The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-22
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High water to-day, 11:19 a. m.
 Insurance & Loans. Chas. Wilson &Co. Cheap farm for sale--R. E. Baldwin. Prof. Phelps of Yale gave his second lecture in Wallingford last evening.
 Millinery opening at E. Moses & Co.'s Wednesday and Thursday March 24 and 25.
 The Misses Kittie Herbert and Nellie Cody of New Haven are visiting friends in Union City, Conn
 Rev. A. s. Ashley of All Saints church, Meriden, will preach at Christ church in West Haven next Friday evening.
 Enos A. Stevens died in Madison Sunday, aged seventy-six. The funer- al takes place tomorrow afternoon sren the Methodist chaper. < A marriage license has been issued in Meriden to Nathan Feldman of New Haven, a clerk, to Miss Lizzie Levin of 3S0 Pratt street. Meriden.
 The new track at the Bridgeport Driving associations grounds is going to be a fast one, possibly the fastest in the country Bridgeport Post.
 Professor Brewer of Yale lectures to- night in the winter course in Bridge port upon the subject of "The Forest States The lecture will be finely il- 1ustrated.
 Rev. Father Michael A. Sullivan of Kensington will speak at St. Johns R. c. church tomorrow evening. The address will be one of the Lenten series at that church.
 At the next regular session of Ezel lodge No. 8, K. of P, this (Tuesday) evening the lodge will confer the three ranks of the order on well known sea captain by special dispensation from the grand chancellor of Connecticut.
 At ' o'clock tomorrow evening at the Trumbull Episcopal church the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Plumb Nich- ols and Harold Chapman Holmes son of MT. and Mrs. John F. Holmes of Stratford, will be joined in holy wed- lock.
 Two New Haven boys named John Clark and Stewart Menzie and B. A. Buckley, a Waterbury boy left this city yesterday on the 10:10 train bound for Seattle, via New York, Chicago and St. Paul, intending to proceed to the KIondike in search of gold.
 The bicycle display to have been held at the Y M. c. A. rooms March 30 and S1 will not be held this year, as the early opening of the season here left the dealers without sufficient line of wheels and they are too busy with sales to give time for the display.
 T. l.. Reilly of Meriden, who is to run the New Haven baseball team, has just signed for the team Pfenniger, the hard hitting third baseman of the Meriden team of last year, and is anxious to sign Phil Corcoran of this city, for one of the pitchers.
 The Baltimore Sun of March 19 pays fine tribute to the artistic ability of John Hugo, the accomplished young pianist of Bridgeport, nephew of ex- Town Agent Philip Hugo of this city who recently returned from Europe after spending a number of years ot study abroad.
 Clerk A. McC. Mathewson of the Connecticut shell fish commission has just completed draft including all the laws of this state relating to the shell fish commission. This draft will now be submitted to the Oyster Growers association for their approval o1 amendment, and when the next gen. eral assembly convenes it will, if ap- proved, be sent to Hartford for enact ment.
 Rev. pr. Chapman, pastor of the First M. B. church, who has been rendered a professorship in one of the colleges of the country, has the matter under consideration and said last even- ing that he should probably decide in the matter in day or two. Dr. Chap man for the past thirteen years has had but two charges, serving seven years in all with the New York avenue church, Brooklyn, and six with his present church-a remarkable record in the annals of the Methodist minis try.