Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-21
CITY AND SUBURBS.

William E. Fulton, is erecting brick block on Meadow. street. John Sheridan is delivering the tax bills for Tax Collector Meyer. Ticket No held by George A. Chapman won the banjo drawn at Harrington's last evening. The Waterbury bank is building large vault in the cellar of their building on Bank street. Dr c. E. Munger will speak to the junior de partment of the Y. M c. A. on hygiene next Monday evening.
 There was a pleasant party in attendance at the necktie sociable of the Lyra singing society at Lyra hall last evening.
 There will be a meeting of the Third Order of St. Dominic at the Sacred Heart church tomorrow at 3:3O p. m.
 There are IF cases on the superior court docket, civil side, to be tried here next week. Nineteen of them are to be heard by jury.
 There is young man employed on the Naugatuck road who smokes sixty cigar cites and eats package of cough drops every day. ..-..
 MT and Mrs Edwin H. Williams returned from their wedding tour last evening" They will make their home at No IT Chest nut avenue.
 No district court assignments were made to-day owing to the incoming of the May term of the civil side of the superior court next Tuesday.
 The next lecture in Y. M. c. A. course will be by c. F. Chapin, editor of the American. His subject will be, Books and Newspapers"
 This is the last night of St. Ann's fair fos. oAk >1o,o 4L largely attended and the parish will re- alize a handsome sum.
 The drawing of the horse for the benefit of George Sickmund who was recently struck blind, will take place at Halls liv- cry office this evening.
 The new time table on the New York and New England railroad goes into effect at 8 8. m. tomorrow. There are no changes on the Naugatuck division.
 The United Gas Improvement company have put handsome champion safe into their offce It weighs two tons and is one of the finest safes in the city.
 The district board of Foresters meet in this city this evening, and courts Hancock and Wolf Tone have made arrangements to banquet them at K. of c. hall.
 Smiths hotel which had recently been under the' management of Mrs. E. G. Bayliss, has been leased by w. J. Schleyel to c. D. Manning, who will take charge May 1.
 Seventeen prisoners, all from this city will be brought up from New Haven jail for trial before the April term of the superior court, which opens in this city next Tuesday.
 A horse attached to a cart and owned by Thomas Shay, ran away on River street yesterday afternoon, knocking down two Italians who were working on the new rail- road. They were uninjured.
 Engine No IS on the Naugatuck road attached to the 10:54 train broke down as it was leaving Winsted this morning. En- zine No 182 replaced it and the broken one was taken to the repair shop in Bridgeport.
 The lady who left bundle containing a bottle of tooth powder, two combs, 8 set of hair curriers', tooth brush, hair pins and handerchiefs at the Naugatuck station few days ago, can have the property by calling at the baggage room.
 Philip Haley and Frederick B. Hurd, were each fined $7 and costs for intoxication in the police court this morning. The case of JohnLinde charged, with burglarizing the residence of Patrick McNamara last night and taking silver knives and forks, was continued until Monday
 Two hundred couples were present at the sociable of the Brass City Hose com pany at city hall last night and had merry time. The affair was a grand success and reflects credit upon these committees who were in charge: Floor, George H. Byrnes, w. J. Cosgrove, J. T. Hackett, T. L. Cranpell, P. F. Kenny, J. J. Dolan, D. J. Slavin; reception, T. J. Moran, M. H. Shaw, B. Byrnes, J. T. Fenn, G. H. Byrnes, E. s. Cullen, M B. Berrigan, D. T. Hackett, K. Drury, w. H. Goggins.
 There was a large attendance at the fair of St. Ann's church at the rink last night The programme included song with banjo accompaniments by John Dillon, selections on the tin whistle by Eugene LaRose with piano accompaniment, Indian club swing ing by Joseph Beaulieu, songs by James Shelvey, and Dr J s Chagnon. Tonight the fair will close and the pro ogramme will be an interesting one. John Canton of Thomaston, will be seen in clogs and jigs and Master Keefe will give clog and round jig, and Young and Ryan are ex- pected to do their brother acts.
 General Pierpont of New Haven advo- cates the changing of Memorial Day from May 20 to June IT, the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill His argument is not so much that June IT is Bunker Hill day as because May 30 commentaries no special event during the late war, and that in our climate there is apt to be very few flowers with which to decorate the graves of our beloved dead. In June there are plenty, and the difficulty now often ex- perienced in this respect will be done away with. The matter will come up in the national G. A. R. encampment