The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-31
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

WllH 4AlsS iotlle I1lflkley or AuuuDon street.
 Isaac Bromley, ST., of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune, arrived in New London in an invalid car Sat urday afternoon and was taken to Nor wich. He is the father of Major Isaac Bromley of this city.
 E. M. Corythel formerly manager of the Boston shoe store in this city, but who is now mayor of Pilatka, Fla, is in town visiting friends for a few days, He is staying with Dr. Wood of How ard avenue.
 Frank M. Barber of this city, Con- necti,ut manager of the Associated Press, is receiving congratulations on thc arrival of g fine nine-pound boy his first born.
 Robert Ferguson, the Derby colored man who was cut with razor in the hands of another colored man in that place Saturday night is doing well and will recover. He is at the New Haven hospital. It was thought at first his injuries would prove fatal The degree of master of patents has been conferred upon Attorney F. Philip Farnsworth, at the Columbian univer- sity at Washington, where he has been taking a special course. There was one other Connecticut man who secured
 this degree and he is Francis Mohun Phelps.
 Joseph Miller and H. J. Gauley, mes- sengers employed in the postotiice, par ticipated yesterday afternoon in a 10- ! mile bicycle race in Danbury. l.. w. Sullivan, another postoffice employe, competed in the Irvington- -Milburn (N. J) road race.
 Four hundred kegs of black powder for sporting cartridges, assigned to the Winchester Repeating Arms company, | arrived at Long wharf on board the | schooner Lizzie M. Jones, yesterday morning, and was transferred through | the city to the Hamden magazines un- der direction of Fire Marshal Fancher. The powder comes from Lafin & | Grant, Delaware.
 There was a big crowd at Lighthouse Point yesterday including the Arion
 Singing society, which held picnic l Many parties went in the steam launch | to the new notifications
 | Dr. and Mrs. Swift of Orange street
 will sail about July for Europe to be
 absent throughout the summer. 1 The concert given on Thursday night l in Harmonic hall for Mrs. Michaelson | netted about $275, which will be placed | to the widows account in one of the | banks.
 | Mrs. Jean Pardee- Clark, who return | ed on Saturday from a weeks stay at
 Saratoga, will go back to the Springs | this week, to remain for the summer,
 where she will locate at the United | States hotel. She will represent as summer correspondent three or four | New York dailies.
 1 The wedding of Miss Belle M Man vile of Park street, and Frederick S. l Hurlburt son of Mir. and Mrs. s. w. Hurlburt. The ceremony will be cele-
 brated at St. Paups church on June P. | The bride-elect is charming young lady and will make lovely bride The
 groom-elect is in business with his fa-
 ther on Chapel street.
 Miss Alice May Chapin, daughter of
 Mrs. Edward Putnam of 12S Ward
 street, and Leroy Clark, son of Deacon 1 Spencer Clark, will be married on | Wednesday evening, June 2, at the 1 home of the bride. The ceremony will l be performed by Rev. Dr. Gilbert of | Trinity M. E. church, of which the bride is a member MT. Clark is one of
 the leaders among the younger set in Dwight Place church, is a prominent member of the New Haven Grays, and colonel of the Third regiment of the Boys Brigade, and occupies the inn 1 portant position of teller at the First 1 National bank. After the wedding Mr.
 and Mrs. Clark will go away for ten
 days trip to Washington, Baltimore
 and Philadelphia. A new house is be-
 ing built for the young couple at the
 corner of George and Greenwood
 streets.
 At the whist party at the new Surf house at Savin Rock recently Mrs. Cox,
 wife of the proprietor, was presented
 during the evening with a handsome palm and hydrangea in full bloom There were four tables and a delicious | supper was served after the play The
 players included MT. and Mrs. Thomas Kinney, MT. and Mrs. Kennedy, Mr.
 and Mrs. Matthew Leahy, MT. and Mrs l William Geary, Dr. Sheehan, MT. and
 Mrs. William Sheehan, Dr. Cahill, Mr.
 adn Mrs. Carroll and Miss Colbrook
 Dr. Cahill and Mrs. Leahy were the prize winners.
 The committee of St. Michaeps R. C.
 church has reported unanimously in fa- vor of building a new place of worship. Paul Russo, the Rev. Father Lotti and Joseph Poli made speeches urging
 those present to vote for a new build ing. The new building which it is es- timated will cost $30,000, will be erected
 on the site now occupied by St. Mich aeps, at the corner of Wooster and Brewery streets. In Po1i's theater Sum- day night "The Chief Scoundrel," a
 drama in four acts, was given for the | benefit of St. Michael's church. A
 good crowd was present and about S15O was realized.
 Improvements will be made during | vacation in the Hillhouse High school
 building so as to greatly increase the
 seating capacity, by removing the par | fyct oroI o,,I