The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-01
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Sailed for Hampton, va.-A Coming We'd dIng-Gone to Nova scotia-Funeral of Oscar J. Hull Yesterday -Honors to His Memory-Other Notes.
 Captain Walter Avery has chartered the three -masted schooner Venus and sailed from this port on Saturday for Hampton. Va, to load oyster plants. The cargo is for William Potter, Avery & Goodsell and Charles Thompson. Captain Avery chartered the same vessel two years ago. The schooner will bring in about forty-flve hundred bushels of plants and Is expected to ar rive in about three weeks.
 The barge Rancocas has just dis charged cargo of plaster and mortar for W. A. Warner & Brother.
 Miss Frances Beach has returned from a visit with friends in Bristol, Conn.
 Rev. Percy Barnes, rector of Grace church, preached in St. Johns Episco- pal church in Essex Sunday.
 Mrs. Mamie L. Connell is to be mar ried on Wednesday, March ?, to Henry Wohlmaker of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Connell is the widow of the late Henry S. Connell of the annex. It will be a private marriage and the cer- emony will be performed at the brides home, 397 Lenox street, by Rev. MT. Chapman of St. James church. Imme- diately after the ceremony the couple will leave for their future home in Brooklyn. They will receive hearty congratulations from their many friends.
 Mrs. Miles J. Barnes and two chill dren have gone to her former home in Westport, Nova Scotia, where her mother, Mrs. M. D. Peters, is critically i'll. They will remain several weeks. They were accompanied by Mrs. Barnes sister, Mrs. John Gridley of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 The funeral of Oscar J. Hull was sol emnized from the Grand avenue Bap- tist church yesterday afternoon. The services were begun with the singing of SAe hymn Nearer Home" by the quar, stte of the church and was fol- lowed with reading of scripture by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Sage, and then with prayer. The second hymn, Abide With Me- was sung, followed with an appropriate funeral discourse by Dr. ] Sage, who spoke f1ttingly of the de- parted The close attention paid to the remarks and the fearful expressions testified to the high esteem in which the departed was held. Dr. Sage spoke of him as a constituent member of the church, it's loyal supporter and true friend He was senior deacon, had been superintendent of it's Sunday school and teacher, treasurer trustee, and, in fact, had at various times filled nearly every office in the church. He referred to his exceptional life, the high stand ard of his Christian character and his excellence as a citizen. He was for years the treasurer of the New Haven Baptist union. After the war he serv- ed several years as an agent of the Home Mission society, doing religious work among the colored people of the south. He spoke of the fact that his funeral was taking place on his birth day anniversary, the sixty-fifth.
 The services were closed with sing ing of the hymn Asleep in Jesus The honorary bearers were the church deacons F. Merrow Samuel w Hammond, Nelson A. Beebe and Chas D. Manwaring. The bearers were members of Admiral Foote post, G. A R., of which the deceased was a mem ber-Lewis Brown, George Peck, Cor. nelius Howard, Joel Farnhanl, Hudson Bradley and MT. Whittlesey. At the grave in Fair Haven cemetery there was prayer by Chaplain Ferris of the post, and a wreath of laurel, evergreen and roses, the gift of the post, was lait upon the casket.
 The floral offerings were numerous and included a flat bouquet of Haste. lilies from the Sunday school; calla. from a sister of the deceased, Mrs Wright of Essex; a pillow from survlv ors of the Tenth regiment c. ", tt which deceased belonged; hyacinth and ferns, Mrs. Frederick Williams and Mrs. John Manwaring, besides { fiat bouquet of roses and ferns and z wreath of hyacinths and violets.