Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-02
CITY AND SUBURBS.

Vxx ANU UOUVXlUNs
 Carrollton and Sheridan councils, K. of O., will meet tomorrow afternoon.
 Thomas McGrath will open first class saloon and restaurant at Branford this week.
 Miss B. M Hyland sails to-day for Ire land on the City of Richmond of the In man line.
 Chris Kilbride will take the examination before the state board of pharmacy at it's next meeting.
 The Rev l.. F. Baker of this city will preach at the Mission chapel in Union City tomorrow afternoon.
 The Holy Name society of the church of the Immaculate Conception will meet at p. m. tomorrow afternoon.
 At the St Paul church tomorrow there will be services at 10:3O a. m. and 7:30 F 1s m. m' 9un0'y S'n00' ~''' 0s nsi0 ''
 Supervisor Lane will soon commence the track several inches in the vicinity of Platt's mills.
 Wesley Hodge, who resigned his posi- tion as night watchman at the New Eng land depot, is to assume charge of a sum-, mer resort at Meadow End
 Ida Smith, who said she belonged in this city was brought before Justice Beach of Forestville yesterday, on a charge of vagrancy. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to jail for thirty days. The sacred concert of the Colored Jubilee singers at the opera house to- morrow evening will probably be the last entertainment of the season. Prices 10, 20 and 30 cents.
 District Deputy Sweeney, accompanied by number of members of the Knights of Columbus from this city, will go to Torrington Wednesday evening and confer the third degree upon number of can didates of Unity Council, K. of O., of that town.
 Judge Cowell will leave for Toronto. Canada, Monday, as state delegate from the grand lodge to the eleventh annual session of the supreme council, Royal Ar canum, which opens in that city Tuesday. MT Cowe1 will be accompanied by Mrs Cowell.
 There are now between 35 and 40 Italian bootblacks, all under 13 years of age, in town. They are housed in the Italian boarding place in the rear of No. 3s hose house, and if anything can be gathered from their conversation they must be under the charge of @ padrone.
 All of the supernumerary police force have been called up for duty from Satur- day night until Tuesday morning. It will te well for housekeepers, especially during the circus parade, to have an eye to their honses as the usual number of thieves are expected with the circus.
 Ever since that Bridgeport man made the statement that for fifteen years there had not been Saturday but the sun had shone during some portion of the day, a number of Ansonians have kept record, and last Saturday they found that at no portion of the day did the sun shine.
 At the beginning of the month of June day breaks at 2:08 and twilight ends at 9:31; length of day fourteen hours and fifty-nine minutes. The days grow eight minutes longer, the afternoons increasing ten minutes, the mornings decreasing two minutes The new moon may be seen the 11th. The finest moonlight evenings are between the 17th and 24th.
 Bishop Williams of the Episcopal church came up from Bridgeport on the 11:17 train this morning and left for Woodbury via Watertown, where he will administer the sacrament of confirmation at 2:30 this afternoon. He will return to this city this evening, where he will be the guest of Rev pr Rowland, and will administer the rite of confirmation to large class at 1O:3O to- morrow morning. The cermonies will be very impressive, and will be witnessed by large number of the members of the church.
 The Winsted Citizen speaking of Thomas McAndrews, who committed suicide in this city decoration day, says: Last Sunday he came to Winsted, md asked MT Henry Gay if he would not discharge MT Holmes from the Hubert National bank and give him the position. As McAndrews could hardly write his own name, refusal of the request was not unexpected. That same afternoon, while at the passenger station, he raved that persons were seeking his life, and other wise demonstrated his insanity.
 Bridgeport man yesterday dropped two postal cards in the letter box at the post were addressed: s'To the President of the United States and Others in Authority, Washington, D. O." On one of the cards was written: sThese two cards failed to connect. A Swindled Individual" The cards were two of lot recently purchased at the Bridgeport post office. One of them had about half of the government stamp on each end, and the other had nothing at all on it to show that it was more than an ordinary piece of cardboard.
 The Canty habeas corpus case was tried before Judge Andrews at Litchfeld yester- day The case is of no little interest to the legal fraternity, as being the first attack on the constitutionality of the law by which truants and incorrigibles are committed to the state reform school. Lawyer Graves for the Canty boy, recognized the mittimus on which the boy was committed, but an- swered that the law was defective Judge Andrews took up the papers and recommit- ted the boy to the reform school pending . decision. It is thought the case will now % oyer for an indefinite time.