Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-22
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Drop into UpSOn, Singleton x Cos and get an identification card.
 If you need spectacles have your eyes fitted by F. $. Grant, specialist, 145 Bank street.
 Fl. J. Austin has opened a butter, egg, cheese and lard store at 2S East Main street.
 There will be a meeting of the en- tertainment committee of Co. G at the armory this evening ot o'clock.
 The children of St Mary's school will give an entertainment at St Patrick s hall on the evenings of November and
 In view of the intended high license New Haven saloon keepers will work to secure no license at the coming cleo ton.
 Manager Billinge is giving away a handsome Webster's dictionary with every pound of, the A & P baking powder sold.
 Overcoats in fine beavers, chinchillas and elysian with velvet collars and fine finish, at J. A. Godfrey S Co.'S. Prices from S6 up.
 Ticket No 37 won violin at the raff1e held Saturday night for the benefit of Louis Seery. The winner can receive his prize at 113 East Main street.
 All the outgoing mail from the post office to-day and tomorrow will be weighed and classified, under orders from the postmaster general.
 Members of Evangeline Circle, c. of F., will celebrate the first anniversary of the circle in an appropriate manner at Concordia hall this evening"
 M. J. Fogg, who has for some time successfully conducted a grocery store h hoIy ,f.nn branch store at 1S7 South Main.
 At joint meeting of the selectmen and committee upon public lands and buildings last night Charles Egan was re-appointed janitor of City hall.
 The fair and festival of Co E, Hiber- nian rifles, will open at City hall to- night. There will be dancing and other amusements and all who attend will be right royalty entertained.
 A special train of six cars containing large number of horses owned by Barnum & Bailey passed through this city on their way to their winter quar- ters at Pine Plains, N. Y. to-day.
 At a meeting of the horse railroad employees held last evening, several changes were announced some of the drivers on Bank and North Main streets being transferred to South Main and vice versa.
 Peter Cunningham. salias Daniel Coleman, who claims to be native of this city, was yesterday sentenced to theft, by Judge McConville of the Hartford police court.
 Mrs. Lenora M. Barry. general inves- tigator of women's work in the Knights of Labor, will speak in..Naugatuck to- morrow evening. A bus will leave this city at 7:30 and persons who are desir- ous of going, are requested to leave their names With Thomas Seery or w. F. Dillon.
 Arnold E. Farquair, who absconded about three months ago with S900 be- longing to the Consolidated road, is un- der arrest in Chicago for snatchiug a pocketbook from a man on the street. If Farquair is not convicted of theft in Chicago he will be brought to New Ha- ven on a acquisition.
 The funeral of Mrs Bridget Reed. who died Sunday, was largely attended from her late residence on Cherry street to the church of the Immaculate Conception at 9 a. m. to-day, where a requiem mass was sung by the Rev Father Mulcahy Rev Father Walsh acted as deacon; Rev Father Fleming sub-deacon; and Rev Father O'DOnnell, master of ceremonies The pallbearers were: Michael J. Dono- hue, John Whalen, William Ramon, Martin Mcdonald, Andrew Moran and Matthew White.
 According to law an application for a liquor license must be ill the hands of the county commissioners two weeks before it is granted. All applications must be in before November 1, and the commis- sioners wish it stated positively that all xyb ;,> before that date, and who continue to do business, will be dealt with according to law. Upon the 1st of November the time for making applications has passed. Dealers should understand this, and see that their applications are filed in time: the earlier the better.
 The new moon will be visible next Friday evening, when the sun sets 4 minutes before 5 o'clock. The earliest sunset in the year will be December :, 8 and 9, when it sets at 9 minutes after 4. Jupiter is a bright evening star, and appears in the southwest. On the 10th of this month Jupiter reached it's greatest distance south of the equator and it will not appear at so low an ele- vation in the sky again for twelve years 1t will be bright evening star through November. It will disappear for a few evenings after December 15, and will appear as morning star, rising January l at 6 a. m.
 The attorney general of the United States has announced Ill reference to a case brought to test the regulation that inmates of the Soldiers home at Noroton must surrender their pensions to the authorities of the home. "The pension laws of the United States guard with great care the soldiers property in and his rights of possession of his pension certificate and if at any time the soldier Thomas Rabbeth may desire to do SO, he may demand of the superintendent of Fitch's Home his pension certificate and any further retention of it would be a violation of section 4745 R. S., U. $. as amended by section 3 of an act ap- proved February 2S, 1883, and punish able by the pains and penalties therein described"
 A special train having on board a praty of Pennsylvania railroad men, passed through this city over the Naug-