Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-20
CITY NE WS.


 Miss Bissell, teacher at St Margarets, left for Cincinnati last night.
 Rehearsal of Sacred Heart church choir ta-night with orchestra. Full at tendance requested.
 Sergeant Cox, of the New Haven sig nal station, predicts rain, followed by colder, fair weather tomorrow.
 Vice-President Reed of the Consoli- dated road, who has been seriously ill, is said to be gradually improving.
 The board of fire commissioners met last night but adjourned to Friday even ing December 27, without transactlng any business.
 M. H. Waas exhibits in his window on South Main street, pack of playing cards which arc nearly one hundred years old.
 Ladies are invited to att nd the decora- tive art reception at the Wheeler & Will son office in w. H. Hunts store, South Main street.
 due in this city at a. m., was over five hours late this morning, being delayed on the Pennsylvania road.
 This years term of the district court closed yesterday and the next term will will open on the second Tuesday in Jan uary.
 Statesmen are wanted to sell nursery stock by c. H. Chase, Rochester, N. Y. Liberal inducements to readers of the DEMOCRAT. No experience necessary.
 Beginning to-day and ending Monday, the days will be the shortest of the year, the time between sunset and sunrise being but nine hours and four minutes.
 Those albums are nice, and prayer books still nicer, at Martin Bergin's. Toilet sets of the latest style and a thousand nice goods for presents at Martin Bergin's.
 Finton Lawlor, aged AS years, died of heart failure at his home on Dublin street last night. The funeral will take place to the church of the Sacred Heart at S:3O tomorrow morning.
 William Murray, the brakeman who was injured in the accident on the New England road, at Forestville Wednesday night, is at the hospital in Hartford. He is resting quietly and will recover.
 At meeting of the New Haven board of trade last night the question of form ing a state organization was discussed. It was voted to correspond with other local boards of the state upon the mat ter.
 Says the Ansonia correspondent of the New Haven News Jean Jacques, lessee of the Sterling opera house, Birming- ham, has leased the Ansonia opera house also, and will assume the manage ment immediately.
 A young woman, named Mary Coak- ley, was arrested in Simonsville last night charged with the theft of clothing from house where she formerly work | ed, in ThOmastOn. She was taken to | that place this morning. In New Haven, the board of educa- tion has requested teachers not to accept | gifts from the pupils of their schools. The idea is to prevent any concerted action on the part of the school, but does not prohibit little personal remem- brances.
 l We have received from the publishers, Messrs Lynch, Cole & Meehan of New l York, a copy of the Irish-American almanac for 1890. It contains nearly 15O pages of valuable historical infor. nation, and is a useful book of refer ence.
 The knife has gone ill to the hilt at the Standard Shoe house, 121 South Man street, and high prices have fol lowed McGinty to the bottom of the sea. Forty per cent off on every purchase l Iuduo TOT Ine ueXC week.
 General Manager Charles Howard Gen Supt A. A. Jackson and Chie1 Engineer L. B. Bidwell, of the New England road stopped in Waterbury this afternoon and were the guests c1 inspection of the road.
 Asneak thief about twenty-five o1 thirty years of age, weight 13O to 14( l p01ln6Q with dark 0ornn1oy
 black hair, smooth face and dark blue overcoat is operating in this state. Hi:
 method is to rifle drawers and safes il offices temporarily left vacant.
 Court Wolf Tone's New Years Jour nal IS the title of paper just published from this office for the committee O
 Court Wolf Tone, having in charge tn, arrangement for the courts grand enter
 tainment and sociable to be held in Git,
 hall New Years afternoon and evening.
 Inquiry among local merchants fail
 to reveal any scarcity in pennies. A s
 Louis man recently procured S2,OO
 worth to relieve the famine in that cit y and in less than two days the 100000
 pennies were gobbled up by the me1
 chants, and even this large invoice wa insufficient to satisfy the demand. Tn : famine is spreading and is travel in eastward.
 Among the cases erased from tn docket of the superior court, by Judg Hall were the following George E Terry vs Daniel F. Hayes; John O'Neill
 jr, vs John M. Riley ct al; Roderick At
 wood vs City of Waterbury; l.. E
 Haase vs James Hanley; Luther C
 White vs Southford Paper Go; Fran Lynch vs Meriden, Waterbury 6 Con . necticut River Railroad Co.
 English Ivy lodge, D. of St G., Ina
 elected the following officers: w. P.
 Mrs Francis Mears; V. F., Mrs Sara
 Green ; chaplain, Mrs E. Charles frs conductor, Mrs B. Birkinshaw secon , conductor, Mrs Williams; financia secretary, Mrs F. Harris; recording
 secretary, Mrs George Turner; treasurer
 Miss M. Needham; guards, Miss Woo
 and Mrs Thatcher; trustees, Mrs Hall Mrs Lancaster, Mrs Green. "A Joiner" complains to the New Ha ven News thus "All the citizens o l c,,ff