Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-21
LOCAL NE Tvs.
Brief Mention.

High water to day at 5:46 p. m.
Buy good house-R. E. Baldwin.
Miss Eliza Began went to Meriden yes
terday on visit
Four thousand people attended the Will
limsntic fair yesterday.
State Organizer Gilmore visits Roger
Sherman council to night.
Rev. Mr.. Vail speaks at the North
church, Bridgeport, September %.
The 21st school year of tho Yale Business
College begins Monday, September 4.
Concrete walks laid and repaired by
Conn. Concrete company, 40 Chureh street.
The Episcopal academy at Cheshire
opened yesterday with large attendance.
Special cheap excursion. See our ad.
under excursions. Morse, Schroeder &
Stock.
The Con olidated road trains to and from
Meriden yesterday during the day were
throngad with passengers.
Mr.. Murphy, the temperance evangelist,
and wife, are the guests Of Rev. Asher
Anderson inMsriden for day or two.
The Huntington fair will be held next
week Wednesday and Thursday. The
Wheeler & Wilson band will furnish
music. ,.,ia sn1 d1;- >irrA = r,
A mysterious disease has made Its ap-
pearance among domestic fowl In Bridge
port and vicinity and has worked disastrous
results.
Representative Sperry of Connecticut
spoke for the maintenance of the tariff on
Sumatra wrapper tobacco at Washington
yesterday.
In Milford Will Hickey has purchased a
building lot on New Haven avenue where
he proposes to erect fine residence. James
Bristol has taken the contract.
Governor Morris and staff to the worlds
fair October II. The ex governor will
make short speech in the Windy City.
There will be ball game on the A. o.
U. w. grounds, in Meriden, Saturday be-
tween Silver City lodges team of Meriden,
and team from Israel Putnam lodge Of
New Haven.
The fourth annual flower show of st.
Paul's Sunday school was held yesterday
afternoon and evening, and was fine sue
cess and much enjoyed by the large mum
Der of friends present.
Misses Emile Cherubiria and Gabrielle
Fiorillo of New York city are the guests
of Professor NJ. Del Gregg for ten days.
Miss Emilia is we'll known italian actress
and will appear here later this season.
Yesterday in Fairfield, at the summer
home of Colonel and Mrs. Frank L Bigs-
low of this city, Mrs. Bigelow's sister, Miss
Julia Antoinette Lewis and Mr.. Irving
Lane Lippencott were united in marriage
Cards are out announcing the coming
wedding of Mics Bertha Penn of this city
to Mr.. Francis A. Bartholomew of Bridge
port September %. The ceremony will be
held in the Center church, the Rev. New
man Smyth officiating.
The Hon. s. K. Wightman of Middle
town, who was speaker of the house in the
general assembly of 1887, ia now in New
York, and although over eighty, is yet an
active member of the law firm of s. Z. &
F. B. Wightman of No. 229 Broadway
He has resided in New York for fifty
years.
Mrs. Mary E. Shaughnessy living on the
Old Farms road, has in two weeks lost ovel
200 chickens and almost half that number
of geese. number of her neighnors have
also suffered loss of many of their fowls
The disease generally attacks its victims
In the morning and before night provel
fatal.
Miss Carrie J. Rice, daughter of Mr.. ani
Mrs. Joel T. Rice of Fair Haven, and siste
of Mrs. Hall, wife of DR.. E: G. NJ. Hall
has accepted position as teacher in larg
school near Philadei phia, and left to ente
upon her duties there this week. Sh'
graduated from Mt. Holyoke seminary las
spring.
Tritan Burgess, the central figure in tn
sensational Ansonia malpractice cas-
whereby Nellie Nssbitt, the pretty younl
Girl, lost her life on July s, arrived II
Waterbury Monday and will make his HON
in this city, says the Republican. He vii
enter the employ of prominent manu-
featuring concern as designer, with tn
idea of making this city his home.
Frederick J. Coe of this city, aged fifty
three, died in Durham Tuesday Afternoon
of gangrene, resulting from ivy poison ant
erysipelas. Mr.. Coe was one of the hes
known travelling men in Connecticut, hsv
ing been employed by a New Haven con
Germ for twenty-f FIVE years. The funera
k.hoc ,1..o f.o,c, me- rosidaYrea Of hi
mother in this city this afternoon.
Rev. DR.. Asher of this city has returned
from Rome, where he visited the pope
He says . bishop will soon be appointed
for the Catholic diocese. He has been alb
sent from the country only twenty eigh
DAYS and In that time has travelled II. O0(
miles and accomplished his errand. The
brother Of the late bishop, Rev. John Nc
Mshon, D. D., accompanied DR.. Maher
to Boston where he is now resting from his
fatigue. r. rs .-''- '+'''