The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-01
Local Weather Report. FOR FEBRUARY 2S, 1899,
Brief Mention.

High water to-day, 1:19 p. m.
 One hundred acres $2. .OOO R. E. Baldwin
 Pease &. Son have received the Gen. tury for March.
 Constable Cohen of New Britain was visiting in this city yesterday.
 A flock of wild geese passed over the city yesterday, flying northward.
 Miss Nellie Chase of Winsted return- ed home yesterday from a very pleasant visit in this city,
 Miss Elizabeth Harwood of New Ha- ven, who has been visiting in Ansonia for the last two months, has returned home.
 The winter session of the evening schools closes next Friday evening. Ex- ercises will be held and diplomas and certificates granted.
 Elias Hoffman of Meriden sold his bakery ana store in that city this week to two Meriden young men, and will re- move to New Haven and open bakery here.
 In Harugari hall, last night, the He brew Charity society held their tfir- teenth Purim masquerade ball. About four hundred people attended and en- joyed the dancing.
 Adelia R. Guernsey, widow of William Guernsey, has disposed of forty-nne feet of land on Chapel street to Miss Mary F. Mersick. The price paid was about $8,500.
 Lenox hall was fast night the scene of .-.. e. .,1 tions given by Professor Campbell to his pupils. About one hundred couples of young people were present and spent the evening in dancing.
 Peguonnock lodge, I. O.. o. F., of Bridgeport, will pay fraternal visit to Quinnipiac lodge of this city March IS, and witness degree work. Tn April, Pe- quonnock lodge will celebrate the anni- versary of the order, and will have wis iting lodges present to witness the work.
 The sale by the society of United Workers, 200 Orange street, takes place to-day from 10 until 4. A large quan- tity of household articles and useful garments for women and children can be found there All persons are earn estly requested to come and buy for the help and the encouragement of the work.
 The bi-monthly meeting of the Con- gregational ministers of Fairfield coun- ty will be held in the Shelton Congre- gational church Tuesday, March z. At the afternoon session the Rev. Samuel Scovill of Stamford will deliver a lec- ture entitled "Reminiscences of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
 Mrs George Atchison of Ansonia came to this city yesterday morning to enter B hospital here. It is expected that she | will have to submit to an operation.
 Miss McGhee of St. Faiths home, this city, is announced to make an address at meeting of the Ladies' Benevolent | society of St. James parish, Derby, this afternoon.
 Reports from the Rev. w. J. slocum, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Waterbury, and formerly of St. Patrick's church, this city, who has been in Florida quite recently, show that he is feeling much better and that he is about to set out for San tiago, Cuba. His stay will probably be somewhat longer than at first intended.
 Sheriff Charles R. Spiegel is having l. plans prepared for a handsome home which he will shortly put upon Hunt ington avenue. It will be frame dwelling and will contain ten rooms. The interior will be finished in hard wood and it will have every modern convenience. The heating will be by means of hot water system and the new house will be an ornament to that locality.
 Radcliffe Hicks, formerly city attor- ney of Meriden, and well known to the members of the bar in this city, is back in France again after sojourn of two or three months in the United States. Tn a letter to friend, dated February i 10. he says: q read in the Paris New i York Herald to-day of the terrible bliz- ( gard you are having in the United i States, and can hardly realize that it is true, as the paper states, for l am writ ing to you by an open window and pan i sies, violets and daisies are in full bloom beneath