Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-19
aIRmrNCHAm NEWS.


 A Hare Surgical operation witnessed by pr. Pfnney-Project to Build n New Hall -School InsPectiOn- -An- sonie,s Move to be Made a Town. Dec. 18.-The public schools held one ses- sion Monday, so forbidding was the weather for the usual afternoon exercises. A special meeting of the Ousatonic Medi- cal society will be held this week to take &C., Seymour.
 Dr. Pinney was a witness of a rare opera tion in New York last Saturday. The case | was the 'fCeesarian section.'' The operation was performed by Professor Lusk of Bellevue | hospital.
 l The only operation of this kind in New Haven as far as some of our older physicians remember was performed by Dr. T. B. Town l send about twenty years ago. The patient, a l colored woman, recovered and the child sur- vived also.
 ! George Smith, an ex-soldier and worthy ! claimant for pension, is preparing to obtain papers for admission for, the winter to the Soldiers Home at Noroton. ! A project is on foot to build a hall for dancing and other entertainments on Eliza beth street adjoining south of the Storm En- glu6 2OuSo 4t IS tn6 ptace tO Duy SLTlp Ol land from street to street and build hall to accommodate parties who wish to conduct ball, as the new opera house is not arranged to be let for dancing or fairs. The Big Six," banjo group, make their | debut tonight at concert in the church at Zoar's Bridge.
 Christmas trade at all the stores is report- l ed as unusually dull. Money seems to be | alarmingIy tight and the anxious merchants look with disgust at their slowly disappear ing goods.
 The school visitors, Dr. Beardsley and Dr. Bullock will complete their official inspec- l tion of the public schools this week. The rooms 3, 4 and in district N. 4 build, ing will celebrate Christmas on Friday, the children uniting in Miss Spencer's around I the traditional evergreen for gifts and words of cheer.
 The usual enumeration of the school chill dren will be taken soon, instructions having
 been given by the board to the various dis
 trict officers.
 Charles H. Nett1eton, the secretary of the
 Derby Gas company, accidentally lost his footing while stepping from the upper berth
 of sleeping car at Rochester and severely sprained his ankle. A policy in the United
 States Mutual accident association adapts it.
 self nicely to his bitter experience. ! Christmas praise services will be given next Sunday evening in the Methodist and Con- gregational churches.
 | The people of Ausonia are determined to shift for themselves, and petit on for di-
 vorce from the First voting district of the | town of Derby is in circulation. It is claim I ed for various reasons such separation is
 desirable, but to the quiet outsider and res heeting gazer on, not little of the animus | of the movement can be traced to a dissatis- faction with the political surprises or incom- patibilities that churned out ever and anon in F'primaries" or election nights. It is and ever will be uphill job to please I both sides of the house. The politicians of
 Birmingham do not always think as their An sonia brethren will, and when joint ticket l is put in the field general scramble and scratching ensue. The slight success of one candidate over the other on the same ballot ! embittered the two sections, and 8 war to the knife is promulgated or grudge secretly nursed. Presumably Ansonia is soured sud- l denly at the southern section of the town, ! and is hurrying for division against which ! there have been made many an earnest argu- ment in days gone by among those who fa- I vored consolidation of the two boroughs and Derby into one city.
 The insolvency sale of the Maltby factory at Shelton, Conn, will take place on the 27th day of December, 1888.
 The house of Colonel Wooster on Minerva street, or the old Wallace homestead, has been sold for $4.000. This is the first sale of such nice property in the borough for some time.
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 Ernest Brandt, the husband of the woman found dead in Shelton Saturday, is serving out sentence in Wethersfeld for burglary. News was conveyed to him Sunday in prison of his wife's death by an officer of Pootatuck tribe, I. o. R. M. Brandt was once chief of ! records of this order, the Pawnee tribe, and was also an Odd Fellow. The club now budding at Derby Neck, a | literary venture, is donned the "Acorn Club"
 Several deaths from diphtheria continue to be reported.
 Fifty dollars have been raised by the Bir- mingham Methodists for the children's \ Christmas festival which will be given next ! week Friday evening.
 The Bridge street bridge, Ansonia, closed \ for so many months if not weeks, may be ! opened for foot traffic this coming Saturday. Two spsus are now in position