The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-30
LOCAL NE IVS.
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 High water to-day at 10:42 a. m.
 Buy house-R. D. Baldwin. SnowShovels, Bradley Damn, Darlington. McClure's Magazine for February at AlcKee's.
 Take in Greenwood's forced sale of shoes, 779 Chapel street.
 Loans and insurance furnished by Charles Wilson & Co.,, 42 Church street. The annual masquerade ball of the Harugari Singing society will be held in their hall Monday.
 There was meeting of the directors of the Meriden, Waterbury and Connec- ticut River railroad yesterday in Meri- den.
 The Mignonette assembly, was held in Walters Academy hall last night. There were one hundred and fifty cou- ples in the march.
 The annual private masquerade of the Arion Singing society was held in their hall last night. There was about one hundred couples in the grand march.
 MT. Charles A. Warren, ex-president of the State Street Railroad company, has recovered from severe cold, and is out again. His wife, who has also been indisposed with a severe cold, is conva- descent.
 A New Haven gentleman who has just returned from the Bermuda Islands says that the season there is the worst in years. But few northern people are spending the winter on the islands on account of the miserable weather. Rain has fallen during the greater part of six weeks.
 MT. George M. Cameron, past chancel- Tor of Ezel lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias, was agreeably surprised at Tuesday nights session by the presen- tation of an elegant past chancellor's jewel suitably inscribed for his valuable services as chancellor commander of the lodge. The presentation speech was made by Brother Theodore Keller, which was heartily responded to in a neat and appropriate manner by Past Chancellor Cameron The Ezel lodge is in a f1ourishing condition, having several candidates for initiation at every meet ing.
 Rev. John C. Collins returned last night from Asheville and and other places among the mountains of North Carolina. He was there in the interest Of his proposed colony in the mountains of western North Carolina flor rest and Christian work among the mountain eers. At Bilbmore, the railroad station for the Vanderbilt domain, he met MT. F. H. English of Prospect street, this city, who is staying for several months at Wentworth Inn for the recuperation of his health. His New Haven friends will be glad to know that he is rapidly recovering and that his speedy and com- plete restoration to health is assured.
 A prominent military official of the state said yesterday that it would be impossible to state definitely whether the Second Regiment armory could be used hereafter for the purpose of hold ing the annual Yale junior promenade or not. He said that a request for the use of it for that purpose would proba- bly have to go before the governor of the state and the adjutant general before it was decided and as there will be a state election before then it is impossible to tell what disposition the new state officers will make of the petition. It is the opinion of state military officers that the junior prone. made will be made a test case for de ciding the new rule passed by Cover. nor Coffin and Adjutant General Ora ham. Captain Pettit says that he feels the military department at Yale vii always be conducted SO as to merit the esteem and good will Of the state off ciale and that there will be rpo trouble in securing the armory for the shor time necessary for the junior prone made.