The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-11
PERSONAL MENTION.

inspector of ordnance in the United States army, who has for some time past been stationed in Ohio has been ordered to Sandy Hook to inspect the guns there During his stay he will visit this city for short time and later will return to his post in Ohio. His brother, Captain Robert w. Gibson, a surgeon in the army, has returned to South Dakota for duty. pr. Gibson is a brother-in-law of Isaac Thomas, the well known ex-principal of the Hill house high school.
 John A. Doolittle has returned from Denver Col He has been visiting rel atives for the past month.
 The Rev. Mr. Leete, the new pastor of the Dwight Place church, has set aside Friday evening of each week to be at home to members of his congre- gatton.
 An engagement just announced is that of Miss Mabel Grace Smith, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Herbert Parker Smith of RidgeWood, North Ha- ven, formerly of Newtown, Conn.
 Prof. Wisner who has been giving a course of French lectures in New York to the great enjoyment of his hearers, repeated his lecture on the "Dreyfus Case and the Situation in France" at the house of Miss Johnstone, 97 Whit ney avenue yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock.
 Mir. and Mrs. James Todd (Miss 1 Banks of Washington, D. CD returned 1 Saturday night from their wedding trip, and are at their new home, 567 1 Howard avenue MT. and Mrs. Todd were married at St. Andrews church at Washington, on April 4. They will be "at home' on Wednesdays in May.
 Assistant Postmaster and Mrs. w. P. Futile MT. and Mrs. John M. Cham pion and MT. and Mrs. John Shaw, who were in Washington for the Banks Todd wedding, and afterwards went to Old Point Comfort, have also returned. Mrs. Timothy T. Bishop and Miss l May Bishop of Church street, on their recent trip to the south, went as far south as New Orleans, stopping en route on the return trip at famous southern winter resorts.
 The marriage of Miss Adelaide Agnes Quinn, daughter of P. w. Quinn of Bridgeport, to Thomas Henry Cox, as- sistant town clerk, will take place at St. Mary's church, Bridgeport, Wednes- day morning, April 19, at 10 o'clock They will be at home after June i at 337 Sherman avenue, this city.
 Miss Tillie Ryder, the sister of the late Leonard c. Ryder, general man. ager of the Smedley company, who died very suddenly last fall in the railroad yard near Starin dock. and who has been spending the winter with her mother and sister in Lancaster, Pa., has returned and is preparing the house at 65 York Square for their residence this summer,
 Captain Condon, United States volun- teers, is home on sick leave, and has been spending the week past with his relatives, Mir. and Mrs. William J. O'Keefe of Lawrence street. Captain Condon came back from Cuba on the transport Crook, on which the dead were brought back, although Captain Condon says the other passengers saw nothing of the ghastly cargo. After his regiment is mustered out, Captain Condon will go to his home in the south. Tn the autumn with Mrs Condon he
  phia where he will take charge of the | business end of a newly established | branch of the Century Magazine which | the great publishing company has al- ready made all arrangements for.
 William " Austin of Hamden. who | went to the Klondike gold regions in September, 1897, is now at Seattle | Washington, on his way home. He left a good position with the New Haven | Steam sawmill company. and returns empty handed, as did two other men | who went from this city with him.
 Miss Jessie A. Alderman spoke at the | East Pearl street M. E. church last | evening on the subject Flight Hundred | Miles on Horseback Through Iceland" The lecture was illustrated by the ster- eopticon, and was largely attended
 Miss Edith Beers, the solo contralto at St. Paul's Episcopal church, and Ed ward D. Jones, clerk in the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad of flee, were married at o'clock last eve ming at the residence of the brides parents in Vest Haven. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. N J. Squires, pastor of the West Haven Con- greSatlOnal church Tn west Haven. The wedding was strictly private, only the families of the bride and groom be- ing present.
 Next Tuesday night the second bat talon-Grays and Sarsfields-will have a battalion drill at the armory.
 The old graduates of the Cheshire Episcopal military academy in this city have just received the annual catalogue of the school. The book is very artis- tically gotten up.