Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-16
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 The Meriden road has offered special rates for the state fair.
 Go to Dr Chipman when you want any repairs on your teeth or when you want new ones.
 A North Main street barber claims to have chit" the Louisiana lottery for S10O this month.
 The officers of the Waterbury Indus trial school are holding their annual meeting to day.
 w. J. Snow, the florist, has word to say to the committees on fairs, festivals, etc, ill another column.
 A freight train numbering nearly seventy-five empty cars passed through here Saturday afternoon going west.
 l.. F. Hasse has the largest line of wall papers in the city and at prices that can- not be touched by other dealers.
 The railroad commissioners made their annual fall inspection of the western division of the New England road to- day.
 The little caudy store on North Elm street was burglarized Saturday evening, a quantity of cigars and tobacco being stolen.
 Mary, aged b years, daughter of Mrs Henry Dempsey of Merry street, died Saturday. Her funeral took place this morning.
 The crosswalk in front of the church of the Immaculate Conception is i'll such a condition that it is almost impossible to wade through the mud.
 James Murnan, James O'Laughlin and William Peters are in New York to-day attending the annual field day exercises of the New York Foresters.
 The officers of the Second regiment will hold special meeting Tuesday evening to complete the arrangements for regimental and brigade shoot.
 The new time card of the Consolidated road went into effect yesterday. The only change on the Naugatuck division is the discontinuance of the High Rock special.
 Marcus Hellmann to-day took posses sion of the hotel, No A Grand street. recently conducted by John P. Grau. MT Grau will remove with his family to Hartford.
 butcher, lost a valuable horse Saturday evening. The animal slipped and fell on Mill street breaking it's shoulder. It was dispatched to relieve it of it's sufferings.
 Thomas Murphy, aged fl years, well known in this city, died at his home in Naugatuck last evening. His funeral will take place from the family residence, Rubber avenue, at 8 p. m. Tuesday.
 George Murphy, New England rail- road brakeman. was arrested in Dan bury Friday, charged with causing the wreck of two freight trains August 29, by disobeying the commands of his conductor.
 A meeting of Go G will be held to- morrow evening and all members who return their uniforms will be paid off for their weeks work at camp. Those who neglect to return their uniforms will have to wait for their poodle.
 Ex-Chief Samuel c. Snagg has taken a position with the Connecticut Electric company and left this morning to sus- perintend the construction of plant at Stamford. MT Snagg will look after several plants which the company con- template erecting in other places.
 The Republican will quietly drop back to the morning field Wednesday, having discovered to its satisfaction that the oity was well equipped with afternoon papers. In politics it will still be repub- ican but 1t is understood that more at tention will be paid to news and less to politics than was the case under the for mer management.
 Editor Blanchard, of the New Britain Herald, will not connect himself with the New York Tribune when he leaves New Britain, as announced in the press of the state. He will give his entire attention to "extralite," the new blast ing powder invented by New Britain Swede, forming a stock company in New York to place it on the market.
 Joe Johnson, the we'll known acrobat of this city, is now travelling in Russia giving balloon ascensions and parachute drops. The natives have gone wild over his performances and the leading illus trated humorous paper printed a full page picture of Mir Johnson and his as sistant in their balloon. MT Johnson's brothers in this city have ereceived copy of the paper, which is typographical curiosity.
 An eighteen-months-old child of Law renee Horan of 154 Baldwin street was scalded to death by falling into panlof boiling water Saturday, while it's mother was scrubbing the floor. The lower portion of the child's body was horribly burned, the skin pooling off in large flakes, and the little ones sufferings were terrible until death brought relief. The child was buried yesterday after noon.
 A young man under the baneful in Huence ot liquor, attempted to kick over a couple of milk cans at the corner of South Main and Union streets last night, but made lamentable failure of it. One of the cans in some manner became entangled in the fellows legs and foored him so quick that he hardly knew how it happened. He got up and invited the whole population out to get licked but nobody accepted the invitation.
 The Jewellers Circular for September contains an excellent illustration of the Waterbury Watch company's display at the Paris exposition. The display is in the form of pyramid and never fails to attract visitors. There are 17OO watches contained in the exhibit. The Circular says: The Waterbury Watch company are at present employing 475 hands 300 females and 175 males. The pay of the females, mostly girls, averages $1.75 per day, and that of the males, includ- ing large number of boys, S2.50 per day.
 The directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad held a