Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-01
CITY NE WS.

Tretty Ioh aI 1he oPei" i''"9S 'iAS | evening.
 friends in this city.
 | Vespers will be sung in St Patricks church at 7:3O. o'clock this evening. | The German Pioneers will hold re- union in Concordia hall this evening. | James J. Srahan and wife were made happy New Years morning by the arri- val of girl baby.
 The Blues will play polo with the flyers of New Haven, at Birmingham this. afternoon and evening.
 First Selectman Boughton was taken ill on his way home last night and is to-day confined to his bed.
 The postal card contractors at Shelton l shipped four million cards to Philadel- phia, Monday. So far fl ,O00,0 ,00O have been sent out.
 The pipes leading from the Cook street reservoir will be flushed tomorrow, and | on this account all the streets drawing from this source will be without water.
 A Hebrew peddler fell from a train on the Watertown branch at Oakville last night and was considerably shaken up. He was cared for at the town house.
 E.J. Moriarty, of New Haven, high | secretary of the grand court of Foresters of Connecticut, will be in attendance at l Court Wolf Tones entertainment this evening.
 | Charles D. Phillips, salesman at God frey S Co.'S and Miss Jennie Goldsmith, saleslady at R. l.. Martins. were married | this morning at the residence Of the bride on Clay street.
 The annual entertainment and socla- ble of Court Wolf Tone, A. o. F. of A., is being held in City hall this afternoon and will be continued this evening" Ad- mission twenty-five cents each person. | After to-day Miller & Strlckland's s office, 1O7 Bank street, will close at o'clock Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings, and at 9 o'clock on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings. After years of s. wandering the old leather man has settled upon 121 South Main street, Waterbury. as desirable place to locate. For particulars see the announcement of the Standard Shoe house, on our first page.
 The state papers look upon Waterbury as the center of wickedncss in Connecti- GUS. vet on New Years day 1890, there was not single victim before the police court. What have New Haven, Hart ford, Bridgeport. .Meriden ct al got to say now.
 The polo competition was too much for Manager Pike of the New Britain opera house, and yesterday he retired. The company who own the theatre will run the place as best they can until a new manager can be found.
 Giles Potter, agent of the state board
 of education, will shortly make can
 vass of the city to ascertain how many
 children under If years do not attend
 school. It is his intention to prosecute
 parents who compel their children tC
 work in the factories in violation of the
 law.
 The first organization in Waterbury tc
 display an American flag containing
 forty-two stars, is the First division
 A. 0. H., and the members of that solic
 old organization are proud of the fact
 The flag was purchased week ago
 through the Ccnlon Brothers.
 The supreme court has announced |
 decision in the suit of the Union Hard
 ware company vs the Plume X Atwood , Manufacturing company. It atfirins th'
 judgment of the superior court to thu extent of S2 26O ,O0, but found error con ', cerning $l64.666
 n NosahoGan lodge elected the followin, , officers last evening: N. G., C. E. Bart Q lett: V. G., A. 0. Nell; R. <. H., B. Car | ter; treasurer, F. T. Root. Townsen, f lodge has elected: N.G., John F. Ireland Il V. G., Frank k. Woodworth. recordin Il secretary. Philip II. Hainpson; treasurer c Charles H. Hart.
 c The funeral of Michael McKenna wa t attended at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon Il from his late residence on Bank street r in the Brooklyn district. Court Ste . phen J. Meany, A. F. of A. and tn . First Division, A. o. H., attended in r. body. and the pail bearers were chose !. from their ranks as follows: From Cour I Meany, J. Clohessy, B. Malloy, J n O'Loughlin: First Division, E.P. .Hyland Q j. Downey, B Sweeney.
 Comstock lodge, K. of P., elected tn following officers last evening: C. C.
 Charles Brewer; V. C., Charles E. Mur
 son: F., Wm II. Precht; M. of E.
 George Hartley; NJ. of F., w. E. Sec Q field: k. R. s., John $. Deacon: NJ. a
 A., G. Fischer representatives to Gran : lodges, George L. Hastings and Charle t Brewer; alternates, George Hartley an n C. H. Robbins.
 : President F. B. Rice of the Board c Il Trade has received letter from Senate l. Joseph R. Hawley in which the latte j. acknowledges Waterbury's claim of su z; periorlty in the matter of governmen = building, over the other cities of tn
 state who are anxious to reduce the SUI i plus. Senator Hawley says he will CT deavor to secure an appropriation fC
 Waterbury at the present session of COT $ gress, and hopes to be successful. ' Sergeant Cox, of the New Haven sig ~ nal station, says that the mean temper; y ture for 1889 was 5O.5 degrees, while fC v, 1888 it was 47.6. The rainfall for tn $ year was 59.6S against 6O.26 for 1SS' n n The rainfall of 1888 was the heaviest l .,e Connecticut since the establishment ( ', the weather bureau. The warmth ( 'II I last winter, and the warmth of the pre- ~ ent winter as far as it has progressed, li due, many say, to the Gulf stream w moving nearer the New England coas y Sergeant Cox does not think that tt ,' stream has changed in its course appr ,f ciably, but thinks that the unusual mil, m ,a ness has been caused by decrease radiation, which in turn has been cause