Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-21
LOCAL NE W 3.
RPdAf m anton.

For Xmas goods, Mallory's, 1884 Chapel.
Money wanted on mortgage. E. Bald
win.
Finest confectionery, pure and whole
some, at Shows old reliable store. Fill
the children's stockings
We are selling first quality floor oil cloth
at lower price than any house in the city.
The Home Drapery Co., 694 Chapel.
Alderman Walter J. Conner and Com
missioner Thomas 81. Sullivan returned
yesterday from trip to Washington, D. g.
Ice dealers all over the state are jubilant
over the prospect of harvesting this year
the largest and best crop of ice for many
years.
z. A. Babeock, Fred 8. Clark and W. A.
Hotchkiss were elected town committee for
the coming year by the prohibitionists last
evening.
A fine line Of holiday goods at Apothe-
carries hall. 1t will pay you to see them
and inquire prices. 1t is really rare op-
portunity.
Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor,
was in Bridgeport this week. He stopped
over an hour each way on q business trip
to Meriden.
Governor Morris was in Middletown yes
terday attending the quarterly meeting of
the board of directors of the state indus
trial school.
Henry W. Lupton, who resides in STRAIT
ford and is clerk in the Consolidated
road Offices here, is severely i'll and pneu-
monia is feared.
Mrs. Osborne, wife of President A. D.
Osborne of the Second National bank, was
critically Ill last evening with pneumonia.
She has been i'll about week.
How the boys and girls do like those
world renowned Peck & Snyder skates
found only in New Haven at J. E. Bassett
& Co.'s great hardware store.
Lucius Tuttle, formerly vice president
of the Consolidated railroad and now pres
ident of the Boston and Maine, has been
elected a director of the Maine Central.
The formal opening of the Hotel Mono
pole will be held on Saturday night of this
week, when the public are respectfully in
vited to inspect Mr.. Dunn's new hotel.
Francis B. Trowbridge of this city is en-
gagged in preparing history of the Harri-
son family, one branch of which settled In
Cornwall and another In Morris, then South
Farms.
The fur markets of the globe are repre-
scented in Burgess & Burgess big stock.
Santa Claus brings to them many buyers of
fur shoulder capes, muffs, head boas, fur
caps, gloves, robes, etc.
Don't fail to see the elegant stock of
goods at Kstsch's, the jeweler, before pur-
chasing elsewhere. New goods this week.
Nothing like them in the city. No. 1876
Church street, near public library.
Rev. V. N. Olyphant, the Presbyterian
clergyman who committed suicide in New
York recently, son of President Olyphant
of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad COM
psny, spent last summer in Litchfield for
his health.
At the Hartford hospital early this morn
ing ii was reported that Thomas J. Cam
pion, the newspaper man, was very low
and there was little hope of him living
several hours longer. His mother, who
was summoned from Waterbury, was at
his beside.
The members md friends of the Epworth
N. E. church were delightfully."- entertained
last evening by the Rev. Charles L. Good
ell, pastor Of the Winthrop Street N. E
church, Boston, Mass. "Heroes In Home
spun" was treated in very comprehensive
manner, in which the humorous, the pa.
thetic and the sublime played prominent
part. Rev. Mr.. Goodel is gentleman of
fine physique, excellent delivery, and In
short, possesses pleasing manner which
won for him the wrapt attention of his
audience.