Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-21
CITY AND SUBURBS.

The Young Mems Republican club will hold meeting this evening. The choirs of the different churches are hard at work practicing their Easter music. The monthly collection taken up at St Patrick's church last Sunday amounted to $661. The opera "Fantine' will be rehearsed at the Amphion club rooms this evening. Clark commandery will confer the order of the red cross this evening. The Hillside avenue school will give an entertainment at the lecture room of the Methodist church, Tuesday evening, April 3.
 The Young German American associa- tlOn are looking for new quarters which they intend fitting up to the queens taste
 The postponed entertainment of the Waterbury Reform club will take place at the club rooms on Abbott avenue this evening.
 The invitation concert and masquerade sociable of the Concordia singing society takes place at concordia hall tomorrow evening.
 Bishop Foss will dedicate the new chapel built by St Pauls mission next Tuesday evening". The Rev Dr Reed of NeW Haven Will De among the ClelSymen present.
 Joint Lenten services were held at St Johns church last evening, the sermon be- ing delivered by the Rev R. N. Micou of Trinity church.
 The students of Sibley college of Me- chanical Engineering and Mechanical Arts will on their annual tour of inspection next week, visit the manufactOries of Water bury.
 The Western Union has not yet secured any wire direct from New York, but are connected with the metropolis via Hart ford
 The funeral of Albert L., infant son of MT and Mrs Isadore Chase, who died Mon day, was attended at 2:30 p. m. to-day. Interment was at Mechizedeck cemetery.
 The second private sociable of Nosaho- gan lodge, I. o. o. F., will be given at Odd Fellows hall this evening, the lodge orchestra furnishing the music and l. Uff- endale prompting.
 Local dealers expect that coal will be selling for S6 ton before May l.. Poor people who have been paying at the rate of SS ton all winter can noteXtract much consolation from this fact
 Property owners who dug out their gut ters last week are glad of it that the thaw has set in. This is the kind of weather that floods cellars unless the neces- sary precautions are taken.
 With the aid of a gang of more than one hundred workmen the Western Union Tel egraph company is fast getting it's wires between this city and New York in the shape they were before the storm.
 The fellow employees of Fred Shannon of the Rogers x Hamilton companys factory presented him with diamond ring upon his leaving the employ of the firm to enter Wesleyan academy at Wilbra- ham, Mass.
 The Rev Isaac A. Foster of New Haven will deliever his lecture on Life in An dersonville Prison" at the opera house next Monday evening" Secretary of the State l.. NJ. Hubbard will preside.
 The Rev MT Boolgoorjoo gave inter esting account of the mission work among the Turks before the mission circle of the Second Congregational church in the lecture room last evening. A season of social enjoyment followed the address.
 Eight candidates were put through the first degree at the regular meeting of Nosahogan lodge, 1. o. o. F. last evening" The lodge has accepted the invitation of Charter Oak lodge of Hartford to witness the working of the first degree by the cap itoI city Odd Fellows April 13
 The Carpenters and Joiners' union of Meriden has resolved that for one year after April, 1SSS no member of it's union shall work on any building where non union masons and bricklayers are em- ployed. Similar action by the Waterbury union has been talked of.
 The remains of the late James M Breck- enbridge, who died in New Haven Mon day, was brought to this city from New Haven this morning and taken to the Hall Memorial chapel where funeral services were conducted by the Rev Dr Bowdish. The interment was ill the family plot in Riverside cemetery.
 The rain storm, which set in late yester. day afternoon and which this afternoon seems to be in doubt whether to continue has with temperature of 50 degrees, con- tributed much' toward reducing the quan- tity of snow, and without any damage as far as can be learned. The gutters are cleared sufficiently to let the water run off and the catch basins and sewers are dis posing of it without trouble. The storm came direct from the south and the wind is shifting westward with the prolaise ot clear and warmer weather.
 Frank Youngs with Redwood & Wheelock, has produced some excellent blue prInts ot scenes about the city on the morning after the big blizzard Some of them are very fine, surpassing any of the photographs takel. MT Youngs has, in connection with his blue prints, brought out a novel idea, that probably not an- other of the 60, ,0O0 people in this coun- try would have thought of, in producing them on the back of postal cards, which are quite the proper thing to mail to an acquaintance or friend MT Young is quite genius and his work of procuring views wa not prompted by mercenary motives but was done simply for amusement