Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-19
CITY NEwS.

Adjourned meeting of the road and sewer board this evening.
 If you want real, genuine, good, clean bargains attend Curran's bargain day sale tomorrow.
 Court Shields, A. O. F. of A, will hereafter hold its meetings in G. A. R. hall, on the first and third Wednesday of each month.
 The Waterbury Photographic society will repeat their recent exhibition of the "Branch" views this evening, in their rooms in Browns block.
 The contract for the outside carpenter work of the new parochial residence of Rev Hugh Treanor has been awarded to A. c. Mckay.
 Dr James T. Tonks went to New | ork this afternoon to attend the gradu- ating exercises of the Eclectic Medical college. He will be absent several days.
 Dr Gill has returned from his Cali fornia outing much improved by his visit to the Golden Gate. He now can be found at his new office parlors, 36 Meadow street.
 A. T. Kimberly, while at work on a step ladder in Scovilrs shop yesterday, fell to the floor and cracked one of the ribs on his left side. He was attended by Dr Barber.
 B. Shoninger 6 Go have just for warded the last consignment of an ar tistic number of pianos to the Worlds fair. They have secured cog square feet and will exhibit fifteen pianos at the fair.
 The many friends of Ernest w. Humphrey will Ee pained to learn that he is reported to be criticaly i'll with typhoid pneumonia in New Britain, where he has been at work during the past three months.
 James Prayer of 16 Baldwin Hill, while at work in the electric wire de- partment at Benedict & Burnham's mill this morning, got his foot caught in a coil of wire and was thrown down, suffering dislocatIon of the thigh.
 The French fair had large attend ance again last night at City hall. The stage entertainment was good, and was well received. Prof R. Geary of Boston and the Rose Hill midgets will present their specialties this evening. Ticket No 6,813 won the door prize.
 Assistant Superintendent E. B. Mo | Guirk of New Haven has been sent here and with Assistant Superintendent P. A. Held, will take charge of the busi- ness in this district of the John Hancock Life Insurance Go, and will put on ten new agents at once. Their office is in Browns block, No 26 East Main street.
 To build those two new Normal schools at Bridgeport and New Haven would require an expenditure, says the Hartford Post, of something like S250,- 900, and the regular appropriation of $40 ,000 annually to run them. If the state is to be asked to establish Normal schools in Bridgeport and New Haven, it can with as much reason be asked to establish others at New London or Nor wich, or Waterbury or Middletown.
 John Sullivan, the insane man, whose Especial hallucination Is that he owns the Naugatuck railroad and the street rail way, descended on the waiting crowd of women in front of Reid & Hughes store yesterday afternoon, and commanded them to disperse. He roundly scored the authorities for allowing the crowd to gather and declared that somebody would have to pay him $90,000 for damages to his property. Sullivan is harmless, but many ladies who did not know him were frightened half to death before he was led away.
 w. K. Babcock is to be appointed general passenger agent of the New York & New England road, vice A. c. Kendall, whose transfer to the Old Colony system of the New York, New Haven & Hartford road has been an- nounced. Mir Babcock is now general agent at New York of the New York 6 New England, New York & Northern and the Central Vermont roads. Prior to the Parsons regime he was general western passenger agent of the New York & New England, and still earlier assistant general passenger agent of thet Providence 6 Stonington Steamboa company. He is thoroughly familia r with the New England field and with the business connections and possible ties of the New York 6 New England, and his selection promises to be of ad- vantage to it's interests.
 The Wadhams post, G. A. R., and the St Aloysius Drum corps of this city paid a visit to the Merriam post of Meriden last night. They were met at the depot by the latter post and drum corps and escorted through the principal streets to the hall. Here an address of welcome was made by Commander Church, of the Merriam post, and responded to by Commander Sanford of Wadhams' post. The glee club of the Meriden post sang a song written for the occasion by J. R. Sloane. Department Commander Will bur F. Rogers made an address, after which the comrades all repaired to the banquet room and surrendered to the ladies of the w. R. C., who had pre- pared for them a bountiful feast. When the gathering had returned to the hall speeches were made by o. w. Cornish, J. l.. Sake, Chaplain Warriner, and representatives of the Cheshire and Southington posts. The evening was most enjoyable one for the visitors, and they propose to have an "evening up" with the Merriman boys in due time. The T. A. B. drum corps of Meriden took charge of the St Aloysius Drum corps.
 | Tho local hattaIio,, tur,,ad o,,t ol,,,... full ranks last evening for the first guard mount of the season and regular battalion drill. A large number of ladies were present in the galleries and parlors. At 7:45 guard mount was called with Lieutenant Fitzpatrick as adjutant; Sergeant E. L. Carter, as ser geant major; Lieutenant Halpin, com mander of the guard, and Lieutenant Sandland as supernumerary officer. The guard mount was followed by battalion drill under Lieutenant Colonel Burpee, and the four companies com