Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-27
CITY AND SUBURBS.

The rain fall amounted to 1.O3 inches.
 Miss Lena Ottwer of Hartford has taken position as stenographer in the office of the American Pin company.
 The Young Mems Catholic Literary as- sociation will give their twelfth annual sociable at City hall, April 13
 Hi Henry's minstrels arrived on the 12 o'clock train from Hartford in their hand some Pullman palace car and gave bril- liant street parade
 The Waterbury Horse Railroad compa- ny's cars that were loaned to the Meriden company were shipped to this city from Meriden yesterday.
 The Rev Father O'Neil, who conducted the mission at the Church of the Sacred Heart some time ago, has just closed successful mission at St Peter's church, Troy, N. Y.
 Roger Connor will leave tomorrow for New York to join the baseball team. Mem bers of the old Monitor baseball club and few friends will give him banquet at the Scovill house tonight.
 Mrs Theresa Carney, aged 49, widow of the late Michael Carney, died at her resi- dence, No 8 Bridge street, last night. The funeral will be held at 4:30 this afternoon. The interment will be in St Joseph's ceme- tery.
 The board of selectmen have carried out the vote of the recent town meeting, hav- ing executed lease to the city for ninty- nine years of land in the rear of city hall for the purpose of building and maintain ing police station.
 c. w. Blakeslee of c. w. Blakeslee & Sons of New Haven, who put down the small stretch of the Bank street pavement, was at the city engineers office to-day fig uring on the contract for paving South Main and Bank streets.
 Judge Cowell in the district court this morning heard the case of John Healy vs John Crane an action to recover for groceries. The defendant claims that the bill is outlawed and that the plaintiff did not have peddler's license.
 MT and Mrs Sloan of North Elm street entertained the Waterbury Euchre club last evening" It was the occasion of the fifth anniversary of their marriage and the members left MT and Mrs Sloan many re- minders of the occasion in the shape of presents.
 The suits against the New York and New England railroad brought by Lawyer O'Neil for the laborers who shoveled snow were set down for trial in the district court to-day, but an adjournment was se- OulCSA ulAllA AACAI 1uoiudy.
 Representatives of the Meriden and Wa terbury railroad will on Friday meet the selectmen and special committee to discuss the matter of constructing the new bridge over Mad river at Baldwin street. They will report at the adjourned town meeting Monday evening.
 Finton Keefe, John Phelan and John, Flynn, who went to Ireland with Martin Scully on the steamer Wyoming, will sail from Queenstown for home on the steamer Britannia of theWhite Star line Thursday. Mrs Phelan, an aunt of John Phelan, will accompany them.
 The sewer commissioners at D. m. to day visited East Main, Wall and Penn berton streets in consideration of re- monstrances agsinst the construction of sewers in these streets. The road com missioners visited Vine and Denny street to investigate into trouble caused by sur face water.
 Charles Bennett and Michael McCor- mick, who claimed to live in Middlebury, were found in a drunken condition and with disfgured countenence and pulled in by the police last night This morning in the police court they said they were set upon by some roughs in Brooklyn The court imposed a fine of $5 without costs and they were taken to the town house.
 The board of compensation last evening heard parties on assessments caused by es- tablishing lines on Grand street, South Main street from Grand to Meadow and the north side of East Main from Phoenix avenue to North Elm street. The board as special committee also heard property owners on the assessments of benefits and damages caused by the layout of Pember- ton street.
 The railroad commissioners have issued their order concerning the petition of the Meriden and Waterbury railroad for 8 change in it's layout along River street They order that the center of the company's track be seven feet from the highway, the company to construct a retaining wall and a substantial wooden railing where it is necessary. The commissioners also order that the Liberty and Baldwin street bridges be 10 instead of IS feet from the rail-
 In the district court this morning Judge Bradstreet heard arguments in the case of George Thomas against Randolph & Gloves on motion for the appointment of a committee to examine the books of the concern and ascertain the profits, their report to be used as evidence in the case The plaintiff claims that the defendants hired him as superintendent of their fac tory, agreeing to pay him one-fourth of the profits of the firm, April |, 1888, guar anteeing that this sum should not be less than $3500 year. He worked half the time and was discharged without cause and now sues to recover one-fourth of the profits of the concern up to April 1, 1888. He does not know how much the profits are as the books are in the possession of the frm. The defendants opposed the ap- pointment of a committee on the ground that there was no cause for action. Graves and O'Neil appear for the plaintiff and Kellogg and Terry for the defendants.