Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-07-30
CITY NEWS.


Rev +. j. Murphy of the Sacred Heart
church is spending week in Albany.
L. T. Turner s. Co are offering some
special closing out figures on the balance
of their carpets, this week.
At noon to-day the thermometer in
front of Leavenworth & Dikeman's
registered 81 degrees.
are making arrangements for an excur-
sion to Glen Island, Thursday, August
IA.
Get a crayon portrait ;for $1.9s, only
q few DAYS more. Send your portrait to
the DEMocRAT office. No charge until
the picture is delivered.
Clark commandery KIT, accompanied
by the Silver Drum corps, went to Tor
ringtonl, this morning to attend the
funeral of the late Joseph Farnham OF
that place.
The June statement of the New Eng
lands business shows receipts of $514, 1892,
an increase of $34 1854 over June 1889.
There was an increase of S27, I'll in
freight traffic.
A fraud, who says he is student try
ing to raise funds to complete his educa-
ton, is going the rounds of the Abriga-
dor, selling articles which he says are
blessed. He is q fraud and should be
treated accordingly.
Mrs Mary Cavan, aged AZ years, wife
of Michael 9. Cavan, died this morning
at her home on Ridge street. The funeral
will take place Friday morning. The
deceased was q sister of Frank, Maurice
and James Healey.
Gaffey's shorthand school, in the post
Office block, is open day and evening;
Miss II. L. Nation, principal. Young
men and women instructed at this
model school have no difficulty in secur-
ing good paying positions. -,
Henry A. Lawlor has been awarded
the contract for remodeling the Hope
Vile school house, and will begin the
work August l. An additional story will
be built and other alterations made. Mr.
Lawlor has just completed q block on
Baldwin street, for Owen Thompson,
giving entire satisfaction.
The July statement of membership in
the endowment rank of the Knights of
Pythias, which is the insurance branch
of the order, gives the number to be
22,022 and the amount of endowment
SAT 1856, 900. Forty. new sections
were organized in the last three months,
the total being 1857.
The large awning over the north en-
trance to j. B. Mullings & Co.'S store
caught fire about IL o'clock last night
and was destroyed. The fire was caused
by some fireworks which were set off
ON the street, to celebrate the Concor-
dia society's victory. The fire was put
out by the police without the neces-
sity of sending in an alarm.
At a meeting of the directors of the
New England roard in New York yester-
day, Mr. j. A. Bostwick, the president,
alluded to the recent rumors of sale of
the road to the Consolidated. He said
that there was nothing in the stories, and
that he would have publicly denied
them had it been worth the trouble. No
such transaction, consideration or sale
was expected or thought of.
james Mccarthy, the expressman,
owns hen that he will match against
the world, for laying big eggs. Three
eggs laid by the pullet this week were
brought to this office to-day. The three
weigh exactly eleven ounces, the two
largest tipping the scales at Il quarter of
a pound each and measuring 81 by s
inches. The hen performing the feat is
but little larger than a bantam and is
the most modest of the many in the
coop.
The Rev Father O'Donnell received a
telegram late yesterday afternoon an
nounciDg the sad news of the death of
his mother, Mrs Bridget O'Donnell, in
New York city. Father O'Dopnell had
only returned from her bedside Monday
evening. He left for New York on the
6:07 train last night. The funeral will
take place to st AIMS church, Forty
Third street, near the depot, at 8 o'clock
tomorrow morning. A number from
this city will attend.
County Commissioner Burleigh, who
has been confined to his home in Ham,
den from the effects of sciatica, for the
past month, is able to sit up very little
as yet. He remains in an unchanged
condition, and the great pain that he is
at times subjected to does not seem to
have worn down his vitality or brought
about loss of flesh. The disease is a
slow one to master, but he believes that
he will come out all right in few
weeks.
One of yoke of oxen belonging to A.
n. Lane OF Wolcott was painfully in
jured by being struck by horse car on
South Main street this forenoon. The
team was standing near Barlow
Brothers store when car number fifteen
came along, going south. The side of
the car strnck "a horn of one of the
oxen breaking it close to the head. The
injured beast beloved in its pain and
for a few minutes made things lively.
The driver of the car claims that he is
not to blame for the accident.
Stadocona lodge, Order of the Red
Gross, was organized last night. 1t is
composed of French Canadians and has
charter membership of about thirty
five. These officers were elected: Past
president, William Rochon; president,
II. 7. Lapalme; vice president, Arthur
Savard; secretary, Arthur Bernier;
treasurer, s. s. Lapoint; examiner, DR.
Godfroi Dubuc; chaplain, Elzear Do.
mingue; marshal, Ephriem Desloges;
guard, Elzear Sirois; sentinel, L. N.
Durocher.
Nearly one hundred clerks met in
Music hall last night and effected an or
ganization under the name of the Wa
terbury Early Closing Association. II
was an enthusiastic gathering and
nearly all of those present, many OF
whom were ladies, signified their inten.
ton of becoming active members. The
following members were appointed as q
soliciting committee j. Littlejohn and
Miss Mary Kavanaugh, dry goods
Messrs Finnegan and Leahy, clothing
Sd. Marsh and John Hamilton, grocers
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