Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-01-05
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Euy new house. R E. Baldwin.
Thomas Bassett of this city has been
the guest of William Day of Seymour.
Mrs. Mile cGranville- Knox. who is ill
at her apartments at the Kenwick house, is
improving.
The New Haven Caledonian club is max
ing preparation to celebrate Burns birth
day Janua1y27.
The annual meeting of the Connecticut
State Agricultural society will be held in
Meriden January II.
Judge Studlsy said yesterday that no
appointment for clerk of the court of com
mon pleas would be made at present.
The Social Science association will meet
at the Young Mems institute rooms this
evening to perfect a permanent organiza-
ton.
Alderman Torrance B. Kelly denies the
report that lie will tender his resignation
as alderman st the meeting of the board
tonight.
Last Saturday rounded out the eighty
third year which Andrew L Kiaston has
resided in the house he now occupies at 7
Orange .treet
Clinton W. Pratt, the first smallpox pa
tient in this city, has returned to hja bust
ness and is again acting as pilot CT the
steamer C.sH. Northam.
James Murphy, for whom a warrant has
been in the hands of the police for several
months, surrendered himself last night
He is wanted for chicken stealing.
The New Haven lawn club has now
raised money to erect the proposed bowl
ing alley, and the work will be commenced
as soon as possible. The coat will be about
$4,000.
Good skating at Like Saltonstall. Ex-
cursion tickets for the lake at the Union
depot. Trains leavs at HOS a. m and
5:15 p m; returning, arrive at New Haven
at sos and 1853 p. N.
James l.. Stokes, the colored barber, died
at the Springside homo early yesterday
morning. He was forty years old and died
of consumption. He had bsen an inma:e
of the institution for year.
It is now reported that Blanch Douglass,
who came go prominently into notoriety in
this city in connection with the Jennie
CTamer murder, was married recently in
New jersey under the name of Gertrude
Saunders.
John j Phelan, the secretary Of state, is
bssiegsd with applications for positions
within his gift. He mas the power to fill
but three positions. They are chief clerk
and two assistants. He has already re-
ceived forty applications.
G. barnum Seeley Hurt.
Bridgeport, Jan &C. Barnum Seeley,
grandson of P. T. Barnum, fell whils
skating at Southport, Tuesday night He
sprained his ankle and broke the small
bones CT his leg. He was the guest OF
Oliver Buckley, but is now at his home on
Thirty-ninth street, New York He was
intending to sail January 81 to the West
Indies on his yacht Atlantic, but the acci
dent will lay him up for about Elk weeks
COLLECTIONS FOR HOSPITAL.
Needs Are Greater Because of the Ex.
pense caused by the Smallpox Out.
break.
On Saturday and Sunday, January and
8, the annual collection for the state hos
pitsl will be taken in the churches. The
prudential committee, consisting of Ell
Whitney, jr., DR.. W. H. Carmalt and
Thomas Hooker, in their circular just is
sued, state that the need of the hospital i.
especially urgent at this time because o.
the Losses due to the recent outbreak o.
smallpox. There was a loss of severa
hundred dollars through the quarantine
which compelled the hospital to keep, a
its own expense, patients who would other
wise have been discharged as needing ne
further treatment. The necessary destruc
ton of infected clothing and bedding wal
also another extra expense.
Contributions may also be sent at any
time to the treasurer, w. 7. Bartlett, al
the Office Of the Union Trust company, o.
to J. H. Starkweather, superintendent.