Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-12
CITY NE WS

A daughter was born yesterday to Mir and Mrs Oscar Knickerbocker.
 Garden and vegetable seed, Dir seed, flower seed, wholesale and retail, at D. B. Wilson's.
 Colonel Doherty commanded the bat talion drill at the New Haven armory last night.
 Charles and Fabian Walsh, left this morning to join their father, M. J. Walsh at Savannah.
 Dr Alfred North and E. C. Lewis re- turned this morning from trip to Jacksonville, Fla.
 The Connecticut delegates to the re- cent republican convention in Nashville, Tenn, returned home this morning. Sergeant Cox predicts fair weather l followed by Iain; fair and colder weather for tomorrow.
 The members of General Graham's staff have turned d over all their property belonging to the National Guard to Gen. eral Watson.
 Mrs J. A. Hughes of New York, who has been visiting her sister. Mrs Frank | Lynch returned to her home this morn ing.
 Twelve carloads of Litchfield ice ar rived in this city vest. rday and was stored in the Naugatuck Railroad com pany's ice house. It averaged 93 inches i'll thickness.
 The town meeting to take action in regard to providing new quarters for | the superior court room will be held next week, on either Tuesday or We'd nesday evening.
 | Arthur Warner, aged 10 years, one of the sufferers from diphtheria at the New Haven county home, Is not expected to recover. The other cases at that insti- tuition are in fair way to recover.
 The following dispatch has been re- ceived from New Orleans: S,l32, $3O0,- 1000; If, 794, $lOO, ,O00; 10. 122, $50, ,OOO; 20, 354, $25, ,OOO: 12,536. 14 ,OS7, $lO, ,OO0 each; 20,Ss2, 32,577, 17,306, 9S, 15,632, 1000 each.
 At a Bridgeport city meeting last night city tax of 24f mills was laid. The News says: This is making dis lcouraging progress in the wrong direc- tion. The tax is about 5 mills too high for the good of the city, and time will prove it so.
 |. The police of the state are on the look out for Charles Montgomery of Middle town, who, after marrying a girl ir Middletown, took all the money she haG saved while employed as a servant al the Union house ill Essex and disap peared.
 J. K. Gillette, father of Mrs E. w. Pinney, wife of Supt Pinney, died at the almshouse this morning. Mir Gillette was at one tune a prominent resident of Bloomfield, but for some time has been residing with his daughter. His age was 69 years.
 In the common pleas court at Bridge, port yesterday, the case of Vessels Brt thers of Bridgeport vs John c. Scott of this city was on trial Vessels sue to recover tho amount of n bill claimed to be due them from Scott The case was not finished yesterday.
 The Rev Father Mul, ahy delivered an interesting lecture before the pupils of the convent last evening. His subject | was "An Explanation of the Systems of the Origin of the World" The next of the series of scientific lectures will be given by the Rev Father Walsh on Thursday evening, March 20. | The special committee appointed for that purpose have prepared d report on site for the Bronson library and a meeting to act upon the matter will be held Saturday. The committee will recommend for consideration the Philo Brown property on West Main street and the old Grand street cemetery.
 Minor $. Baldwin of Naugatuck.. together with his son N. $. Baldwin, and family of Thomaston. left to-day for Spokane Falls, Washington. Mir Baldwin has closed out his bakery busi ness in Thomi ston and will go into busi- ness in Spokane Falls. This Is the place in which several Waterbury men are interested
 William J. Schlegel has s, Id for tn e Water bury Lumber and Coal company their Valley View property to George F. | Daniels of the Waterbury Brass com. pany. Mir Schlesel has also sold for Deacon Truman Judson of WOodbul Y the farm so long occupied by him. sit uated in Minortown, to MT Harvey of Washington.
 Chris F. Downey's new information bureau has opel ed up very successfully It is far reaching scheme and one des- tined to be a good help to many people. If you want anything written, tvpl written, printed or copied, or published in any newspaper in the country: if you want rents, loans, fire or life in surance, or information on any subject he can help you Cor small fee.
 Says the Ansonia Sentinel A dis patch published yesterday relates the trials and tribulations of Old Sport, the pedestrian and peddler. The old man is far away from home but he intends tC go farther. and Naugatuck valley people Wno Nislt SnlcaSo Tn loSs, may yet be tickled to death to hear one familiar voice in that modern Babel
 Two dogs engaged in a fight on South Main street this afternoon and crowd of 90 or 75 congregated to witness tn. scrimmage. One of the brutes was a white bull from the Abrigador distrlc, and the other a mongrel from the north ern part of the city. The Abrgador dog fwon Tn ten minutes, without handlers breaking one of his opponents legs. , Dan Quinlan, the interlocutor with Wilson minstrels, had close call at the opera house last night. He was passing back of the wings when in some man. ner curtain weight, weighing sixty pounds fell. striking in front of Nil Quinlan. The weight fell with such d force as to break through the floor This is the first time in the history oi