Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-12
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

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 Brief Mention.
 High water to-day at 2:08 p. m.
 A good investment, cheap, R. E. Baldwin. To-day is the sixth anniversary of the great blizzard of 1888.
 Tho Canaee Rubber factory will be shut down from March F to April 23.
 The Rev. J. H. Twichell and Charles Dudley Warner of Hartford arrived at Bermuda last Friday.
 The second annual masquerade of the 8. 0. K. club will be given in Pyramid hall tomorrow night.
 Paul Jones, the globe trotter, will hold forth at the mems furnishing counter of Malley, Nicely & Co.'s store all day Mon day.
 Huntin2ton's town meeting Saturday voted to accept the proposed free public library building tendered by Horace O. Plumb.
 Nelson A. Hardin, lifelong resident of Glastonbury, died Saturday, aged eighty four. His son, s. 0. Hardin, is town clerk of Glastonbury.
 The time for the graduating exercises of tho class of '94, Derby high school, has been fixed for March 31, and the place the Sterling Opera house.
 The funeral services of Miss Nellie Our tie, aged nineteen, took place yesterday at her home in Glastonbury. She at one time lived in Hartford.
 A slight fire occurred at the residence of Charles E. Hart, 19 Warren street, Satur- day afternoon. It caught from @ stove pipe. No. 7's men e1tinguished it.
 The advance sale of seats for Lillian Russell is remarkably large for an opening sale, one of the most notable during G. B.. Bunnelps management of the Hyperion.
 Frank W. Harmon, son of General Har- mon, has heen made a member of the firm of Wilson & Harmon, the Chapel street habsrdashers. The firms style will remain the same.
 T. H. Bartlett, the sculptor, formerly of this city, Is to lecture on art in St. Mar garet's courae, Waterbury, this evening. Many old Waterbury friends will call upon him at the Scoville house.
 Tomorrow evening s. P. Thrasher of this city, secretary of the Citizens Law and Order league, will address the people of Waterbury, under the auspices of the Council for Temperance Work.
 The Rev. W. Fl. Barton of Waterbury, formerly of this city, who Is at Clifton Springs, N. r.. recuperating from an at tack of nervous prostration caused by overwork, Is steadily improving.
 The brigade meeting of the State U. R., K. of F., will be held in Bridgeport, Thursday, March 22, at 9 p. m., to elect Q brigadisr general to succeed E. F. Durant of this city, whose term expires in Juno.
 George Fl. Mitchell and wife of Vest Florida few days ago. Ar. Mitchell has purchased a cottage st Avon Park, Fla., and will make that place his winter home.
 The Rev. Adam Chambers will exhibit his grand panorama and deliver his very entertaining and instructive lecture on the "Pilgrim's Progress" at the Howard ave nue M. E. church, corner of Fourth street, this evening at 8 o'clock.
 By the will of the late Editor Bailey of DAnbury his executors five years after his death are to equally divide between the Connecticut Humane society and the Ssc- ond Baptist chu-ch of Danbury the sum of $l6,0 The widow is we'll provided for.
 Attorney Wallace s. Moyle of this city, who has been engaged to sing at the ami versary celebration of Court Connecticut, Nsriden, April Il, will be the guest of Jesse c. Green of Meriden, general agent for the Manhattan Life, for few days this week.
 The announcement that the Connecticut Go Operative Savings society is paying in- terest at the rate of IS per cent. is 50 foolish as to carry it's own reputation with 1t. The society is trying to do safe busi- ness and Is not trying to pay sn absurd rate of interest.
 Charles F. Gorham, an insurance agent in tho employ of tho New York Life h. surance company, Is unsccountsbly miss ing from his home. He formerly lived at 172 Cedar Hill avenue, but has of late been living in Wsst Haven, where his wife and three children are.
 An alarm was sent in from box 611, corner of Ashmun and Henry streets, about 3:30 Saturday afternoon. A new family was moving into an old house on Henry street, near Dixwell avenue, and someone threw . cigar stump in waste paper packet, setting 1t on fire. It was