Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-21
LOCAL NE WS.
Brief Mention.

Buy 8 new house. R. E. Baldwin.
 Peaee & Son have received Hsrper's new magazine for February.
 The condition of Engineer Orrin P. Hop. son of the Derby road still remains very critical.
 The supper given at the Epworth NJ. E. church by the ladies of the church Thurs day evening was fine success, and profit of about $30 was realized.
 George Foote's trotter dropped dead in Greenwich yesterday after race with sev- eral horses to sleighs. MT. Foote had just refused an offer of $2,O ,OOO for the animal.
 The state board of lady managers of the worlds fair will meet at the capitol on Wednesday next at 1:30 a. m instead of Tuesday noon, the date having been changed.
 The lower green was flooded late yester- day afternoon and although the evening skaters were disappointed, to-day's sport will amply repay them if the weather re- mains good.
 Yesterday in Norwalk Dr. Israel Prio, reported at the town clerks office that Norman Sherwood, his wife and five chil dren, living at Turn of the River, were al down with the measles.
 Archdeacon Solger, who was expected te make an address in St. Paul's church par ish building last evening, was detained by some reason which was unknown to the church people and failed to arrive.
 The receipts from the Dudley Buck guar tette concert at the First Congregational church, Fair Haven, were about $500, oui of which profit will remain for church purposes in the neighborhood of $l5O.
 A strange bird. said to be the Canadian grossbesk, has been seen frequently in the neiRhborhood of Thomaston during the ex- treme cold weather of the past few weeks. They are gray In color with red breast.
 Mrs. George R Curtis and Mrs. w. L.. Squire of Meriden went to Stony Creek Thursday afternoon, and with party Of Creek people walked on the ice to Goat island, thing that has not been done be- fore for years.
 To morrow evening there will be five minute talk on Strength of Temperance Societies" by Francis Cochrane at St Pat rick's T. A. B. hall, for members only. Mr. Cochrane is one of the most gifted speakers in the society.
 Thursday morning Sergeant Woodruff found purse in the depot. It proved to be the property of lady who WAS about to take train for New York. She was very much relieved when Sergeant Woodruff presented her with the purse.
 Large crowds visited Lake Whitney yesterday ard the sight presented was a very beautiful one. It Is unusual to have such long spell of good skating,I and every one who can ekate "a little bit" has made the most of the opportunity.
 The fine opportunity to buy fur garments and wraps at reduced prices from the superb stock of Burgess & Burgess, the we'll known fur dealers, is being improved by ladies of this city and from all this sec hon of the state, including many from Neriden and other places.
 The afflictions which have visited the Robert Arnold family of 165 Winchester avenue are indeed sad. About two weeks ego Minnie, the sixteen year old daughter, died of scarlet fever. Soon after the daughter Sara, two years younger, fell i'll with the same disease and died last Mon day. The mother and father both became Ill, owing to the constant an xiety and watching and the ssd bereavements and tho father died yesterday morning. MT. Arnold was forty one years of age, and was 2 we'll known florist. Two of the remain inn child ran ara i'll with dinhtharia