Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-14
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The board Of Ire commissioners VIII meet this evening.
 The Field club will hold an important meeting this evening.
 Colonel Morgan will begin this week inspecting the state armories.
 Special bargains in black dress goods this week at E. T. Turner & Co.'S.
 The Rev A. L. Blakeslee of Topeka, Kansas, preached at the Second church | yesterday. George E. Boyd has succeeded A. J. Blakesley as musical director at St Margaret's school. Miss Edith A. Mills, teacher in the High school building, spent Sunday with friends in Meriden. William Wright employed in the Nau- gatuck yards left for Albany Saturday, where he will work for the New York Central railroad.
 Cider is selling at the mills in Litch- field at $2.50 a barrel, and the customer has to furnish his own barrel. Last year the price was S1.5O a barrel. A. F. Abbott & Son to-day offer a special list of property, which can be bought for one-fifth cash, the balance at five per cent. August Shotte, the carpenter who fell
  urday receiving painful injuries, is much better to-day. The 1:55 D. m. train over the New England road was over an hour late to- day being delayed by the breaking of the locomotive at East Hartford.
 Manager Hirsh of the ten per cent clothing store is making arrangements to close out his business here, and will leave Waterbury November 1.
 The regular monthly meeting of the common council will be held this eve- ming. It is earnestly requested that there be full attendance.
 Arthur B. Cushing, the Meriden road section boss, who was shot by an Italian here last summer, has entered the en- ploy of the Pennsylvania railroad.
 Thomas c. Taft who has been connect ed with the local office of the Adams express company, has been promoted to the management of the Poughkeepsie office of the company.
 The Rev c. w. Church left here yes terday for Waterbury and will proceed from that city 10 Washington, this week, to commence work as a clerk ln the census sofice.-Middletown Press.
 A reception of the Children of Mary sodality was held at the church of the Sacred Heart last evening. The exer- cises were of an impressive nature and the church was filled by parishioners and visitors. Stearns' vespers were ren- dered by the choir.
 The annual collection of statistics for the state labor bureau will be completed about November 1, and then the work of compilation will be begun. The sta tisticS will represent between 15O and 200 business concerns this year.
 In the New York Herald of yesterday was Chicago dispatch stating that one of the six men indicted by the Cronin grand jury was Fred w. Smith, son-in- law of James Reynolds of New Haven. Agent Reynolds says that he has no son. in-law whose name is Smith.
 Superintendent Shepard says that nothing definite has been decided concern ing the restoration of the Washington express line via New Haven and the Har- lem river, although the new transfer steamer Maryland will be launched in two weeks. The travelling public have taken kindly to the New York and New England express line.
 The High school students of number of the principal towns in the state have arranged for day of athletic sports al Charter Oak park next Saturday. New Haven, Meriden, New Britain and Hart ford will each send competitors for the events. This is the beginning of state high school field day, which it is design ed to continue. Other than the annual foot ball contests between New Haven Hartford and the Norwich free academy students, there has never been any at. tempt at interchange of sporting events between these schools.
 Last summer many members of Nosa- hogan lodge, I. o. o. F., indulged in a weeks piscatorial hunt along the sound. Their excursion was so successful that sixty of them will on next Thursday en- gage in competitive hunt ashore. Two teams will start out, under command o1 Capt D. B. Wilson and Capt J. H Guernsey, to see which will shoot the most game during the 24 hours Every animal and bird to be found in the United States has been placed on a list each to score certain number of point. according to difficulty of capturing the game. A bear counts 800 points, skunk 150, and small and common bird: al point or so each. The losing team vii finally feast the other as a reward O. skill.
 When the 3:25 p. m. down train on tn, Naugatuck road reached Ansonia Satur day, Conductor Beers had in charge : young man who had boarded the trail at Seymour, and who had neither ticke nor money to pay his fare. The conduc tor read him lecture, and after frs making him think he was to be taken t the lookup, gave him his liberty with tn injunction not to try and work any nor trains, as he might not next time escap so easily. When the late Alfred Beer was conductor on the Naugatuck roa, it is related that man boarded his trail one day and had no ticket or money The conductor asked the man where h was going and the reply was "To hell. "You'n have to get off at the next sta tion," said the conductor. The nex station was Ansonia
 The New York Sun has the followin. about the New York 6 New Englan stock 'The decline brought to the SUI face reports of large floating debt, c dissatisfaction with the management and of friction hetween the onerator