The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-14
or LOCAL INHERENT.

The masquerade ball which is to be given at Pythian hall, Branford, this evening promises to be a grand suc- cess There will be large party pres- ent, including a number of New Haven friends. The Seventh Ward Democratic club will meet tomorrow evening in the hall of St. Patrick's T. A. B. society on Wallace street to elect officers. Judge Blydenburgh has consented to address the club. The same evening the Ninth Ward Democratic club, which has one | hundred members, will meet at Pohl- | mans hall.
 Fire at 10 o'clock Saturday morning did damage amounting to about $2,500 in the house at 59 Prospect street, oc- cupied by James Dallas and owned by | the Henry Warner estate. The fire originated in basement and is thought l to have been caused by children who had a candle.
 | New Haven branch No. 8, Social De- i mocracy of America, has engaged Flu gene V. Debs and Sylvester Cahill, na- | tional secretary of the Social Democ- | racy, to speak here in, the branchs quarters in the new big music hall on 1 Court street, between Orange and State A band concert will precede the l speaking.
 l The Hartford Times says: "A num- Der of citizens being desirous of wit messing a game of billiards between | two of the great masters have made up a purse of $500 by subscription and | Jacob Schaefer, champion of the world and George F. Slosson, ex-champion of ] the world, will contest for it at Par son theater next Wednesday evening A by 10 billiard table will be sent from New York and placed on the stage and from the balcony no better place has ever been offered to witness game of billiards. The game will be 400 points at the new eighteen inch balk line, with one shot when in balk. This is the same game, with the ex- ception of the number of points, play ed for the championship, the champi- ons playing 500 points. The game will l begin at 8 o'clock sharp.' The entertainment and informal dance to be given by Philip H. Sheri- dan council No. 1467, Royal Arcanum, | at Harmonic hall, Elm street, to-nior- row evening promises to be very suc- cessful affair.
 Elnathan w. Wilcoxson of Stratford, who sustained shock of paralysis a short time ago, does not improve a great deal and as he is eighty-five years of age much alarm is felt con- corning his condition.
 A grand ball will be given at the East Haven town hall on Wednesday evening by the Union drum corps. A large number from Branford will at- tend.
 The many Bridgeport friends of Rev. Father McElroy of Birmingham, brother of Tax Collector James H. Mo- l Elroy of Bridgeport, will be pained to hear of his illness, which has assumed a serious character. An operation for appendicitis, it was thought, would be performed.
 w. H. H. Murray read John Norton's 1 "Vagabond" to large and attentive audience at the hall in the Blackstone Memorial library, Branford, one day last week.
 William A, Countryman. editor pro | New Haven, is making quite a number of friendly visits to Waterbury of late, and they are said to have a bearing on Mf Porter's candidacy. MT. Coun- tryman was active in the last canvass for MT. Porter, and it is to be presum- ed that he has not lost his interest in his chief.-Waterbury American.
 The ladies of St. Johns P. E. church. corner of Orange and Humphrey streets, will held next Wednesday an exhibition and sale of reproductions of famous artists for the benefit of the
 building fund of the church Copies will be shown of the work of Edwin A. Abbey, Howard Pyle, Charles Dana Gibson, N. l.. Taylor, Alice Barber
 Stephens, Albert Lynch, N. I. Smedley and others. The exhibit cannot fail to be most interesting, and those who at-
 tend it are sure of delightful hour among the pictures. whether they are so fortunate as to carry any of them
 away with them or not And to those
 who profess no connoisseurship in en-
 broideries and knitted and netted goods
 the exchange of luore for a Gibson or
 an Abbey, in place of the fabulous
 useful articles too often offered on
 such occasions, will be a distinct gain
 Not to neglect the essentials. ice
 cream, cake and homemade candy
 will be for sale. The enterprise and
 originality of the affair deserves, and
 will undoubtedly obtain, a rich suc-
 cess.