Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-25
LOCAL NE WS.
Breif Mention.

Oriental rugs. Champions, GA Chapel.
A new house 81 ,500-R. E. Baldwin.
Psase & Son have received Scribner's
for March.
The Prstt-Cady company of Hartford
has voted to increase it's capital stock from
5000, 900 to 100000.
William Gushing, who WAS formerly
principal of the Hopkins grammar school,
was In town yesterday.
Mrs. Henry Hertz will give a chocolate
tea to large number of her friends at her
home, 20 Home place, this afternoon.
There has been very large sale of tick
cts for the canta!s at Warner hall in aid
of the Kings Daughters, which is to be
given on March 1.
John J. Hadlow, the bookkeeper who
embe1zed several hunnred dollars from the
Derby Silver company, was yesterday SEN
fenced to jail for one year.
Linsley, Root & Co. have decided to dis
continue their Church street store, on &C.
count of the illness of Arthur O. Root,
who had charge of the came.
At meeting of the trustees of Darth-
mouth college yesterday afternoon Frank
6. Moore, tutor at Yale university, was
elected associate professor Of Latin.
The Yale delegates to the meeting of
the Intercollegiate Track Athletic asso
citation to-day are: r. B. Wade and A.
q. Jones Of the Yals track athletic team.
The ladies are all csptivated with those
beautiful new empire fur capes for spring
wear at Burgess & Burgess aud the other
various styles aud shapes Of fur shoulder
eapes for spring.
Stephen B. Webster, driver of steamer
2, has obtained thirty days' leave of alb
sence and will leave on Monday for Chics-
go to visit his brother who resides there.
He will also visit number of the western
cities before he returns.
Town Treasurer Robert Swartwout Of
Stamford received yesterday an anonymous
letter post marked New York enclosing q
$1,000 treasury note. The letter reads:
"PIesse put this 81 900 to the credit of
Stamford taxes of 1879"
Yesterday was "Women's Day" at po-
lice headquarters, seven women being ar
rested and locked up, charged with drunk
enness. Of this number, six will appear
In the city court this morning. Up to
midnight bat three men had been ar
rested.
The patrolmen at police precinct No. 8
are naturally very indignant over tho re-
port that has gone out to the effect that
Officer Doran's coat was maliciously cut by
one of his fellow officers. One of them
stated yesterday that no man in that pre-
einot would be guilty of the act charged.
Professor W. 7. Sedgwick of the Msssa-
ohusetts Institute of Technology, at Bos-
ton, delivered the fourth lecture in the
mechanics course to large audience at
North Sheffield hall last evening. His
subjsct Was: "a Liberal Education" and
his essay WAS of high literary character.
Owing to the heavy business on the Con-
solidated road the managers have been
obliged to purchase four new freight loco
motives of tho Rhode Island Locomotive
works of Providence. This is in addition
to the thirty engines the roads has ordered
of the same company to be delivered In
March.
Another fatal case of scarlet fever was
reported last night from the Ninth ward.
Late yesterday afternoon Leon Lsventure,
aged about seven years, died of the disease
at the residence of his parents, 1872 Dix
we'll avenue, after sn illness of one week.
Another child is seriously i'll with the same
disease.
George H. Nye, who boarded at SO Ed
wards street, and Miss Cora N. Bristol, af-
tor their wedding trip, have returned to
this city from New York, where they
were married at the residence of Rev. DR..
Earle on West Forty fourth street last
Monday. They will reside at No. 81 Lin
den street
Mrs. Baldwin. wife of Mr.. George Bald
win, sexton of Calvary Baptist church, ia
quite Ill. She has been In poor health
since last Christmas, at which time she
was taken III with the grip, which left
prostrasing effects and she is now suffer-
ing with an attack of dropsical nature.
DR.. Walker Is attending her.
The Adams Express company had more
express matter to handle yesterday than at
any time since Christmas week. The rail- |
roads have been blocked for the past week
BY the snow there has only been a small
arrival of express matter and yesterday a
arge aggregation of matter came in on the
liferent roads which made great amount
4 work.