Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-06
CITY AND SUBURBS,

Drifting Apart" at the opera house tc- night.
 The court of common council did not meet last evening.
 Company G will open the drill season this evening at the armory.
 All the election returns will be read from the stage at the opera house tonight
 Upson, Singleton & Co. will give cleo ton returns by stereopticon as usual to- night.
 Returns from the election will be an nounced at the Immaculate Conception fair this evening.
 A couple of fights were nipped in the bud by the police Up to press hour not an arrest had been made
 Election returns will be bulletined ill front of Hirsh's ten per cent one price clothing store, 1353 Bank street.
 The superior court opened with An drews, judge on the bench at the district court room this morning, but immediately adjourned until 9:30 a. m. tomorrow.
 Beginning this week Miss Julia Carroll. late organist at St Patrick's church, will be in Waterbury each Friday and Saturday to give lessons upon the piano and organ.
 MT and Mrs A. H. Fenn, who have been spending the past few weeks visiting in this city, will leave for Aiken, SIC, Mon day.
 The remains of Anna, the 5 year old daughter of James Holmes of Brewster street, who died yesterday, will be taken to Falls Village tomorrow.
 The next issue of the Fair Journal will be issued on Thursday It will contain all new and original reading matter and will be worth preserving. Be sure and get a copy.
 Washington conclave, K. S. F.. gave another of their series of monthly sociables at G. A. R. hall last evening. The grand march of 30 couples was led by J. H. Hol- leran and wife.
 w. H. Clark, the Bank street stove dealer, has presented handsome range to the Sacred Heart church fsir. w. F. York the furniture dealer, also presented a hand some ebonized cabinet valued at SEQ.
 The American band closed a very busy season last night. It was in great demand and the leaders and members are to be con- graduated upon the excellent quality of music they furnished during the campaign
 The funeral of Frederick K. Phelps, who died of typhoid fever at his residence on Baldwin Hill yesterday, was conducted at 5 p. m. to-day. The remains will be taken to Geneva, N. Y, tomorrow for in torment.
 All the Catholic pastors of the city and the Rev Father Finnegan, assistant pastor at the church of the Immaculate Concep- tlon, are in Hartford to-day attending the annual conference of pastors of the Hart ford diocese.
 The notorious Jennie Manton was be- fore the court this morning charged with being common prostitute For several days she has been hanging around tne lower end of Railroad Hill street in the company of gang of toughs The police have been watching for her and last night Officer McNiff found her on Bank street. She was committed to the town house for sixty days.
 There was good attendance at the Im maculate Conception fair last evening. The programme included singing by the cholr, dialogue and song by J. J. Mon aghan. An interesting programme of ex- erclses has been arranged for this evening. The first number of the Fair Journal ap- peared last evening and is pronounced the best paper of the kind ever published in Connecticut.
 There was an immense audience at City hall last night to hear the Hon Morris F Holohan i'll his closing campaign argu- Ahl L1O1OudL IS one or the best speakers on the stump and received loud and long continued rounds of applause At the close of the meeting the audience formed in line and headed by the American band paraded through Brooklyn and the Abrigador amid a glare of bonfres and colored light.
 Jake Kilrain says: ''I am in a peculiar position with regard to Dempsey I hear at every side that he is just aching to fight me, but as he is not in the heavy weight class and as l am the champion of America l cannot challenge him. If he really wants go with me why don't he challenge me and put up some money to show that he means what he saysF' The fact of the mat ter Is that Jack Dempsex.stated that if he was selected as the unknE-sh, to fight Xiii rain he would gladly undertake to meet him.
 The Waterbury club in Friday nights republican parade brought along bull dog wearing a blanket with the initials I'll. & M" on the sides. This dog, the Waterbury men claimed, could defeat any Democratic dog in the city The dog marched peacefully along the route until it l reached Bulls Head. There it encountered bull dog belonging to John Dorsey, cap tain of the Young Mems Tariff Reform club. Some young men there set the Fourth ward dog on the visiting dog, and ms blanket was speedily chewed into a sad state of demoralization, and the Water bury animal would probably have been killed but for the forcible separation of the contending brutes-Bridgepor Farmer. |
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