Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-05-29
LOCAL ME WS.
Brief Mention.
5altonsta!l' for an outing
High water tc s1ay at $50 6

SaltOnst6.i Tor an OuGlDB
High water tc *1ay at 5.35 a. m.
Buy a good houss-R. E. Baldwin.
For comfort in warm weather the Royal
shoe and Oxfords are best.
Turing and grading-Connecticut Con-
crete company, 40 Church, room 4.
Miss Nellie Henderson of Ansonia is vis-
iting her cousin, Miss Healy of ia Wallace
street.
Thomas F. Gilman of this city will be
the orator of the day on Memorial day at
East Haddam.
George White has sold his Black Chief to
F. Il. Smell of the Hygeia Ice company and
his Adelaid to Springfield party.
To morrow, Decoration day, Alderman
q. F. Reyes and Assessor G.. A. Baldwin
will deliver addresses..on the green in East
Haven.
Most of the Waterbury militia officers
will attend the full dress battalion drill of
the New Haven companies of the Second
regiment this evening.
Joseph Nevins, son of Thomas Nevins,
superintendent of the New Haven Wire
company, who resides on Ferry street, fs
dangerously sick with peritonitis.
Miss Edith Barr, the talented character
artist CT this city, appeared in several reel
tations in Wethersfeld last evening in con-
neotion with play given there by the Am
aranth Dramatic club.
A still alarm was SAINT to rs house at an
early hour yesterday morning. Police Off
GERS discovered blazing oil lamp in Wat
terson's hat store, and the store full of
smoke. The fremen soon righted mat
ters.
F. R. Clark of this city has entered his
well-known mare, Annie O.. In the 2:35
race at Waterbury, as has also @. 8. Till
inghast of Westvills put in one of his trot-
tors. The races at Waterbury bsgin next
Thursday.
Elk Judge Sheldon has accepted an invi-
tstion to lecture before the New Haven
chamber of commerce at their next meet
ing, which is to be held to morrow even
ing. His subject Will be "Restoration of
Confidence in Business"
DR.. g. A. Dorman of New Haven, a fo--
mer New Britain boy, addressed the meet
ing of the New Britain Y. N. G. A. Sun
day afternoon. In the evening he spoke
in the Methodist church on the effects of
Alcohol on the Mind and Body"
A swapping turtle Weighing 1873 pounds
was captured in Essex last week. Attached
to the great shell was a brass ring and q
check about the sizs of silver quarter,
similar to baggage check. On this was
plainly seen the words, "Groton, 1854"
Edward J. F. Werder, an assistant IL.
brarian at Yale, who died at Yale infrm-
AIRY Sunday of appendicitis, was taken i'll
with the disease two weeks ego. An oper-
alton was performed, but q relapse eet in
on Saturday. Werder was forty eight
years old and unmarried.
the law students who will compete for
the Townsend prize sre Hartman s. Graves
of Burlington, Vt; Percy Finlay of Mem
phis, Tenn, and Gsorge Montgomery of
Turkey. Their names were announced
yesterday ss being those selected as best in
the competitive examination.
On June W. Frederick Stanley, clerk
in the Office of the general ticket Office of
the Consolidated road, and Miss Carrie
Vishno, daughter of DR.. Charles Vishno,
will be married at the home of the BRIDES
parents ON Olive street. After the mar
riage the young couple will reside on KIM
berry avenue.
Plans for the new Sheffield laboratory,
which ia to be erected on Prospect street,
north of North Sheffield hall, are complete,
and bids for lis construction are now being
asked for by Yale. A laboratory fully
equipped is greatly needed, and this will
be one of the largest and bes. in the coun-
try. The building will be 70 feet front by
1879 deep. The equipment will be of the
best.
David II. Clark, the builder, captured
three very fine speckled beauties 'sjust
back of the big stump" Saturday, which
weighed respectively one pound five ounces,
one pound three ounces and one pound one
ounce. They were not caught with silver
hook either, according to veritable testi-
mony. David's underground trout caught
at Lake George last summer still holds the
New Haven record, although the ex-post-
master caught the biggest on this years
trip.
A Brilliant occasion was the reception
given recently in simsbury by the juniors
in honor of the graduating class of the
leading Institution there. About 1875 guests
were present. including Miss Wurtt of
Smiths college, class of '97; Miss Dorothy
Kelsey of New Haven, the Misses Mix Doc
little and Kendrick of Yalesville, Elliot of
Clinton and Lum of New Haven. Yale was
represented by Msssrs. Elliot and Waller,
class of '94; Marsh and Coe '95, Shaw, Jack
son, Le'Neese, Coudrey, Kelsey and Hart
,96. and Oszood 1913. Others present were
Nesers. Wilson and Dsnnison Of Welseyan
,o4: Edesrton of Trinity '94, DR.. Clifford
Porter and James Hamilton of Hartford,
Beniamiu Lum Of New Haven.