The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-06
PERSONAL.

Miss Sue Ives of Fair Haven is visit ing Miss Stella Raymond in Meriden. Miss Ives will be one of the six brides maids at the Leuchman and Frederick wedding Tuesday evening, May 6, at St, Pauts church.
 Governor Coffin has accepted the res ignation of Major Fred A. Fox of Nor wich, a field officer of the Third regi- ment, c. N. G. Major Fox has been in the service about twenty years.
 J, W. Manning and Mrs. Manning celebrated their golden wedding at Put nam yesterday afternoon. Mir Man. ming is a prominent merchant in the city of Putnam and has been town clerk for forty-one years, MT. and Mrs, Manning have lived in Putnam for fifty years.
 Jane Coombs whose company Is play ing the Bleak House" in the Grand opera house, is cousin of Mrs. Pen ney, wife of Attorney A. D. Penney. She has just concluded a very success ful tour through the west and south, playing before crowded houses through out her trip
 Joseph Jefferson and "The Rivals" company will be given an informal re- ception at the Graduates club after the performance at the Hyperion this even ing.
 William E. Barnett, executive secre- tary to Charles P. Clark, president of the Consolidated road, has purchased of Miss Henrietta D. Shelton the prop erty situated at the northwest corner of Sachem and Prospect streets. The property has a frontage of 50 feet on Prospect street and 1884 feet on Sachem street, The price paid for the property was not given.
 Major Albees offered reward of $1 900 and that of $200 by the town for the ap- prehension of the persons or persons responsible for the recent explosion at Major Albee's house, Westville, has drawn a number of detectives, anna teurs and others, to New Haven. Two Pinkerton men, one a tall individual and the other a short, sandy -moustach- ed man, have been here for three days searching for clues. They are stopping at the Aldrich house and make nightly trips to Westville, returning on the last car
 The party at the home of Mrs. Henry Trowbridge, 360 Temple street, was the occasion of the christening of the young son of MT. and Mrs Courtland Trow- k,,il I | Trowbridge, for his late grandfather, | and the sponsors were his maternal grandfather, pr. Hubbard of Bridge port F. Hayes Trowbridge and his aunt, Mrs. F. c. Powell of Newport, R. l. Rev. pr. Lewis of Bridgeport offici- ated at the baptism.
 Judge w. K. Townsend of the United | States district court has gone to New | York, where he will hold court for the | next week or ten days.
 The Rev. Johnson Tomlinson, who has been spending the winter in New Haven at Mrs. Eugene Miller's on Or ange street, has returned to his home | in Simsbury, Conn,
 | Miss Minnie Belle Kay's recital will | be given in Warner hall next Wednes- | day evening, May 13. She will be as sisted by an excellent array of talent. l The program will be announced later | Captain David S. Thomas is steadily recovering from his illness and is able to be up and about the house daily a part of the time, and it is expected that he will be able to visit his office next week. He is almost daily receiv- | ing letters of enquiry and booking dates for next fall for the delivery of his highly successful illustrated bal | loon lectures, which have made such a hit and are in such demand When | taken ill he had a number of engage
 ments to lecture, which his illness pre- vented him from filling including the | second lecture at Warner hall this city before Admiral Foote post, the crowd at the first lecture having been so great that many people were absolutely un- able to find room in the hall. Since he was taken i'll his double dissolvine stereopticon which he had ordered for | the illustrating of his lectures has ar | rived. It's execution is superb. far sur passing in effectiveness his former ap- paratus and 1t is similar in work and execution to that used by MT. Stoddard at the Stoddard lectures. Mir. Thomas host of friends will be much pleased to hear of his returning strength. Dur | ing his illness he was the recipient oi many gifts of flowers and other evi- dences of the regard in which he is held by the public.
 Those who did not have an oppor-
 tunity to hear MT Alfred A. Farland
 the banjo virtuose, at the recital giver | under the management of MT. Feorge l Ansel Austin a short time ago, will | have an opportunity Friday evening May 29, in Steinert hall, when he will | give a private recital under the same | management. The tickets are to haC
 by subscription. being limited. and car
 be obtained from MT. George A. AustiI
 of No. 9 Warren street By limiting
 the attendance a small hall can be use6
 which will greatly favor the finer quail
 ties of the banjo. Mr. Farland vii
 be accompanied by fine pianist, Whicf
 will also beautify his selections.
 A. B. Anderson, a member of the Connecticut Press association, and one of the best known theatrical men il
 the state, is in this city in advance O 1 Innes' band, which will soon appear al
 the Hyperion. For the past three year: he has heen n1apaeer for a fheater a