Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-23
CITY NEWS.

ing.
 J. J. Regan of Boston is visiting friends in this city.
 The members of Co A enjoyed a pri- vate sociable in the armory last evening. | Mrs Arabella Rogers, aged 73 years, dled this morning at her home in Water | town. City Clerk Kilduff ia making up the | assessors and board of relieFs reports of | city taxes. The Manufacturers bank is undergo ing extensive repairs. The work IS nearly completed. Miss Nellie Kiely of Bridgeport is visiting her cousin, Miss Nellie Murphy of 24 Ayres street.
 i A special meeting of the Phoenix fire company is called for 8 o'clock this evening. Business of importance will be transacted.
 Town Clerk Madden this afternoon returned from a visit to New York. He took in the democratic convention while in Albany.
 Train 87, on which Conductor Smiley of the New England road was killed, Saturday, was the train which collided with No TOO near Hawleyville last fall, killing three men.
 John Collins of % Bishop street fell down an embankment yesterday even- ing at o'clock, sustaining very bad fracture of both bones of his left arm. Dr Donahue set the fracture.
 Belle Boyd, the rebel spy, will be seen at the opera house this evening. She comes to Waterbury under the patron age of Wadhams post, G. A. R, and is well worth seeing and hearing.
 There has been large advance sale of tickets for the annual sociable and ex- hibition drill of Division No ?, A. O. H. The event will be one of the great successes of the season; it always is.
 Mrs Clark and her son, le petite Freddy, who made such a hit at the minstrel show last night, were the guests while in the city of Mrs Clark s brother, Frank Andrews of 336 Grove street. Freddy, who IS only years old is wonderful boy.
 There was a very pleasant gathering at the home of Mir and Mrs Isadore Chase last evening, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the marriage of Mir and Mrs Chase. Many guests were present from New Haven and New York.
 Horace Johnson desires to correct a prediction attributed by the newspapers to him. It referred to a coming storm
 
 He says, however, that between the 27th of this month and the 2d of March there will occur a very violent storm probably rain and wind in this region and snow little further north. It will be very heavy along the coast.
 William E. Crane council, American Order of Steam Engineers, will hold ar open meeting in G. A. R. hall, on Mon ] day evening, February go, to which 7 fA oil hT / are interested in steam or steam appli ances. The meeting will be addressed by Frank F. Hemenway, M. E., upor the subject, "Heat, Its Production anC Utilization"
 The first annual sociable of the Second Ward Social club will be held this even ing in Music hall and the members art striving hard for the success of the affair A special feature will be voting con test for gold headed cane to be present ed to the most popular social club presi dent in the city. Great interest is being taken in the contest and there will prob = ably be an exciting time before the poll are closed tonight.
 Ephriam B. Hayes died at his hom in Woodbury, yesterday. He was tn father of Mrs Mary Munson, who wa murdered in Birmingham several week ago, and had been a weekly visitor t. J r covered from the shock caused by hi daughters terrible death, and, unti L taken sick, spent most ofssSshis tim searching for evidence against Hawley who is accused of the murder.
 The Connecticut hospital for the in sane at Middletown had, on January 31 ,497 inmates who were in part sur \ ported by the state. This number doe not include few soldier patients trans l 1,o ton. During the month, twenty died three were discharged as cured an eight were released on probation, bein mild cases. The hospital is SO crowde . that it is necessary to release inmate whose condition is not serious and wh are well on toward recovery, to mak room for patients awaiting admission. |, The new issue of silver coins just ou V hasa spread eagle on one side that bear - a strong resem blance to the eagle on tn gold coins. It was reported in Prov dence the past week that advantage ha
 been taken of the similarity of the dt f signs of the coins by counterfeiters an " the gilded halves were being circulate for $10 gold pieces. The experts ar said to have done a neat job in tran! forming the coins. The silver is nc sh only gilded, but the word "half' stamped out and "ten" substituted The new nfty-cent piece IS trltie large than $10 gold piece, and of course not so heavy. Although banks in tn city have heard of the doctored coir none have yet been discovered here. tb The New York & New England Raj road company took one of their nev
 Baldwin compound engines from tn shop Saturday and run it from Eas
 Hartford to Vernon and back on tria The engine is different from others O N the road, inasmuch as it has two cylir he ders and something similar to a cylinde
 called a valve. It is claimed that tn engine can pull a heavier train than a = ordinary engine, as the steam is use
 twice. It passes from a small cylinde
 to the valve and then to the large cyIir
 der, whereas in the ordinary engine