The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-27
FERROUS ITEMS.

Fire broke out in Meriden Sunday morning in tenement house on Spring dale avenue. Damage small
 President George II. Wilcox says that no foreman in the Britannia company's employ has been notified that any of the men were to be discharged after New Years and hired again.
 The Newtown Bee says in it's New Preston news: g,R Rev. MT. Armstrong of New Haven occupied the pulpit of the church here last Sunday morning and evening. His sermon in the morn ing was upon Responsibility, National and Individual" and although lengthy, he held the close attention of all from start to finish. His views and ideas was very forcibly stated No one need
 doubt of his idea. of our attitude to-
 wards Spain or our duty as parents,
 church members or citizens. His dis
 course in the evening was based upon
 the nearness of the Christmas time, and
 the evening service was devoted in part
 to music and song.
 George L. Beardslee of Oakville. near Waterbury, has 8 hand sled, the run- ners of which were sawed out of an
 ash root about seventy five years ago
 h1y At,aI bat In far i,,
 Oakville, now owned and occupied by
 George F. Morris, in Brldgewater. MT.
 Beardslee has had them for over forty years, getting them of Abijah Thomp-
 son. And by the way. Abijah Thomp- son used to be post rider and carried
 mail horseback, from New Haven to Albany or through Litchfield county to some point towards there. It is some
 what different now.
 John Vandervelt, an inmate of the Soldiers Home, died there Friday after
 noon of cancer of the stomach. Van- dervelt was an old Stamford man and belonged to Go. D, 9th c. V. The Stam- ford company was commanded by Col
 onel Meeker. The deceased's father was at one time in business there as a baker.
 The annual Christmas entertainment
 given by the Chautauqua union of New Haven Is announced for Thursday
 December 29, at the house of Mrs
 George Stevenson, SS Poplar street
 There will be no literary programme,
 the evening being devoted to things
 purely social. Each member of the cir cle invites a guest, and there IS
 merry giving out of presents and an al- together jolly time. The committee of arrangements is composed of Miss
 Grace Bristol, Miss E. L. Avery and Mrs Edward R. Slater.
 The Hartford Courant says: Walter Hinckley of Guilford, seventy-fiye years old, came to Hartford Friday night from Berlin. He did not have g railroad ticket or any money and could
 not say much about himself. He is de- mented He was taken to the police station, where he said that he had sister in Meriden, Mrs. Everett o1 Lindsley avenue. The Meriden police were asked to look up his relatives ir that city.
 MISS Clara S. dOTtOT Ul IlOWC c otVt' sons, spent Christmas with her parents in Hartford.
 MT. and Mrs James Mustarde an6 Master Ronald c. Mustarde spen1 i Christmas in Hartford. They were ths guests of MT. and Mrs. Charles Tender son of Highland street
 A Christmas tree entertainment an6 social under the auspices of New Ha- ven Rebekah lodge No. 3, I. O. o. F.
 will be given this evening in the New | Haven Dancing academy, 763 Chape | street.
 Among the floral tributes at the flu neral of Mrs. John Birk in Bridgeport ! Saturday were a fiat bouqet of white i carnations from Mrs. and Miss New hall of New Haven. The floral tributes ! were numerous. Rev. Dr. Frank Rus sell conducted the services and tht choir of the South church sang. The many friends of David s. Gamble | will be pleased to learn that he is recov. | ering from his illness. Besides being il with the grip he had rather a seriou! attack of bronchitis
 Ex-Alderman Charles E. Graves O | this city, treasurer of Trinity college
 Hartford. is quite ill at his residenct with the grip.