The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-09

weeks stay at Block Island. Mr. Hen
 drick is president of the Twelfth Con
 necticut Regimental association and is
 now serving his fourth consecutive tern
 in that office.
 Yesterdays New York Tribune says
 In it's personal column: The death o1
 Prngle Mitchell at Rye last week call.
 ed forth only a few paragraphs, anc
 yet there were few men who were bet
 ter known. This generation has almost forgotten Donald G. Mitchell, his fath. CT, and comparatively few read 'The
 Reveries of a Bachelor now. In its day it was one of the books which
 every one had in his library, Donald
 G. Mitchell was one of the first writ Ars
 on social topics of his day. Before the
 writer is a copy of The Lorgnette,' one
 of Donald G. Mitchell's first books, a
 collection of sketches of fashionable lie
 in New York, at Saratoga, sharon
 Springs and Newport fifty years ago.
 They are in the form of letters to q
 weekly newspaper, and they are still
 amusing. Donald G. Mitchell is living,
 quite an old man, at his farm, near
 New Haven. Pringle Mitchell, who was successful business man, was his only son, and there were a number of daugh-
 ters. At one time Pringle Mitchell be- longed to a number of clubs, but he was always a bit reserved and shy. He left widow, who was q Miss Mower" | Mrs. w. R. Tyler and daughter of this city are spending a fe wdays at | Norfolk. Conn.
 Rev. w. A. Nichols of Cheshire occu- pied the pulpit at the First Baptist church, Southington, yesterday morrr- ing
 Mrs. George Maltby and Miss Maltby are at Washington Conn.,, for the sum- mer.
 Mrs. Caroline Bushnell Bassett, who has been studying for some time with Thomas G. Shepard, will play the or gan at the Church of the Redeemer during the month of August while MT. Shepard is away on his vacation Miss Bassett, who is a niece of Ericsson Bushnell is a musician of more than usual ability.
 Mrs. H. D. Crossley, who recently re- signed her position as head teacher in Strong school, entertained a party of teachers dI one Ol utI tpltet6eS dl NttNi~ ison Friday. The party included Miss Nellie H Story, Miss Evelena V. Rock well, Miss Emily M DeForest Mrs Elizabeth Weissbarth, Miss Carolyn Merchant Miss Sarah Wright and Miss Katherine Harty.
 MT. and Mrs. Francis Beach have gone to Bedding for a few days, where they are the guests of Miss Rebecca Beach at her summer home there.
 Mrs. C. Boyce of 52 Pearl street is visiting her sister in Tenany, N J., for two weeks.
 Miss Peck, Miss Bessie Hooker and the Messrs. Hooker are summering at Kinneo, Me.
 MT and Mrs. Lewis s. Welch of 23S Prospect street are spending the sum- mer at East River. Conn.
 & q. Bassett who is connected With the office of the consul general from Hayti to America, was the guest of Editor Street in Southington last Fri day
 A death of last week recalled pictures of another set in the southern element in New York society. It was that of Colonel David Urquhart of New Or leans, who died at Saratoga. Colonel Urquhart was the father of Mrs, James Brown Potter, the actress. To q sym pathetic listener he would talk for hours on her talents, her beauty, her devo- tion and the promise of her childhood Colonel Urquhart came from an excel- lent southern family and was brought up before the war to be a gentleman of l. i,,l ,l, nd slaves, and married one of the wealthi- est young women in the English speak ing set in New orleans She was Miss Augusta Socomb. Her family had come from Connecticut, and many of her relatives, notably the Palmers, now live In New York. She was one of three A sister married pr. Richard son of New Orleans celebrated sa- want, and brother, Cuthbert Slocomb, the daughter of James l. Day of Ston ngton and a sister of Mrs. Edward Townsend of New York city. Colonel Urquhart after the civil war had many financial vicissitudes and at one time ! mperlled the fortunes of his mother n-law and sister-in-law and a great | many people in New orleans in a bank ng enterprise of which he was presi- | lent I1e was not a business man, but | t was delightful to get him to talk of | other days in that slow, measured voice which his daughter inherited
 The Misses Porter of Hillhouse ave- lue are at Glen Springs, Watkins, N. r., for the summer.
 Arthur Webb, formerly with the Ioggson & Pettus company, is now con- lected with the Lee & Osborn company IS salesman.
 Professor John Wurts and family lave gone to Bayonne City, N. J., for he summer.
 Architect c. E. Berger has drawn ,lans for new brick building to be rected on Whalley avenue, corner 'perry street. for F. Fusco. It will be 7x48, and will have a store and two enements. / pr. J. w. Seaver and family of 25 .ynwood street have gone to Chautau- ua.
 Colonel J. F. Head, U S. A., and Mrs. lead and Frazier D. Head, who were siting Mrs. Heads sister, Miss Aph- horp on Sachem street. during com have gone to Greylock Inn, t Willlamstown for few weeks Mrs George and Charles Webb of Jewark, N. J.. are visiting MT. and