The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-15
Local Weather Report. FOR FEBRUARY l4, 1898.
Brief Mention.
Brief Mention High water to-day, 5;22 a. m. Insurance & Loans. Chas. Wilson & Go.

High water to-day, 5;22 a. m.
 Insurance & Loans. Chas Wilson & Go.
 Two family house s2, 600. RE. Baldwin.
 Note Edw. Malley's offer of rent freq 10 March 1st.
 Cards are out for whist party to be given by Miss Caroline A. IIoadley of Hopson avenue, Branford, to morrow evening.
 The St. Aloysius society will cele- brate Washington's birthday next Sum- day. Rev. T. J. Cullen and Father A. s F. Doyle will speak.
 Thousands of valentines were sent through the local postoffice yesterday, good indication that Valentine day custom is not yet dying out.
 New Haven men staying at the St. Flames hotel, Washington, D. C., yester- day, were: Dr. D. L. Lambert, A. T.. Armstrong and J. V. Rattlesdorfer.
 A large delegation of Beethoven lodge of Odd Fellows of Hartford will attend in March the twenty fifth an niversary celebration of Humboldt lodge, No. 9l, of this city.
 The Colonial Danes of Hartford will meet next Thursday afternoon at the house of Miss Julia Davenport, who will read a paper on '"The Rev. John Davenport of New Haven N w. F. Hutchinson of Waterbury, who has for some time been an agent for the John Hancock Life Insurance nv hoc c Iaay, toI fn ha sition of assistant superintendent. He will come to New Haven.
 Mrs. N. D. Sperry, wife of the New Haven congressman, is a candidate to succeed Mrs. E. J. Hill, wife of the representative from Norwalk, as one of the twenty vice president generals of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution.
 Thomas Casey, aged sixty-five, an in mate of the Soldiers home, was killed on the railroad at Noroton yesterday morning. He was identified by letters found on his person. The man was walking on the track and evidently be- came confused.
 G. w. Hill, ex-secretary of the Man. haitian Silver Plate company, who COIilIlltCd dL Iut NOICdSc llOlel, Syracuse, N. Y, last Saturday, while disheartened, at one time lived in New Haven. He was sixty-fve years old and leaves a widow in Syracuse.
 A pension has just been allowed to Russell l.. Vibberts of Hartford at the rate of $12 a month, from March 29, 1897. The new pensioner is the father of Charles w. Vibberts of Company B of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, who was drowned In the Potomac, April A. 1895.
 Hartford Courant:-Cards for the wedding of the New England and the New York, New Haven and Hartford roads are being prepared. The engage ment so long denied, is now acknowl- edged, and the bells are ringing The Vanderbilts will attend by proxy, if un- able to be there in person.
 Tomorrow afternoon and evening .Blue Button" meetings will be held at Unity hall, which will be addressed by the Rev. John H. Murray, who is the superintendent of the mission in New Haven. MT. Murray was converted by reading the Bible in the Ohio peniten- tiary. He will relate the story of his conversion.
 The engagement of Miss M. Frances Sharpe of New Haven, formerly a member of the Main street Baptist church quartette, Meriden, but now of the Ansonia Congregational church, to Arthur Rupert McGunnigle, clerk in J. Samuels' shoe store in Meriden, IS announced. Mir. McGunnigle's home is in East Boothbay, Me
 Yesterdays Hartford Times says: ''Mr. Moody, the evangelist, does not share the sentiment of those who knowing nothing about Yale, shriek about it's wickedness. He spoke in New Haven on Sunday, twice to meet ings of students and once at tl,e Ey- perion. MT Moody is certainly as good man as the editor of the New York paper which has been attacking Yale so bitterly. He knows much more about the college, and he tells the truth as he sees it. It will be safer for out @siders who know nothing of the facts to follow MT. Moody, rather than Dr. Funk"