Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-30
CITY NE VS..

give their annual SOclaolc tnlS cNtHliiS'
Sergeant Cox predicts warmer.
cloudy weather, followed by rain.
The Canadian band fair will close this
evening when the drawing of prizes Will
| take place.
the Acme Social club will be held at
City hall tomorrow night.
About fifty pairs of ladies kid button
shoes, for 800 a pair, at e. j. Firms.
Call early and secure good fit.
For no apparent reason New York
and New Haven stock, recently selling
1t 246, has jumped to 249, while 2oo Is
bid.
l.. j. Atwood and A. S. Chase are at
| ending the annual meeting OF the
| Wheeler & Wilson company at Bridge
| bort to-day.
There are 24O veterans at the soldiers
home at Noroton. The government
pays 800 annually towards the support
# each soldier.
A special meeting of Sheridan council,
<. of c., will be held this evening to
make arrangements for attending the
funeral of Thomas ID. Healey.
The esteemed American yesterday
told of a family of three persons hav-
ing been poisoned, and added that
-four of the family were dead.
DR. NJ. j. Donahue will deliver an adj
iress on Evil Habits and Resulting
| Diseases" before the Young Mems
Catholic Literary association, Tuesday
evening. February t.
The Union Cash Register company
ire taking orders for machines faster
than they can make them. They have
established agencies in the west and
south and in several of the large cities of
Europe.
Cornelius Granger who recently re
sign ed from his position as foreman at
the Manville Machine works, was last
evening presented with a gold-headed
cane by the employees.
The case of Anthony Dillon vs Patrick
Mooney was given to the jury in the
! district court yesterday afternoon AZ 4: 10
| o'clock and after being out thirty min
utes a decision was rendered in favor OF
| the plaintiff to recover $50 and costs.
The State Dairymen's association
| elected the following officers ut to-day $
session of the convention i'll Hartford a.:
President, DR. G.. \. Bowen, Woodstock:
vice-president, Nj. A. Bancroft, Filing
ton. treasurer, J. S. kirkham, New
ingtOn.
The details of making the final ar
| engagements for the grand military ball
have been such that the committee have
| not nau time 10 Nlslt All. 1heN HOW
ever, have placed invitations and tickets
| at Cones Park drug store, where they
can be obtained.
Sam Pepin did not consider the ice
| safe last night and refused to open his
rink to the large crowd who were on
hand. \ number OF yenturesomc
skaters enjoyed themselves on the ice
| lust the same and no accidents are re-
ported.
| g I l,n
bought the Palace place saloon. 43 East
| Main street. Mr. Murphy is a well-known
base ball enthusiast and was at one time
| an umpire in the National league. he
conducted Il restaurant in Lynn, which
was burned out in the recent great fire.
| New novelties are weekly being added
to the fine display of ball programmes
and souve Mrs made at the DEMOCRAT
office. Societies and committees desir-
ing anything in this line are invited to
inspect the same. Prices and style
guaranteed to suit.
| Patents have been granted this week
to citizens of Waterbury as follows
| Alexander II. Limont. machine for
drawing wire Ralph j. Shipley. ma
chine for forming pins for pin fasteners.
| Trade mark Eugene l.. Jacques, medi-
cal compound for liver and kidney
| troubles.
On and after Monday. February ,, the
Waterbury association of stationery en-
| gineers will keep thei" rooms open every
| evening except Saturday evening. from
too A number of mechanical papers
| are kept on file also a number of stand
ard books of reference. All engineers.
tiremen, mechanics and others who may
DE interested in such things are cor
daily \ited to come in and make
themselves at home during the above
hours.
The total number of assignments in
the probate district of Waterbury during
1889 was "a. All the assignments were
in the town and city of Waterbury, and
there was an increase over the previous
| year. In New Haven the number was
23, which is not bad showing for a
city of 10000 inhabitants. Waterbury
| has an estimated population of 33, 900
| and her showing is not SO good as her
sister city. The average liabilities of the
insolvents is estimated at $500 each.
The Connecticut Bible society has
completed religious census of Hart
| ford. The population is 4,,119. with
nationalities as follows: American, 90
| l54; Irish. 1851 German. 5000 Eng
| lish, 1876: Scotch, S04 : French, 19S ::
Italian, GA Swedish, Al; Danish, 36, ::
Russian, 26S; Polish, IS Chinese, ID ::
Roumanian and Bohemian, % each.
There are 25,Ol1 Professionals, 193O9
Catholics and l, l5S Jews. There are 1888
| women reported as prostitutes besides a
| largo number of doubtful cases.
Henry Tierney, the 15-year-old son of
ID. II. Tierney, has been missing from
home since January ID. The boy for
some time has desired to become
a railroad engineer and is believed
to have gone to some engine factory
to learn the business. Last September
he wrote to the editor of the
Locomotive Engineer, asking for
a situation. The letter was re-
turned to the boys father
and the lad was given some good advice,
and an unsuccessful attempt was made
to keep him at school.