Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-27
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 There will be meeting of the district committee this evening.
 Miss Emma Downey of Pleasant street is visiting with friends in Hartford.
 w. s. Bailey will return to this city next week to conduct series of temper ance meetings.
 Several Waterbury people will visit the Catholic fair at Litchfield this even ing.
 Mrs A. w. Bishop, the clairvoyant physician, ,Ihas removed from Baldwin avenue to No 13 South Willow street.
 Mir and Mrs E. J. Shipley and Miss Carrie F. Elsdon left this afternoon for Milwaukee where they will spend several weeks.
 B. J. Reilly and M. J. Colloty have returned from their trip to Minneapolis, where they attended the Foresters' con- vention.
 A party of Waterbury gentlemen will be here tomorrow to examine the fire alarm system in this y.-Middletown Herald.
 J. A. Godfrey & Go advertise a grand clearing out sale of odd suits and sum- mer goods this week, to make room for the fall styles.
 The Rev Father Murphy assisted the Rev Father McGivney at Thomaston yes terday, the occasion being the forty hours devotion.
 Fred c. Bommos, jr, will go to Water bury tomorrow to make arrangements for the barbecue to be held there Sep tember 4. 4.-Bridgeport News.
 George Gonnello, clerk for Roadmaster Lane of the Naugatcuk division lost valuable terrier dog yesterday, the an imal being killed by the cars.
 Mrs Rebecca Minnis, colored, died this morning at her home on Livery street. Her funeral will take place at p. m. tomorrow. Her age was 62 years.
 A match game of ball for purse of $3O will be played between the Shippers and Athletics on the West End grounds Saturday afternoon. Admission 15 cents.
 Speaking of the marriage of Farmer" Platt of this city the Bridgeport News says the wedding presents were many, including 2O-acre farm i'll Goshen, the gift of the groom's father.
 Frank Miles, formerly a conductor on the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecti- cut River road, has accepted position at the yards of the New England Brown Stone company and commenced his new duties this morning.
 The Consolidated road offers special rates for the accommodation of those at tending the celebration at Milford to- morrow. The fare from this city and return is S1.2O. The train will leave the Naugatuck station at S:26 a. m., return ing, will leave Milford at 10 p. m.
 MT Ryder and others of Pleasant street complain that they have made sev- eral complaints to the health officer about the flowing into that street of the con- tents of a cesspool for weeks after the sewer has been completed. They wish to know why the authorities are so slack in not requiring connection to be made with the sewer.
 A. B. Simons' grey horse, driven by Walter Blansfield, was frightened by a Lycle on South Main street near Mea- dow just at noon to-day and ran away. The driver was thrown out and received bad wound in the head besides losing four or five teeth. The horse was cap tured after wild run, near the corner of Jewelry street.
 James Lynn, the brakeman whose skull was so badly hurt ill the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River rail road accident several weeks ago, began
 
 Michael Ledwlth, the engineer, will be- gin tomorrow. Few who saw Lynn the night of the accident imagined he would live ten minutes, to say nothing of his ever being able to work again.
 The board of trade of Wallingford has been asked to take action upon certain propositions made to it in connection with the location there of manufactur- ing concern employing some 200 to 300 mechanics. What the concern is re- mains secret, but it is darkly rumored that the Consolidated road is preparing to locate shop for the repair of it's rol- ling stock in that borough.
 The Naugatuck Citizen editorially re- fuses to make any retraction of its state ments against Attorney J. c. Chamber lain of Bridgeport, who has instigated a N,OOO libel suit against the paper. The Citizen has furnished bond of S6, ,OOO to release its property from attachment, and maintains that the facts justified the comments which were made and to which Lawyer Chamberlain takes ex- ception.
 Simon O'Donnell, aged 56 years and we'll known in this city ,died suddenly at Terryville yesterday morning. Mir O'DonneH was an inmate of the soldiers home at Noroton and came to this city AcaSU Wcch UO NlSlU HIS uduRnC6r, a MrS Morton, residing on West Side hill. Sat- urday morning he left for Terryville to visit another daughter. On Sunday he was taken ill with stroke of paralysis from which he never recovered. His re- mains were brought to this city this morning and taken to the church of the Immaculate Conception where the fu- neral services were conducted by Father Walsh. The burial was in St Josephs cemetery.
 A very pleasant feature of last even- ing's meeting of Evangeline circle, c. of F., was the presentation to c. c. NJ. J, Colloty, who Saturday returned from the Foresters' convention at Minneapolis, of handsome gold headed cane in appreciation of his efforts in behalf of Forestry in general and Evangeline cir cle in particular. Miss Annie Howard made happy speech of presentation, which was gracefully responded to by the recipient after he recovered from