Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-19
LOCAL NE w s.
Brief Mention.

Buy 6 new house. k. E. Baldwin.
 Solid comfort-the new Royal shoe.
 The condition of Engineer Hopson last night remained about the same.
 Yesterday morning at Hartford the mer- cury touched 16 degrees below zero.
 James T. Higby of Milford, who has been i'll with rheumatism, is much better.
 John F. Gaffsy will soon deliver his famous lectures on orthand writing in New York city.
 The New Haven Bicycle club will have their anniversary supper at the Forbes house January 24
 Racing on the ice on the Connecticut river at Hartford began yesterday. Many trotters were out.
 Owing to the short supply most of the retail dealers have advanced the price of stove and nut coal to $7 ton.
 Theodora circle, No. 30, A. o. F., gave . banquet after the installation of officers at Ezel lodge rooms last evening.
 Alice M. Davis was arrested last evening on a warrant charging her with embezzle ment from the Home of the Friendless.
 Burglars robbed the safe at the Bethel postof6ce yesterday morning of $500 in money and stamps. They blew open the safe.
 Steam tugs that came from Bridgeport to this port yesterday encountered broken masses of ice continually all the way in the sound.
 The twenty seventh annual convention of the Y. M. c. A. of Connecticut will be held at New Britain February 17-19 in. elusive.
 John H. Carney was arrested by Officer Flynn on Bridge street last evening. He had stolen a broom from store kept by William Keefe.
 An interesting meeting of the gospel temperance workers in the neighborhood of Howard avenue was held in Grace M. E. church last evening.
 The Case memorial library, the gift of the late Newton Case to the Hartford Theo- logical seminary, was dedicated with ap- propriate exercises last evening.
 The winter of '56 and '57 was famous one for intense cold and big storms, and on Friday, January 24, '57, the thermom- eter recorded 35 below zsro in these parts.
 J. c. Gallagher of this city defended the wheelmen Ut the state board of trade meet ing in Bridgeport yesterday in the wheel, mems efforts for better roads
 Lighthouse Keeper Ado]phus McNeil of Bridgeport and his wife walked ashore on the ios from the Bridgeport lighthouse to the inner hsrbor yesterday morning.
 The Y. M. c. A, Debating club will have the Y. M. c. A. building, coFnsr Chapel and Union streets. The public ia cordially invited.
 Rev. Dr. B. B. Taylor of the Church of the Disciples, New York, addressed large meeting of the New Haven Christian En- dsavor union at the United church last evening.
 Charter Oak lodge, N. E o. F., last even- ing organized sick benefit association in connection with their lodge. which will pay $5 per week to member in case of sickness.
 Thomas Jones and Charles Wilson were arrested last evening by Officers Williams and R. T. Moore. They were begging money from passersSy on Church street near the postofice.
 Hon. Deming will deliver an illustrated lecture on Colorado and the Rocky Mountains" before the members of Area mum lodge, I. O. 0. F., of Bridgeport, and their friends on the evening of December 27.
 Miss Annie Ellinsgaard, e lieutenant of the Salvation army who has been stationed in Middletown since Christmas, dropped dead of heart disease Tuesday night just after returning home from 8 meeting of the army.
 Thomas O'Connor is financial secretary of Division 4. A. o. H. James Morrison, who Is under arrest and held to answer on the charge of embe zZlement of funds of the division, was treasurer ofi Division 4, not financial secretary.
 The late Jailer Apollos Fenn of Hartford leaves @ wife and three unmarried daugh- ters in Plainville, and three sons in Hart ford, General Wallace T. Fem, secretary and treasurer of the Kellogg & Bulkeley company, w. l.. Fem and Andrew w. Fenn.
 The Hubingers, who have been running an electrical plant chiefly for the develop ment of @ storage battery for electric cars on their property in the region of Hamil- ton park, have decided to abandon the pro jeot and devote their works to the manu- lecture of each registers.