Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-23
CITY AND SUBURBS.

CITY ANU SUbUKbN.
 Hartford and Waterbury will play polo at the rink tonight.
 Nosahogan Lodge will work their ia nous second degree tomorrow evening.
 The Excelsior Labor Club will give 6 grand sociable at G. A. R. Hall this even ing. Tickets for the Amphion concert will go on sale at the Park drug store tomorrow morning.
 Arguments were made this morning be- fore Judge Bradstreet ill the District Court in the case of Pierce against Lawler.
 Rev Father Zones has recovered from his late illness, and was able to attend to his duties as pastor at St Anne's church, yesterday.
 Father Murphy, who was recently re- moved from this city to St Augustine's parish in Bridgeport, was ill town to-day and is much pleased with his new field.
 H. W. Lake, who was injured in a un- away accident Saturday morning, was suf fering considerable pain this morning, due to slight attack of pleurisy but nothing serious is feared.
 The balance of the Court Wolf Tone programmes have arrived, and those par ties entitled to them can get them at M Wallace's furnishing goods store on South Main street.
 The extension of the closing hour of sa- looms to 12 o'clock has not yet had any ap- preciable effect on the police business During the past AS hours there has not been single arrest made by the police.
 The supper and entertainment at City Hall this evening for the benefit of the Waterbury Industrial school will be a pleasant affair. The entertainment by the Chinese students will be feature of the evening.
 MT and Mrs H. L. Welch with their niece, Miss French, left to-day for New York, where they will be joined by Dr Martha M. Dunn, and start tonight for Thompsonville, Ga to be absent until April.
 Charles Hull, aged AS years, died at his residence on North Elm street late Satur- day evening. His funeral will be attended from his late residence at 1 p. m. to-1nor- row. The remains will re taken to Water town for interment.
 The Rev Dr Platt delivered very inter- esting discourse in the Methodist church yesterday morning on ''Rum, Its Effects and Cure" The speaker dwelt at length upon the effects of narcotics upon the
  ness the prohibition of the manufacture of liquor.
 MT Shannahan, for many years a re- spected resident of Railroad Hill, wishes it understood that he is in no way connected with the Hughes -Shannahan affair reported in these columns Saturday. He furth CT states that the Hughes do not live on Rail road Hill, but do reside on North Riverside street, in the old Lyons house.
 Professor Forbes illustrated lecture at the Opera House Wednesday evening will be the first of an interesting series Flu ropean travel His subject will be ''Saun- terings in Scotland and England" and in cludes scenes of Eren Isle, Silver Strand, Loch Katrine, Edinburgh by Moonlight, Windsor Castle, Henry ITS tower and St Georges chapel.
 Rev Father O'Donnell, who succeeds Father Murphy at the Church of the I'm maculate Conception, celebrated the 10:3O mass at that church yesterday and preached the sermon of the day Father O'Donnell is very eloquent speaker. His sermon yesterday was delivered in an easy, graceful manner, and his words were heard in all parts of the large church.
 A horse belonging to P. B. Norton ran driverless up South Main street yesterday afternoon through Exchange Place to his stable. In turning the corner of East Main street and Exchange Place the sleigh threw a woman down but she got up no worse for the fall. The driver was thrown out below Grand street while trying to cross the horse car tracks and the animal naturally ran to his stable.
 Adolph Close, the pianist, who will contribute to the second portion of the programme at the Amphion concert at the Opera House Thursday evening is a very competent artist Of his performance the Wilmington DeD Herald had this to say: '.Adolph Close with his piano solos held the audience entranced, and at the close of each piece there was such vigorous en- core that it was impossible for him to de cline responding"
 When G. N. Els entered his book store on Bank street this morning he found the rear window open and the thermometer away down. Going to the money drawer he found that burglars had paid his store a visit some time between Saturday even ing and this morning, rifing the money drawer of about $3 in small change. MI Els thinks he must have left the window up Saturday night, as he generally secures it with iron bars.
 It is exceedingly cold weather to work on sewers and the construction of the one on North Main street progresses slowly. The work being done now is chiefly blast ing out the rock. The cold weather does not delay that kind of work, and the city engineer intimated to reporter this morn ing that it might facilitate matters. "It this weather continues" he said ''all we shall do is to drill holes and fill them with water and the weather will perform the work of dynamite.
 Cutting Ice With Steamer.