Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-29
B@CAL NEWS.
Brief Monsaem.

Brief Mention.
 The Yale Medical school reopens on ThurB- day. IF
 Yesterday the town paid over $2o, 900 to the school district.
 Sherman Stone, aged sS, who died in Mer- iden Sunday, was formerly prominent resi- dent of Durham.
 The dates for the Theodore Thomas con- certs at Carll's Opera House are December 7. January 2S and March A.
 Hartfords water reservoirs are being spec ially examined to determine if the water has in it anything injurious to health.
 The dedication of the soldiers monument in Springfield takes place to-day. Robert o. Tyler post and Nathaniel Lyon post of Hart ford will attend.
 Professor Sanford of the Yale Medical school delivers course of lectures this fall on "How to Preserve Health" before the Yale Theological school.
 The game law will be of next Thursday, and the sportsmen are cleaning up their fire arms in anticipation of the event. The woods will be full of them.
 Officer Doherty's son and . party went to Bridgeport last evening, where prize fight was to be held at Pete McCoy's place between Doherty and some Bridgeport party.
 The work of building the spiling for the boulevard sewer from Sea street, Oyster Point, to tide water is being pushed by the contractors, c. R. Warehouse & Son.
 The living skeleton at Bunnell's Museum will hold private session at the museum to- day between il and 12 o'clock a. m. to which the doctors in the city are invited.
 Isaac Baldwin, aged sixty-fvs years, a prominent farmer of Beacon Falls, was run over and killed by the cars at o'clock yes terday afternoon. He leaves e wife and one daughter.
 The wheel shop began running on eight hours time yesterday. They have been working on nine hours time. The shop was Ehut down for three days last week for re- pairs to the machinery.
 The Committee on Nominations met last evening ard voted to recommend the ap- pointment of Charles c. Hall, Samuel B. Disbrow, James McQuseney and Arthur N. Sypher as special constsbles.
 The Sarsfeld Guard, whose fair at the Union armory closes tonight, have had large crowds and will probably raise funds enough to pay the expenses of their visitors who come next month.
 Tom Houlihan, who had glove contest on the West Springfield meadows with Hal E. Stevens last June, was arrested in Hartford yesterday. He has not yet decided to go to Massachusetts without acquisition.
 The seven year-old daughter of F. s. Tower, of 246 Bradley street, had her arm bitten through by a dog belonging to H. H. Blake, of 756 State street, 8 few days ago and is now quite sick from the effects of the bite.
 The boys from the city are already beating the walnut trees and bearing of bags full of the hickories to the great indignation of the farmers who own the trees, and who discov- or the loss when too late to catch the maraud CTS.
 Mrs, Marion L. Livingston, the teacher in the Carlisle street school, has completely re- covered from the effects of the ohloroform she took last Friday night and was yesterday removed to the Middletown insane asylum by her friends.
 Mr. Lucius B. How'd, who died at his resi- dence, No. 1o7 Dwight street, September 26, aged 57, was a member of the First Baptist church and much esteemed. Rev. MT. Butricks will oficiate at the funeral to-mor- TOW afternoon.
 Business is increasing in the, ,Sooyille oom- pany's, of Waterbury, branch shop in Day street in this city and the hands, about thirty in number, are now working on ten hours time. The increase in hours went into effect a few days ago.
 The oyster sharpies unload many boat loads of oysters up the Quinnipiae river near the Air Line bridge and take them up again after the bivalvss have had . day or two's refreshing in the water. The result is @ great improvement of the oyster and an increase both of their bulk and quality.
 The bath house project near Lewis' bridge having been deferred to another year is not lamented much by the boys of that section who find good bathing places in the river above the bridge, where spice of danger at- tends, the water being from fifteen to twen- ty-five feet deep @ short distance from the = shore.
 The growth of Cedar Hill near the old s'Seat of Happiness" or pines, continues, another new house having just been erected in that section while three more will be built soon, it is said. The houses in that section are we'll kept and in many of the gardens handsome flowers of well known and popu lar varieties are grown in profus;on.
 Superintendent Grannis of the Water com pany has just completed relaying 1,500 feet of twelve inch water mains on James and Lom bard streets. The pipe was taken up soms months ago when the street was lowered ir that location and the iron railroad bridsy built across James street. But one water con- sumer was cut of from ths tise of the water in the interim.
 Ssv MT. Mitchell, of Hartford, has gone to Atlanta, Ga., to attend the funeral of the late President Ware of Atlanta university, who was Q brother-in-law of MT. Twitchell President Ware graduated from Yale college in the class of 1863, his classmates includ- ing Professor William O. Summer. William 0. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, L. T. Charnberlair and General Erastus Blakeslee.