematical club last evening. She Is the frat female student of Yale who ever made an address before this now venerable club. Her subject was "The History of the Infinite Series." The lady handled the subject very ably. A large audience was present. Miss Bsrnum graduated at Vassar in 1888 and is taking post graduate course at Yale.
 William R. Keeler, for the last three years assistant superintendent at the New Haven Clock company's factory, has re- signed to accept an active interest in the firm of Adams & Keeler, breeders of fine horse in Ridgefeld. The company re- grets his departure, he having been valued and trusted employe. He takes great interest in fine horses and will at once start west for his fathers farm to purchase horses. He leaves many friends here.