Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-30
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 "Shamus O'Brien" at the opera house this evening.
 Kelly, the baker, has made another great and popular hit by reducing the price of pies to ten cents each.
 The remains of William Kennedy ,whe died in Watertown yesterday were taken to Thomaston this morning for burial.
 A special line of gents initial rings, warranted gold, and the best in the city for the money, for $5, at D. H. Bhnn & Co.'S, 90 Bank street..
 Thomas Reyes and Miss Bridget Lyons were married by the Rev. Father Martin at St Patrick's church at 10 o'clock this morning.
 The finest display of ball and concert programmes ever exhibited in Water bury can be seen at the DEMOCRAT job printing office.
 Professor Horace Johnson notifies the public to-day that no settled pleasant weather may be expected until after the first of November.
 The girls who went on strike at tn @ Waterbury Manufacturing Co.'S works yesterday have not returned to work yet. Three new girls went to work there yesterday.
 New Haven police are raiding the policy shops. One dealer was yester- day fined $40 and costs and his layout will be used to kindle the fire in the police office furnace.
 John Fitzgerald, an inmate of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, at Middletown, escaped from that institu- tion yesterday. He was committed from Hartford.
 John D. McKillips, for the past five years yardmaster at the New England station in this city, has resigned to ac- cept similar position in the yards of the Chesapeake 6 Ohio railroad at Rich mond, Va.
 It is stated on good authority that the appeal of Souder, the slayer of Jack Calvin, who was sentenced to seven years in state prison, will not be taken to the supreme court.
 Arrangements are being made for the formation of a uniformed rank of the Knights of Pythias in this city. At meeting held last evening large num- Der of names were secured for the new division.
 Miller & Peck have placed on their counters this week fifty pieces of rhada- mes, grosgrains, failles, etc., which will be sold at manufacturers prices. Call early if you want to secure the best of the bargains.
 The secret of my success, says M. Il. Waas, the South Main street cigar manufacturer, lies in the fact that do not make or handle a poor cigar. The sales of my prominent brands are con- stantly increasing.
 For the month of September the gross earnings of the New York and New England were $51S, ,924, being ST, ,795 in excess of the expenses. For the fiscal year the earnings were $5, ,563 ,40S an d the expenses S5, ,26S ,4OS.
 The Hartford county commissioners have decided not to limit the saloons in the city of Hartford to 10O The will be S40O. Liquor saloons will not be licensed which are connected with dwellings by an inside passage. No license will be granted to women who do not now hold them. The saloon grocery will be licensed as it has been in the past.
 At Hartford to-day some of the officers of the Second regiment will be examin- ed as to their qualifications to fill the positions now held by them. Those to be examined are: Col John B. Doherty, Lieut. Ool [. l. Lee, MdJOI Joun M. Benedict, surgeon; Capt Charles c. Ford, inspector of rife practice; First Lieut. G. G. Blakesley, quartermaster: First Lieut. w. G. Daggett, assistant surgeon; Second Lieut. T. H. Mcdonald
 Down in Maine the goose bone tells the some story the Connecticut goose bone tells with reference to the winter o1 1889. The Bath Times says: "The goose bone says there will be a very mild winter. There will not be many days in which running water will freeze The coldest weather will come the latter half of January, and the coldest day o1 all will be January 27. The January thaw will come in February and there will be disastrous floods and dam burst ing and the fiend to pay generally After that we shall have an early spring. We ought to.
 J. H. Hale, master of the State Grange, thought it would be clever thing to outfit his California party with genuine wooden nutmegs,. and the queer part of it is that diligent effor fails to find any such to be had. It Ii quite the thing for travelling Connecti cut parties to display such tokens, bu those, it seems, are real nutmegs, thick Wooden ones he has not been able tt find, though he is still looking for them Thus it queerly comes about in proces: of time that instead of the wooden nut meg being the fraud, real nutmegs art paraded as wooden nutmegs, and tht genuine article IS the real fraud.
 The second of St Paul's benefit cours' will be given Friday evening Nov Stl when the celebrated Ariel quartette vii appear and render one of the fines musical programmes ever given il Waterbury. The Providence Bulletin says: "At the concert given by tn were pendeped Laughing and Crying" Emmett Lullaby" They were encored several times and replied graciously. Some o their best enjoyed and heartiest ap plauded pieces were two college song with banjo accompaniment, by Miss Fo1 and whistling obligato by Miss Munder