Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-28
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vacation 0t Stamford. A Hartford party are picnicing at High Rock grove to-day. Sergeant Cox predicts fair, warmer, weather followed by rain. M. J. Nelligan and wife left to-day for Lee, Mass, where they will spend their vacation.
 A meeting and reception of the Holy Name society of St Patrick's church was held last night.
 The Waterbury Boot & Shoe company have an announcement of interest to everybody, on the first page.
 Gents outing shirts and ring Wind sors in great variety, at the mammoth dry goods store of Reid & Hughes.
 Miss Annie Claffee left this city this sister, Mrs J. J. Connolly, at Allentown. One of Norton's hacks was badly dumaged last evening. The driver was returning from Middlebury and met with an accident.
 The American Ring company will close their factory this evening, and remain closed one week in order to take their annual inventory.
 Miss Curran of Monterey, Mass, Miss Bossidy of Lee, and Miss Miskill of Suffield, Conn, are the guests of Miss Bossidy, of Second avenue.
 A postal card was received to-day by his family, from Dr E. w. Mcdonald, the card announcing the fact that it was written upon Mount Vesuvius.
 Hon s. w. Kellogg and his son Charles P. Kellogg, Yale, go, will sail for England to-day where they will Chase.
 Upson, Singleton & Co, have some- thing to say about hats, and furnishings to-day. Their line is, of course, com plete and their prices are low and the same to all.
 Hardware, iron and steel, farming inn plements, screen doors, ice cream freezers and about four thousand other useful articles can be found at r. J. Bolan's, "A and 76 Bank street.
 The choir of the Sacred Heart church will rehearse "O'Toole at School Sun day afternoon after vespers, to prepare for the festival of Barcelona council, k. ofC.
 Attorney J. E.. Russell has removed his office from Jacques block on West Main street to the Platt building in the rooms formerly occupied by Attorney Pierce, on the third floor.
 Miss Louisa Longworth who is at
  nam, returned home last evening. Miss Longworth secured the first premium in bookkeeping and penmanship.
 Twenty-four new settees for the green were received to-day from the Water bury Furniture company. Sixteen of the seats were placed on the center green and eight upon the pretty little plot at Union square.
 District Court assignments are an nounced as follows Monday, June 80 Erwin vs English, (speciaD Thomas J. Healey vs A. o. H. Wednesday, July 2 George B. Reed vs Edward Benson. This term of the court will close next Thursday.
 ion tea company, has sold his interest in the.concern and will open first class tea store at 66 Baldwin street. Mir Perkin- son retires July 1, and will open his new store in few days. A gentleman from Meriden will take charge of the South Main street store.
 It is said to-day that there are at least seventy-fve cases of typhoid fever in Waterbury, SC ,eral of which are likely to prove fatally. One physician is said to have thirty patients nearly all of whom are ill with the disease. Whether the fever has been caused by impure
 
 carse is still something of a mystery.
 The annual picnic and games of the Waterbury Burns club will be held on the West End grounds next Thursday. Francis Whitlaw of Hartford, the cele- brated highland fling dancer, who was here a year ago, will give an exhibition and there will be many other interesting attractions. Ladies will be admitted free in the evening.
 Reports from places where examina- stions for admission to Yale are in progress indicate that the new freshman class will be ten per cent larger than that of last year. For the academic de- partment a class of about 230 is expect. ed, and the number to enter the scientific department is estimated at 40. The coming encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which will take place in Boston on August 12-l8, has every prospect of being the largest en- campment ever held. The department under the command of John c. Broatch of Middletown, will form one division in the parade and it is thought that no less than 2,OOO men will be found in the ranks of this division alone. The Con- necticut headquarters will be at the Crawford house.
 Sheriff Gates helped to avert loss of llfe yesterday morning on the Nauga. tuck railroad track in Derby. Just as car No on the electric road was cross ing the track the connections burned out. causing the car to stop directly across the rails. A down train was due and the passengers became frightened and abandoned the car. The sheriff started up the track and Jagged the train just in time to prevent the locomo tive from dashing into it. A number ot men managed to shove the car off tnt
 Physicians in large cities place al their bills in the hands of well qualified agents and have found the results satis factory to all concerned. Waterbury l,na mod caaNh mathematician,