Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-31
CITY AND SUBURBS.

 yesterday from European trip of several weeks.
 The 'Still Alarm" on Scovill street will be reopened by Thomas E. Guest to- morrow.
 Tomorrow being the feast of all saints will be observed as a holy day in all the Catholic churches.
 Edward Beach, son of Supt Beach, who is travelling in..Engl land, is expected to re- turn home next month.
 NJ. H. Wass, the South Main street cigar manufacturer, Is anxious to bet S00 to S4O on Cleveland's election.
 Frank Lynch has sold his saloon on East Main street to his bartender John Brown, who will take possession immediately.
 Several members of the Democratic Glee club will go to Southington in bus this evening to take part in rally to be given there
 To-day is the last day to hand in your tax list to the assessors and thus avoid the 10 per cent additional for failing to comply with the law.
 Fred Schuman, who was drowned in Norwalk harbor few days ago, Is report ed to be Waterbury man. His body has not been recovered yet.
 The Waverly Social club will dance with  The Second ward drum corps will give a short parade before the ball
 The residence of William Dowd ill Water vile caught fire yesterday, but was saved from destruction by the timely arrival of the neighbors. The loss is slight.
 w. H. Hubbard, captain of the French Republican club, left yesterday for Canada on some mysterious business, supposed to be in connection with the Trepannier case. The many friends of MT and Mrs Cyrus Thompson assembled at their residence on Franklin street last evening to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their marriage.
 The dramatic section of the Turnverein will give their second sacred concert next Sunday Members and their friends are cordially invited.
 A horse owned by Mathews & Willard ran away this morning down Maple street to East Main where it collided with J. J. McCarthy's delivery wagon, fortunately doing no damage.
 State Treasurer Downs of the Knights of Columbus was married in New York to- day to Miss Kate Leahy of New Haven. MT Downs has many friends here who send him their best wishes.
 The polling place for the second voting district next Friday will be ip Scovilis barn, so called, next to Citizens booth on North Main street, instead of in barn on the green as is usual.
 Waterbury has number of people on her voting list named after some of the large cities in the United States. There is a Boston, New York, St Louis and Bir- mingham on this years list.
 Dr Lindsley has riquested leading physician in each town in the state for mfoln ation to be included under the T., annual report as secretary of the state board of health.
 John Kelly was found by Officer Reid asleep in barn on West Side Hill last night Judge Bradstreet this morning imposed a sentence of thirty days in the town house for vagrancy. Kelly has a wife and two children.
 The selectmen have received word from Southington that an insane man named Philip Healey, of Waterbury, was confined in the lookup there until tsken charge of by the town officials. The selectmen are in vestigating and if Healey is a Waterbury man they will take charge of him.
 The dramatic club of Seymour will pre- sent the opera of Pinafore in that town on the evening of November If and 15 Miss Lizzie Gaffney of New Haven will take the part of Josephine, J. E. Beddre of this city will take the part of Ralph Rackstraw and w. s. Erwin, also of this city, will assume the role of Captain Corcoran.
 At meeting of the board on public lands and buildings held last evening Charles Egan appointed janitor of City hall in place of Thomas Morgan, l, whose term had expired. MT Egan was janitor of the building before MT Morgan, but resigned to accept the office of deputy sheriff under Sheriff Byxbee.
 Yesterday Waterbury peddler went to Naugatuck and erected a stand near the postofice where he displayed handsome line of pocketbooks. Being called away for a few minutes some one placed the sign "take one" on his stand and when the poor fellow returned he found that he had only eight pocketbooks left.
 As result of their semi-annual inspec- tion the railroad commissioners thus re- port: "All the improvements recom- mended by us last spring on the Nauga- tuck division have been made. The mas onry of a small opening near Baldwin s station, we are glad to note, is being re- built. The roadbed, track and bridges of this division are in excellent condition for winter, and we have no unfavorable criti- cisms to make"
 The New York and New England road is putting to practical test new scheme for heating cars. They are trying to utilize the Baker heater for steam power from the locomotive. The design is to heat and force into continuous circulation the water already in the pipes. The device is in tended for trains attached, but when side tracked and detached the regular heater can be used as an auxiliary. In the first experiment the pipes were hot enough in five minutes to thoroughly warm the car
 The arrangement committee for the masuuerade ball of the Waterbury Turn verein held its first meeting last Sunday. The ball is to be held on Thursday, Feb ruary 14th, at City hall, and will be one of the greatest affairs of it's kind ever held in this city. The features of the evening will be the novel marches before the bali. The arrangement committee consists of Albert J. Stahmer, Albert Kaufmann, Fred Schlipp, Fred Marggraff, John Kirschbaum, Will Hubbers and Louis Wenzel.