Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-21
The 9e,11ncrat,
CITY NEWS.

 who died Saturday, were taken to Strat- ford on the 10:54 train this morning.
 The officers of Sterling commandery, U. o. G. C., will be installed this even ing by Mrs w. F. Hinckley, of Nauga- tuck.
 The Naugatuck freight yard is now graced with new switch eng zine that has done considerable service at Belle Dock, New Haven.
 Anyone desiring to rent a first class barber shop,all equipped can get the best stand in the city by applying to James Lunney, East Main street.
 Court Hancock will meet this evening and regular meetings of the court will hereafter be held in the G. A. R. hall on the first and third Mondays of each month.
 The funeral of George H. Bowns, who for many years, was employed by the Benedict & Burnham manufacturing company took place at Torrington, his former home yesterday.
 A Naugatuck gentleman has received letter from New Haven signed ''Jack the Ripper" in which he says that he will spend one week in Naugatuck and few days in Waterbury.
 Mrs Anna Buckland a former resident
 
 evening. Her remains will be brought to this city tomorrow afternoon for ln terment in Riverside cemetery.
 The New York and New England rail road company have contracted with the electric light company to light the in- terior of the station in this city with in candescent lights and to place two arc lights at the north and south sides of their platform.
 William Kelly, of Winsted; Charles Smith, of Ansonia: Thomas Reagan, of Ansonia, and John Bohan, of Bridgeport came to town Saturday looking for work. None of them secured employment, but all got drunk and registered at the sta tion house. Judge Bradstreet imposed a fine of S3 without costs ill each case.
 A large number of railroad men at tended the M. E. church last evening and listened to very interesting sermon to railroad men, delivered by the Rev A. c. Eggleston. They were so well pleased that they have requested the reverend gentlemen to deliver another very soon.
 Joseph Lamontagne, secretary of the St Jean Baptiste society, is convinced that there is one honest man in Water bury. Saturday he dropped an envelope containing sum of the societys money. in the lobby of the postoffice. It was found and returned to him by L. F. Par ker, driver for Meigs & Trott.
 The windows will all be set ill place this week in the Sacred Heart church, unless some unexpected delay arises. The interior of the church is being pushed rapidly to completion. Yester- day the pastor, Rev H. Treanor, gave his congregation a history of the work ac- complished during the past year. the amount of money collected, the expense incurred, etc., and expressed himself as very much pleased.
 The annual collection for the hospital fund was taken up in several of the churches yesterday with the following result Second Congregational church, S230, church of the Immaculate Con- ception, S175.00; St Johns church, S150.00; First Congregational church. S13S. 65 Trinity church, S19.41 First M. k. church ,S35. % Baptist church, S11.54. The hospital collection will be taken up in the other Catholic churches of the city at an early date.
 A party of young men consisting of Michael McEvoy, Thomas Lawlor, Bart Collins, Finton McEvoy, and Ed. l.. Ma loney whose sedentary occupation do not furnish satisfactory amount of exercise walked to New Britain yesterday and came home on the Washington express last night. Tom Lawlor declares that whoever says the distance to New Britain is eighteen miles is away off. He knows positively that it is seventy-tive.
 Mayor Boughton and Fire Commis- sioner Connolly returned from their western trip this morning where they went to examine fire trucks in use by the fire departments of Chicago and De troit. At Chicago they saw the Preston truck and at the latter place light rum ming ''Babcock" truck. They were ia vorably impressed with the working of the several trucks. Chief Snagg, who also went with them, will spend a few days in Chicago before coming home.
 Right here it may be said that the M. w. & c. R. road can very easily extend its line into Middletown, and it probably will some day when Middletown's pro- verbally slow people wake up and put in sufficient amount of capital into follow the plan proposed. It wouldn't be much of an engineering feat to line a railroad from Cromwell to Middletown but the new road is prosperous at present with connections eXcelled by no road and it can wait for Middletown people to wake up if Middletown herself can dc the same. Meanwhile the ''little rival is not so ''hemmed in" as some Middle town people seem to think, the Herald man and his informant included.-Mer iden Republican.
 The Parnell fund has now reached the sum of S531 and the list is still open At the meeting of the Land league last night the following gentlemen were ap pointed committee to solicit subscrip tions for the fund during the comine week: First ward, John Butterman, J H. Moran, Thomas O'Donnell, John Nor iarty Second ward, James Freney, M F. Carmody, T. H. Hayes, Thomas But Ter, Thomas Flanagan ; Third ward James Horrigan, John Clohessy, Mile McNiff, Henry Johnson, Daniel Cassidy Fourth ward, James Coughlin, ,Dr Hayes John Thompson, James Lynch, William McGrath, James Sutton. The committe will report at the meeting next Sunda, evening, at which time the fund will closed.
 Officer Fagan's attention was calle about o'clock this morning to tn cracking noise and the smell of smok which seemed to come from T. F 9 T.