Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-23

The Rev G. w. Folwell, of Brooklyn, N. Y. formerly pastor of the Baptist church in this city, occupied his old pulpit yester- day
 Abijah A. Sperry, aged 70, died of paralysis at his residence in East Farms yesterday afternoon. His funeral will take place at 2 p. m. tomorrow.
 Martin Bergin has introduced iuto his undertaking business feature which is new here that of draping the room in which body reposes previous to burial.
 Patrick Connel, or Champion, steam boat deck-hand, is wanted in Norwich on charge of mayhem. A few nights ago he got into fight in that city and during the contest he bit off his adversary's ear. The remains of Edna E. Hosner, the infant daughter of MT and Mrs Hosner of Hyland avenue, who died yesterday will be taken to Springfield, Mass,, for inter ment on the o'clock train tomorrow morning.
 Meriden is in rage because the new Boston and New York expresses are not scheduled to stop in that city. She is well | accommodated but is jealous of her rival, New Britain, the stop being made at Der lin to accommodate that city.
 The death of a man named Hollywood, at No. 116 Bishop street was reported to Undertaken Dillon this morning. It was said that the man had no medical attend ance and Medical Examiner North was notified but at o'clock had not made an | investigation.
 | The May number of the Hibernian Re | cord in speaking of the appointment of D. J. Casey of this city, as major of the | Hibernican rifles says: "Capt D. J. Casey 1 lofW Wo+a fo1 h1,fo yyot
 has not signifed his acceptance but it is
 hoped he will as he would prove very
 efficient officer.
 Thomas Barrett, for over 40 years resi-
 dent of this city, died of old age at his res l idence on Ward street this morning. MT
 Barrett was 85 years old, and delighted to
 tell incidents of his long residence in this
 city, His funeral will be attended from
 the Church of the Immaculate Conception
 at p. m. tomorrow.
 A few days ago Mary Reed, an aged resi-
 dent of Bridgeport, sold building lot for
 which she received in cash $2,070. The
 money was paid to her Thursday, in the
 presence of Thomas Kennedy, her brother,
 to her. Mrs Reed laid it away, as she sup
 posed, in a safe place. Saturday Kennedy
 visited the house during Mrs Reeds ab-
 sence, took the money and left town. It
 is supposed he went to New York with the
 intention of taking the steamer to-day for
 Europe.
 During this month the state officers of the A. o. H. have prepared very neat and
 appropriate commission for the following
 officers of the A. O. H. rifles: Col P. H.
 Smith of Hartford, Lieutenant Colonel
 William Donahue of Hartford, Quartermas- ter P. D. Ryan of Hartford, Paymaster John
 of Tr H
 Hartman of Norwich, Judge Advocate John H. Griffin of Middletown, and In
 spector of Rifle Practice Thomas Luddy of this city, also the offices of companies A of New London, B of Hartford, c of Meriden, D of Middletown and E of this city.
 The first meeting of the Connecticut district officers of the A. o. F. in this city
 was the occasion of banquet by Courts Hancock and Wolf Tone at K. of c. hall Saturday evening. Over 200 including the district officers and representatives from Abraham Lincoln of Springfield and Court Fruitful Vine of this city were present r Farrell of New Haven, P. H. O'Brien District Chief Ranger Me 3 Ennerny and c. Mooney and M J. Boyle ) of Bridgeport. There were a number o1 recitations including several by Dr J. 8 Hayes and James Sutton. The district 2 officers were present at the meeting yester
 day preparatory to organizing Court , Stephen J. Meany
 a Attorney Chas G. Root, counsel for Mrs 0 M. A. Dougherty, got Judge Cowell out O. r bed at 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning ane e procured an injunction to stop the proprie s tors of the Sunday Herald from publishing n an article which it was alleged was deroga Il tory the character and liable to impair th d credit of the plaintiff. The article il
 question was entitled, "A Comed, J. of Errors, or Shakespeare Knock it ed Out," and implicated severa = well-known people in scandal. Tn s papers were given Constable O'Briel Q who served them upon Messrs Swift ant a Simonson at the editorial rooms but the, ,- insisted that they had nothing to do witt n it as Harry Upson was one of the com k pany. Upson could not be found, so tn # constable served them on Sam Brown g the pressman, whom he found runnin ! off the paper in the basement of Holohan' n building. No attention, however, wa # paid to it and the paper was issued a 1 usual. Editor Simonson said to-day tha !. the article was submitted to Mrs Doughert a and all the corrections she desired wer d made, the only request refused being it IS suppression. It not known to-da q whether action for contempt will b
 brought against the editors. It is held b Il good lawyers that there being no libel i ,' the article they had right to refuse t , obey the injunction.
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