Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-10
CITY NE WS

 ture.
 Col Duherty goes to New Haven this a evening to attend the muster of the hos d pital corps. I Preparations are being made by Rev Father Zones of St Ann's church to glv' d fair immediately after Easter. Hawthorn lodge. Sons of St George. f will give a public masquerade ball m u. A. R. hall, Friday evening March II. Miss Nolan of Now York, who had been visiting Miss Feron Of Cherry street, returned home Saturday. The devotion of the forty hours will commence at the church of the Imma- culate Conception on Easter Sunday.
 David Stone, New England road brak keman, had his hand crushed while coupling oars at Hartford Saturday night.
 The present cold weather has not helped the local ice crop much, on ac- count of the snow which came at the same. time.
 A. J. Quinn, district passenger agent of the Northern Pacific railroad, was in this city to. day. Mr Quinn Is an ener- geIic worker for his road.
 Col Doherty said this morning there was no truth in the rumor that he was about to resign his position as colonel of the Second regiment.
 Kelly the baker says that no New England bread is genuine unless the words kelly the Baker and Confec- tioner" are printed on the wrapper.
 The directors of the New York, New Haven X Hartford railroad have de clared the usual quarterly dividend Of 2t per cent, payable April |.
 Grand Commander Fred Spencer of this city, will attend the installation of | ,f I,l,n'S ('ninmanIprV. Knights Templar, at Willimantic this : evening.
 John J. Splain's lecture before the Young Mems Catholic Literary assocla- tion will be given next Thursday even ing His subject will be: ''Provincs of Reason in Religion.
 C. M. Loomis of New Haven, we'll known i'll the musical business, died yesterday. Mir Loomis has be en in the business forty years, ,and has had stores in
 various parts of the state at different |, times.
 The Porter street school was entere! l by rowdies Saturday night and yester- T.. day the floors were found Uttered with | cigar stubs and approximations. It Will go hard with the perpetrators II they are discovered.
 Charles Estey, who will be remem- bered as a former agent for IS. Shonlnger X Co, in this vicinity. was recently stricken blind in New Britain. He has recovered the partial Use of one eye and
 hopes are entertained for his complete
 recovery.
 atinton Doolin. aged so years, father
 n-law of J. J. Duffy. died yesterday at
 his home. :a John street. The funeral
 will take place to St Patrick $ church at
 $50 o'clock to morrow morning. The
 remains will be taken to Paterson \. J.
 for burial
 Clemens Herschel. the civil engineer selected to make surveys for changing
 the location of the railroad tracks in this rs cuy, is buelly engaged on matters per e taining to il and will visit Waterbury ill
 about three weeks He is at work Ill hls if New York office.
 $ The Connecticut Record has compiled r. d table showing the transfer and mort .c gageS of real estate in seven Connecu d cut cities for the year lSS9. They are as c follows: New Haven. B. 152; Bridgeport. n 5.469: Waterbury, l,9iS; Merlden, l.l10: lc uurtiuri, l.345; Danbury. l.l9S: New G Britain, SIS.
 y Mir and Mrs Irving II. Chase and Miss H Mary Chase will sail for Europe on n Wednesday. March l2, on the German It Lloyd steamer L;,hn. They will go a ,n little heN ond the usual route, running iH down into Span and probably across t. into Morocco for q short stay.
 It is said that the new red stamps tear more easily than the green ones. The
 paper is poor, and it i> hard to tear otf d W row of st:,'ups without breaking the
 stamps themselves In this way many n. d new red stamp has come to grief al l> the hands of some hurried clerk. B.. Yesterday was a hard day on the lN snow. IL disappeared rapidly from tht k. streets, and the roads out of the city ar, ld reported to be quite bare i'll many place: ". and for long stretches. At the livery by stables visited by d reporter, yesterday 'm the proprletors were making prepara
 tions to stow the sleiShs away for tn,
 summer.
 E. B. Thomas of the Erie road has de Ter clined the offer made him some tim Is. ago by the board of directors of the Con ,ht sulidated road, to become its second VIC ed president. As far as can be learued NJ
 Thomas prefers to retain his presen
 position. and it is understood expect
 something better from the corporation i've which now employs him. al The remains of Sherman Chapman 'sn . who died in Bridgeport Saturday. wer '.. brought to this city this morning fu burial. The pallbearers were Georp o'i II. Cowell, w. B. Thomas, G. w. Chal
 lain and Albro Scovile. The funer; , services were conducted at the Ha " ,' Memorial chapel by Rev Mir Thompso the of Bridgeport assisted by the Rev A. ( 'ls' Egg gleston of this city. ,t,, It looked as if there were .0OO ,OC nj" ,li,. boys and girls on Central avenue SatuI n,r day evening, but probably there wer >e' not really over 5o0,OUO. They wer
 sliding down hill on double ripper S. single rippers and all sorts of ripper the and seemed to be having tons of fun { nhs, the square inch. It was about the fir ''t coastlng of the season and they couldn
 afford to lose it. The police allowed tl
 sport to continue until 10 o'clock.
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