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


 c. E. Miner, the bottler, has removed from Spring street to No 9 North Elm | street. ,-.': 7#
 Company E, Hibernian rifles, will drill this evening at 8 o'clock, in the | City hall.
 Kellogg lodge, F. of A: M., will give their annual ball at Music hall on the evening of December 13. The man who was drowned recently in Woonsocket, R. l., was not Michael Murtha of the city. I. Chase has spread his counters with holiday novelties and 8 finer line of goods than he displays would be difficult to find.
 Sergeant Cox, of the New Haven sig nal station, predicts fair weather, nearly stationary temperature, for the next ! twenty-four hours.
 The subject of the Rev Father Murphy's lecture before the Young Mems Catholic Literary association next Tuesday even- ing will be: "Creed Contrasts" Don't worry about what to buy for | Christmas present. Call at Paul Asheim. s and you can relieve your mind by in- specting his line of meerschaum goods. A correspondent says in the Meriden Journal: The ''sign" on the dwelling house in Waterbury is ''Hora fugit," and the owner is physician. "You draw your own inference"
 Attorney Colley and wife left this
 afternoon for a pleasure trip through
 the west. They will visit Pittsburg,
 spend Christmas week at Janesville,
 Wisconsin.
 A Waterbury man has invented an | A1o .t,ico is
 a good thing in its way but what this
 world needs more are men whose pen manship is less like electrical zigzags- Ansonia Sentinel.
 Tho funeral of Mrs George w Nelson, who died Tuesday, was attended from
 her late residence on Summer street
 this afternoon. The funeral services
 were conducted by the Rev w. P. Els
 don.
 Miss Addie D. Brown, aged %, a
 New York book agent, some time ago ; tried to sell a book to Allen Mcdonald of Danbury, who is S2 years of age and worth $25O,OOO. Mcdonald decided tc take the girl instead of the book, and they were married lastswesk.
 Nosahogan lodge, I. O. O. F., gave 8
 enjoyed by about fifty couples. 4
 pleasant feature of the entertainment e was the presentation to Miss Mary Ban ', natyne, of gold watch by the lodge, il 't recognition of her valuable services a 't the recent fair of the lodge.
 I Farmers were said to be making Ina,
 on the flats near Guilford Tuesda,
 morning, and that fact together witi
 tho warm sunshine gave decidedly un - wintry appearance to the landscape Il
 that vicinity. Together with this re
 rf fhA inf T
 Fairchild captured lively grasshoppe ill Stratford on Monday.
 = Wangunk tribe No ii, Independen
 Order of Red Men, of Hartford, wi Ivy visit Tunxis tribe of Waterbury night
 this being the second anniversary of tn .k opening of the lodge in this city. Men r, bers of the Tunxis tribe will assemble a n' their hall and go to the depot to mee . at the visitors who will come by speci; he train to arrive about 7:30 o'clock. : I'd banquet at Music hall will follow. si- The eighth annual convention of tn to Women's Christian Temperance unio es of New Haven county was held at tn he First Methodist church, New Haven, t, on delegates, representing unions frol re Branford, Cheshire, East Haven, Gui n- ford. New Haven, Meriden, Milfor, ,ly Middlebury, Southbury, Northfor, ii- Stony Creek, Waterbury, Wellington wv and West Haven.
 IT. Eureka chapter, R. A. M., last evenir
 elected the following officers: N. E. I lte F., James E. Coer; E. K, James Calla ,al E. C., John B. Ebbs; treasurer, Burte in, G. Bryan: secretary, H. w. Atwood: air of G., John S. Castle; P. S., Edward V ta, shannon; R: A: C., F: Floyd Weld; G.N rd of Sd ", William O'Neil; G. M., of : m. V., Andrew J. Benlap; G. M. of 1st V g- Charles H. Parkes;S. S., August Nitsche er J. S., David Hunter: organist, T. 45 Sheppard; tyler, Perry c. Morris ;audi in ing committee, N. Dikeman, N. J. We on ton, Charles A. Colley.
 e. The Hartford Times says that tl ro rumors that the First regiment troubl re had been practically settled, are pr III ln mature. The Times says that the pr i11 h position has not extended, as ye Ill beyond the stage of mere discussion
 and has not been seriously considered | e either the governor or the officers. Or ~ obstacle to progress is the impropriet '.s from a military standpoint, of eith 's. the governor or the officers makir ]. advances one to the other, lookin s' toward such 8 compromise. One ws y out of the dilemma that has been SUI M gested, is that tho governor might I 1 1n turn the resignations together wit
 COpleS OI Ine new OTQer, ,aAu that tl 'w officers would then drop the who =ts matter. Governor Bulkeley, howeve yer might hesitate to take this course. 'to The case of J. Henry Morrow again ;f the stockholders of the insolvent Repu ,r- lican Printing company, is being argue nd before Commissioners Root and Phela rss to-day. Mir Morrow wants to I oh cover $3, 900 which he claims he borro, ffh ed to keep the Republican from suspen ;ct ing few months ago. Attorn rcs Terry, representing the stockholdel al argued that as all the checks were sig
 ed Republican Printing Co.," Mir Nc
 row could not claim the credit of pa he ing the bills of the company out of ar own private account. Mir MorrC .nt claims that he is the Republican Prir i'm ing Co' by virtue of an agreement ma ait with the original stockholders. Jud TVS Phelan considers MT Morrow's claim b,. honest one.
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 He Another Sneak Thief. get NEW LONDON, December 12.-A sne mo thief went into Raub's store this no