Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-10-24
STATE CORREsPONDENOR.


Oct 80 A lovely October Sabbath yes
terday and q large number present at the |
Congregational church TO listen to Rsv. Mr.. |
Daniel Marvin of Brooklyn, n. Y, who is |
evidently a man who knows what he wants |
to say and the BEST way to say 1t to pro- |
duce the best effect. Ons man said: "Tvo !
of the most rousir G ssrmons ever preached
in this house." Mr. Marvin had a method
of his own for delivering his sermons,
strikingly different from that in general
use. The quartetts gave excellent music
In the evening. Miss Edna BasRett sang 9
solo very pleasinaly.
Next Sunday Rev. Addison Foster, D. D
of Boston, who IL successor to Mr. Griffin
az secretary of the New England Sunday
School association, will preach in the morn
ing. Those who have heard Mr.. Foster
speak very highly of his ability as q speak
or and his interest In the Sunday school
work.
At the annual meeting of the Ladies' Be-
president, Mrs. W. T. Reynolds, Thursday
afternoon, officers were elected as follows:
Mrs. w. T. Reynolds, president; Mrs. Q. B.
Foote, vice president; Miss Mary Eliot,
secretary and treasurer.
Rev N. Lsthrop has gone south on bust
| ness and MIS-. Lathrop and son have gone
to Mrs. Lathrop's home for visit. The
| installation of Mr.. Lsthrop as pastor of the
Congregational church Ia to take place on
Thursdsy, November 16. A meeting of the
| com nittes Is to be held this evening to make
necessary arrangements.
Mrs. Louisa Todd is reported decidedly
| better.
| A neighbor in looking over an unused
| cupboard found several old pamphlets, one
of which proved to be q report of the en-
gineer from tho "Preliminary Surveys for
the Hartford and New Haven Railroad;
printed by J. Peck, 1885. 1t has an an
cient appearance, printed In old style.
accompanied by map of the survey of
the railroad in 1885, which shows the diff
ferent routes surveyed at that time, one
going through Middletown to get to Hart
ford. One can indulge in interesting re-
Elections on what the prospects of the road
were then and what they are now-run-
ming on wood stripgsrs and everybody pre-
dieting that 1t would never pay. Then q
train of cars was a curiosity; now one Ia
smart to cross the track without being run
over.
That cupboard also contained an old
"School Atlas, Ancient and Modern Geog
raph, Fifth Edition." which bears no date
that can be seen, but judging from the ap,
pearance might be "a near the year one as
they printed any school books. On the
cover csn be read, "Valuable and ClAssics
Books Published by Cummings s. billiard
at the Boston Book Store, No. Cornhill.
The maps are In colors and would be de
eided curiosity to any bright school chill
dren; and even teachers would find 1t o.
interest. One map Is Britain or thu
United Kingdom of England, Scotland ant
Ireland" The whole is a valuable ourios
ity and the question 10: Will another sixt.
years see as much change as there has beer
in the last siItyl
, The w. O. I. U. will meet at the cente
chapsl on Wednesday afternoon at
, O'Clock, and the L L. at the same place a
4:30.
, Variety tea at Memorial hall on Wednes
day evening. Each one who buys q q
cent supper will receive gift of cup an
saucer. Cold meats, cake, ice cream, etc.
: will be served and you can try your lucl
at fishing.
I Mrs. Pierpont, widow of the late Ed
wards Pierpont, IL now the guest of Mis-
/ < L. futile ut the home of the late Mis-
Sarah Pierpont. Mrs. Pierpont has jus
. arrived from Europe where she had gon
z at the time of Miss Sarah Pisrpont's death