Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-13
F Persons al.

I Dr. L. $. Paddock, of Norwich, is critical 1 ly ill with an abscess in the right abdominal I cavity. An operation has been performed by
 Dr. Carleton, assisted by Drs. Cassidy, Fox, 1 Perkins and Sprague, of Norwich, Jennings 1 of Jewett City, and McHatten of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 M J. Clark, district deputy of the An l cient Order of Foresters, sails for Europe 1 next Tuesday, to be absent three or four ! months on pleasure tour. Col. Benjamin s. Pardee, of this city, was ! one of the speakers at the 26th annual din. ner of the Boston Press club the other even- ing. Governor elect Ben Butler was the ! most distinguished of the guests present. About 80 gentlemen sat down to the banquet very pleasant masquerade surprise was given Ralph H. Nickerson, son of Conductor Nickerson, on Second avenue, West Haven Thursday evening. About thirty persons were present, and the time was agreeably spent
 Herbert Welch, of New York city, Wesley an, 's6, is given the Ayres prize for the best entrance examination.
 G. P. Wardell, 'S5 one of the Wesleyan football team, is laid up at Hartford with 8 broken collar bone. On his way home from Springfield he boarded the wrong train at Hartford, and was hurt while jumping off
 T. A. Barnes is president, c. o. Blatchley is vice president R. D. Baldwin secretary and John A. Richardson treasurer of the Young Mems Institute
 The Plunkett Zouaves have appointed Messrs. Lynn, Dunn and Reynolds conamit- tee to prepare for the banner presentation to Seuator Plunkett this evening.
 Alexander Lutz, owner of the sloop yacht "Wild Duck,' has been made member of the New Haven Yacht club. James D. Dewell will present to the club painting of the three-masted schooner bearing his name.
 Hon. A. S. Welch, president of the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, who has received a commission from the National De- partment of Education to report on the ag- ricultural schools of Europe, is @ brother of James M. and D. M Welch of this city.
 E. c. Robinson, auditor of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road, died in New
 York city Friday. Mir. Robinson chief clerk of the old New York and New Haven road for many years before the consolidation, and after the union of the two roads was the chief clerk until recently, and the auditor. Mir. Robinson had a paralytic stroke year
 or two ogo and never recovered from it's eff 1 fects. He leaves a wife, but children. He
 was a genial man and held in high esteem by his associates in the railroad service He was
 insured in the Mutual Benefit association of
 the employees of the company. The seventeenth birthday of Seymour and Dora, twin children of MT. and Mrs. G. H.
 Linsley, of Branford, was celebrated Friday
 evening at the Linsley House in very happy
 manner.
 General E. s. Greeley and wife have ar
 rived home from Europe, having been absent five or six months.
 Mir. and Mrs Joel F. Gilbert of 413 Whal ley avenue celebrated their china wedding
 Friday evening. Lots of friends were pres
 ent and the happy couple were presented ! with various fine gifts.
 | Nessrs. Joseph B. Sargent, Henry B. Sar- | gent and Charles l.. Baldwin, of Sargent & l Co.,, together with the foremen and contrsc- l tors, waited upon Purmont Bradford, for | thirty years or more superintendent of the
 company, at his residence on Howard avenue
 Saturday evening. They presented him
 with fine easy chair and French clock.
 MT. Sargent and others made speeches and refreshments were served. The occasion
 was arranged to mark Mir. Bradford's 64th
 birthday. MT. Bradford is 8 much esteemed townsman.
 | The Rev. F. Gregory, of Groton, has &C., cepted a recall to the pastorate of the Epis. ] copal church in Middletown, Ohio.