Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-27
CITY AND SUBURBS.

attended from his late residence this after noon. A delegation from Wadham's post was in attendance.
 Mrs Lucien Wolff, organist at the church of the Sacred Heart very pleasantly enter tained the choir of the church at her house on Laurel street last evening"
 John Freney, a graduate of the class of '86 of the High School, left town to-day to enter the College of Our Lady of Angels at Suspension Bridge, N. Y.
 Several men with horses have been en- gagged the last day or two in carting the snow from the walks about the Green and dumping it in huge piles on the Green.
 The Waterbury Whist and Euchre Clubs will have contest at Pythian Hall this evening. There are some elegant players and at the close of the contest a banquet will be served at Bolster's.
 The cross walks in the vicinity of the horse railroad tracks have been almost i'm passable for day or two, and if a thaw should come and they in this condition people would have to get on their rubber boots
 The number of lodgers at the police sta tion, considering the cold weather, is very small. Last night only five weary travel CTS dried their balbriggans at the 'Scorch- er' in the corridor and rested their bodies on the fagging that serves for bed.
 The stockholders of Rogers & Bros are holding their annual meeting this after noon. The Meriden stockholders came over on the Meriden and Waterbury road, arriving here shortly after 1 o'clock p. m, taking dinner at the Scovill House.
 At the annual meeting of the Ladies' Mission Circle of the First Church yester- day afternoon the following officers were elected: Miss Nellie Bronson pres ident, Miss Katherine Hamilton vice president; Miss Lillie Hayward secretary and treasurer.
 William Haney is locked up at head quarters awaiting the arrival of the Willi- mantle authorities who telegraphed Chief Egan to hold him. The charge for which he is wanted is not known. He left Willi- mantle and at the time of his arrest was working in local livery stable
 Matthew Cavenaugh pulled himself to- gether this morning and was escorted to the rolice Court, where he was told by Judge Cowell that 30 days in jail and costs was about the proper thing for a man who got beastly drunk. Patrick Rourke got drunk, too, but he got off without the 30 days.
 The snow is so deep and dry that it will not pack down, and the streets resemble cart paths more than frequented and busy should be removed from the streets, as the gully cut in it by the Horse Railroad Con- pany makes driving very dangerous.
 Judge Bradstreet and Abiiah Welton, foreman of the jury, owing to the blockade on the Naugatuck road near Winsted did not arrive in town until ? o'clock this afternoon, having driven fl om Thomaston. Judge Bradstreet said that they never en- countered any drifts and found the travel ing very good.
 On Monday last the officials of the Knights of Columbus having the matter in charge, settled the claim that has been resting against the organization for a year or more back over the disposition of the endowment money of the late Rev Father Lynch of Danbury. The order was at all times willing to hand over the money since it was collected from the var ious councils, but as the question hinged on who was the rightful party to pay the The $1 ,O0O now goes to the St Francis Orphan Asylum of New Haven.
 On the New York and New England west bound trains were delayed here by snow bank at Platts, flag station on tn e other side of New Britain. The a. m. train from Hartford struck this obstruction and did not reach this city until after 12 o'clock This train bears the Eastern and Southern and early morning New York mails. The o'clock train from Hartford last night was delayed by the same obstruc- tion and did not arrive here until after 3 o'clock this morning. The other trains from the east to-day had not been able to make New Britain at 1:3O p. m. The east
 
 There will be total eclipse of the moon tomorrow, visible here. The moon is full at 6:35 on that day. The eclipse begins at commence until 5:31. The middle of the eclipse is reached at 6:2O, and the total phase ends at 7:09, but the ea~th's shadow does not entirely clear the lunar disc until S:O91. It is not often that there is more favorable opportunity to observe that i'm pressive phen6 menon, the passage of the earth's shadow across the face of the moon. It is at such times that the inhabitants of the earth realize the comparative insigni- ficance of the world and all that it con tains.
 The tenth annual meeting of the Con- mercial Travellers Association was held at the Winthrop in Meriden yesterday after- noon. Waterbury was not represented, put many or those present. are we'll kuOWu here. These are the officers elected for, the ensuing year: President, G. Burr Laynes, Lee, Mass; first vice president, 0. H. Blan- chard, Hartford; second vice-president, Alexander Emery, New Haven; secretary and treasurer, Harry S. Andrews, Ashley Falls Mass; executive committee, chair man, John H. Marsh, Hartford; Frank F. Wilson, Hartford; John McElroy, Bridge port; George Baldwin, Bridgeport; Charles T. Ward, New Haven; James F. Fowler, New Haven.
 The Birmingham correspondent to the Ansonia Sentinel says: Agent Sly, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Com pany. arrived in town Wednesday evening, with 50 men, to commence the extension of their lines from here to Waterbury. He claims that the long distance system now extending over 5000 miles throughout diff ferent parts of the country is the most sat isfactory in the world for long distance telephoning. The poles,in all probability, will be laid through the meadows. Dyna- mite is used to blast the holes and he states that they can lay about 1! miles in day, the frost being no bar to the progress of the work. He had some difficulty in fnd- ing places to lodge his men, but succeeded after long search"