Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-21
THE WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT MONDAY MAY 2l lsss

The DEMOCRAT reporters miss nothing. Its local columns tell the tale.
 The work on the Bank street paving is being pushed very rapidly along. l Frederick Quintard of New Haven, is to open fancy grocery store in this city. l This morning work was commenced on the laying of the new water main on French street.
 l The feast of Pentecost was appropriately celebrated in all the Catholic churches yes terday.
 Dr Dwight Todd, of New Milford, for merly a student with Dr Bland was in | town to-day.
 young son of Michael Healey, living at 19 Baldwin street, fell from yeranda l yesterday and fractured one leg. 1 District Deputy Sweeney will install the newly elected officers of St. Ojeda Council, K. of O., at Naugatuck this evening. The annual field day of the Catholic | Total Abstinence Union of Connecticut | will be held at Mystic Island August %. l The thirteenth annual reunion of the l legislators of 1875 will be held at Hill Brothers Homestead, Savin Rock, June 20. l City Auditor James E. Birrell is re- ported very i'll at his home, with recur- renee of his recent attack of heart disease. l General Secretary F. L. Willis of this city attended the tenth anniversary of the Hartford Y M 0. A. held in that city yesterday.
 The regular meeting of the Waterbury Democratic club will be held at the club rooms in Browns block tomorrow even ing. full attendance is requested.
 The parties interested in the scheme of stocking the country hereabouts with game, have been unable, on account of the lateness of the season to procure stock. Bernard Gallagher and Miss Mary Nc Morrow were married with nuptial mass | by the Rev J. A. Mulcahy at the church of the Immaculate Conception at 9 o'clock to-day.
 The funeral of Miss Catherine Gillen, was largely attended from her late residence AS Park avenue to the church of the I'm maculate Conception at 2:30 yesterday afternoon.
 Advertisin car No. 2 of the great Fore paugh show arrived in this city late Satur- day evening and this morning gang of bill posters gave the bill boards another covering of bills.
 D. H. Tierney will shortly remove his office to the rooms over sthe one TOW oc- cupied by him in order that work may be commenced on the store to be built on the property that he recently purcased. The selectmen spent this morning at | Tamarack swamp, where the road recently built over town plot is being swallowed up by the sands. They think that by filling in with brush they can build another road bed that will stay.
 Gen Supt Jackson of the New England road has posted notices in the station for bidding newsboys from selling newspapers | and books around the station, as the Hotel and Railroad News company of Boston has the privilege of selling on all trains. l Will Lucas, who runs the Starlight on South Meriden lake, will go over to Quas- sapaug lake, seven miles the other side of | Waterbury, in day or two to fit up a new who formerly ran the Shuttle Meadow lake house. There will be seven mile ride on the lake, and Will only wishes he could make run like that where his steamer now is.-N. H. News Correspondent.
 Late Saturday evening middle aged stranger, accompanied by two of the Circus Royal canvas men called at the police sta ton looking for medical assistance. Tie stranger was suffering from a bad scalp eral cuts in the face. He said he had fallen off car at the New England depot and struck on his head, but the story is not be- lieved as the marks were those of beat ing. Dr. North sewed up the cut.
 This morning Town Clerk White had occasion to look up some of the grand lists back in the sos. These lists, for want of room, were stored in letter cupboards in the town vault When the lists were ta- ken out they fell to pieces in the clerks hands, having been eaten through and ll |. ( T be an argument strong enough to show the great and immediate necessity of a suitable vault for the town records, many of which are priceless, as they cannot be duplicated if destroyed.
 | Messrs Brewer and Walker, who have in charge the working of the tableaux to be presented at the coming Odd Fellows en- | tertainment, are straining every nerve and promise something that was never seen in l Waterbury before. The grand tableau which is to be given at the end of each evening performance is to be something gorgeous. It is the presentati on of the Queen of sheba to King Solomon, and will present moving tableau of seventy five people for about twenty minutes. The costumes are beautiful
 Patrick Hayes was before the police court to-day, charged with breaking James Boylan's windows. MT. Boylan testified that Patrick threw stone through blind and all into his bedroom, and when he put his head out of the window to see who did the act Patrick took shot at his head. Seven dollars and costs. John Condon was the second victim. He came from Hart ford Saturday, got bowling drunk, and it took the united efforts of two officers to get him behind the bars. He fought like a tiger, and was very abusive while in the | lockup Five dollars and costs for drunk eness, and $10 and costs for resistance. Two simple drunks were allowed to go. Dennis Bowling came down town Saturday night, he said the first time in seven weeks, he having been laid up with broken leg He was lame, but not drunk by any means. He was fined $5 and costs.
 FORTY YEARS AGO.