Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-13
CITY AND SUBURBS.

Ezra Dunworth took large sleighing party to Thomaston last night
 The Consolidated road will place in use it's new system of block signals tn next Monday.
 Conlon Brothers & Go have announced a large clearing out sale previous to taking in another paatner.
 Every member of Labor Assembly, 5489, is requested to be present at Grand Army Hall this evening.
 The firemen's ball brought along it's an nual storm, which has been one of the fea- lures nearly every year.
 The first annual sociable of the Water bury Silver Drum Corps will be given at Music Hall this evening.
 To-days New York Press says that c. P. Goss, wealthy merchant of Waterbury, is stoping at the Union Square Hotel.
 The Mrs James Brown Potter Company left for New Haven this morning in their own special car attached to the 8:26 8. m. train.
 Katie, 7 years old daughter of MT and Mrs James Bergin of Welton street, died of diphtheria last night and was buried this afternoon.
 The Sheridan Council have in process several{features to be brought out at their coming reception and ball. Tickets $1.0O each, be sure and secure one.
 The Waterbury Boot & Shoe Company, have on exhibition in their window on South Main street $400 piano which they intend to give to some lucky individual
 Elmore J. Blassford of this city and Miss Carrie M. Burdick of New Britain, were married at the residence of the the brides parents in that city Wednesday evening"
 Fred Miller of the Mattatuck Drum Corps of this city, will take part in an entertain ment given by the Austin Drum Corps of Wallingford on Wednesday evening Janu- ary %.
 A number of members of Waterbury Council, No 5, A. O. U. w., will attend the public installation and banquet of Bristol Lodge, No 29, at Bristol next Mon day evening.
 MT David of the Fremont House will give first class Turkey supper this even- or for any others for that matter. Supper 50 cents head.
 Organist Gibson will give an organ reel tai at the First Congregational Church at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. An elab- crate programme, in which Miss Kirschner of New Haven will participate, has been arranged.
 Sisters Mary Ignatius Mccarthy and Mary Helena O'Brien of Australia who re- ceived large sum in this city, for their poor schools in that country are meeting with good success in Bridgeport They have 5000 children under their charge
 Governor Lounsbury has secured accom- modations at the Scoville House for him self and staff, on the occasion of the Grand Army encampment. Twelve rooms have been engaged at the same house for the use of the Meriden and Middletown dele gates to the encampment.
 A cargo of coal is being discharged at the docks in Bridgeport fora transportation up the Naugatuck road The News says: "at cars were being loaded or unloaded while an army of clerks, shippers truckmen and weighers gave animation to the scene"
 The second annual convention of the boys department of the Young Mems Christian Association of the Northern District of Connecticut, will be held in Bristol tomorrow. George L. Blakeslee of this city will speak upon the Boys Camp. It is probable number of members from this city will attend
 The La Bande St. Jean Baptiste are making rapid progress, and intend to make themselves heard the coming season. The Bande is now trying to procure a uniform, and to this end has given several enter tainments the past season. Committees from among it's members will solicit con- tributions during the winter. All who feel like contributing will be helping along a deserving work.
 At the annual meeting yesterday after noon of the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the First Church the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: Presi- dent, Miss Katherine l.. Peck; vice presi- dent, Mrs Thomas Donaldson; secretary and treasurer Mrs. H. M. Dutton; assist ant, Miss Fanny Dutton; directresses, Mes danes, E. Shannon, G. s. Northrop, John Mullings, Wm Riley, and Lucy Smith, and Miss Mary Cook; committee, having supervision of kitchen, Mrs A. 0. Peck; provision soliciting committee, Mrs G. Hall. Miss Katherine l.. Peck, president of the society, in her annual report noted with feeling the deaths of five of the so- ciety's mem bers, viz: Mrs Israel Holmes, Mrs Willard Spencer, Mrs John Stocking Mrs Albert Burritt and Mrs Samuel Root. The society during the year sent articles and money amounting to $443. 39 to home missionaries in Illinois, Kansas, Dakota and New York. Following the meeting an excellent spread was served in the church parlors.
 There were three occupants of the pris- oners' box at the Police Court this morn ing. All pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and two were fined $1 and costs and the other was discharged. In the case of James J. McGrath, charged with allowing minors to loiter around his pool room in the Brooklyn district, Officer Noonan testi- fled that he found John Murphy and Jo- seph Fitzpatrick in McGrath's place We'd nesday evening and he took them home Joseph Fitzpatrick testified that he was 16 and that he was born in Watertown in August, 1871. John Murphy, who does not look to be more than 13 years, said he was born in this city, October 21, 1871. Attorney Kellogg who conducted the pros- ecution in the absence of MT Burpee, called Town Clerk White, who looked over the records of births for 1871, but could not find Murphy born in October of that year, but in the records for 1879 found that Murphy child had been born on Oc- tober 21, the date given by Murphy as his birthday A MT Rafferty, uncle of the boy, said the boy was under 16, but as, thele was an uncertainty as to whether the boy was 16 the court found McGrath not guilty.