Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-10
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H. w. Lake left for Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday. The board of police commissioners will meet this evening. "How to Abolish Poverty" at the opera house this evening. Three of w. F. York's horses were sold at public auction to-day by order of the probate court. The State Teachers association will hold its annual meeting in Hartford Oc- tober IT, IS and 19. Mrs Joseph Lamontagne, and chil- dren returned home to-day after two months visit to Canada. Court Meany, A. O. F., are arranging to give their annual sociable on the second Friday evening in November. Judge Bradstreet is presiding in the court of common pleas at Winsted this week in place of Judge Warner, who IS ill. There was no quorum present at the meeting of the board of aldermen last evening and an adjournment was taken for one week. Ex-Consul General Waller cables from Paris that he is not going into business in London. He will sail for home Oc- tober 15. The Waterbury Field club at their meeting last evening extended vote of thanks to P. J.Seiter fer many courtesies extended during the shoot barbecue day. Mrs Edith Terry of Pittsfeld and Mrs Charles Fields of Hartford and her two sons, who have been spending the sum- mer at the Scovill house, returned home to-day.
 School books and all school supplies R-- III oe school district to be found at Martin Bergin's, 62 South Main street, near en. trance to postof6ce.
 A 135 yards race between George E. Harrington and George Wilton, for Foresters pin, will be one of the attrac tions at the picnic of Court Wolf Tone, Thursday.
 Archibald McCallam of Jacksonville, Florida, and Miss Peckham of St Louis, will be married at Newport tomorrow afternoon. William A. Hungerford of this city will be best man.
 A handsome cane is to be presented to the chief ranger receiving the highest number of votes at the fair and festival of Court Meany's Pride circle, c. of F., at the City hall, September r, IS and 19.
 John Gormally, the other ::assailant of William Conroy, the Waterbury man
 
 Locks, has been arrested. He will be tried with Hayden Friday.
 We are glad to learn that MT Henry Pincus is rapidly completing his classes in elocution. This is an opportunity that should not be missed by those desir- ing to improve themselves ill reading and speaking.
 A delegation of Waterbury butchers will attend the barbecue of the Bridge port association Thursday. Among those who will go are: P. T. Setter, Simon Bohl, William Riether. c. l.. Rogers and James Coughlan.
 Little Alice Bishop, the seven-year-old daughter of William F. Bishop, fell from third story veranda upon Murphy s block in the Brooklyn district last eve ming while playing. The child struck upon her head, but strange to say re- ceived no dangerous injuries.
 Taylor's hustle manufactory of Bridget port has been shut down and sixty hands are out of employment. The suspen- sion is likely to be indefinite, from the fact that the hustle has gone so generally out of fashion that comparatively no de- mand for it remains.
 Attorney l.. E. Burpee, representing J. Henry Morrow, has taken an appeal from the decisions of Judge Phelan of the probate court in regard to the dis position of the estate of the insolvent Republican Printing company. The case will be tried before the superior court.
 A number of excursionists from Meri- den missed a train on the Meriden, Wa terbury & Connecticut River road Satur- day and Supt Crawford immediately ordered out an engine and car and took the party over to Cromwell, arriving only five minutes after the excursion train.
 George w. Beach and wife and E. l.. Frisbie and wife of Waterbury, mem- bers of the executive board of the Wa terbury hospital came to this city to-day for the purpose of visiting the Bridge port hospital, in the interest of their local institution. They were received and shown about the building by Superin- tendent Crosby and seemed much pleased with their visit.-Bridgepo Standard.
 The Southern New England Telephone company. which has been rapidly push ing it's metallic circuits all over the state, has nearly extended it's lines to all the principal towns; On Saturday afternoon Danbury was added to the circuit, and people who now want to talk with Dan- bury can do so over the new circuit. It will be but a short time before Superin- tendent Baker has his new lines every where in the state.
 Saturday morning Mrs Raleigh, of Railroad Hill street, applied to Judge of Probate Phelan for papers to recover possession of her daughter, who was be- ing harbored by George Sickman, her brother-in-law. Yesterday Mrs Raleigh reported to the judge that the girl refused to go home. As the daughter is sixteen years of age Judge Phelan has no power to commit her to the industrial school and was obliged to tell the mother that he could do nothing for her.
 c. w. Loomis, the celebrated instruc- tor of shorthand and typewriting has parlors at No 644 Prospect street where he can be consulted by gentlemen and ladies wishing to master either of these useful accomplishments. Shorthand once thoroughly mastered is capital of itself that may at any time be relied on NE IL